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Politics : BuSab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SmoothSail who wrote (3088)	1/7/2010 1:08:35 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23934

Timeshares and Government run healthcare: How many of y'all have ever gone through the timeshare spiel? (scans crowd...mmmhmmm...thought so) Timeshare companies lure you into their sales pitch with the promise of a free resort weekend if you only listen to their pitch. The promise of free stuff is too good to pass up. But, you do have to go through the sales pitch that will last several hours. And when you think about it, the sales pitch breaks up the day sufficiently so that you can't really plan a relaxing day at the resort. So the free stuff ain't so free and in fact, negates the benefit that you are thinking you were getting. I think that america has been in the sales pitch phase with our government for the past 40-50 years. A promise of free stuff with only the little inconvenience of lost freedoms and assets. But the next phase of the timeshare is if you actually buy the thing. It really does seem like a great thing. You have a hard asset with real estate that you can pass on to your kids or sell in the future if you want. And you get a great exclusive vacation property at a cost that is less than what you would pay for a week long vacation. And everything is taken care of for you. You get maid service, they've got groundskeepers, there are restaurants. All of your needs are taken care of. Of course, there is a nominal maintenance fee, but when you buy, it is just a couple hundred bucks a year. This is a great deal!! You get to own something and basically have nearly free vacations for the rest of your life. And if you change your mind, you can sell it and you are done. How can anyone say no to these great timeshare deals? or free healthcare...... well...here's the catch. It's nearly impossible to sell your timeshare. So you are locked in. And you don't really have much say on what happens to the property itself. If the timeshare operator wants to upgrade the property, they just increase the yearly maintenance fees. And before too long, that couple hundred dollar fee becomes, $1000, $2000 or $3000 per year. Now that pretty much defeats the plan of having an affordable exclusive vacation place. First you are paying the original purchase price, but now you have to pay the maintenance fee that works out to $250 to $300 per night. Hell, I can find pretty nice hotels for $300 per night and I have the flexibility choose where I want to go. so I no longer have my affordable vacation spot, but at least it is exclusive....WRONG! The timeshare operator reserves the right to rent out unreserved rooms as if it was a hotel. And what happens is that all of the cool timeslots are taken so that there are no desirable timeslots for the "owners". And when you do get your vacation slot, the facility is filled with the great unwashed that rented the rooms at a cheaper rate than what you bought the place for. So much for the exclusivity. That's what we get with the Democratic view of America. We get lots of promises of free stuff that turns out to be less than free and less than desirable. The nominal costs become significant costs that we have no control over. And all of the cool stuff that I supposedly bought with my money is given to somebody else. We are edged out by someone else that is new to the scene. and Once you sign the contract, it is for the rest of your life and your children's lives and their children's lives. Timeshares seem like they are too good to be true, and they are Government run Healthcare appears to be too good to be true, everyone gets free healthcare, no lines, best possible care, no worries about existing conditions. but anything that is too good to be true is too good to be true. Like timeshares, government run healthcare is a contract with the devil.