So you think everything is Honky Dorri...??

[MF]

Both of our cars blew up within a few weeks of each other,,,so we got 2 new cars with 7 year payments,,,
  Right then my fears were strengthened,  and YES BOB,  THIS IS WHAT REALLY SCARES ME..
 We got the two cars on MrsMF alone, I have been 1-2 months behind in the mortgage for about 8 months so I was out of the picture.
She filled out the app...waited 10 mins, went into the let's see what we can add finance manager and walked out with each car. After #2 I remarked something is not right here, but we drove awsy.
  She makes a little less than half of her $70k salary she had as a project mngr at Silver, pays ALL OF THE BILLS except mortgage , student loan, and life ins. Which eats mine up... so now we have 700/month in car psyments,,,
  Does that sound like a thriving economy to you ?? Not to me,,,, do you remember how tge economy felt in the 90's and early 2000's?.  We went though a recession between 2 booming economies,,, So you think we are out of the depression we just went through ? I don't...it is still lingering. 
   The drop in oil has been nice, but below 60.00/barrel may create worse problems then benefits,, three of the largest retailers are closing stores.and the stock market has the worst start than I can ever remember,,,,and your hero community organizer in chief says everything is fine...

BULLSHIT,,,,,,you believe his lies when he started and you believe his lies now,,,my gut feeling has been troubled for months now,,,,
But you know what business IS DOING WELL ?  The Drunk Budiness!!  

The economy is my biggest fear,,,,I think we are screwed......I pray I'm wrong on this,,,,

[minx]

Ah MF, there's a fool for everycar salesman out there. Fresh outta college, I got me a shiny new Ford Escort on a job paying less than 12k/yr. Lost my job and the bank rejected my financing, but lo and behold Ford Financing came through for that puppy. It was a mir-a-cle! And I spent 5 years of my life slaving to pay that mir-a-cle off. Car salesmen are no different not - you didn't *need* 2 new cars, but you went ahead and got your ass further into debt. We bought my last car in cash. It's a piece of crap, but runs and gets me to where I need to go. It should hold out until my will weakens and I find myself at CarMax

[rally2xs]

Jan 16, 2016 15:50:32 GMT -5 MF said:

The economy is my biggest fear,,,,I think we are screwed......I pray I'm wrong on this,,,,

We _are_ screwed unless we get rid of the income taxes.  The income taxes are at the bottom of this - we never recovered from the 2001 recession, and the 2008 recession just made things worse.   The next recession will make things worse again, and that'll go on until the great economic collapse, with runaway inflation so all your dollars equal exactly $0.00.  That's coming, and its fueled by continuing poverty and skyrocketing of the National debt.  5 million jobs have left the USA since year 2000, and 60,000 factories have closed.   Its because of the income taxes.

The income taxes are at the bottom of our economic uncompetitiveness, and must be abolished.   The Founding Fathers, geniuses that they were, made the Constitution so that an income tax would be illegal.  They relied on consumption taxes - tariffs and excise taxes - and we should go back to consumption taxes, and abolish the prosperity-killing income taxes.   Do this one thing, and the economy is saved - it is the silver bullet for our economic problems.  True, getting rid of some expensive regulations that produce minimalistic benefits would also help, but the damned income taxes must be extinguished like a fire that is consuming our nation, because that is exactly what they are.

Enjoy your new rides...

[MF]

Kohls ? ? ?

[MF]

So you think our economy is doing good ??
Then you must work for the govt.....

[MF]

What flavor was that Kool-ade ?

[MF]

Confidence

That is a good word for what I have felt for quite some time....as in low confidence,,,,

[pastafari]

You were confident enough to buy two brand new cars...

[MF]

Well , at least Unemployment  dropped,,,,,,,,