Biff_Poindexter
Diamond Member
How did Social Security and Medicare make people powerless??The policies you advocate for haven't done anything for those with the least amount of power except make them more powerless and dependent. Your $3T infrastructure plan will just create more subdivisions for Blackrock to buy up and help Bezos make more profits as his fleet delivers more stuff more efficiently. Rinse and repeat. The Liberal Trait is to grease the wheels of money men every bit as much as the Conservatives.This is what wealth as done for the past 40 plus years....View attachment 499524So to recap; you don't mind that once again; wealth is being concentrated at the top...got itBlackrock is buying up whole subdivisions and these aren't just a couple of run-down houses.and over paying for it to drive out everyday folks...and they are using taxpayer money to do it.....Eh, with 150K investors in their LLC, this is just a way for people to create profits on a larger scale.
A lot of these "We Buy Houses" people are fronts for investors and they are not exactly snapping up the high end of the market. They are churning undesirable/less desireable properties for flippers.
That leads to a crisis later.....and when that happens, I hope folks don't once again blame the "everyday people" for it while using tax dollars to propup the banks and hedge funds...again
Then everyday folk are getting more for their property then it is worth, so it is a win-win for the sellers and the buyers. You can't have your cake and eat it too. With interest rates being effectively zero percent and mortgages going out at less than 3%, then investors wanting to make money are going to look for new ways to do so. This just happens to be one of them.
I don't know who their investors are. It could be someone in my 401K for all I know. As far as "wealth", well you can assume that today's pixels on a balance sheet represents something meaningful, but I do not. "Wealth" can change by billions of dollars a day
What I see wealth doing has been pretty consistent over that time.....it being concentrated at the top.....is that populism?
But you most likely voted for a presidential admin who did the opposite.....So since this happened during the previous administration -- how did you stop "supporting the government" to do something about it?By the way, in the example I posted in the OPBlackrock is buying up whole subdivisions and these aren't just a couple of run-down houses.and over paying for it to drive out everyday folks...and they are using taxpayer money to do it.....Eh, with 150K investors in their LLC, this is just a way for people to create profits on a larger scale.
A lot of these "We Buy Houses" people are fronts for investors and they are not exactly snapping up the high end of the market. They are churning undesirable/less desireable properties for flippers.
That leads to a crisis later.....and when that happens, I hope folks don't once again blame the "everyday people" for it while using tax dollars to propup the banks and hedge funds...again
Then everyday folk are getting more for their property then it is worth, so it is a win-win for the sellers and the buyers. You can't have your cake and eat it too. With interest rates being effectively zero percent and mortgages going out at less than 3%, then investors wanting to make money are going to look for new ways to do so. This just happens to be one of them.
That over 50% offer --- that money didn't go to individual homeowners -- it went to D.R. Horton Inc...
The goal is to keep more and more people as permanent renters; not home owners....which is why this is being called "The Great Reset" -- the goal of trying to redistribute 100 trillion dollars up to the top
Capitalism?
Blackrock sells houses and manages portfolios. They make money as the middleman between their investors and their investments. Get in on the action or don't. The choice is yours. Don't like it, then stop supporting the government that is flooding the damn system with so much cheap cash people are having to find new and better ways to invest it.
Or when you say "stop supporting the government" -- that was just something stupid to say to hide the fact you are caping for crony capitalism?
I voted for a congressman who is a deficit hawk who opposes all this free money. And you?
In the mean time, I wish they would buy up my neighborhood. I would gladly take 25% over market value any day of the week.
I am not a single issue voter -- the worship of wealth by both parties is something I can't do anything about...
But I can advocate for policies that at least mitigate the damage done to those with the least amount of power..and that is definitely not a Conservative trait...
How did pushing for stronger labor rights and collective bargaining make people powerless??
How is something like Overtime Pay protection making people powerless??
And why haven't you addressed this yet??
Is this healthy? is this that "free market" capitalism I keep hearing you folks worship??
I am not the only saying it is unsustainable either.....
"Unless the U.S. takes steps to make systemic repairs designed to provide greater opportunity for more Americans to achieve personal growth and financial security, the consequences likely will be painful for the country"
That wasn't some Democrat-Socialist lib who said that either.......

Why on Earth would he be ringing alarms if wealth being so heavily concentrated at the top is so great?
Even Trump campaigned in 2015 on claiming the system is rigged....but he never really explained how....or even how he was going to fix it....trolling on Twitter definitely didn't fix capitalism