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2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2021 Genesis G90
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
If Sweden or Finland are invaded don't you think we wouldn't come to their aid?
I can see it now - a carrier task force navigating the fjords to free the Scandinavians from the invading Russians.
Well since they don't have Simo Hayha anymore they would need all the help they could get.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
I would respond but it will get way to political. You can guess what my response would be.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
I was lucky enough to benefit from the last tax cuts. But, I’m more than willing to revert back to fund a one payer system for all.
Take the insurance companies skimming off and I think it’s very possible to do funding.
Easier said than done?....same thing said for the Hoover Dam, putting someone on the Moon, nationwide highway system, etc. We’re a country of doers.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Best I could do probably is get rid of the 2nd car. More juggling in case we both need one at same time, but at least have wheels on hand for emergencies and travelling. As long as you can, conceptually, get away with being a 1 car family, using Uber and walking or biking as the 2nd car is plausible. .
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Regarding first world problems, getting less for more and having the specter of medically-induced financial ruin looming over you isn't a thing in the rest of the first world.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2018 430i Gran Coupe
Insurance company skimming in the medical system is likely true, but you haven't seen wasteful spending like govt wasteful spending. It is really a whole new level of waste. And when the govt hospitals are the only game in town you get zero worries about customer/patient satisfaction or service. They just don't have to care since there is no alternative.
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
Up until a few years ago hospitals in England would accept not only citizens but also visitors...all got no cost healthcare.
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
My opinion about medical services in this country is that it's a racket to literally take all your money, unless you have somebody defending you (like insurance policy). If you ever read a hospital bill closely, you'd conclude that anybody else would go to prison for how they actually price their services. Here is 20 grand, but no, your insurance company will only let us bill you for 1 thousand, so OK, pay that. What kind of BS is that? So is it 20 grand or one? Nobody else would price it that way. Not to mention none of those prices are available anywhere other than your bill.
Imagine iphone store. You go "I want iPhone". OK, here it is, use it. Three months later bill arrives, it's $10,000, but wait - you are a member of some awesome iPhone protection club, so your price is only $1200. Since you didn't buy from this club yet, you're responsible for the whole thing. Your neighbor got an iPhone last month, so his next one is only $100. Isn't he a winner?
It's not really access, or insurance, if that lack of transparency that creates so much stress into the system, prices taken seeming out of rear ends of the billing departments, then "discounted" to some normal levels (or not). You never know how much you'll have to pay and they want it that way. Their general stance is "we saved your life (say), so now everything you own is ours, unless you got somebody behind you to help you with our ridiculous pricing. What kind of system is that? What bugs me, you hear zero about that particular issue, because all these reporters, history and social sciences, have math and finance comprehension at 4-grader level, so they are unable and unwilling to go in their "analysis" past "it's expensive and you need insurance".
2018 430i Gran Coupe
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
At the lowest level you get a hospital barrack with 25 people and concrete beds with straw. Gets better as you pay more.......
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
If Sweden or Finland are invaded don't you think we wouldn't come to their aid?
I can see it now - a carrier task force navigating the fjords to free the Scandinavians from the invading Russians.
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No--if Sweden or Finland were invaded they'd be up the fjord without a paddle. The West certainly didn't help Finland or Denmark last time they were invaded, and they botched Norway, too.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
They will be completely lost out on the road, unable to go 10 over by default. It will cause a mental breakdown and meltdown.
Or... not.
Then there is the brake-checker, deliberately trying to cause a collision.
I was driving a company Toyota Tundra with 126,000 miles the other day. That was more eventful. First, the brakes caused shuddering, which doesn't inspire confidence. Second, I was driving very close to the speed limit at 70-75 MPH which is about as fast as I'd comfortably drive the big truck I was unfamiliar with.
What I found is that I interacted with a LOT MORE traffic at that speed by both passing and getting passed a lot. I realized that first, not everyone is speeding. There are some people doing 65 MPH out there, go figure! I worried more in the truck with lousy handling and braking than I do in my chosen vehicles. That remained true even though I was driving slower. Going EVEN slower wouldn't have helped.
Secondly, I was getting annoyed at the left lane campers forcing the speed demons to pass by my side instead of 2 or 3, or even 4 lanes over the way it is supposed to work.
I think slow pokes should be advocating for enforcement of lane discipline more so than the speed demons.
I know this is just a web link, but it points out another issue of what I believe is a combination of BOTH corruption and incompetence fully infected into the culture of the NHTSA, and it's related to Tesla too!
You mean the "speed kills" myth isn't the only corrupt influence over there?
'17 Chevy Volt Premiere
For a Volt or other ICE/EV vehicle, the line is not as clear.
The only alternative is to go to a mileage based system where people pay based on how many miles their car goes in a year. And there's lots of room for cheating in that system. It would make the food stamp system look secure. We get a major bust of food stamp fraud here every couple of months with lots of others in between that don't make the news to much of a degree unless it's sweeps week.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
Isn't that the very definition of licensing. I know DMV's of the world have a bad reputation.
2018 430i Gran Coupe
2018 430i Gran Coupe
What part of Canada are to talking about protecting?
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
If not protected from someone to the south, who else is going to do it?
https://youtu.be/2Yd88whKZ28
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
Didn't think too much of it, but when I was leaving, I saw a 2005+ Acura TL with the flashers on sitting across the road like it was trying to enter the street.
There was nobody around the car, otherwise I would have helped them push it out of the road.