POLITICAL THREAD
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Hell, let’s cut to the chase and give everyone a $200,000 annual salary.
Where ya been man? Good to have you back….
Well ... if you do not support giving every single person a $200K salary, then you really don't care about people at all. you want to starve people because ... uhmm ... you're a mean racist bigoted sexist homophobe who probably uhh ... support the orange man...
What... the media's lying? Shocking... not.
I was a little kid during the Carter administration. I now understand what my father was talking about. Inflation is out of control.
What does she mean exactly by this:
"The neocons/warmongers have spent years stoking the new cold war with Russia..." ?
I was around for the Carter years. I had just moved to Atlanta and was caught up with the new home state and it's native son that I actually volunteered and worked some in the presidential campaign office in Atlanta (before I found out he was a lib)...but to be fair I wasn't as rigid in some of my political beliefs and a Dem lib of 1978 is a far cry from one today.
Anyway...in some ways today seems worse. I don't remember shortages at the store...empty shelves.
Interest rates were much worse...but they haven't kicked in yet so who knows down the road.
I was born in 1965 and only have vague memories of the time frame.
One thing that stands out in my memory is the mortgage rates. Not that I understood them in reality. We lived in an apartment at that time.
However, I remember discussions of my Aunt and Uncle being able to keep their house as they had locked in their rate at 6.5% before everything got really out of hand.
edit: I have never jumped on an ARM as a direct result of those stories. I am so happy to have locked my mortgage in at 2.85%.
The two biggest red states in the country, Texas and Florida, are actually two of the most heavily regulated states in the country, according to the article below.
A lot of Republicans like regulation, so long as it's regulating things in the way they want it to be.
What about the poor rural areas that are poorly funded, like Appalachia Kentucky, for example? Is that area overrun by liberal leadership too then?
Blaming 1982 economy on Reagan is completely ignorant.Historic low occurred under Jimmy Carter, another economically bereft Democrat.
You are dismissed.
But really this all goes back to the Republicans wanting to undermine public education every chance they can so they can get rich off of private education. Implement a bunch of bullshit rules, regulations, and oversight to drive teachers to quit public schools and go to private schools. Increases demand for expanding opportunities for private school education, and thus more opportunities to make money. Gives Republicans the chance to cut funding for public schools to funnel it back to the private school they and their friends own. At the end of the day, they won't quit until public education doesn't exist.
I had an older sibling that bought a new home when interest rates fell from the high teens to 8.9%. He was convinced it would never be better.
We have had cheap money for so long, that hardly anyone realizes what higher rates mean to the house that you can afford. They have no idea what the $300000 house payment looks like at even 10% interest.
All you have to do is look at the size of the homes built in the late 70s. They weren't built small because people preferred to live that way. You were hit on all sides. You couldn't afford a big house payment and you couldn't afford the big house utility payment.
We had a turn of the century gem of house in my dad's family that my uncle inherited. It was big for todays standards with typical high ceilings of the time. My uncle knocked it down when he received it for free.
"How would I ever afford to heat the place?"
Don't worry about the millionaires and billionaires bro; they'll be fine.
Giving everyone 200k will eliminate the wage gap and right the wrongs of white supremacy. It's equity, my bro. It's literally making everyone equal, as we should be in democracy. It's your patriotic duty and it's what the founding fathers would've wanted.
If you need any links from CNN or NYT, I'll be happy to google them for you. It's ok bro, you might learn something. You'll grow. The science is evolving - your backward beliefs are getting left behind. Money doesn't have to be earned since it can just be taken from the rich. We're the richest country in the world, no reason we have to keep working.
Don't think I saw this on here....
MSN
www.msn.com
The city, in total, is putting up $600,000.
150 people times $500 is $75,000 per month. The city is covering 2/3 of the cost for a year's worth of the program.
At this point I think being called a conspiracy theorist is a badge of honor.
I got a 30 yr fixed at 2.75%. I'm happy with that
Where are you seeing that? The article said half was coming from United Way and half from Mayors For A Guaranteed Income. The city is only covering 100k in administrative costs. You have a conflicting link?
Just remember when Trump tweeted that he was wire tapped, the entire msm asked if she should be removed for being mentally incompetent. Now we have an actual dementia patient in the seat and all they care about is ice cream
It's like clockwork. If Dems are in control, inflation and economic disaster are as sure as the sun rising tomorrow
It all comes from tax dollars one way or another.
last night on one of the local news, they did a report on a housing unit for elderly residents. They have been complaining for months about garbage, rats and roaches. They pulled the filter out of the furnace and it was so dirty, it was dark brown.
why isn’t the city helping those folks? They’re black too. But they NEED the help.
Probably means the neocons and warmongers have spent years blaming Russia for everything the democrats and R establishment have been doing on China’s behalf and now that the big pharma taxpayer funded party is coming to a close, it’s time to go back to filling the coffers of the MIC.
Poorly funded is not the same as poorly led.
Can you explain how the average Republican voter like me can get rich from privatizing schools?
Bought my first house in the Carter years. Couldn’t qualify when rates were 14%. Finally qualified when they were 16.5. But I could get gas on even numbered days so there was that. Good times when Dems are in control.
This is by design. The leftists are not going to allow unfettered capitalism and individual choice to be the lifeblood of this economy, for reasons ranging from “climate change” to “white supremacy”. They are, in the open, moving to take over elections so that this will be the case.
Without some kind of revolution, this is the new normal.
No we aren't. As the article said United Way and Mayors For A Guaranteed Income are paying for it, not the city. Which was the point of contention.
