16 | POSTED BY EBERLY AT 2020-08-13 12:43 PM | REPLY |

Some people grew up in the area and that is all they know. The parents owned their home for many years before it got expensive and the kids move out and they can't afford crap so they get stuck living like sardines and or working multiple jobs. Remember too that a lot of times the decent jobs are in high cost of living areas. Sure you can live in liberal Kansas and pay 500 a month rent but job opportunities may suffer.

It's really not that complicated. The market will always ensure that workers are paid enough that they can afford to live in an area where they can be an effective employee.

People are working 2 and 3 jobs to pay rent. You can't be effective working 90 hours a week. Employees are exhausted. Companies pay as low as possible. I know a guy who has a base salary of 60k in San Francisco. He works 16 hours a day so he can get enough overtime to live.

BTW the above is also happening in the city I left. New apartment complexes are never ever built with low rent in mind.

#10 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2020-08-13 09:45 AM | REPLY | FLAG:

If you have too much supply the prices will go down. I have rented houses. If the property is vacant after a couple of months I would lower the price by 50 bucks to see if it would get rented. Keep easing it down until I had demand.

I say build tons of apartment buildings and flood the market. Get rent down to 650 for a 1 bedroom so everyone has an affordable place to live.

I grew up in Kansas I think I know what a midwestern Democrat thinks like. They are very moderate on most things and lean slightly left because they don't like how the right handles social issues. I'm not in your head Tony but by your posts I think you are pretty left of the Dems I associate with from back home.

#33 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2020-08-12 11:00 AM
I would consider people like Danni and Tony way left of your run of the mill midwestern Democrat. Harris doesn't do much for the ticket. She only bolsters support of those who were voting for him anyways. There is no bonus points for running up California. He should have gotten somebody from Florida or Wisconsin or Michigan.

I live in a swing state that went trump last time and I still see lots of trump signs and not one Biden sign. It scares me.

Here is the issue with most people on this blog. They aren't coming from the position of the average voter. They are hardcore left and cannot see weakness in any candidates. The campaign needs to be ready for any and all attacks.

are you saying that they'll talk out of both sides of their mouths in hopes that stupid people won't notice the cognitive dissonance?

It's gotta be one or the other.

#16 | POSTED BY TONYROMA AT 2020-08-12 09:25 AM

Exactly. Too many people in the middle may only see bits and pieces about her. Like her anti drug stance she had. Most people aren't plugged into politics. Trump will say and do anything to win. He can twist the narrative any direction he wants.

Same baggage as HRC. Too many here are blinded by loyalty to the party to see potential flaws in candidate. I'll be so pissed if we lose because of this.

Tough times trying to be Progressive and a Drug Warrior.

#10 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG AT 2020-08-12 09:02 AM | REPLY

You just wait. Trump is going to find people that were over-prosecuted by her and have them on commercials saying how they got 5 years for shoplifting and her reputation of a progressive goes out the window with the BLM crowd. Should have picked somebody without her baggage. Maybe a progressive mayor.

American she is known for locking people up. You think liberals are going to excited about her outside of this website? She isn't going to help deliver the black vote. Probably going to hurt it.

Biden made sure that he assured the billionaire class that nothing would fundamentally change with him at the helm. NOTHING. No Medicare4ALL Nothing that would hurt them. That's why he picked Kamala Harris. That and to cover for his racist past.

#209 | POSTED BY LAURAMOHR AT 2020-08-11 08:15 PM

I'm not thrilled he went for a law and order establishment candidate. Biden isn't really progressive neither is Kamala. Voting democrat is voting republican lite this election.

I think there were better candidates than Kamala. Would have rather picked the Atlanta mayor. I don't see a former prosecutor firing up minority voters. It really all depends on Joe. Does he have the charisma to get people to want to vote for him?

As far as two countries goes that is a terrible idea. The core strength of our system was always the need to compromise the problem recently has been two fold, one we have had way too many instances of single party power where compromise was not required to accomplish things. The second factor being neither side being willing to compromise so nothing gets done except when one party has power to push their thing through. Of course that feeds resentment and reinforces the dig in your heals my way or the highway mindset. However the solution to that is not to simply split the country it's to elect people who won't be whinny infants who's solution to problems is to take their ball and go home. Now the trick is to find those people to elect in the first place (probably the only positive I see in Biden)

Read the comment by GTJR. Do you want to live near somebody like that? I don't want to. These people are the anchors of this nation. Once they are expelled we can move forward.

I used to think we were better off as one nation but Now I wonder how that is even possible anymore. It used to be people wanted what was best for America but went out about it different ways. Now they want very different things. I would like it if one day the liberals got half the country and the conservatives got the other. Both sides stated what they were all about and you moved to what side you wanted to support.

Yes I did. The constant stupidity of Trump got me back into it. I got more and more frustrated by him and even more frustrated by his followers.

For some reason I thought Snoofy had only been here 5 years. I remember being here when you didn't need to register. I am guessing 2004.

Bunch of dead bikers. Just stay away from me and die in your homes alone.

If trump is somehow illegally elected I believe the NFAC will expand in numbers greatly. People won't be happy except for about 35% of the population that would support Trump even if he shot somebody or if there was video evidence of him molesting girls on Epstein island.

Hopefully republican voters that are unemployed don't vote for Trump again just because they can't dare to vote for Biden. I know some republicans that wouldn't vote for the Dem candidate even if the the Republican was a child molester.

His death may be what finally wakes up the right to how serious this pandemic is. We need leadership in this country and Trump isn't it.

Friend of Gracie's.

Small price to pay for the right of the killer to have guns.

Guns keep us safe.
#2 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2020-08-03 12:06 PM

Snoofy so who should be able to own guns then? Should farmers and ranchers? Only military and law enforcement? What about hunters? I got my first rifle at 13 and haven't killed anyone btw.

Unless you are disabled or 65 you won't get it for the rest of your life. Maybe use this time off to get a better job or brush up on skills?