US ports turned over to Arabs?
 

"Maxprop" wrote in message
nk.net...

My daughter and son-in-law bought a Ford Explorer about 8
years back. The
engine, which they properly and carefully maintained via
company maintenance
schedules, gave up after 60K miles--failed main bearings.
Ford offered to
pay less than $1000 toward the purchase of a new engine.
The kids scrapped
the vehicle. Ford now tops their "never again" list.


What year? My '91 Explorer, with 110K on runs fine.

Scotty

US ports turned over to Arabs?
 

"Peter Wiley" wrote in message
news:010320060011210810% Bingo. We've been running this
argument over on rec.crafts.metalworking
for years now. There are basically no US manufacturers of
small
precision tools like lathes, mills etc left. South Bend
didn't update
its lathe design in 50 years and that wasn't because it
was perfect.

I have a mix of US and British machinery and I like it.
But it's all
old. When I go to buy a new lathe or milling machine for
my people at
work, I buy one made in Taiwan or China. They aren't as
elegant or as
well finished, but they cut metal just fine and the
accuracy is
satisfactory.


Rockwell, a local plant made small printing presses
($500,000 a piece ) . The Japs copied them and offered them
for half price. Customers told me that the USA press was
made better, more precise, & lasted longer but for half
price, if you didn't run them as hard, the Jap copy did the
job okay.

Scotty

US ports turned over to Arabs?
 

We had a KIA and our son drives KIA's...junk cars....give
me a GM
anyday...or even a Ford....


Scotty wrote:
Both my Son and Daughter own KIAs. They couldn't afford much
more and I told them with the long warranty they were better
than a used 'Merican car. I also told them I was tired of
working on cars.


Me too. 'Cept in my case, I was also runnin' out of
cinderblocks ;)

DSK

US ports... now housing prices
 

DSK wrote:


How about real estate in general--can you show me any state in the country
where RE values are lower than they were 20 or 50 years ago?

I'll bet there are lots of places along Rte 66, (after adjustment for
inflation).

Cheers
Marty

US ports turned over to Arabs?
 

Read what I said again, and this time really CONCENTRATE.

I don't claim that Vermont has more cows than people. In fact Vermont
overall has NEVER had more cows than people. NEVER!


Dave wrote:
Perhaps you could then explicate further what you meant in Message-ID:
when you said:


Last time I checked, there were STILL more cows than people in Vermont.

And Bitty Bill gets mad when people think he's a sockpuppet
for Bob/Jax

DSK

US ports... now housing prices
 

"Capt. JG" wrote in message
...
I think you're talking about Prop 13.

Yup, thanks.

Max

US ports... now housing prices
 

"DSK" wrote in message
.. .
Capt. JG wrote:
I think you're talking about Prop 13.



He's got it confused with Area 51

I've been afflicted with avian flu H5N1.

Max

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"katy" wrote in message
...
Maxprop wrote:
"Frank Boettcher" wrote in message
...


My Mother in law has waterfront in Florida. Value has doubled each of
the last two years. And it is real because the house is not for sale
but she has people knocking on the door making offers. It is not a
good thing unless you are flipping real estate. If you just want to
live there eventually the taxes and insurance will drive you out.


I thought Florida had passed a law similar to California's Prop 51, which
freezes property taxes at the buy-in level. Not true?


I
feel sorry for people who retired on a fixed income and their dream
was to live near the water in Florida. Even though Florida limits
the amount of tax increase per year for a homstead, I expect it will
eventually drive them out.


Guess I should have read on--so FL *can* raise property taxes, but at a
fixed rate for homesteads. Hmmm. Not good for those on fixed incomes.
Then again the real estate moguls control that state, lock, stock, and
barrel, and increasing property taxes may be their way of forcing folks
out of their homes, which puts them on the market for them to sell
profitably. No one ever accused FL of being altruistic w/r/t real estate.
One has only to look at all the coastal wetlands that got backfilled
between the 60s and the present, all in the name of creating canals for
more "waterfront" property.

Max
And it's a renewable resource to boot. One massive hurricane like
Katrina, and whammo, they get to start all over again.

The builders love it. So do the shyster, fly-by-night remodeling types.

Max

US ports... now housing prices
 

On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:16:02 GMT, "Maxprop"
wrote:


"katy" wrote in message
...
Maxprop wrote:
"Frank Boettcher" wrote in message
...


My Mother in law has waterfront in Florida. Value has doubled each of
the last two years. And it is real because the house is not for sale
but she has people knocking on the door making offers. It is not a
good thing unless you are flipping real estate. If you just want to
live there eventually the taxes and insurance will drive you out.


I thought Florida had passed a law similar to California's Prop 51, which
freezes property taxes at the buy-in level. Not true?


I
feel sorry for people who retired on a fixed income and their dream
was to live near the water in Florida. Even though Florida limits
the amount of tax increase per year for a homstead, I expect it will
eventually drive them out.


Guess I should have read on--so FL *can* raise property taxes, but at a
fixed rate for homesteads. Hmmm. Not good for those on fixed incomes.
Then again the real estate moguls control that state, lock, stock, and
barrel, and increasing property taxes may be their way of forcing folks
out of their homes, which puts them on the market for them to sell
profitably. No one ever accused FL of being altruistic w/r/t real estate.
One has only to look at all the coastal wetlands that got backfilled
between the 60s and the present, all in the name of creating canals for
more "waterfront" property.

Max
And it's a renewable resource to boot. One massive hurricane like
Katrina, and whammo, they get to start all over again.

The builders love it. So do the shyster, fly-by-night remodeling types.

Max


Actually each hurricane seems initiate code creation that improves the
chances of a structure surviving the next one. My mother in laws
place was totaled during a hurricane about ten years ago. walking
down the beach I noticed that all the homes that had been built to the
new coastal codes survived with minimal damage and all like hers that
had been built before the coastal codes were pretty much toast. Her
replacement home is built to the new codes and has gone through a
couple of minor hurricanes with no damage.

Frank

US ports... now housing prices
 

I left my aluminun foil hat in the car...

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"DSK" wrote in message
.. .
Capt. JG wrote:
I think you're talking about Prop 13.



He's got it confused with Area 51

DSK