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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on June 21, 2015, 06:39:58 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026877702
Oh my,
Since they created these hellholes, I think they should be forced to stay there.
edhopper (14,192 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 05:31 PM
Priced Out
It's how I feel about everything more and more.
I live in NY, we are priced out of buying anything and soon might be priced out of renting.
And that pretty much goes for the NE Coast from Washington to Boston.
Probably the same for the West Coast.
Moving to a more affordable area only makes sense if there is work there. But this is where my work is, and I like where I live.
I get the sense that that is how it is for more and more Americans, priced out of a good place to live, a nice vacation, a nice meal out, etc..
The Country looks more and more like a place for and about the 1%.
Am I just myopic about my situation, or is this going to be the norm?
Lots of primitive comments, but only here's only a few, selected at random:
Cleita (72,770 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 05:39 PM
3. I'm on the West Coast and have to get by on SS.
The cost of living has far outpaced the COLAs on SS. I'm actually hoping I don't live to a ripe old age because I have no more budget adjustments I can make.
^^^the primitive's already at a ripe old age, being older even than California Peggy; so ancient she can even remember pre-World War II Los Angeles.
nadinbrzezinski (138,404 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 05:46 PM
9. The way things are
when we retire we will have to move somewhere ELSE. We cannot afford it, period.
It used to be we were in a very affordable city, but not anymore.
Something will have to give.
<<<wonders what this when "we" retire bit is; the cousin's husband is the only one who works.
SoCalDem (102,178 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 06:55 PM
19. We are selling our 4 br 2 ba here in SoCal and are moving to WA
With what we have saved and what we should net, we can buy a better house with the huge bldg my husband needs for his damned toys & tools and his precious pick up and I can finally get my walk in pantry ..and we can do for next to nothing every month..
We have only SS (his and mine) and a small pension (mine)..
SoCal forever will eat us alive..
thunderthighs (23,055 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 05:53 PM
11. husband and i are damned near priced out of where we live
college town with a fair number of tech jobs, population around 140k ish when school is in. we're technically lower middle class, but average rent for a two bed is half our monthly income and we can't even get a reasonably-sized one bed at a good price. our place isn't bad and we moved in before rent got really outrageous.
before anyone beats up on us for not just living in a one bed, husband does electronics repair for extra money and records music as a hobby, so we need the space. moving to a one-bed at this point would only increase the rent while decreasing living space.
at this point we can't afford to move to another place in town. we could move out of town, but the extra gas would make it a wash.
<<<thinks thunderthighs would be surprised, how much disposable income she'd suddenly have, if she quit the dope.
Ms. Hindenberg:
Warpy (83,079 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 06:59 PM
23. I felt the same way when I lived in Boston
and was paying half my pay for rent that was going up faster than the paycheck did.
I was lucky, nursing was a very portable job. The pay went a lot farther out here in New Mexico.
However, things like vacations were still for other people, never for me. Ditto dinner out in places that lacked harsh fluorescent lighting and had tablecloths.
No matter where you are, that's the same. Things our parents did are now far out of our own reach. It's the measure of how the middle class is now working class--or worse.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN (8,702 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 07:29 PM
28. It's what the TPP will speed up.
The process of turning America into another Brazil, with the 1% living in palatial estates, walled off from the crowded slums into which the rest of us will be crammed when there are nowhere near enough jobs because most of them have been offshored to places where people are happy to work for 50 cents a day.
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If we could only elect a liberal president, congress, and senate, all would be right with the world.
Oh, and liberal governors, and state senates.
The dream eludes us all ...
KC
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Wassamatta Dummies ? You don't like living the Socialist dream ? Where everybody is equally poor ? Too bad. But hey, there's gay weddings and pot to make it all better, right ?
You see, DUmmies - your party puts emphasis on achieving social issues that don't mean a damn while the piss poor economy eats you alive. - while simultaneously working hard at enacting Vengeance Taxes against the people & businesses that give you jobs.
What did you think was going to happen ?
Businesses are going to leave to friendlier locations in other places of the country leaving you jobless, while the Vengeance Taxes result in skyrocketing costs across...well... everything.
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Response to edhopper (Original post)Sun Jun 21, 2015, 07:29 PM
Erich Bloodaxe BSN (8,704 posts)
28. It's what the TPP will speed up.
The process of turning America into another Brazil, with the 1% living in palatial estates, walled off from the crowded slums into which the rest of us will be crammed when there are nowhere near enough jobs because most of them have been offshored to places where people are happy to work for 50 cents a day.
Gracias Barry.
The edhopper primitive says that New York is where his work is and where he likes living. I wonder what he is? A titan of Wall Street? A luminary of Broadway? Chances are, no and no. Frank Sinatra said that if you can make it there, then you can make it anywhere. But what if you can't make it there?
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Well gees. You wanted it. No? This just screams,
:ownit:
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Gracias Barry.
The edhopper primitive says that New York is where his work is and where he likes living. I wonder what he is? A titan of Wall Street? A luminary of Broadway? Chances are, no and no. Frank Sinatra said that if you can make it there, then you can make it anywhere. But what if you can't make it there?
Dirty-water hot dog vendor?
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I love seeing the lib's chickens come home to roost. The only problem is they move out of the hellholes they created, go to some conservative state, and then vote in the same type of politicians that created the hellhole they escaped from.
Personally I think they should be forced to stay where they are at. Make them lie in the bed they made.
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Response to thunderbutt] (Reply #11)
Sun Jun 21, 2015, 06:43 PM
edhopper (14,200 posts)
14. No one should beat up on you (fizz)
you aren't saying you need a mansion, just some extra space.
Something that use to be affordable.
At this point the only States that look affordable are hideous Southern ones, ruled by the racist GOP.
Or unlivable places like the Dakotas.
I can't go there.
And they don't want you either.
Response to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #29)
Sun Jun 21, 2015, 08:07 PM
thunderbutt (23,061 posts)
50. this place was still is a shit hole all around
it was what we could afford at the time, but it will have to be a disaster before i go to that little space again.
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The Country looks more and more like a place for and about the 1%.
Regulation, :whistling: Government interference, :whistling: fReEsHit!!!!!1111!!, :whistling: WoaroNCoAL!1!!!!! :whistling: ......
Wassamatter, idiots? Isn't your Socialism wonderful? :bird:
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Personally I think they should be forced to stay where they are at. :hi5: Make them lie in the bed they made.
What a wonderful world that would be.
SoCalDem (102,178 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 06:55 PM
SoCal forever will eat us alive..
What, gringo? You no gusta our fReEsHiT!!!!11?
:racista:
(http://downtrend.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Illegal-Immigrants-Reparations.jpg)
Chingas, gringo....
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What really sucks, is the DUmmies move to affordable "red" states and then promptly turn them blue by voting themselves free stuff. (See Colorado)
The parasites need to suck it up and stay where they're at.
The stinking DUmptards brought it on themselves, they...
:ownit:
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What really sucks, is the DUmmies move to affordable "red" states and then promptly turn them blue by voting themselves free stuff. (See Colorado)
The parasites need to suck it up and stay where they're at.
The stinking DUmptards brought it on themselves, they...
:ownit:
The libs are nothing more than a parasite on the body USA. Left unchecked, they will destroy the host. It is what libs do. History proves it. Look at Europe. :cheersmate:
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What really sucks, is the DUmmies move to affordable "red" states and then promptly turn them blue by voting themselves free stuff. (See Colorado)
The parasites need to suck it up and stay where they're at.
The stinking DUmptards brought it on themselves, they...
:ownit:
The left needs to know their place.
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The left needs to know their place.
:rotf: :cheersmate:
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The left needs to know their place.
DU? :whistling:
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DU? :whistling:
DU and left are the same thing.
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DU and left are the same thing.
Currently it is only the dumb ones. We need somewhere to put them where they can speak of their support for Communism. Cuba and North Korea is currently out so they only place left is DU.
Put their stupidity on display for all to see. :cheersmate:
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Currently it is only the dumb ones. We need somewhere to put them where they can speak of their support for Communism. Cuba and North Korea is currently out so they only place left is DU.
Put their stupidity on display for all to see. :cheersmate:
They've already done that, twice.
Currently resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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Primitive lack of self awareness never fails to amaze.
How they can look at those areas,knowing full well what the political leaning is and still manage to blame things on totally unrelated stuff is laughable.
The reason leftist states are expensive is because of one thing,government,its programs and its policies.
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Gee, create scarcity through enviro- and zoning regs, make permits a shakedown process, confiscate part of every development for public use, regulate profit out of rentals and prices skyrocket? Who'd athunk it?
Libs & Progs built this bed - forcing it on everyone - but when they have to lay in it they whine? Blind moronic hypocrites!
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States should deport illegal aliens and welfare cheats to blue states.....hey, the love 'em, don't they?
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WTF did they think was going to happen when they elected people who promised to implement a Socialist Utopia in their state?
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WTF did they think was going to happen when they elected people who promised to implement a Socialist Utopia in their state?
Hey, they thought they would be one of the suckees, not one of the suckers.
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Hey, they thought they would be one of the suckees, not one of the suckers.
A fact the politicians count on every election cycle.