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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is full of envious people.  If you can afford it, what's the big deal?[/quote]
I don't know how to drive around in a $200k car knowing all the lives I could change with the, I dunno, $175k I could have saved if I just bought a normal car?  
Start a scholarship fund, fund a dog shelter, I dunno.  But spending $200k on a car is a perfect example of what's wrong with people.[/quote] You can say the same thing about any non-essential purchase. Did you buy any new clothes? New shoes? You bought a car other than a retired Crown Vic police car? Shame on you for wasting money instead of using that money to change other people's lives.

You may find it incomprehensible to drive around in a $200k car, but other people can. Your value system isn't superior on an objective basis. [/quote]
Yes, you can say the same thing about any non-essential purchase, but the comparisons only go so far. OP's DH can buy a different luxury car for $100k, which is still way, way more expensive than any car most people could ever afford to buy AND still feed a hundred people for an entire year with the leftovers. I am upper middle-class in one of the richest countries in the world and the biggest splurges in my entire life are still many orders of magnitude smaller than $200k. [/quote]
Typical rich liberal nitwit.  It's okay if she does it.  But anyone else richer than her or more extravagant than her - oh go feeeeed poorrr people!  [/quote]
This is why I can't stand most liberals.  They have their own set of rules, and are not at all tolerant of anyone else.  And yet they'll never see it.

OP - I say go for it.  I am a car person myself.  Just make sure your husband drives it and enjoys it![/quote]
Super weird that you are assuming that the people who think it's more important to donate to charity than to buy luxury items are liberals.

I'm a liberal who thinks depending on finances it's fine to buy the car. But IME philanthropy is pretty uncorrelated with political party. Though if you believe what many of the liberal-bashers say, it's conservatives who donate more to charities than liberals.[/quote]
It's desire to spread other people wealth, suggestions to save the poor, the needy with other people money, not donating your own to charity, that gets this name.[/quote]
Look, not defending her position, but she said she's UMC and she doesn't spend this kind of money on splurges.  You have no idea how much she donates to charity. She's suggesting that the money could be used better elsewhere, and, yes, judging OP's DH for not doing so. I've seen plenty of conservatives bashing liberals for spending on luxiuries here on DCUM, so I maintain that the political angle to your criticism is just odd.

I also think you're a troll, though.[/quote]

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