Affordability......The New Dem Talking-Point

[sparky]

I'm from Vermont, and this issue has us all on fire right now......~S~

 

[initforme]

Affordability has been an isdue for the past 40 years. Probably 50. Irrefutable. A sign of the nation.

 

[mudwhistle]

Cheaper than when? Also less than nothing yo do with Trump.

Now hamburger meat and healthcare insurance and furniture, and electricity.

Yeah....you want to keep your fantasies alive by focusing on the price of beef and ignoring everything else.

 

[mudwhistle]

I'm from Vermont, and this issue has us all on fire right now......~S~

You people in Vermont are being played again by Democrats.

 

[Rawley]

Cheaper than when? Also less than nothing yo do with Trump.

Now hamburger meat and healthcare insurance and furniture, and electricity.

So why isn't this reflected in inflation? What's the difference between "affordability" and inflation?

 

[mudwhistle]

College towns like Missoula and Bozeman are an exception. These prices predate Yellowstone. My first attempt to buy real estate in MT followed a trip in 2000. I was impressed by the affordability. I returned five years later ready to buy only to find that I was priced out. I put the responsibility, like you, on CA. At that time celebrities like Mel Gibson were sucking up vast expanses of that beautiful state and probably the same for the current situation in ID.
I don't get what is happening in ID though. There are no jobs, no industry to speak of in north ID but the building industry is going gang busters building small starter homes and apartments. Where are these people coming from and where will they work. I'm seeing the same situations here that I saw with Clinton's sub prime loans that lead to the crash in '06. Where's the money coming from?

I dunno. Before Yellowstone the asking price for my parents house was $200k

Now they're asking over $600K.

 

[Blaster]

I think the price of goods is very affordable.

 

[mudwhistle]

 

[mudwhistle]

I think the price of goods is very affordable.

They're still too high.
But they're lower than they were this time last year.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Yeah....you want to keep your fantasies alive by focusing on the price of beef and ignoring everything else.

Cars, houses, electricity, tvs, coffee

 

[mudwhistle]

Affordability has been an isdue for the past 40 years. Probably 50. Irrefutable. A sign of the nation.

The first president to double the price of gas was Jimmy Carter.

 

[mudwhistle]

Cars, houses, electricity, tvs, coffee

Stop buying it and the price will automatically go down.

 

[Zincwarrior]

The first president to double the price of gas was Jimmy Carter.

Its 2025.

 

[initforme]

The first president to double the price of gas was Jimmy Carter.

Gas goes up according to big oil companies. When our citizens need it we still ship it away.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Stop buying it and the price will automatically go down.

Stop breathing and you don't need air either. Any more brilliance?

 

[Yarddog]

Dems talk about affordability but they WANT higher fuel prices , just look at California where I live and other blue states. It's by design because they want to break and punish oil companies, the same "greedy" companies who are now lowering their prices where they are allowed to.

These people who are holding the sane people here hostage with their irrational policies do everything they can to make things more expensive..... starting with higher fuel costs, which increases the price of everything, but they cant figure it out.

The same geniuses cant run a bus company as well.... Bay Area transit companies are on life support especially SF Muni. They need to implement some parcel tax now on residents to subsidize the whole operation.

 

[mudwhistle]

Stop breathing and you don't need air either. Any more brilliance?

Fck u you ignorant little shit.

 

[mudwhistle]

Its 2025.

Wow....you must think you're brilliant to know that.

Why don't go play in traffic.

 

[mudwhistle]

Stop breathing and you don't need air either. Any more brilliance?

 

[Concerned American]

Affordability has been an isdue for the past 40 years. Probably 50. Irrefutable. A sign of the nation.

Affordability is a never ending issue. Every generation ever has had to deal with it. Things are no different today than they've ever been. People are just having to make different decisions. My generation didn't have $1K telephones that everyone seems to think they can't live without along with their extravagant telephone and data plans. LOL, these days, people spend more on communications---telephone, internet, television, the hardware for all of this, etc. than I earned when I purchased my first home. Another contributor was the idea that gov't intervention into the free market with sub-prime loans so that people making $7/hr were buying half million dollar homes. Of course they couldn't make the payments and they defaulted with the 06 crash as a result. Compound that with the lack of response by the gov't to restart the housing industry and here we are. It ain't rocket science and give away programs won't solve it. Americans need to reexamine what is important to them---nonstop telephone addiction or a place to stay. They can't have it all in their early years.