June 13Jun 13 29 minutes ago, It Hurts said:It’s all they haveYou still haven't realized that cheering for violent riots a few years ago because they were on your side, makes you look like complete retards for condemning them now.
June 13Jun 13 17 hours ago, Mike030270 said:The double down maga is doing is hilarious MTG has made an entire career of staging political stunts like this. I don't remember the last time she was tackled to the ground and handcuffed.Yes. I feel Padilla staged a stunt at Noem's PC. But he is still the ranking Senator in his state. The optics are awful. Noem and her handlers failed the test.
June 13Jun 13 14 hours ago, TEW said:If your business requires you to employee illegal immigrants, it deserves to go out of business.Have you ever had a cleaner come clean your place?
June 13Jun 13 Leave it to a commie libtard to find the most inefficient way to clean graffiti from a wall during a staged photo op.
June 13Jun 13 27 minutes ago, Kz! said:Leave it to a commie libtard to find the most inefficient way to clean graffiti from a wall during a staged photo op. Imagine being so mentally fragile that you get triggered by a mayor cleaning graffiti off a wall in their city.Not you kkkz, you don’t have to imagine it, you live it EVERY SINGLE DAY. 😂What a loser!
June 13Jun 13 3 minutes ago, MidMoFo said:Imagine being so mentally fragile that you get triggered by a mayor cleaning graffiti off a wall in their city.Not you kkkz, you don’t have to imagine it, you live it EVERY SINGLE DAY. 😂What a loser!Oh yeah, I totally hate it when failing commie mayors make themselves look retarded in public. So triggered. You caught me.
June 13Jun 13 Just now, Kz! said:Oh yeah, I totally hate it when failing commie mayors make themselves look retarded in public. So triggered. You caught me. Triggered enough to post it and critique how she was doing it. No one else cares.
June 13Jun 13 Just now, MidMoFo said:Triggered enough to post it and critique how she was doing it. No one else cares.I'm literally shaking with rage right now.
June 13Jun 13 On 6/11/2025 at 11:21 AM, It Hurts said:Newsom could not handle the fires and now can't handle the "peaceful protest" riots. what an absolutely incompetent jerkNewsome for President 2028!!!
June 13Jun 13 16 hours ago, mattwill said:Thank you for the thoughtful response. As I’m sure you are aware housing costs are a huge issue here in Northern California where I live. There are several themes that run through the discussions of that issue. Here are a few of those themes.(1) The delay of first child from 21.5 to 27.5 only addresses the women who actually have children. It does not address the proportion of women who choose not to have children at all. In 2023, 29.4% of American households were married couples without any children, and 29.0% were single households without children. Women younger than 50 are especially likely to say they just don’t want to have children … 64% vs. 50% of men in this group. Majorities in both groups say not having kids has made it easier for them to afford the things they want, have time for hobbies and interests, and save for the future.(2) The increased inability for young families to afford home ownership is a significant factor in the decision not to have children. There is a broadly held belief (dare I say bias) toward apartment living being a damaging factor in child development. Bottom-line, couples don’t want to raise a child without a front and back yard where the child can play.(3) in order to be able to afford home ownership, more and more young families are pursuing careers for both spouses, and women with full time careers are much less likely to prioritize having a child over having a career.(4) What has played out over and over again in California is that housing prices do not come down when the supply and demand curves attain balance. Housing prices continue to go up, just at a slower rate of increase.(5) Building new homes on a community actually increases the resale cost of existing homes. The reason is straightforward. Building new homes is expensive. Over $500 per square foot in my community. When the new homes sell, they become the "comparables” for the pricing of the resale of existing homes, and real estate agents raise the per square foot prices of their existing home listings to match those new "comparables.”I look forward to hearing your thoughts about these five factors that strongly support (A) the continued increase in first child age above 27.5, (B) the continued increase in the proportion of adults (both women and men) who never have children, and (C) the high likelihood that ownership home prices will continue to rise unabated.Well, I think you’ve supported my point.It seems that the fertility crisis is largely a financial issue. People want a certain standard of living, and will have fewer/no children to maintain that standard of living. So this is the largest impediment.And if building new housing increases the cost of housing by "resetting” home sale comps higher, then that isn’t a solution.So we need cheaper housing and we can’t solve it through building.If only there were a way to free up 20 million or so homes without building new ones, like removing tens of millions of non Americans from the pool of buyers and renters…
June 13Jun 13 3 hours ago, DrPhilly said:Have you ever had a cleaner come clean your place?Yup, twice a month. Her family has been in the US for generations. This idea that we need illegal immigrants to do low/no skilled labor is fallacious. It might increase their labor costs, but is that a bad thing when so many Americans are getting crushed by inflation?
June 13Jun 13 9 minutes ago, TEW said:Well, I think you’ve supported my point.It seems that the fertility crisis is largely a financial issue. People want a certain standard of living, and will have fewer/no children to maintain that standard of living. So this is the largest impediment.And if building new housing increases the cost of housing by "resetting” home sale comps higher, then that isn’t a solution.So we need cheaper housing and we can’t solve it through building.If only there were a way to free up 20 million or so homes without building new ones, like removing tens of millions of non Americans from the pool of buyers and renters…Or, and I'm just speculating, maybe it's...kids are annoying AF nowadays
June 13Jun 13 10 minutes ago, vikas83 said:Or, and I'm just speculating, maybe it's...kids are annoying AF nowadaysBruh!
June 13Jun 13 1 minute ago, TEW said:Well, I think you’ve supported my point.It seems that the fertility crisis is largely a financial issue. People want a certain standard of living, and will have fewer/no children to maintain that standard of living. So this is the largest impediment.And if building new housing increases the cost of housing by "resetting” home sale comps higher, then that isn’t a solution.So we need cheaper housing and we can’t solve it through building.If only there were a way to free up 20 million or so homes without building new ones, like removing tens of millions of non Americans from the pool of buyers and renters…Your logic is solid, but it has consequences.(1) is that your approach takes the workers who live in those 20 million households out of the labor force. Farmers would be frequently forced to leave their crops to rot in the field rather than be harvested. And with Springfield, Ohio as a textbook example, many manufacturing businesses are struggling without skilled immigrants to do the jobs like the ones that the Haitians learned to do.(2) although I don’t have an informed number, I suspect that well over half (dare I say most) of those 20 million households live in rental housing, and as I said in my prior post, young families do not want to raise children in apartment complexes. So freeing up lots of apartments isn’t going to impact the fertility rate. It will continue to decline.JMO
June 13Jun 13 23 minutes ago, vikas83 said:Or, and I'm just speculating, maybe it's...kids are annoying AF nowadaysThat too. There is definitely a growing split of people (myself included) who purposefully choose to have fewer or no kids.
June 13Jun 13 8 minutes ago, mattwill said:Your logic is solid, but it has consequences.(1) is that your approach takes the workers who live in those 20 million households out of the labor force. Farmers would be frequently forced to leave their crops to rot in the field rather than be harvested. And with Springfield, Ohio as a textbook example, many manufacturing businesses are struggling without skilled immigrants to do the jobs like the ones that the Haitians learned to do.(2) although I don’t have an informed number, I suspect that well over half (dare I say most) of those 20 million households live in rental housing, and as I said in my prior post, young families do not want to raise children in apartment complexes. So freeing up lots of apartments isn’t going to impact the fertility rate. It will continue to decline.JMOIt’s interesting you bring up farmers.I have farm land in Virginia that I lease to a local farmer, and he made a remark about this issue that has stuck with me: if you don’t have migrant labor you are forced to have large families because there is simply no way to get all of the work done otherwise.This was of course true historically — rural farmers would generally have very large families simply for the extra hands.So isn’t this another chicken/egg situation? The migrant workers remove the incentive for large families. Obviously it’s more complicated than this with automation and the increasing consolidation of family farms into corporate monoliths, but it seems to me removing immigrant field workers would incentive a combination of increased automation and higher birth rates out of necessity.You’re probably right that the majority of housing occupied by immigrants are rentals. But wouldn’t the trickle down effect be significantly lower rent prices, which would allow faster savings for down payments? And with the baby boomers aging and beginning to die off, won’t the stock single family homes begin to increase?This seems like high vs low time preference policy situation. No one wants the short term pain to solve the long term issue.
June 13Jun 13 46 minutes ago, TEW said:Well, I think you’ve supported my point.It seems that the fertility crisis is largely a financial issue. People want a certain standard of living, and will have fewer/no children to maintain that standard of living. So this is the largest impediment.And if building new housing increases the cost of housing by "resetting” home sale comps higher, then that isn’t a solution.So we need cheaper housing and we can’t solve it through building.If only there were a way to free up 20 million or so homes without building new ones, like removing tens of millions of non Americans from the pool of buyers and renters…You're a bit overeducated to be spouting Thanos economics.
June 13Jun 13 33 minutes ago, dawkins4prez said:You're a bit overeducated to be spouting Thanos economics.I actually had to google this thinking you were referencing some obscure economist I never heard of… 😆
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