A rant about the cost of living

[Thinker101]

No, **** that! It's wrong to not leave for future generations at least the freedoms and opportunities we were blessed with growing up in America. That's what MAGA is. We're gonna give it our best shot. A lot of damage has been done for decades. From Bush til Trump. The time to fix that is NOW.

I agree, we should make sure future generations have the freedoms and opportunities. Then there are the assets, the girl in the video is someone's daughter. Pretty sure whatever she inherits will be pissed away in one quarter the time it took to build those assets.

 

[Missourian]

Yes, a large part of the country thinks like you do, that's for sure.

Thank goodness, sanity is finally breaking out.

I have a few minutes.

Without mentioning Trump, what do you disagree with me on?

 

[AZrailwhale]

I feel bad for this younger generation and the generation before, but there is no escaping the fact that things are more competitive today and people are just going to have to play the game smarter if they want to get ahead. Spending 100K on a Transgender Studies Degree is going to be really hard to pay back on a McDonald's wage. Spending 100K on an Engineering Degree will pay for itself in a few years and then it becomes a major cash cow. That kind of stuff. More importantly, if one can't afford life, what are they doing posting on and viewing TikTok all day long?

In the old days, if you weren't getting paid enough to live, you got a second job AND improved your qualifications, so you got paid more on your primary job.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Yes, a large part of the country thinks like you do, that's for sure.

Yes, a large part of the country thinks like you do, that gave us Biden. Which lead to every single measurable thing in America got worse.

 

[Dorian Mode]

No, **** that! It's wrong to not leave for future generations at least the freedoms and opportunities we were blessed with growing up in America. That's what MAGA is. We're gonna give it our best shot. A lot of damage has been done for decades. From Bush til Trump. The time to fix that is NOW.

In perfect agreement. MAGA is the party of the middle class and I now support it. The democraps are the party of the elite and they can go fcuk themselves. My only addition is that Trump can't do everything, even much at all. These young people need better parents who bring their children up to be productive and innovative, not transgender and psychotic.

 

[AZrailwhale]

I get calls and letters almost every day from investment companies making offers on my unimproved land. Land I paid $1500 an acre for is receiving sight unseen offers of five to six time that amount.

But, houses are expensive because building houses is expensive. The older houses price increases due to the exorbitant amount it costs to build one.

I've priced it. A lot more expense goes into materials and labor than you would think. Especially you folks that do nothing for yourselves.

I remember in the eighties there was a movement to use aluminum for interior wall structures in residents like they do in commercial structures to save money on two by fours. I've never heard anything else, I guess local building codes stifled the idea.

 

[1srelluc]

The hedge funders are driving up the prices, via the scam outlined in #43.

Meh, that may well be but there's shit all you and me can do about it. Maybe kick congress's ass up on their shoulders but good luck with that.

 

[braalian]

Eh, she should learn to live within her means

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Such investors help drive up the cost of housing. Everything that stabilizes society is being destabilized by investors and speculators.

Which investors?

 

[The Duke]

In perfect agreement. MAGA is the party of the middle class and I now support it. The democraps are the party of the elite and they can go fcuk themselves. My only addition is that Trump can't do everything, even much at all. These young people need better parents who bring their children up to be productive and innovative, not transgender and psychotic.

Trump knows what to do, he's already done a lot of it. And there's 3 more years of righting America, God willing.
He's already done everything on mine and my friends' list. That will go a long way.
It may not be immediately noticeable, but it will.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Trump knows what to do, he's already done a lot of it. And there's 3 more years of righting America, God willing.
He's already done everything on mine and my friends' list. That will go a long way.
It may not be immediately noticeable, but it will.

I agree, the bad part is he only has 3 more years to do it.
There is plenty about Trump I don't like - but for ***** sake - look at what the man has made better already.
The same people screaming TRUUUMMP!! TRUUUMMP!! - are the same dumbasses who kept trying to fool themselves into believing Biden wasn't seriously and dramatically in cognitive decline. Also the same people who denied inflation was a problem - but are screaming about 3% inflation under Trump!!

They have lost their power. They have nothing anymore but the lower court activist judges to try and **** up the good that is happening.

 

[Oddball]

Such investors help drive up the cost of housing. Everything that stabilizes society is being destabilized by investors and speculators.

Yeahbbbbut "GUARANTEED"!

 

[Oddball]

I feel bad for this younger generation and the generation before, but there is no escaping the fact that things are more competitive today and people are just going to have to play the game smarter if they want to get ahead. Spending 100K on a Transgender Studies Degree is going to be really hard to pay back on a McDonald's wage. Spending 100K on an Engineering Degree will pay for itself in a few years and then it becomes a major cash cow. That kind of stuff. More importantly, if one can't afford life, what are they doing posting on and viewing TikTok all day long?

Hedge funds buying up fucktons of single family homes, driving up the prices, then renting them to the people who should have been the ones buying them, isn't "more competitive".

 

[elektra]

This is a perfect example of how we've misapplied capitalism, the greatest force for prosperity ever.

Yes, but, this is not capitalism, It is the government, the deep state, working for riches and power, working for the rich.

 

[Missourian]

Thank goodness, sanity is finally breaking out.

I have a few minutes.

Without mentioning Trump, what do you disagree with me on?

...And Mac was never seen nor heard from again....

 

[Natural Citizen]

One of the things I've noticed in just being out at the stores doing regular shopping is that you're getting less for more.

They kind of try to trick you by doing little things like changing the shapes of packaging to make it less noticeable at first glance.

 

[elektra]

one of the things I've noticed in just being out at the stores doing regular shopping is that you're getting less for more.

Thye kind of try to trick you by doing little things like changing the sahapes of packaging to make it less noticeable at first glance.

I just bought the beef burrito and taco supreme at taco bell, no beef or barely any. Almost nothing.

We get nothing for a huge price.

Thank you democrats and rinos for your climate change scam that was a huge factor in this.

Farmland turned into green energy. Regulations that cripple the oil industry.

Enjoy your windmills, solar, and electric cars. Now we need food stamps to eat.

 

[my2¢]

I found worthwhile this bit of advice I came across a day or two ago...

 

[Crepitus]

From what I can see, there's only two things that can turn around this insane real estate / home buying / apartment rent nightmare:

Either (a) a full-on real estate market crash of at least 30% to 40% that would snowball into a goddamn catastrophe that would make the 2008 Meltdown look like a walk in the park, or (b) a restructuring of law that doesn't allow private equity to swallow up half the ******* homes and apartment buildings in the country for rental investments.

This is a perfect example of how we've misapplied capitalism, the greatest force for prosperity ever. It needs smart controls to work properly, and we absolutely refuse to do that. Regulations are evil!

Not too many moving parts on this one, gang.

That's the only way to fix it.

 

[Crepitus]

I found worthwhile this bit of advice I came across a day or two ago...

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Damn, that's cheap.

I'll be right over.