I grew up on $500 cars breaking down all the time. Lost a couple jobs because of it. I recently spent $6,000 on a 03 BMW with 45k miles. It feels good having a car that doesn't seem like it's going to break down every day. The idea that poor people are spending too much money on their cars is insulting. I go outside to the parking lot at my factory and their isn't a single brand new car in the lot. I'd wager every car is over 10 years old. Other than the Presidents, who is the last remaining upper management guy left after we've been bought 4 times since I started 5 years ago. I'm lucky I avoided kids when I was young and stupid but some of these people not so much. Anyone angry at them or ridiculing them for their spending while ignoring that Betsy Devos' 10th yachts' repair damages are a full time salary for someone here.
That woman didn't earn shit, Meghan McCain didn't earn shit, those people don't deserve the cushy lives they lead while you bitch about people going in debt trying to buy a reliable car to get to work. How many Go Fund Me pages have we all been too for Healthcare costs? While Meghan McCain fear mongers about socialism easily paying the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of dollars her father is undergoing in treatment for his brain cancer. You know what my step mom did when she got cancer? She fucking died because she didn't want to put anyone in debt. A Co worker I worked with at Walmart stopped being able to afford her prescription for her seizure medicine. 2 weeks later she had a seizure well driving and passed away. She didn't tell anyone she wasn't taking it.
We all grew up with a idea of what living within our means meant. Maybe your parents lived within their means, like mine, and had 2 kids, a house, 2 cars, money to build a garage and other home improvement projects all the time, money for Nintendos and a bike, etc. All on 1 salary from my father. This was just 25 years ago and I remember what he made. I make that plus my wife makes more than that and we don't have kids and yet we can't afford a house. My grandfather bought my grandmother a new car every 3 years when I was a kid. He had a job at a telephone company that got bought out by Comcast eventually. I worked for crews that did exactly the same shit he did and they weren't able to keep their shitty old cars running. So yea maybe people are having trouble living within their means these days. Maybe that's because since the late 70s they've been losing a Class War waged by the Rich on them. Maybe every year that goes by "living within your means" equals less and less for a majority of Americans, while the people exploiting their hard work have a dozen yachts around the country. Those same people then gawk at the idea you deserve more by pointing out your iPhone or the car you lease to get to work everyday without issues. Fuck them... There's a solution for those people ruining our society and the French figured it out 200 years ago =P