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Originally Posted by baronWastelan (Post 365649)

My point is that when people, like the ones who buy a fleet of 911's, spend their money freely in the legitimate market place, it supports jobs (in the case of Porsche parts, service, oil and fuel -- good jobs), and those jobs pay good wages and medical insurance benefits. Many of those jobs will be in his local community.

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Thanks for asking, I'm glad you're getting some free education on the benefits of a free market economy!

You are sure you got some?
My education cost way more than his car collection, wasn't paid by the gov. either. I dont think it was worth it, but anyway.

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Do any drug dealers or coke farmers or drug smugglers have retirement plans and medical insurance plans? If not, they're not really jobs.

So he got his own mechanic, which is his full time employee with insurance coverage?
All the others too?

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Originally Posted by swiss (Post 365819)

Are you serious 2.0?
Are you telling me that consumption creates jobs? Unfriggin-believable!
Money always works, almost always creates jobs - only if you keep it under pillow it won't.
Logically it doesn't matter what he does with money, as long as it's invested.
And just to p-o you a bit more - what he did it the worst kind of spending, Porsches are imports, ergo that money leaves the country and adds to your trade deficit. Smart move, lol.

You are sure you got some?
My education cost way more than his car collection, wasn't paid by the gov. either. I dont think it was worth it, but anyway.

So he got his own mechanic, which is his full time employee with insurance coverage?
All the others too?

Would love to help you understand how basic economics work, but you don't understand the difference between a used car imported over a decade ago and a new one, so I'll have to end the lesson here. Enjoy a couple of examples of "import parts".

What I don't get is the conclusions people jump to with limited amounts of information.

Or is this again: Assumption is the mother of all ***.

Why should he publicly proclaim to have given to charity?

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Originally Posted by baronWastelan (Post 365875)

Enjoy a couple of examples of "import parts".

A couple of $3.00 oil filters hardly warrants major parts items as these service parts including plugs air filters etc ... are usually made locally in all countries as they are low cost items and importing them makes no sense.

Now getting a new engine or gearbox, not recon, would be a feat.

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Please tell me where I can buy a set of PORSCHE brand oil filters for a 993 for $6.

Also what a fair labor rate I should pay for a PORSCHE specialist to do the oil change.

TIA

Yeah, the price of something the consumer pays is in NO way indicative of the price it costs to manufacture it.

I would imagine that the $3 no name brand filter costs roughly the same as the $30 Porsche one or whatever.

Luxury brands survive on margin. And margin is payment over and above production costs.

Everyone has an example from their own life experience of buying or knowing someone who bought something for more money just because it had a name attached to it.

Anyway.

If the story is bonafide, his neice is a very generous and astonishingly graceful person. Good for her. As for the cars, they're just more ways to funnel money to the petrol companies.

Wolv still with your 1st pilot ? ... congrats !

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Originally Posted by TomcatViP (Post 365946)

Wolv still with your 1st pilot ? ... congrats !

No, those are his statistics when he died. I stopped putting them all up there because I have died too many times!

I left #1 up there though as a tribute to him.