Car prices soar...

[Bonesberg55]

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Back in the mid 80s when we were expanding our family and driving a 69 Bay window which needed a valve job and was rusting out I looked into buying a new VW Bus. Way beyond our means! It 15 years they went from being the working man's family wheels to priced out of reason for the average guy. Was it taxes or money exchange markets? I don't know.

Anyway we switched to Dodge mini vans for the next 10 years. They were nearly 1/2 the price, got better fuel mileage, were easier/cheaper to fix, had better heat in the winter and much more! Lee Iacocca picked up the ball that VW dropped!

As for cars today, I do not see any improvement in rust out rates here where we live in spite of supposed improvements made but perhaps that is because the salt rates have gone up and they are now using calcium chloride which is far more corrosive than salt ever was! We regularly see pickup trucks with rear wheel wells and cab corners rusted through in 5 or 6 years and cars without rocker panels and dog legs in 7 to 8 years.

Eastern Canada seems even worse, their cars show up here at auctions 3 years old and won't pass a safety inspection because of rusted out suspension mounts!
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We had the stone age, the bronze age, the industrial age and now we are in the age of mass deception and mind control for corporate profit. (The mass media age)

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It's not just cars that have this inflation problem. In 67 my Dad bought a new house for $15K on a $1.50 an hour job. Today the average working guy gets $30 per hour and the average family home depending on which city is around $750K! Wages increased 20 X while houses are 50 X more.
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We had the stone age, the bronze age, the industrial age and now we are in the age of mass deception and mind control for corporate profit. (The mass media age)

[Bonesberg55]

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