Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
You're funny.
Since this is a motorsport forum an analogy using cars:
Maybe we've been stuck in second gear for 12 years because we allowed this fine car we have called America to be driven by a bunch of born on 3rd base, never really had to work rich frat boys run it and they and their friends made a whole sheeeeut pile of money by never reading the owners manual, never did any maintenance cause daddy would have other people work on it, OR they would just run it hard till the thing broke, and just walk away---and grab the next car to abuse.... And they stopped maintaining it at the same time they and their friends decided to straighten out everybody else's problems in the world for a long list of ever changing reasons and all their guns and M1 and F16s cost a lot of money, but they never paid for anything in their lives to this point, why should they do anything about the cost of their playing now?
So after the frat boys have broken the car called America, it doesn't go very fast anymore, it crawls along squeaking and grinding gears and guess what, it is going to cost a lot of money from somewhere to fix what the Frat boys did for damage.
Kind of like your FIAT. They can run again like or better than before, and even a Fiat can go really well but in the meantime you have to Fix It Again Today, Fix It Again Tomorrow, Fix It Again Tony cause its a Fruitless Italian Attempt at Technology.
Of course if you're a typical Fiat fan, then an analogy of a running car and maintenance and modding it to work better is probably not going to resonate too well with your experience.
Give you a big hint Tony, Obama may be too comfy with Wall Street Plutocrats for my taste I believe, but all of us have more than ample evidence of what happens when we choose from the current generation the sons of men who actually made stuff, who got rich using Daddy's money and connections, who have been totally insulated from the costs of their actions...
Even you ought to be able to see that.
