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 Terry’s Tidbits – On Buying A Car, Recipe For Tyranny, and Creating Criminals

By Terry Gray

November 8, 2004

"Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."
Louis Brandeis - Whitney v. California

DON’T DO IT!

          Have you ever noticed that car dealerships are in a big hurry to put space between you and $20,000?  I learned a long time ago that if someone is in a hurry to sell something you had better not buy it. 

          Would you buy a new computer for say, $1,000 if the computer salesman came on to you like a car salesman?  Isn’t it odd how we’ll shop for computers and corn flakes but we’ll impulse buy a new car?

          I used to sell cars.  I have found it is best to just wear it on my sleeve as opposed to hiding it in guilt and shame.

          If you want to buy a car don’t buy on impulse. 

Don’t look hungry or weak either.  Car salesmen are like the wild Dingoes of the Outback, they eat their wounded. 

Never kick the tires, unless the salesman is under one.  Kicking tires just proves that the tires have air.

Do take as much of the salesman’s time as you can afford to take.  He works on commission and the more time he invests in you the more he’ll need to sell you the car.

Do take advantage of sales.  Every day, all day, there are car sales.  No time is a special time. 

Don’t feel bad about beating them up by negotiating.  Regardless of how good you are, they are going to make money or they aren’t going to sell you the car.  Your job is to keep them from making more money than necessary.

Don’t let them befriend you.  The friendship won’t last.  When they smile and wave goodbye to you as you drive away, they mean goodbye.

Finally, remember when signing the papers that in a few weeks you’ll be writing a check to pay for all your negotiating skills.  You’ll keep writing checks long after the new wears off.  Happy motoring.

MOUTHS OF BABES

          Representative Mary Lou Marzian wants to raise taxes on tobacco again.  Here’s how it plays out:

“…create new sections of KRS Chapter 41 to establish a children's dental care fund from the tax imposed on smokeless tobacco, cigars, loose and pipe tobacco and to create a Commonwealth Fund from the surtax imposed on cigarettes and specify use of cigarette tax money for mental health and substance abuse services, Medicaid health care services, health insurance for state and public school employees, smoking prevention and cessation, public school construction or renovation for local school districts with growth in enrollment, veterans' nursing homes, university medical schools for cancer research, and postsecondary tuition assistance, the state general fund…”

This woman is out of her mind.  Currently there is open season on tobacco taxation.  Anybody who wants anything goes after tobacco to fund it.  What are these nannies going to do when tobacco is gone?  For money, they’ll have to raise taxes to make up for the billions of dollars that tobacco hands over to government.  For oppression, they are way ahead of us.  Take a look at any newspaper and you’ll find something that the nannies are opposing or trying to control.  Why, here’s one now:

“How sweet it isn't at the Meadowside Elementary School in Milford, Conn.  That's where Principal Robert Davis has banned all sweets, including cakes, cupcakes and cookies, from classroom birthday and holiday parties, saying it'll help cut down student obesity.  But parents like Jack Fowler say the "fat police" have taken over the school.”  New York Post.

Right you are, Jack.  But the nannies just got started on this issue.  Wait until they really get serious.  This whole issue of oppression and control is out of hand for bigger reasons than you know.  The idiots who support laws such as smoking bans think there is a line when it comes to control.  They believe that line will never be crossed when it comes to their stuff.  Just wait, Jack.  When they come for the few remnants of freedom that we have remaining, all opposition will have long been dead.  You didn’t stand up for the freedoms that mattered to your neighbors, Jack.  Now no one is left to stand up for the freedoms that matter to you.  I ask you, Jack, did you and do you support smoking bans?  Did you get on the bandwagon and say, “Yeah, ban smoking ‘cause it’s bad?”  Welcome to the world that you are helping to create, Jack.

          A normal growth scheme for nannies begins with developing social awareness of whatever topic they are interested in controlling.  Then they move to the study portion of their agenda.  They invariably fund the studies themselves, with researchers being friends of the cause.  At this point they furnish the results of these skewed studies to nannies embedded in our liberal media, creating a social outcry against what they term an epidemic.  Legislators and politicians get on the agenda knowing that somewhere in the mess votes are up for grabs.  Those in office will find more money to fund further studies which more likely than not will be Meta studies.  What this means is that the various skewed studies that caused the “crisis” are pored over and compared and are then used to produce a big skewed study.  Everything is official at this point, because public money has been allotted, the media is attending the crisis event, and the “new” Meta study has been validated.

          Members of the public at large are informed that donuts “may cause” polyps on the eyeballs of children.  The public begins screaming for “something to be done” about this new threat, and the whole ball just continues to gather momentum, money, and public support.  With the outcry come new-found dollars for funding more studies, on and on and on.  Always be on the lookout for the ever used term, “It’s for the children.”  This is a handy and valuable catch phrase, which can devastate even the most innocent donut.    

JAIL OVERCROWDING

          Yeah, yeah.  Quit arresting people for stupid stuff.  See the above piece.  We create new criminals every day.  Why do we do that?  We have enough criminals.  If legislators were honest and said they were meeting to create criminals instead of meeting to create laws, the public would have a fit.  Call it what you will, but the result is new criminals.

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