LOL... I traded in the Touareg for a Prius so gas is no longer an issue.
They still use gas. Remember, the MPG-Caps work in any internal combustion engine.
For a moment there I thought you had said you traded it in for one of those little smart cars.
I just got the most hilarious visual of you stepping out of one of those things.
One of my neighbours drives one. She's 17, and one day she was driving home with her Dad in the passenger seat. I've never seen a more embarrassed and cramped looking man in my life. As she pulled into the driveway, he looked as if he couldn't wait to swing open the door and stretch his legs.
My wife is going to quit her job so we'll fall under this infamous $250,000 mark. I'm so happy he's taking the regional cost of living index into consideration. 
That's a smart move, ...give up an additional $48,500 vs. paying $1,500.
On the bright side, ...now that your wife wil be a stay-at-home Mom, you won't need to hire a babysitter.
She can stay home and watch the kids while we vacation in the British Virgin Islands.
Other than that (and his foreign policy) he says a lot of the right things.
Now we'll see if he delivers or if he's out the door in four years if Ventura runs.
Again, quoted for posterity.
My concern if he wins, is that he will have an amazingly daunting task ahead of him. Things are going to get alot worse
before they get better, and I'd hate to see the voters in the US make the same mistake we made in Ontario with Bob Rae. The previous yrs had seen a horrendous North American wide recession, and Mulroney's decisions at the federal level, had cost the manufacturing sector dearly. Hardest hit of course was Ontario, our country's economic engine, ...thanks in large part to our interconnectedness, Reaganomics, the trickle down theory and Mulroney fellating stupid Republican policy wonks south of the border.
Irish eyes may have been smiling, ...but it was Canadian workers who were crying. Our Provincial Premiere Bob Rae had inherited an absolute mess from the previous government in 1992, and things got worse before they got better. He was forced to make some tough decisions during his tenure in office. The unions got too arrogant assuming that they would have their way because he was an NDP premiere, and thought they could hold both the premiere and the province hostage by refusing to come to the bargaining table, despite numerous invitations to do so. Rae warned them.... he said come to the table and participate, ...or I will be forced to do this myself without you. They acted like pouty petulant children. There was a showdown, neither side blinked, ...and in the end, Bob Rae did the responsible thing, for the province, for the union, and for all Canadians, without any pettiness or spite. He made the contract without any input or negotiation from the union. He balanced the provincial budget and did it in a way that saved union jobs. Union members were incensed that they were subject to a contract that they hadn't negotiated on, or had input into, ...despite their own refusal to negotiate or participate in the collective bargaining process. Government employees now had to take 1 or 2 unpaid days off a month, (alternating Mondays & Fridays off) instead of seeing thousands of union members lose their jobs, only to be thrown on the federal dole (unemployment insurance), ...then after which get kicked onto the provincial dole (welfare). The Goverment Unions were so incensed, they coined a term for this new unpaid holiday which saw them getting an additional 3 day weekend every month as "Rae Days". There was a huge uproar over it, ...it became the popular term of derision, and in the end, voters tossed him out of office for Conservative Mike Harris' 'Common Sense Revolution'. What a number Harris did on our economy. Their common sense revolution had very little common sense to it, and had at it's hallmark, the vilification of the poor. They systematically went after each segment of society starting with the poorest and most vulnerable members. By the time they went after the upper echelons, the rest of Ontario residents basically said "Screw you, you're getting the shaft, just like the rest of us". People didn't realize until it was too late what a nightmare they were inviting in, ...and here we are 13 yrs later, seeing the first fruits of Harris' policies and the negative impacts that have manifested as a result.
In the end, Ontario voters tossed Bob Rae out of office, ...not for what he did wrong, ...but for what he did right. Hopefully this realization will sink in with Ontario voters if and when Bob Rae is elected leader of the federal Liberal Party, now that it looks like Stéphane Dion will be stepping down.
If Obama
does win, I hope Americans will roll up their sleeves and support him in his goal to reclaim America
