Oh that reminds me, when I was a kid we went to the drive in with my
Dad in an old Ford Econoline van.  During the movie Dad slid his
seat back to be more comfortable.  On the way out after the movie
the traffic stopped and he went for the brake which was now too far
away for his foot to activate.  When he slammed into the back of the
car in front the engine mount in the old Econoline broke and the
engine fell out. Made shifting and clutching difficult. ;-)

Funny thing.  The girl in the car he hit was named Lapierre.  Not
related.  She's from a different clan that doesn't know how to spell
LaPierre.

Mark LaPierre


A Cuban friend told me that when they got a ¨new¨ Russian car during
Soviet times, the first place you took it was to your mechanic. The
reason was to tighten every bolt in the car to make sure the doors
did not fall off or the engine turn upside down.

Dale Davies

The joke in USSR Russia was; "We pretend to work and the commie
government pretends to pay us:)

We are getting a taste of that in the US right now.

Paul Lamar


Gerald Klerman told me about the quality of US made cars: it look
pretty well in the dealers' showroom, but after one week, it start to
break apart. About the soviet system, a local joke said: What's
capitalism? -Men exploiting men. and socialism? -The reverse.
Somebody or something is destroying the minds of US workers, this may
be the reason why some US products for which the quality of manpower
matters are not that good. Best regards. Salut  Jose Gros-Aymerich
Madrid, Spain


He is wrong.

That might be true of Chrysler as they are owned by Fiat. Could also
be true of GM as they are owned by the Union and the US Government.

Ford has excellent quality and several Japanese brands are assembled
in the US. Toyota is the best selling brand in Cal. Many parts for
all cars made in the world are now made by the Chinese now
enthusiastic  capitalist.

The auto manufacturing world is truly an international biz.

For example Brazil makes BMW engines found in Mini's.

Socialism is close to communism. Socialism sucks and capitalism is
how the world prospers. Why do you think 20 million foreigners have
sneaked into our country across the Mexican border. They have
socialism in Mexico and the country is a disaster area.

Without robust capitalism there would be no money for poor people.
http://cba3.com/

You need to travel around a bit more  and see for yourself.

Paul Lamar

Paul is right, people need an incentive in order to grow. So many
technological leaps are made during war because it is necessary if
you want to win.

The absolute best thing that any government can do is initiate a flat
tax, straight line the same for everybody. Lets use 10% as an
example. If I make 100k, I have to give the govt 10K. If I make 1
million, I give them 100K. At any given time I get to keep 90% of my
earnings and the rest goes to protect me and keep my roads and stuff
up. I have an incentive to make as much as I can because I always get
to keep 90% of it.

The way it is now, the more you make the less you keep, so there is
no incentive to build my business beyond the point where it is no
longer beneficial for me. Have you ever gotten a meager raise only to
find out that you are now in a higher tax bracket and actually take
home less money?

Our government is full of really smart idiots that are quite skilled
at keeping us just happy enough (as a populace) that we wont rebel.
The people that 1. have figured this out, and 2. have the abilities
to grow well beyond the normal blue collar worker that only wants
enough to pay for his house, his cable and beer, are a substantial
minority and are not likely to have sufficient numbers to change
this.

If you win the lottery, before you accept the money go to Belize and
become a dual citizen- straight 10% tax on any money earned within
Belize. Your lottery winnings wouldn't be taxed there because they
weren't earned there. Would work out great, but now you have to get
the money from this government without giving most of it back and I
am sure the government here would frown on that.

One of the things I hear from people when we discuss things like the
appx 50% tax on winnings, the 55% inheritance tax, etc is when they
say "well its more than I had before". People should defend what they
earn and treat the government like the thieves they are. Through
taxes the government is stealing your earnings. They made it legal
for them to steal from you. Not sure about you, but I hate a thief. I
earned it, I should be able to keep it.

Kevin Alderman

Paul and Kevin,

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!??

Chris Barber
Houston.


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