Lilred's Rant of the Week..Give em a brake

[DaMadman]

Originally posted by fabsroman
I'll stay away from the tax deduction that small business owners can get on them and go straight to the psych.

These women buy these huge SUV's because they want to keep up with the Jones's next door. They don't want to drive the cheap $25,000 station wagon. They want to drive the $50,000 SUV. Around where I live there are plenty of them and I see a good amount of Ford Excursion Turbo Diesels being driven by these women that are all dressed up. Same goes for a lot of guys too. There are a lot of them that will never use the thing, and I know plenty of people that fall in this category.

Your are 100% spot on my friend and that is why a middle class workin man can't afford a decent 4 x 4 pickup or SUV to haul the Family in anymore. Damn 4x4 truck with a back seat for the kids and enough motor to pull a camper is at $40,000 because the well to do snobs buy them and make them a fashion/Status symbol and drove the price up (supply and demand).

I remember my first time experiencing this kind of mess. Years ago when I first started workin and went to buy a pair of work boots. the same pair of workboots that I had bought the year before had almost doubled in price.... Know why? because a bunch of women that year started wearing them as a fashionable item. They went from being work boots to a fashion statement and everyone that sold them jacked the dang price sky high because the "fashionable people" wearing them would pay it. Thus leaving the poor working slob (myself) wearing worn out last years boots because I wasn't about to spend that much on a pair of "work boots"
I musta griped at a dozen female in the next week or so when I seen them wearing work boots with their Jordace Jeans. They were like "what is your problem" I told them my problem is last year I paid $20 for those same workboots, This year because you think it is a cute fashion statement they are goign to cost me $40.