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I have exactly zero sympathy for that family.
Looking at the cars they have, I suspect they're not exactly frugal with their "other expenses." It's probably not Home Brand for them... So... well, stuff 'em.
There are lots of people like that. It's Rudd's "working families" or Howard's "Aussie battlers". And really it's just whingers. Obviously weren't beaten enough as children.
Crikey - you're grumpy today.
But I agree about the whinging...
I am always grumpy about the whinging wealthy. To be greedy is bad enough, to be greedy and whinging about it is even worse.
I think wealthy may be overstating it - just "aspirational" types who think a flashy car is a sign of success.
I wonder if a souped up V8 will become even more of a status symbol as fuel prices move it out of range of the average bogan, or if something else will take its place that the average hoon can afford ?
(Disclaimer: I actually drive a Commodore but it has no spoilers or any other enhancements - and its done less than 60,000 kms in over 6 years, even with a couple of trips to the snow each year and the occasional jaunt up to Byron Bay).
How long will GM manufacture V8's? Indeed, how long will GM manufacture anything? My guess is that if Toyota is smarting that GM's accounts are awash in red ink.
If you can spend $30,000 each on four cars, and drive them every day separately to the same workplace - they all go "in the morning", so their shifts can't be that far apart - and at the same time have a mortgage, then you are by all sane standards "wealthy".
""It was getting very difficult," she said. After covering the mortgage, bills and other expenses, she has $50 for items such as lunches and going out."
sounds like an aussie housing bubbler right there. no doubt the reason they moved there was to build equity because housing only goes up don't ya know?