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[RegularGuy]

Mark Winshel wrote:

Concerning such big, huge, ugly, and virtually impossible to park monstrosities as the Hummer, if they were manufactured only for the US Army, and therefore the only way for a member of the general public to obtain one was to buy one used at a government surplus sale and at which they were offered for sale for five hundred dollars, a lot of the people who have been willing to pay the better part of one hundred thousand dollars for a Hummer would have refused to pay even two hundred dollars for one, or for that matter even take one for free.
However since they are for sale for outrageously high prices, therefore a lot of people decide that huge, ugly, and expensive monstrosities as the Hummer must be wonderful, and as a result decide they absolutely must and need to have one.
In other words, people being awed by and impressed by such ugly and useless phenomena as the Hummer is an excellent illustration of the fact that many boys never really grow up, it's just that as they get older they get a desire for more and more expensive toys.

I don't know if you've ever been in a Humvee (the military version), but it is NOTHING like the Hummer sold to the public. That is like comparing a Gulfstream jet to a C-47 cargo plane.

[Joe Guzzardo]

Is Americaa's love affair with cars and out Jonesing one another finally coming to an end? Is there any possibility that Americans are beginning to realize that our shallow infatuation with materialism is exacting a huge cost not only upon ourselves but the world at large?

Naw, this is the just the ranting of another new age thinker, so you can safely ignore my diatribe.