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ParticipantSome condos in Vegas are sitting for months because cash investors are out. Financing is not possible with low owner occupancy rates.
Good! If they’re sitting, I think nominal values will fall as well.
Financing is always possible, just not from Fannie/Freddie/FHA loans. But if people aren’t buying, looks like there will be a fire sale soon.
ParticipantSit on cash or buy other property, and wait for the mugs who bought at peak to be burnt.
ParticipantAlternatives? Sanders. Also not in the pocket of Wall St scum.
ParticipantFor what it’s worth — this might be regional patriotism, but I know quite a few New Hampshire and Vermont conservatives. They mostly all support Sanders, because he’s not in the pocket of Wall St. corruption.
ParticipantOur laws have lots of “arbitrary numbers” – ask any 20 year-old who tries to get into a bar.
If anything, I’d make it less arbitrary. And abolish the drinking age of 21 — most civilized countries are at 18.
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How can you prove how long they have been here? How do you prove they kept their noses clean? Given they are living and working illegally, with false names, SSN, etc. there is no way to know their background. Even if you could, you going to pick some arbitrary number of 10 years? So the other guy who was here 9 years is not eligible and must go home?[/quote]Frankly, I’d reform the immigration policy to be more reasonable, then allow anyone already here to apply for permanent residency on a case-by-case basis using criteria like length of time, means of support, community ties, and lack of criminal record.
Even if they use a false SSN, if they get convicted of a serious crime, their prints will be recorded and can be used to trace them.
ParticipantIf they’ve been here for 10-20 years, established lives, kept their noses clean, they should be allowed to stay.
Participant[quote=bearishgurl]If an infusion of 2 million Syrians seeking refuge from their war-torn existence can do same and buy/lease (from FNMA/HUD?) the bulk of Detroit’s vacant eyesores, fix them up a little and start small businesses themselves, then maybe the city can eventually right itself on the map again. [/quote]
I’d actually disagree with ghettoizing a large % of the refugees in Detroit — it would actually prevent assimilation. I’d advocate encouraging 100,000 or so to settle there, with the remainder distributed to other US cities and towns.
Participantbearishgurl – Incorrect. Hispanic/Latino are additional descriptors. Plenty of people identify as both African and Hispanic/Latino, for example. You also have quite a few Cuban Chinese in Miami and NY — they even have their own cuisine.
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As far as the school issue … crack down on shills signing guardian affidavits. If they know they’ll be billed for two times the cost of school plus legal costs, they might think twice.
Participantbearishgurl —
(1) Mexicans are a nationality not a uniform racial group. Saying “Mexicans are white” would be like saying “Americans are white.” They’re generally some mixture of white and Amerindian. There are also Middle Eastern and Asian communities (Carlos Slim = Carlos SAlim = Lebanese roots), among other groups.Other Hispanics (Dominicans, Cubans, Panamanians especially) more often have African blood thrown into the mix. Don’t equate “Hispanic” with “Mexican” either, since “Hispanic” is a linguistic and regional term, not a nationality. “Latino” adds the Portuguese speaking country in South America to the mix 🙂 And maybe a few French speaking countries depending on whom you ask.
(2) Non-residents shouldn’t go to public schools in San Diego for free. Doesn’t matter if they come from Tijuana or Temecula. Schools should enforce residency requirements better on all people.
This being said, with the goatfawk that border control has become, I find it hard to believe that they cross the border every day. That would take HOURS. Could they be living somewhere locally and driving around on Mexican plates? (Which then becomes a DMV issue if they don’t register in the US.)
ParticipantI think that the % of Latinos who seriously believe in the Aztlanista bullshyte is about the same as the % of WASPs who are KKK members. Most are here to actually improve their conditions, not join with a country that they ran away from…
And bullshyte it is — the Aztec empire never extended into CONUS. Also, don’t lump all Latinos together, unless they have Mexican or Guatemalan ancestry, there’s really no reason to buy into the Aztlan crap at all.
ParticipantI truly couldn’t care less about the past history of members here.
I like the article — so being a Libertarian is the political equivalent of bisexuality?
BTW – not sure how I smell. I’ve swung from conservative to liberal to semi-libertarian with the recognition that government is needed to prevent corporations from becoming defacto governments.
ParticipantThis string became political long ago — is discussing politics here a capital offense? I think that if it were, half of the people on here would have faced a firing squad years ago.
ParticipantCAr – outside of CA, commercial property is often taxed at a higher rate than residential as regards value.
As far as schools, I have a really bad feeling about punishing kids for the crimes of their parents by denying them an education. If anything that would increase crime.
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