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Yea SW I agree and I am not doing it to add value to my home. A pool is kind of tricky since it imediatley eliminates all of the potential buyers who "don't" want a pool. But the value I see in it will be for my family...and I don't plan on going anywhere anyway. So let me know what time you guys are going to get here... SW and NC can car pool. I will get a 2nd keg to keep on tap...what are you all drinking?

On my gx460 it has the ml logo on the front of the radio display.

Lenore- I will give you 10,000 to come and put mine in...I got a nice shovel. :) I'm sure I can get Paul, and SW here to help dig the hole. And you guys can talk about politics. That would be a riot. :) Thanks for the feedback guys.

Well Paul can I get your address. I would like to have the bill sent there. Nevermind I got your address I think! lol Permits actually wont be a problem. A family in the neighborhood just put one in he had it in the ground ready to go in less than a week. He said he can have mine installed and running in 3 weeks! We haven't even signed the paper work.

lol... I will shoot the dog! This is a 16 x 32 vinyl liner with a concrete deck and salt water system, automatic cleaner, cover, led lights. Price is about 30k. Another company quoted 36,000...this guy that quoted 30k is the best in the area though and I have never talked to anyone that he has done a pool for that isn't happy.

So I think I am getting ready to put in a in ground pool... Been thinking on this for a couple years...got kids 2 and 4 and they are little water nuts. So I think I am about 99.9% sure I am going to go for it. Any wise words from anyone here?

Well at least something I said makes sense... :)

Paul listening to some of the stuff you have been listening too I'm sure you do need them! lol (refer to political post for clarification) :) I notice on some roads that my GX seems much louder too. I got on a road recently and I thought something was wrong with one of my tires.

No pics unless you upload the photo to another site and post the link! (I know). We need to work on the mobile site. The Mod features are really limited too! Congrats in the VW NC! That is awesome...was kind of facing the same dilemma with the BMW, just did brakes front and back and rotors on the front. Will need tires soon. But I am keeping it, so far it has been great (knocking on wood). And I think I am getting ready to put in a pool! Maybe...

Where are the PICs? good stuff!

Because the person still can't get insurance on their own! Its not a question of ability to pay, its a question of ability to get coverage. No SW...I wasn't talking about the health insurance! lol I know that...I was talking about unemployment, or government assistance.

Almost positive that it is heated/ventilated seats. So it should have the ventilated seats if it has heated.

I going to ask a real dumb question... You do have it turned to auto...right?

Sure you did' date=' making the statement that cars kill more people than guns so why don't we just ban cars is tantamount to saying that since other things kill people guns are okay. [/quote'] No my point was why ban all guns it would be like trying to ban cars or airplanes. I was being a little sarcastic.

I think it would be better run if I was like MAIF, instead the state has a insurance company administer it (Carefirst) then pays producers a fee to enroll people it it but will not allow them to help them with anything at all. The problem with MHIP is most people that need it are unaware of it. Most agents take the hands off approach and don't reccomend it at all(which is wrong)...but when it started out it was horrible...we had a few people that we had signed up when it started. They came in with complaints we would call and they wouldn't discuss anything with us. They took the agents out of the picture. MAIF has been run successfully because they understand the agents are the ones enrolling the people in the program and will be the ones who help service the policies. I think it is what it is...you don't want it but it is better than nothing. And I know...why don't they offer bonuses to get off of it! One time bonus to get off and stay off of it for a year! The state of MD has a plan that they buy a car and pay someone's insurance for single moms who want to go back to work. (not 100% sure if they are still doing it). I have written several policies for them...the state worker would bring people in to me to get them insured. Cars would be maybe 7,000 or so...insurance had to be full coverage 1,500 or so...and the mom got the grant to get off of government assistance. It worked I still have many of them insured and guess what I would say the bulk of them are holding down good jobs! They got rewarded for working not staying on the system. I wish they had more programs like this. I have a feeling this has been cut since it has been awhile since I have heard about anyone quoting one of them lately.

By the way don't read the article then look at the chart. It was created by the secretary of public welfare. It shows you exactly why someone wouldn't want to earn more. I could get the chart from another website but it wouldn't matter. The chart is what I wanted to show...should have said that.

My reason behind MHIP is because it provides a option for you if you do not have insurance and can not qualify based on your health. I don't sell it or process the paper and get paid the fee that they pay us to enroll people...but if it is in someone's best interest I will get them set up with someone to enroll them. I don't think it is great or anything I certainly don't like it, it is just that if more states had a option like this than people would have had access to insurance if they had been turned down.

OK. Let's start with MHIP. I never said I liked it AT ALL. I just said you couldn’t be turned down...because of your health. YOUR Dead friend...how expensive was his plan? Source please? You are making a general statement SW. He could have found a plan he could have afforded. It would have been a high deductible plan. But preventative care as we all know is covered in full. There are loads of plans that someone can use a primary and the deductible will not even apply. I just had a guy call today...family plan he was 33 wife 3 kids...quoted around $400 a month for all of them. This wasn't even that high of a deductible...the cheapest plan for all of them was $150 a month. I guess I just don't think that is that expensive for what it covers. I can't see how someone in the middle class cannot afford $150 a month to cover his or her whole family. But I have seen these costs increase and increase over the past few years so much that it is getting to the point that it is not affordable to have traditional coverage with 10/20 co-pays anymore. I agree and I have said over and over that COST is the main issue but I still don’t see how most middle class families can not prioritize and budget health insurance…some type of plan anyway. I don’t see these types of things as hand-ups? I have no problem helping others…who need help. You say that if they are all insured that the cost will go down? I understand spreading the RISK. I got that…what about all of the mandated coverage? No lifetime caps, no deductibles for preventative care, etc. You don’t think that will increase cost? Why have they revised the numbers up and up as to how much it will cost? As far as paying for it cut it from defense, cut it from the foreign aide, I don’t care. PAY FOR IT…they never do. They just keep printing money and spending money they don’t have. Monopoly money… Now regarding the Independence Cards, WIC cards, Welfare, government assistance in general. SW can you honestly tell me you don't go in to the grocery stores and see people walking out with their carts filled with things that they shouldn't be able to get? I know you are in a much different area than I am…but buddy come here and walk in to any grocery store and I bet you will change your tune. It is sad… Do you even know about the cash allowance that is available? http://www.dhr.state.md.us/ebt/ YEA...I am saying that they are buying seafood...STEAMED CRABS...that is right. Want me to get REAL…here you go…look at the website. Here is a source for you…look what you can use discover, visa, independence cards http://cravincrabs.com/menu.html it appears I can use my independence card? Get Real? There is a seafood place that I drive past every day...has a huge sign that says independence cards accepted. My mother in laws business refuses to accept it. She had it set up and people came in buying seafood and steaks with their credit cards and debit cards. Well people came in to use their Independence cards she decided she didn't want that type of business... Please don't tell me that they aren't eating steamed crabs since I have seen it, I know businesses that do it, I know business owners that have told me about it. I have seen it with my own two eyes and it makes me sick. Want to see what they can buy? http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/retailers/eligible.htm I know what you are saying about people that don’t have kids have to pay taxes for schools…I get it. I just want responsibility. The problem with the way the government is running things is they think that if they toss enough money at a problem they can fix it. We are raising a society that it is rewarding people to be dependant on the government. If you look at only one link that I put on here look at this one… http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/07/julias-mother-why-a-single-mom-is-better-off-on-welfare-than-taking-a-69000-a-year-job/ My wife is a school nurse...it is pathetic what our schools have become. A DAYCARE...and a lot of the parents don't care. I won't even start with the abuse...the drugs...the language...oh...yea did I mention it is at a Elementary School. After her working in the public school system I have just about made my mind up that I do not want my kids in it. Again I am blessed that I can afford to put them in another school I know many people can’t. But you know what I will pay for it! I am not bitter about paying for others...I am just sick of the abuse of the system. My mom worked for the state and actually worked with qualifying people for food stamps for years...she got so disgusted with the abuse she transferred out into child support enforcement, which wasn't much better. I am not a bad guy…I want to help the less fortunate. And I do, I volunteer my time to help…my money to help…and I pay more than most people make in a year in taxes. I am just disgusted with the abuse and the sense of entitlement that I am seeing in this country. I will raise my children the way I was raised. IF you “want” something you “WORK” for it. I am honestly blessed and feel fortunate to be as successful as I am…I am not ashamed of having nice things or going and buying a GX460, my wife’s BMW, or my CVO Harley…I work hard for it. I pay for it…but yes I have a problem with “our” tax money getting used to reward people for doing nothing. A hand-up is no problem in my book…a HAND-OUT is. I watched a report that John Stossel did on poverty in America and it is amazing what people “need”. I teach a junior achievement class “need/want” it is amazing that you don’t need a TV, or a phone, or a play station, they are wants and if I can teach a class of 3rd graders to understand that, than the government should be able to explain to their parents that you “need” this and we will provide this for you…if you “want” this GET A JOB. Many of the people that he interviewed in the segment had large flat screen TV’s with more cable channels than me, game consoles, you name it they have it…and wow you see this is a hand-UP? I am sorry but someone I feel sorry for is the senior citizen that has paid in SS their whole life that gets a $1,000 check and has to live off of that each month. I will HAND-up to them all day long…but the 22-year-old girl that has learned she can go out on disability, have 3 kids, and come in to pay her insurance on her Freaking Infinity…that I have a problem with. Tell me how do we break the welfare society? It appears what we have been doing is not working… I guess my main thing is that I sleep well at night. I work hard provide a nice home, nice things for my family. I am tired of watching people all around me live off of the system WHEN they don’t have too…but they want too! You and I see things differently since I see people who have learned the system and learn to live off of the system…and you think that no one wants to live off of the system. As I said before…I still like YA! :) And one day you and I are going to go to lunch or dinner and if it is around here…I am going to take you to that seafood place and let you sit in the parking lot and watch what I see.

I didn't say that at all and that isn't what I implied either SW? I said I don't understand banning all guns as NC said. I was making a point that it didn't make sense to ban all guns. I even said which you didn't quote that we need to do something with the assault rifles.

Paul... I read your article. I have posted a few of my own...did you read mine.

So now that I understand that we have already been paying for healthcare just like I said for people without than tell me what is the difference? Where is the money coming from to pay for those people. And SW, and Paul I'm a conservitive. I don't think I'm better and people like me are better than anyone. I contribute a large amount of money each year to different charities and that is my choice to give. I'm just sick of this freeloader society we have created. Keep giving and giving and look what you have got... These government entitlement programs are abused and there encouragement to get people off of them. What do you want me to say...I didn't want to go to war, I don't want to give out the money we do in foreign aide, I don't want to give the politicians raises? I pay or will pay for private school for my kids...but I still have to pay for public schools too...I am putting away $10,000 a year for my kids college...but my kids won't get grants but my taxes will let others go to school with my taxes? I pay for my cell phone, now I have my tax money paying for cell phones for people who are on government assistance? These WIC and Independence cards now have cash benefit allowances... Come on guys making a society of people to be dependant on the government is sick. There is no shame in it, and one of the best things that Bill Clinton did because he understood that the government could no longer afford it was to reform welfare...now look. As far as I am concerned we should help those who can not help themselves. The others that want to live off of society can get water, beans, and rice. But I guess that makes me a jerk because I don't feel like someone living off of a handout should be able to go and purchase steamed crabs! Is that a right or a privilege? As far as health care I will say it once more...cost is the issue. I don't care that they are going to make people have it? Although they are doing it with a TAX. My thing is how do you make someone have it when they don't pay anything in at all, OH that's right you give it to them...and make everyone else pay for it. Should I have better access to health care? Well let me ask you both...are you going to go check in at the free health clinic when you are sick? No you will find the best Doc you can right...should everyone be able to do the same YES, in a perfect world no one would get sick and if they did the best Doc in the world would make everything better. Well my friends if everyone is trying to see that DOC bet you might not have access to the same care you have now. This is why people come to this country for healthcare because we have the best. It isn't about thinking I am better than anyone...it is this isn't addressing the issue which is the cost of insurance. It is unfortunate that some people don't have access to care...although if more states used Marylands MHIP program it wouldn't be as big of a problem. That's right you must not have known that if you are turned down by those NASTY insurance companies the state of MD has a program that you can enroll in to get healthcare? So why can't someone get health care in Maryland? MD small groups have NO health questions at all...that is why it is so expensive...and it is getting more expensive too.

And exactly how do you get any guns but registered guns? I just don't understand this the world trade center was bombed in 1993 with fertilizer let's stop the sale of that, 9/11 happened because aircrafts were taken over and crashed into the buildings. Let's stop flying? I think over 40,000 people a year die from car accidents... Let's all park our cars? I haven't shot a gun in years however I have a loaded 357 in my desk with hollow points in it. There have been several places robbed around us and one person not long ago was killed within a few miles of my main office. I think I will take my chances with my gun in my desk. By the way guess you missed the old man that chased that thug out of the place with his gun? Bet if this punk had pulled this kind of crap in let's say Texas he would have gotten some return fire. Now I will admit that I think some of these assault rifle sales are ridicilous. I would have no problem if they banned them but again I don't think you will get them away from the criminals! And before anyone says it YES I do know that he purchased these guns legally.

Wonder what the GX will do? Might have to start looking...

The VA is not something you can use as proof that the Affordable Care Act won't work. The two have zero similarities. Nobody is talking about the Government taking over control or administration of hospitals or doctors. Completely different things. Thats his assessment as someone who has the means to pay out of pocket for an expensive medical procedure. I doubt if you asked someone Canadian who did not what they would prefer to do you'd get a different answer. I think you'd likely get a different answer from an American with no healthcare who drags his leg with a torn ACL around day to day with no hope of ever getting it repaired too. I have a coworker, self employed, no healthcare. He was really sick, throwing up, not eating, didn't go to the doctor because he was afraid of the cost. Waited past when he started vomiting blood...passing out. He finally went when it came to the point where he couldn't stand up, his wife and son carried him and put him into the car, he didn't have much say at that point. I went to his funeral was 4 days later. He was 51. Had he been in Canada...he'd be alive. He couldn't afford health insurance. Couldn't afford it. This is a middle class guy. So, nothings perfect. There are plusses and minuses to everything. Waiting 18 months for a non life-saving surgery sucks. Dying because you have the flu when you're a middle class American and can't afford to go to the Doctor sucks worse IMHO. Sorry SW most people that say that they can't afford health insurance still some how have iPhones, more than one car, every channel on cable, 10 pairs of shoes... They just don't prioritize. My parents told me as soon as I was off of their plan to get health insurance. I have always had a policy. Never used it when I was younger. Had a high deductible but had something. I am sorry the guy is dead...I am sorry for his family...I hope he did manage to afford life insurance. And he absolutely could have went to the doctor...he chose not to because he didn't buy insurance...come on. People go to the doctor all of the time without insurance. And yes there are some terrible stories about people who loose everything they have because of not having insurance. Why...why didn't they have it? Why didn't they get it when they could....THE COST.

As far as the blind spot, I'm not sure what you mean. With the motorized, 4/way mirror adjusment there is usualy not a problem. Paul Well I know what you mean my friend from the dark side but I can tell you one thing the RX has a blind spot in it I don't care how you adjust the mirrors. Mine was a 04 and trust me it was to the point I usually turned my head to check. There are plenty of complaints online about it. You can use one of those blind spot mirrors like Paul mentioned above.