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ParticipantA house like this would rent for around $2500.
Really? It’s only 1200sf, that works out to over $2/sf. I pay $1.25/sf in a better neighborhood closer to downtown, just under $2500/mo. Nicer, bigger place too. Maybe I’m just lucky…
ParticipantA house like this would rent for around $2500.
Really? It’s only 1200sf, that works out to over $2/sf. I pay $1.25/sf in a better neighborhood closer to downtown, just under $2500/mo. Nicer, bigger place too. Maybe I’m just lucky…
ParticipantYes, the real estate market here has reached a permanently high plateau. Everyone wants to live in San Diego. Better buy now or be priced out forever. You have to pay a premium for the “sunshine tax”. We are just a bunch of jealous bitter renters on this site. We are all doomed and will never own any property. You, however, will be the next Donald Trump and will soon manage your own media and real estate empire. In 5 years, we’ll watch the late-night infomercials for your real estate investment system on our black and white televisions and wish that we had listened to your advice. We’ll quietly sob as we eat Alpo, the only food we can afford because most of our meager incomes goes to our landlords.
ParticipantYes, the real estate market here has reached a permanently high plateau. Everyone wants to live in San Diego. Better buy now or be priced out forever. You have to pay a premium for the “sunshine tax”. We are just a bunch of jealous bitter renters on this site. We are all doomed and will never own any property. You, however, will be the next Donald Trump and will soon manage your own media and real estate empire. In 5 years, we’ll watch the late-night infomercials for your real estate investment system on our black and white televisions and wish that we had listened to your advice. We’ll quietly sob as we eat Alpo, the only food we can afford because most of our meager incomes goes to our landlords.
Participantjg, now we’re starting to get on the same page! It sounds like you’re an old-school libertarian and if the government was really to cut spending across the board as you suggest, I could see lots of things improving. No more subsidies for corn farmers — no more cheap corn syrup to make unhealthy snacks and sodas — no more cheap feed to grow fatty unhealthy cattle — much less type 2 diabetes — much less heart disease — lower health care costs. Lowered “defense” spending — fewer military adventures overseas in 13th century medieval wastelands — less terrorism and blowback.
I still think that a couple of government-managed private non-profit insurance monopolies could be a good thing if you could somehow keep the pigs away from the trough. Canada does it for car and health insurance and it seems to work okay. You could always have private for-profits to get even more coverage if you wanted.
I sometimes think the differences on this board are not as severe as it might seem at first. People just look at the same problems from different angles…
Participantjg, now we’re starting to get on the same page! It sounds like you’re an old-school libertarian and if the government was really to cut spending across the board as you suggest, I could see lots of things improving. No more subsidies for corn farmers — no more cheap corn syrup to make unhealthy snacks and sodas — no more cheap feed to grow fatty unhealthy cattle — much less type 2 diabetes — much less heart disease — lower health care costs. Lowered “defense” spending — fewer military adventures overseas in 13th century medieval wastelands — less terrorism and blowback.
I still think that a couple of government-managed private non-profit insurance monopolies could be a good thing if you could somehow keep the pigs away from the trough. Canada does it for car and health insurance and it seems to work okay. You could always have private for-profits to get even more coverage if you wanted.
I sometimes think the differences on this board are not as severe as it might seem at first. People just look at the same problems from different angles…
Participantread folks advocating for universal healthcare. That is, in effect, a transfer payment: from the pockets of those with money to the pockets of those without money.
That’s one way to look at it, but I view it as a government granted monopoly not-for-profit insurance service. Similar to Social Security or Medicare. You could even grant it to a private company and give them a 3% profit margin or so. Of course, Social Security and Medicare are broken and doomed, but that is only because the public trust has been violated by congress in both cases. Since the taxes for those services are placed in the general fund, the money can be (and is!) spent on anything from bombs to homeland security contracts. And of course there was the huge Medicare drug benefit giveaway to big pharma.
I guess the problem is much larger than healthcare, now that I think about it. Even if you created this service in the US, the congress would raid the fund to buy more bombs and Coast Guard cutters that don’t float and bridges to nowhere in Alaska. The service would then become “in trouble” and it would be argued that government can’t provide it effectively so it must be privatized. We’d be back to square one.
Participantread folks advocating for universal healthcare. That is, in effect, a transfer payment: from the pockets of those with money to the pockets of those without money.
That’s one way to look at it, but I view it as a government granted monopoly not-for-profit insurance service. Similar to Social Security or Medicare. You could even grant it to a private company and give them a 3% profit margin or so. Of course, Social Security and Medicare are broken and doomed, but that is only because the public trust has been violated by congress in both cases. Since the taxes for those services are placed in the general fund, the money can be (and is!) spent on anything from bombs to homeland security contracts. And of course there was the huge Medicare drug benefit giveaway to big pharma.
I guess the problem is much larger than healthcare, now that I think about it. Even if you created this service in the US, the congress would raid the fund to buy more bombs and Coast Guard cutters that don’t float and bridges to nowhere in Alaska. The service would then become “in trouble” and it would be argued that government can’t provide it effectively so it must be privatized. We’d be back to square one.
ParticipantThe doc’s advice is 100% correct. I disagreed with #7 for a bit until I thought about it. We’re not totally in control of how long we live, so it’s more about making the most of your time here. And when you get right down to it, whether you die in a car crash at 30 or of cancer at 70, it’s going to feel like you didn’t live long enough. Probably only the healthy people that die peacefully in their sleep at age 95 feel like they’ve had enough of life, and there’s not many of those…
ParticipantThe doc’s advice is 100% correct. I disagreed with #7 for a bit until I thought about it. We’re not totally in control of how long we live, so it’s more about making the most of your time here. And when you get right down to it, whether you die in a car crash at 30 or of cancer at 70, it’s going to feel like you didn’t live long enough. Probably only the healthy people that die peacefully in their sleep at age 95 feel like they’ve had enough of life, and there’s not many of those…
ParticipantDo those things, lk and your fellow Socialists, and Red Staters like me…
Are there even any socialists in this discussion? Speaking for myself, I’m a die-hard capitalist, unlike many of the Red Staters who work in the defense industry, in government itself, or depend on government contracts for their business. I’m also a realist and I recognize that one economic model cannot be applied to all markets any more than one type of engine is best for every type of vehicle.
ParticipantDo those things, lk and your fellow Socialists, and Red Staters like me…
Are there even any socialists in this discussion? Speaking for myself, I’m a die-hard capitalist, unlike many of the Red Staters who work in the defense industry, in government itself, or depend on government contracts for their business. I’m also a realist and I recognize that one economic model cannot be applied to all markets any more than one type of engine is best for every type of vehicle.
ParticipantYeah, that is waaaaay silly. Seems like the foreign buyers are always the last ones in — and of course the Dutch do have a history of paying too much for their investments.
ParticipantYeah, that is waaaaay silly. Seems like the foreign buyers are always the last ones in — and of course the Dutch do have a history of paying too much for their investments.
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