There is so much wisdom in what you wrote, James and thank you for sharing that story. My father did give me $50 to help me buy my first car (which he picked out because it was low mileage but everything I didn't want in my first car). I paid the rest over a year, but it was only $250. I had to pay my own insurance and every other car I …
There is so much wisdom in what you wrote, James and thank you for sharing that story. My father did give me $50 to help me buy my first car (which he picked out because it was low mileage but everything I didn't want in my first car). I paid the rest over a year, but it was only $250. I had to pay my own insurance and every other car I bought since, maybe 40 of them, were my responsibility. I helped my 3 sons in about the same proportion with their first cars, maybe I paid a little more proportionately, but I could do it more easily than my Dad could with mine. My wife and I also paid off their college loans because they all worked clear through their college years, graduated, and went to work in the fields they majored in. They turned out to be fine and productive Trump-supporting men. They haven't all had perfect lives or perfect marriages but they do not take from government, nor do they expect anything. These last 4 years certainly taught them and their children the stark difference between Leftist governance and the Populist vision of Trump, Vance, and many (but still too few) in Congress.
My parents paid for my college also at Wentworth in Boston. This also wasn’t my first car. My first car was a 1970 Ford Maverick I got from my uncle for 500 dollars. A young neighbor of mine skipped school one day, got drunk and driving by my house hit my Maverick totaling it. It wasn’t a good day.
There is so much wisdom in what you wrote, James and thank you for sharing that story. My father did give me $50 to help me buy my first car (which he picked out because it was low mileage but everything I didn't want in my first car). I paid the rest over a year, but it was only $250. I had to pay my own insurance and every other car I bought since, maybe 40 of them, were my responsibility. I helped my 3 sons in about the same proportion with their first cars, maybe I paid a little more proportionately, but I could do it more easily than my Dad could with mine. My wife and I also paid off their college loans because they all worked clear through their college years, graduated, and went to work in the fields they majored in. They turned out to be fine and productive Trump-supporting men. They haven't all had perfect lives or perfect marriages but they do not take from government, nor do they expect anything. These last 4 years certainly taught them and their children the stark difference between Leftist governance and the Populist vision of Trump, Vance, and many (but still too few) in Congress.
My parents paid for my college also at Wentworth in Boston. This also wasn’t my first car. My first car was a 1970 Ford Maverick I got from my uncle for 500 dollars. A young neighbor of mine skipped school one day, got drunk and driving by my house hit my Maverick totaling it. It wasn’t a good day.
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Sounds like you were a wonderful father Jim. My parents both helped me a lot also in many ways. I think of them every day!!