> The other I saw more recently about how car expenditures
> were the single greatest financial drain on a household and if the average
> household kept a car for 10-12 years instead of the average 4-5 and
invested
> the savings they'd be able to retire much earlier and better and so on. If
> that chucklehead had invested the money he wasted on that truck maybe he
> could afford to send that kid to college someday.
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>

The "and so on" includes real home-buying power. But, then, the health of
our economy depends on lots of people throwing their money away.

Vern