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Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by Artem256, Jun 1, 2019.

  1. virginiashadow

    virginiashadow Legendary Woodsman

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    Screenshot_20200408-130436_Chrome.jpg GM should do this job for free considering how many billions of dollars us tax payers have given to them to bail them out. Or another solution would be for them to lower the costs of their vehicles by 5K for an entire year so average Americans could afford a new car.
     
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    opossumhunterNC Die Hard Bowhunter

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    They’re gonna have to lower them by more than 5k for that to happen. Particularly if it’s a full size truck. Bastards are more expensive than most luxury cars.
     
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    virginiashadow Legendary Woodsman

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    I agree. Im looking at regular sized trucks around here and they are like 40K dollars. What the hell.
     
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    I have a feeling there will be a few huge cars/truck sales coming up.
     
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    I mentioned yesterday that during the response team briefing Dr. Birx stated that any death, regardless of cause, to where the patient had Covid-19, it was tallied as a Covid-19 death.

    I think that is part of a reason coroners are ssying they don't have enough swabs to test every deceased person for Covid-19.

    In a car wreck or die of natural causes, but swab the patient and even if asymptomatic, Covid-19 death.
     
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    I vote with my wallet. GM hasn't seen my wallet for a very long time.
     
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    I can't speak to their car biz, but ALL financial services companies paid back TARP $ with interest, after being forced to take money whether they wanted it or not...which includes the old gmac financing (now part of Ally).

    I thought as part of the auto bailout the govt owned equity as part of the 2008 bailout...
     
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    Till there is no inventory
     
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    Germ Legendary Woodsman

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    Who knows COBOL, I bet you could name your price.

    "Literally, we have systems that are 40-plus-years-old," New Jersey Gov. Murphy said over the weekend. "There'll be lots of postmortems and one of them on our list will be how did we get here where we literally needed COBOL programmers?"
     
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    You couldn't pay me enough to go back to COBOL, especially if it is on the mainframe.

    Having said that our company probably has a metric **** ton of cobol skilled developers in India...
     
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    Big surprise.
     
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    Wow, Tigerking made it into a daily Presidential briefing. That reporter is a dope, his other question was a softball pitched perfect to Trump, "That's a very good question, I've been waiting for someone to ask it." Yeah, no kidding? Is that why a no name reporter with a peach fuzz mustache asked you? Lmao!
     
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    84 months for a car/truck, holy cow
     
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    Been seeing that for little while. But when new truck is getting 70k+ it doesn't do much to payments as far a lowering them.

    Just heard on radio this morning a local dealer is starting back up few sales. I'm guessing they all got alot sitting.

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    Anyone think Bernie could be looking at an offer for VP on a ticket?

    Would Biden break a campaign promise of a female VP, take Bernie and hope for his votes only to resign if he wins and Bernie is President?

    Damn you Covid-19..... can't think straight anymore...
     
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    cls74 Legendary Woodsman

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    Wish that was a bit more articulate :lol:

    I agree on a lot of it, but damn, stop speaking jibberish and slang with memes.

    And yes, I know you did not write it, just a rant against some memes.
     
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    We know it did reach Shanghai and Beijing, my guess is worse than the numbers state.

    For 10 their plan was to collapse the world economies, so they could mass-produce products. To whom are they going to sell the product to then?

    Wuhan shut down for 10 weeks? That's quick?
     
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    yeah but at 0%...
     
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    65,000 that's still over 700.00 a month, my first house payment was 515.00 and some change
     

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