07/29/02
Money and Politics: So What’s the Point?
To do our part for the economy, my wife and I went out and bought a new car. Actually, it wasn’t so much patriotism and altruism as incentives and need. The dealer offered to forget the last few months of our existing lease if we bought or leased a new vehicle, and the manufacturer is offering 0% financing. Adding the fact that I’ve accumulated enough “points” on my special credit card to offset most of the sales tax, we simply had no reason to continue trying to squeeze our family-sized lives into a two-door coupe.
Unfortunately, this will likely be the last car that we purchase from a local salesman with whom I’d hoped to cultivate a longer-term relationship. He plans to retire in three years, although he commented that if his 401K continues to shrink, he might have to stay on the job long enough for us to catch him one more time. Then he referred, in an astonished voice, to Dick Cheney’s $20 million Halliburton divestiture profit in 2000.
I prepared for the partisan debate.
The rest of this essay is available in Just Thinking: Volume I, 10/29/01–10/21/02 and is for sale in Confidence Place: The Timshel Arts Store.
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