[Vwdiesel] Here and there

Sun Aug 22 10:51:10 PDT 2010

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe" <joe at haasenpfeffer.com>
To: "'Arkady Mirvis'" <arkadymirvis at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 5:58 PM
Subject: RE: [Vwdiesel] Fw: Blow by test?

Joe writes:
>I must say, as a first generation German-American I do enjoy your posts...
> And yes, growing old here is a frightening prospect.  Though I'm not yet 
> 50,
> I am starting to wonder where my retirement will be... And increasingly it
> doesn't look like the US.

And read this:
40 years ago in a company of 27 people I had free health benefits and 
medications with $1 deductable.
In 2007 because I wasn't considered poor total expenses for me and my wife 
( Medicare A, B, D + supplemental  health insurance ) amounted to $11,220! 
Mortgage ( including town taxation ) $15,600. Homeowners insurance -$824, 
1991 Jetta and 1987 Westy insurance
( no collision ) - $1287, home heating ( ~ ) - $ 2100 ++++++
Put all this together and say how a family of a retired  electro-mechanical 
engineer can live in USA on SS benefits totalling $28,320.
In 1992 I was laif-off from a position of a project engineer, my engineering 
career collapsed. I was overqualified and for 1.5 years couldn't get 
engineering position: super-precision machining and assembly manufacturing 
has gone fro NJ.
My daughter never worked in USA. In Germany she reached positions not even 
single her high school classmates ever came close.
She pays 48% tax on her income, but benefits are astonishing. She told me 
recently that her coworker got into the habbit of not working for up to 6 
weeks ( with full salary paid ), shows for a few days and get "sick" again. 
The jerk milks the system and nobody can do anything to him. When his boss 
tried to do something, both were required to receive therapy ( to learn how 
to be friendly ) at a highly paid therapist!

SS benefits were implemented at time of Roosevelt and never thought to be a 
pension. In those years not many lived beyond 65.
A big hoopla is all over about US billioners phylanthroping billions! 
Billions they robbed!

Greed is in the root of the financial crisis.

So, Joe the only person to take care of you is the one you see in the 
mirror.

Get yourself a car with the most dependable diesel in the world - Mitsubishi 
diesel and keep it till the end.

I hope my post will end the tread and we return to technical discussions.

Save, save, save.  Good luck.   Ark
I felt where we go and sent my daughter in 1992 to study in Germany at 
Heidelberg Ruprecht University.

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
> Behalf Of Arkady Mirvis
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 4:52 PM
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] Fw: Blow by test?
>
> Joe,
> You can live with gasoline engines in USA. This isn't the greatest 
> problem.
> Wait till you will get old. Portuguese, who lived in worked in USA for
> decades, are returning sucked dry by healthcare expenses.
> Who decides which vehicles to make and which to import - that is the
> question. And one constantly hears about free trade!
> Extremely small alterations needed to legalize my vehicles to conform with
> European Union requirements. Can you imagine the reverse?
> The culprits are the best legislators money can buy.   Ark.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe" <joe at haasenpfeffer.com>
> To: "'William J Toensing'" <toensing at wildblue.net>; <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 1:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Blow by test?
>
>
>> Yes, a prime example of that is the new Ford Transit Connect... Available
>> everywhere else on the planet for decades with a diesel and a stick. 
>> Only
>> available here now with a gas engine and automatic.  Sometimes I really
>> hate
>> living here.
>>
>> http://www.ford.co.uk/Commercialvehicles/NewTransitConnect
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
>> Behalf Of William J Toensing
>> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 6:17 AM
>> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
>> Subject: [Vwdiesel] Blow by test?
>>
>> I previously lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota moving to California in 1969
>> at
>> age 36. In addition to the cold winters, the effect of the salted winter
>> streets destroying cars of the '50s & '60's motivated me to move to 
>> Calif.
>> Frequent trips back to Minn. in the '70s showed that cars from the '70's 
>> &
>> early '80's didn't fare any better. The amazing thing I found in Calif.
>> was
>> that '50's cars highly prone to rust in Minn. in less than 2 years are
>> still
>> seen rust free today in Calif. The worst cars of the '50's were 1957 & 
>> '58
>> Plymouths & Dodges, rusting out in less than a year. Out here, the sun
>> will
>> bake the interior upholstery & rubber weather stripping whereas back in
>> the
>> rust belt mechanical parts & upholstery will
>> often survive past the time the car is junked out. Therefore, if someone
>> could figure out a way of bringing good upholstery & mechanical parts
>> including engines out to the west coast & return with rust free bodies,
>> fenders, doors, etc. I can see the possibility of someone making money at
>> this. It pains me to see rust free cars going to the crusher that could 
>> be
>> more cheaply restored than rebuilding the bodies of rust buckets back
>> east.
>> In Europe there exist diesel versions of cars that I am sure get junked
>> due
>> to accident or rust out. If someone could save good diesel engines &
>> related
>> component parts & ship them to the USA I suspect a market would exist
>> would
>> exist here. I understand there are versions of Jeeps & Chrysler/Dodge
>> minivans exported to Europe that we cant get here. The Ford Focus is not
>> available with a diesel engine but I understand the diesel Focus is 
>> widely
>> sold in in Europe. All Asian cars currently sold here are not available
>> with
>> diesel engines & have not been available to my knowledge since 1986 but
>> have
>> diesel availability in comparable models in Europe.
>> Bill Toensing, Nevada City, CA
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