Thousands of donors making small contributions to election campaigns is the narrative. I call bullshit. Two small examples are the 8th (where I live) and the 3rd Congressional Districts in Colorado.
Between the two candidates, $15,000,000 has been contributed and/or spent. Much of the money is from PACs that are not necessarily controlled by the candidate.
Doing the math, some $30,000,000 has been raised/spent on two pissant Congressional seats. Are all the big donors altruistic, or do they expect a big return on their “investment”?
Car Biz Humor in the Past
Back when the car biz was fun
Circa1986, Cal had a Yugo franchise in the Seattle area. He would lease you a Yugo for $84 a month. I never understood (or cared to find out) how that lease worked but the lease had 100% payoff until the whole lease was paid. Zero equity until the last payment.
People would drive onto our lot in a Yugo with a 1,000 yard stare. The seasoned salespeople would scatter and the green pea would get the “up”. The only way those Yugo drivers could trade out was with a huge amount of cash, enough to pay the entire initial lease amount.
Saved the Harley
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As always, YMMV
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Gah... Cal Worthington...and Spot! He 'sponsored' the middle of the night B and C movies... sigh
I never worked one of his lots and only met him once, briefly, at a car show.
Had a friend ripped off by Cal Worthington. What an asshole.
I also had a friend who drove a Yugo. It was a crappy car.
Cal and ethics were strangers. One of many reasons I never even applied at one of his dealerships. Yes, Yugos were among the worse excuse of an automobile ever sold in the US.
I used to drive by his original lot when I lived in Long Beach. He was quite the character.
"In 2005, the editor of the book ‘illicit’ Moises Naim revealed that a village in Kenya, an AK-47 cost 15 cows in 1986. Nineteen years later the price had crashed to just four cows. It is said that in Rwanda, during the civil war a buyer could purchase a good Kalashnikov at the price of a healthy chicken."
Source: https://www.military.africa/2020/01/why-the-kalashinikov-ak-47-rifle-is-so-popular-in-africa/
Complex man. People who worked at his lots didn't have much loyalty.
Israel wil need to pay for the war. Why not with your enemy's goods?
Can forensics be used to find if she committed the sacrilege of putting a hole in the Harley?
Car failures sometimes end up being worth a lot of money to collectors.
(Edsels?)
Buy your Yugo and Trabant now while they're undervalued!
Bigger fool theory? We had a DeLorean come in on trade. Sold it to a "collector".
I didn't know there were any Yugos left!
That was mid 1990's. I'm sure some are left.
https://barnfinds.com/tag/yugo/
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