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Hi all. New to the group. I'm looking forward to a great riding season, and maybe making a few new friends on this site. Thanks for adding me.

No offense... But this is deeply misguided. A. Most rich people alive today inherited their wealth or at least a healthy seed from which to grow their wealth. B. Wage growth for middle and lower income jobs has been largely flat for decades. Wage growth for top earning positions has skyrocketed. This is largely due to irresponsible short-term greed on the part of executives, apathy by shareholders, and complicity by boards of directors and lawmakers. C. Our tax system rewards market investment - not working for a living. So people who have money can make more of it while contributing essentially nothing of value to our economy. (Before someone argues with this let me just head you off. Venture funding does contribute to the economy. What I'm talking about here is rich guy A who buys 100,000 shares of Microsoft from rich guy B, lets them gain $8 per share, and then sells the to rich guy C a year later and pays only capital gains tax on his $800,000 of income). And before we all start whining about how taxes are too high, a little history lesson might be in order. Can anyone tell me what the top marginal tax rate is now and what it was in 1955? (I'll give you a hint. If Obama is a socialist, then I don't know what you'd call Eisenhower). D. Our government is hell bent on increasing these inequities because the same people who benefit from lackadaisical regulation, low wages for workers, and giant tax loopholes are the same people who have money for campaign contributions. E. I just know someone is going to bust out the "job creators" argument so let me just stuff that one right here. Rich individuals don't create jobs. Companies do. There is NO benefit to the larger economy to giving a rich individual more money. Also, companies create jobs based on need, not excess of capital. During the last recession many companies had huge stockpiles of cash but they didn't hire and they didn't increase wages. They either sat on it or gave it to shareholders (the largest of these are usually their own executives and board members) in the form of dividends. Companies hire people when demand for whatever they do causes them to need to do so. Demand spikes when there are consumers with cash in the market. The one thing you said that was actually correct was that poor people and middle class people spend money. Why? Because they don't already have everything they need or want. So, if you want to really create jobs, you don't give money to a bunch of rich individuals in the form of tax breaks so they can squirrel it away and become richer, you put it in the hands of people who will use it. Henry Ford wasn't a bleeding heart but he paid his employees a good wage. Why? So they could afford to buy his cars. F. This narrative, about how poor people and middle class people could become wealthy if they weren't so entitled, is utter garbage. I'm not saying people don't sometimes do self-defeating things. Hell, this is a car forum. Everyone on here loves expensive four-wheeled-depreciation machines. But the story that massive entitlement and bad morals gives rise to 99% of our country being SOOOO much poorer than 1% of our country is a fairytale that the richest of us tell ourselves to mask the truth - the wealth gap is caused by unrestrained rapacious greed.

I am also hoping the prices tank!

Couldn't find the 'EDIT' button so I guess I don't know how to change the first post. Bottom line….SOLD!!! Mods, can you change the title to reflect the change, thx.

One is an existing failure, the other fails to exist.

Just Do It. Johnny Law frowns upon it & drivers take it as a personal insult but is the right thing to do.

Your best bet in Ohio is to stay the hell away from cars. They have bad habits like turning from the wrong lane without turn signals, blowing through stop lights and stop signs, turning dead in front of you across your path, etc. Especially rush hours, worst on Monday mornings and Friday evenings. And yes, tons of cars weaving and not staying in lanes. Lane splitting will get you pinched a few times. Lane splitting (and lots of other stuff) will often get you an enraged tail-gating cager behind you.