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Quote: Tanko

Those people coming here in search of better lives are one reason my property values and rents both increased 36% between 2013 and 2016. If you think the costs of real estate and rents are high now, just wait.

Most of those two million new homes Biden wants to build with taxpayer money, are going to be purchased by the same big money interests that donated $3 billion to influence Washington in the last election.

“One acquisition manager told me that one of the many hedge funds he is working with is buying 500,000 residential homes,”

They are stealing the American Dream and turning the U.S. into a nation of renters, and Washington is helping them do it.

Washington is also allowing visa workers to take two-thirds of the new tech jobs each year.

Rents are so high, young couples will never be able to save for a home and build equity for retirement.

On top of that, the U.S. dollar it at a record low with regard to purchasing power. Every dollar they create out of thin air, to pay for things they can't afford, decreases the value of every pre-existing dollar.

More and more wealth is being concentrated in the hands of a few.

Blackrock (BLK), the world’s largest money management firm, with $ 9 trillion under management, and two former execs in Biden’s cabinet, reported a 49% increase in first quarter profits, thanks to low interest rates and stimulus spending.

Their real estate fund BIREX has a good YTD return.

Quote: kenarman

You didn't have to hear about Trump everyday when he was president. Blame the MSM and their agenda not him.

Quote: AZDuffman

Low bar? It took the entire media and a china virus to take him down. No POTUS of our time had to fight such a biased media. I just heard it, his first 100 days alone was 89% negative coverage! Biden is at like 60% positive.

No matter what he said he was going to be a target to take down. At least he fought back.

Quote: AZDuffman

Alpha male worked for him to the bitter end, he never lost his supporters like Bush43 did. I really do not get the hate for alpha males. Better than girly-man Obama was.

Quote: Mission146

The virus should have helped him. 9/11 helped W..

Quote: AZDuffman

Not really a valid comparison.

Quote: Mission146

How not? Bush used 9/11 to unite the country...I guess not so much in a common goal as the majority of Americans did not actually fight in the War on Terror...but to unite the country, in any event.

Trump could have done the same thing by taking the virus seriously from the get go. We've been over this. He was gambling on it not being that serious, then he continued to shove more chips in the pot with a losing hand.

He didn't lose because the Democrats didn't vote for him...he lost because he couldn't gain as much support as those who rallied against him and because the Independents didn't vote for him.

Quote: AZDuffman

Trump DID take it seriously. Stopping travel, shutdown to "flatten the curve" for what was supposed to be a few weeks now about 405 days and counting, and a crash vaccine program. He got manufacturing companies to build thousands of ventalators. Moratoriums on evictions and foreclosures.

Honestly there was not much more that could be done. And that is the thing. Too many people in the USA just thing that government will "do something." Most of the time what can be done is very limited. It does not help that we have a Democrat Party that wants to politicize any disaster of any type for political gain. Instead of getting behind Trump and helping they decided to go on a political attack.

It also shows just how pathetically weak too many Americans are. 500,000 deaths? A bit over 1/10 of 1%! And 90%+ of those were just complications of something people already had! Compare this to nations that have had actual pandemics like AIDS in Africa. They must be laughing at us.

Quote: Mission146

I just meant in terms of what he said. The overall Governmental response (in terms of actions) was within reason. I'd have preferred guidelines to mandates, but that aside, they did what they could do. That mostly had to do with the states, anyway.

Quote: AZDuffman

I find a correlation that the more someone is an atheist the more they think that we can just do something.