"Change: Obama's word for higher taxes"

Yep, that's what I saw today while driving back home on the Walter Reuther Highway; it was a bumper sticker on the back of a blue Toyota Corolla.


BTW, I found this gif on a site that curries to your basic armed teabagger types.

I got a look at the guy. Some white dude, with white hair and he looked liked he was hunched over his steering wheel and biting his fingernails. But, it was hard to tell in the pouring rain and really, I had to keep my eye on the road, you know what I mean?

But, there we were, on the Walter Reuther Highway and he was going in the same direction as I. I don't know if this guy lives in Clinton Township, or Sterling Heights, or Royal Oak or whatever. But, I know for damn sure that he lives in Michigan and we're traveling together on the Walter Reuther Highway, me in my 12 year old Dodge and this guy, in his Toyota Corolla with a bumper sticker that said, "Change: Obama's word for higher taxes".

A Toyota Corolla.

Really.

Let me say that folks around here in the Metro Detroit area are anything, if they are proud of their cars. Whether they be foreign or domestic, if they've got some ready cash to spend on a fancy new car, the folks around here are going to spend it and it's damn well going to look fancy.

But this guy, with the bumper sticker that said, "Change: Obama's word for higher taxes", was driving a plain jane Toyota Corolla. I checked the price for a brand new 2010 Corolla and the base price is only $15,450. Don't believe me? Check for yourself: http://www.toyota.com/corolla

The thing was that it wasn't even a new car, it looked like a 2009 or a 2008 model, and it had a bumper sticker on the back that said, "Change: Obama's word for higher taxes".

So there we were, on the Walter Reuther Highway, which by the way is named after the man who founded the UNITED AUTO WORKERS, and I was thinking... "Does this guy make more than $225,000 and if he does, why is he only driving this blue Toyota Corolla?"

"If he's making more than $225,000", I was thinking, "why isn't he driving a Cadillac, but since he likes the foreign stuff (to drive to and from home on the Walter Reuther Highway), how about a Lexus, or an Audi, or even a Mercedes Benz? Those are the kind of cars that guys who make more than $225,000 drive around these parts.

And you know, if he was driving a Caddy, a Lexus, an Audi or a Benz, I wouldn't even have given his "Change: Obama's word for higher taxes" bumper sticker a second thought, on the Walter Reuther Highway or any where else.

But, this fool was driving a 2009-08 blue Toyota Corolla.

The funny thing is that guy, because chances are he's not loaded, SAW THAT HIS TAXES WENT DOWN UNDER OBAMA.

That's right, "Change..." really meant for this curious, white haired, fingernail chomping fellow in a blue Toyota Corolla on the Walter Reuther Highway, LOWER TAXES! If he's going to bother putting this conditionally truthful bumper sticker on the back of his blue Toyota Corolla so he can drive down the Walter Reuther Highway, one would think that he had filed his latest tax return and compared it to last year's and then realized, lo and behold... THAT HIS TAXES WERE LOWERED!

He missed that somehow. Why? I don't don't know... maybe he likes to spend too much of his spare time on websites that curry to armed teabagger types to find out what's going on in the real world. That's the way the world is today.

I have to confess that I had no idea what made this guy tick... But, you know, teabagger people are confusing types. Maybe they don't even know why they tick either, they just know that they do.

But, there it is.

Anyway, I pulled off the highway at my exit and at the light right up in front of me was an older, white Dodge Neon Sedan. Behind the steering wheel was a caucasian dude in casual clothes and a ball cap.

He looked like just another regular Joe who's going on about his business.

And he seemed to be a husband and father, because a woman and kids were in the car with him and I assumed that that was his family.

Now, this car had a bumper sticker too. However, it wasn't like that one that I saw on the Walter Reuther Highway, but rather it's one that you tend to see on a lot of cars here in the Metro Detroit area. It looked like this:



And you know, I took one look and it and knew that this one didn't confuse me at all...

It just made me smile.

As in, you would run the risk of having your tires slashed or someone taking a baseball bat to it.

I remember hearing one of those stories once, and how the police refused to take the matter seriously once they heard it was a foreign car.

And really, most of the cars around here are domestic. We buy and drive what we build.

However, there are quite a few foreign cars on the road and no one bats an eye.

:thumbsup:

wew can put it toward the Social Security types that got no COLA.

driving their furren japanese rice-burner cars ...

now the "conservatives" rip "liberals" about how the "American cars" ... ain't ... and they're proud of the Japanese/Foreign-owned factories in their districts ... with all that socialized infrastructure supporting the area, using taxpayer dollars ... all in the name of "jobs" ...

safety nets of any sort or good public schools, decent teacher salaries or public services including police officers or firemen