Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject: Re: Homless in a Honda CR-V -- signs of trouble in suburbia
Pretorian wrote:
I wonder how much better off that womman could be if she started to live like this since 18 or whenever she left parents.
She'd save a million bucks on rent/utilitiess/taxes, got used to it, and wouldn't have any dogs. Now a homeless with $1M and an SUV is not as pathetic.
How much did YOU spend on exsessive housing?
Not sure if this question was rhetorical or was directed at me as it followed my post. (Forgive my missing your subtle humor it that's what it was...) But to answer the question if it was meant for me: NONE. Our home is a part of my husband's pay. We have no choice where we live, but we do not pay for it at all. As long as he has a job, we will have a roof over our heads. So in that aspect, we are better off than some. But not as good as others who have a home that's theirs and that is paid for.
I am supposing from your post though that you live in your car, pet-free, and are a millionaire. Good for you.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:22 am Post subject: Re: Homless in a Honda CR-V -- signs of trouble in suburbia
Well these people certainly don't look malnutritioned.
Anyway i don't have much sympathy for these folks...jobs are still around 'I'll bet 100 dollars these people in that trailer are getting some form of government assistance.
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:02 am Post subject: Re: Homless in a Honda CR-V -- signs of trouble in suburbia
PrairieMule wrote:
veliger wrote:
The woman in the CRV is a perfect poster woman for “Hungry? Eat Your Import!”
Maybe if she and millions of other American’s hadn’t exported their money to Japan on Honda’s, she would still have a job.
I owned a 2001 Honda CRV, it was assembled in Marysville, Ohio.
A little information for education of others on this subject.
I have worked in the auto industry (TRW, etc) and related industries (machine building for automotive) for 20 years and can concusively tell you that the Japanese companies only buy the amount of parts, etc. they are required to to get a "domestic" label. They generally deal with other Japanese companies who but all their machinery and most supplies from Japan (even when it is more money). We have many Japanese suppliers locally in Ontario that came here with the Suzuki, Toyota and Honda plants. When new products are launched (tooling and machinery) 90%+ of the machines and tooling come from Japan - also most if not all of the design and prototyping occurs in Japan.
My company has been told by some (where we have friends on staff) that they cannot purchase anything more than 25K locally. This generally equates to only doing repairs on equipment as new product launchs even in the parts industry can run into the millions of dollars.
So Yes the "import" cars are assembled here but we do not get the spinoff work that is involved with a new car launch (can be up to 2-3 billion per model). We only get the actual assembly jobs which are still significant but are offset by the tax breaks that encouraged them to set up in Ohio, etc. - for example the loans by Georgia given to Mercedes for the new plant have a 10 year payback - by then the plant will be mid-way through its life cycle.
Every domestic car auto job has a spinoff employment effect of approximately 10 people in related industries - every import auto job has only a 3-5 person spinoff - and this is significant.
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