WATCH: Fox News DISMISSES Mom Who Went Viral For Cost Of Living Rant
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We live in a country that taxpayers had to spend trillions of dollars to bail out financial institutions who then paid bonuses to executives for creating a financial meltdown of the economy
Some stability good but there is no more real risk at the top just increased toil at the bottom. Monopoly money that only works for the rich. Everybody else does not pass go.
This is why we need wealth limits of 250 million dollars per person and limits on total number of homes a person or corporation can own at one time to 10 homes regardless of size . Capitalism is a good system but like driving on a instate we need rules . Other wise the big trucks could run over all the little cars it's just common sense or doing the right thing humanity or ask the Christian people would jesus be a huge land developer and wall street investment banker and screw everyone possible over because technically is not against the law just morally wrong
We can blame Reagan for that. Policies from the 1890s led to the Great depression and Reaganomics the trickle-down economic system he thought might work this time for God knows what reason and it has led to all of these mini recessions. Trickle-down economics doesn't work, wealthy people want to hang on to their money and without regulations demanding they give it up, the higher upper-middle lower classes all suffer because we have to pay for everybody else including the wealthy. I keep saying people need to stop voting outside their league and start voting for their wallet, that is the only way they will see more money come to them.
IT'S WHY I DESPISE ........... OBAMA, FOR HE COULD HAVE DONE MUCH BETTER! and this is coming from a BLACK WOMAN, WHOM VOTE AND DONATED TO HIS CAMPAIGN; AT LEAST THE 1ST ONE THE 2ND ONE, HE WAS ON MY SHET LIST! I VOTED FOR HIM ANYWAY, because I did NOT WANT A reTHUG for the WEALTHY in the OVAL OFFICE!
GUYS, SERIOUSLY, WE ARE SCREWED BOTH WAYS, BE IT A reTHUG or an UNDERCOVER DEM in the Oval office, because BOTH PARTIES are becoming RICH, KISSING THE AZZES of the RICH & WEALTHY! PELOSI & SCHUMER AND THOSE DEMS WHO KISS THEIR BUTTS MYST GO!
HOW THE F IS JEFFERS MEETING WITH NETANYAHU AS IF WHAT HE IS DOING IS NO BIG DEAL! JEFFIES, AN DESENTANT OF/FROM SLAVES, IS HE KIDDING US? In my eyes, he is just another CLARENCE THOMAS!
The fact people can work a full time 40 hour a week job and not be able to afford rent is absurd.
My boomer cousins would just say "get a second job"...
@@ricbiff3569 Not a single boomer homeowner I know needed a second job to afford to live in an apartment
Not really. A batista in SF simply cannot earn enough to live in SF.
Sometimes it's worse than that. Some people working multiple minimum wage jobs are not able to afford rent.
Stay off Amazon
I’m literally facing eviction within the next week even with working 50+ hours a week with construction in Alabama and paying for the cost of my 2 kids. It’s horrible 😔
I am sorry to hear that. I know how you feel. Most of us are one rent payment away from that, and none of us have more than a month of rent saved, because the corrupt system leaves us all with nothing at the end of each pay period.
I hope you land on your feet...
I know whereof you speak. This doesn't help you, but you are not alone. Construction work is important, as are many jobs and work. But at least the billionaires can buy that mega yacht or social media platform!
Check out your representative in Congress and Senate, if they are Republicans, this is the reason you are suffering so, because they vote AGAINST EVERYTHING that is good for you, they only care about tax breaks and loopholes for the wealthy, leaving you to carry their tax burdens! Heck, they refuse to increase the Minimum Wage, looking out for the CEO'S of these companies, while they take home tens of millions in profits and retirement packages, leaving you with little to nothing!
This is what happens when we let the rich pay their way to government control. They do nothing but force polices that favor the rich while the rest of us get screwed.
@@pashatemurtem What you republican hard on for trump, the reason we American's are underpaid is because these multi-millionaires like TRUMP are HIRING the Undocumented worker's, providing FALSE ID'S for them, when they should be HIRING AMERICANS and at least PAYING US MINIMUM WAGES, yet they can HIRE & PAY THE ILLEGALS WITH LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGES! THIS IS THE VERY REASON THESE MIGRANTS CONTINUE TO COME TO AMERICA, BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY CAN GET JOBS FOR JUST THE BARE PAY, and the ONLY REASON WHY we have this PROBLEM IN AMERICA, BECAUSE AMERICANS HIRE & PAY THE ILLEGALS FOR THE MINIMUM OF WAGES!
TRUMP SUPPORTER'S WAKE THE F UP, BECAUSE THAT'S ALL TRUMP HIRED IN ALL HIS BUSINESSES & PROVIDED ILLEGAL DOCS FOR THEM!
PLEASE GO BACK AND LISTEN TO THE ILLEGALS THAT WAS EMPLOYED BY HIM!, BECAUSE THEY GOT FED UP WITH THE DISRESPECTFUL SHET AND SPOKE OUT!
We don't have a shortage of housing. We have a greed problem. There are PLENTY of homes. Just too many greedy investors. It's totally legal and yet totally morally corrupt!
You are spot on right. When a wealthy person spends thousands on what others see as trivia to them its not I respect this always therefore I woukd if I were struggling with a family indoctrinate them to value themselves very highly in service of the rich...charge them make them respect that you have feelings and you value yourself. Mutual respect always countd
My wife and I bought a home about 10 years ago. The apartment we used to rent is now more than our mortgage. It’s insane.
Shes not wrong and for once, its someone who is speaking for all American, regardless of political party.
Both parties have held hands on this economic disaster.
@RobertStricklandinKorea it's not just in the US. Argentina has a 51% inflation rate, and the Sudan has a 340% rate. That's not the Democrat or the GOPs fault.
@@goober5713 ???
Well, the thing is - all Americans have the same problems - thats why they talk about bullsh!t issues to divide you
@goober5713 both parties are at fault.
Greed is the stain on humanity that leads to bigotry and racism.
*and religion!
CEO’s are making 400 time what the average, employees makes in the 60s they made 20 times what the average employee made . That needs to change.
yes,definitely.......................walton family ,who owns all walmarts make over $4million an hour. Other owners/CEO's similar, and they complain and block any wage increases
The problem in America is no one wants to storm the castle because everyone think that they eventually will own one.
You can't raise your children the way your parents raised you, because the world your parents raised you for no longer exists.
When you have 2-3 multi-billionaires having more wealth than over half of the rest of the population you know the system does not work for you.😬
A big part of the problem is investors buying up single family homes and apartments to rent or airbnb.
The greed is out of control. Building more won’t solve the problem because they will just be bought up by investors. First we need to ban investors, both foreign and domestic investors.
It's not a cost of living rant, it's a cost of living fact.
"That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
― George Carlin
So true, Carlin was a realist, with a sense of humor.
Dark, but so funny.
Greed is out of control. Too many people don't realize it's not about Republican or Democrat. It's the rich and the poor. You can't get into office unless you are rich! Company's have to keep making more and more for their rich investors. People in office have to keep helping companies to make more for their rich investors. Or they won't get money for their campaigns to stay in office. Having no term limits leaves us with greedy rich people in office for life. Even when they can't speak. It's ridiculous
Many corporations lack the regulations needed to protect their employees and that's where boycotting comes in. It's just people are unable to not buy things that they really don't need, it's a status symbol to have everything and anything. Air pollution isn't being helped by same-day or 1-day overnight delivery. There needs to be extreme regulations on the amount of airplanes these companies are allowed to use at one time and vehicles at one time. If someone doesn't want to wait for toilet paper, they can walk down to the nearest Bodega or take their truck and drive to the nearest Walmart, and get some. Although we should be boycotting Walmart at this point, it's basically the only thing I don't boycott because I need to shop somewhere lol
Never judge a book by its cover, she was dropping truth bombs left and right.
Don't forget us old folk too.....
we struggled to pay off our homes for 30 years....
then when we retire they raise the property taxes so much through the years
we can't afford to keep our home and pay for food and prescriptions!
Same. Great. The house doubled in value. I can't eat it or second mortgage it due to rates, and the property tax has tripled in 7 years. And to really piss me off, the town hasn't fixed the potholes in years, because they take the tax to pay for the staff that collects it.
I feel this. I am a 27 year old man with autism who is relying partially on disability benefits to survive. I get my benefits and work part time at $16 per hour and still can't survive. It is literally impossible for me to survive on my current income. I still rely on parents to help pay for things for me because of how bad our society has become. The one thing that really pisses me off is when people on Facebook act like my problem is just bad budgeting and that I could afford to survive if I just managed my better. That is literally the dumbest BS you can say to someone who is struggling financially.
I am sorry for your struggles. I can't imagine how you get by. I want to emphasize that my previous comments on a different thread were not targeted at people like you. You are right that budgeting is not enough and it's insulting when people say things like that. This is where the liberal in me comes out and I think you should be getting more in government assistance so you can live a normal life. Corporate welfare and tax cuts to the rich are two reasons for lack of funding.
I will pray and send good thoughts to you and your parents.
I am blind, and I can't find a job, even at MacDonalds. I have 2 degrees and very skilled in my field, but it can't help me get a job. So I live solely on disability...12k/year. My homeowners insurance in Florida is supposed to double (again) or triple this year. I fear losing my one and only asset, real estate, as well as many Floridians. I was warned my homeowners insurance could be a high as half my income for the year! 😱 what are the disabled supposed to do? I cashed in my retirement to get a house because rent was too high, and now I could lose it all because of insurance? Something doesn't sound right here.
Restrict corporations from buying houses, whole neighborhoods, for profit. There are more than 15 million unoccupied houses in the US. We don't need more houses, they just need to be affordable.
Unoccupied means a lot of things. A vacation home that isn't lived in 90% of the year and stuff like that. A lot of those are probably too expensive for the regular person to pay for let alone maintain. That is a big part of tge problem too but doesn't mean we dont need to build more "affordable" housing people can actually afford to live in.
@@brandonbodwell1274 I meant vacant houses. Just in my neighborhood, a suburb, a big corporation bought around 600 houses. Those are not vacation homes, it's corporations controlling the price in the whole neighborhood.
THIS PART.
@tzerpa9446 actually in that number of vacant homes they did include the vacation homes as vacant.
@@brandonbodwell1274 Sure, but vacation homes have never been a problem, except maybe in very touristic places. The area where I live is just a regular suburb, nothing vacationy about it, and still 600 homes have been purchased by a huge investment corporation. Prices are going up even though the population has been decreasing for years. I'm talking about central Alabama.
In 1993, I was making $6.25 an hour. My 2 bedroom apartment in Southern California was $525 a month, which I could cover easily.
However, while the minimum wage has doubled since the 90’s, the cost of rent has quadrupled.
Don't blame single home owners. Blame the banks and the corporations buying up property. Corporations are sharking the sellers. Making it harder for regular American families to achieve the American dream.
It's the zoning laws that fu** Americas housing market.
And the only candidate who cares is Williamson
I was a house buyer in Ohio, saved up 80,000 -100,000 took me a decade to save up that much. Literally years of scraping together 1,000 this month and 1,200 that month when I could get overtime to save up enough for a home. I find the perfect home in 2022 right outside city limits close to family in a lovely neighborhood. House needed alittle fixing up and upgrading but nothing I couldn't handle. Day comes it get posted for sale, I throw in my offer.... and it gets rejected because a company big almost double what my max was.. I was willing to get it financed for the difference but they didn't care, they wanted to money immediately and the company offered it in full. That house is now sitting open to rent for 3,600 a month. Honestly, I just want to burn thier properties to the ground. Let see them rent a bunch of burnt wood and dirt for 3600 a month
It’s about:
1. Greedy landlords and real estate investment companies charging high rents.
2. Low wages, $7 federal minimum wage.
Doesn't help when the political parties have no incentive to pass laws or regulations to fix the problem.
The ridiculous cost of rental housing is what happens when RealPage and apartment companies like Courtland get together and conspire to keep rents high. Their sharing of proprietary information in this way should be illegal.
She's stating actual facts, and the actual truth is it's more scary than people want to understand
We absolutely can stop infinite greed, by banning infinite wealth.
At what dollar amount should we start?
@@prodogtwodogman3857 I've not thought on it. But I'll start with 100,000,000.
I'm a 20 year Navy veteran and even w/ my retirement and disability benefits I still have to work extra side jobs in order to pay rent and maintain a simple life style. This is crazy economy is killing the everyday working class.
Get private equity firms OUT of the REAL Estate market. They drive prices up ASTRONOMICALLY!!!!!!
Credit to this mom❤️ Our kids deserve better, not worse than any generation before.
Gen x were the first to not do better than they’re parents. Been happening for a while now. I have a son that’s 25 and one 19. Both did not go to college. They went to trade schools and became electricians. My eldest is a lineman and bought his first house by himself at 22. He married a nurse and they just built a new home on 2 acres of ground. My 19 year old is in his 3rd year as an apprentice and was chosen as one of the top 10 apprentices at a very large company. He makes a decent hourly wage and has full medical and dental. He will make more than his yearly salary in a few years just doing side work. There are ways to make it as a young adult if you make the correct choices and don’t bury yourself in debt and work hard. There was a lot of storm damage in my area this week and my eldest son has been at work since Monday and is still not home.
@@prodogtwodogman3857 Really? I taught myself music theory, among other things and raised a child by myself. I taught him to box and fight (the teachers kept complaining he was beating the shit out of the school bullies and their parents threatened to sue the school if the bully’s “instigating fights” records were not removed from their records.) Then the facilitating bully’s parents demanded my address to confront me. ( Go right ahead. You do realize it was ME who taught my son to clean house? Now you and your wife want to confront me? I’ll kick both your asses) I taught my son music appreciation, to listen to all music and find the good in it and NEVER objectify women. He now has three jobs. He makes a shit ton of money selling the RIGHT merchandise on eBay. And most of all; I taught him what a real man is. Someone who takes FULL responsibility for his actions and choices and when he makes a mistake, he holds himself accountable for it, learns from it and (hopefully) moves on to being a more Self-Aware and evolved person. Oh, I NEVER pawned him off on my relatives for a few weeks because I needed a break. There are no more breaks when you decide to have a child. He’s also not a little clone of me. I nurtured his own identity. Lazy parenting is UNACCEPTABLE!! He knows more about The Beatles, Stones and other classic rock than I ever will. He even knows the brand and type of guitar that was used for the solo in “Stairway to heaven.” Teach your kids to be intelligent, compassionate ass kickers!!!
I was born in 1966. When my parents decided to come home they used me as a punching bag. Parents today know better. Spank your child’s buttocks? Then you’re sexually arousing Them. Why? The buttocks and genitalia share the same artery. When a child’s ass turns red from a spanking, that redness is blood now rushing to their genitalia. It’s one of the many reasons I didn’t spank my kid.
My son works 4 10-hour days at one job, drives door dash on the 5th day. His s/o stays home with their 2 y/o while he works and when he's home she works pt time. They can barely stay afloat... I feel like this mom. Working hard isn't getting them anywhere - sad
He's trying to take care of three people with a normal 40 hour work week and garbage door dash money. Yeah I can see why it's hard.
@@sunlight-sky151Wow. Must be one of those “pick yourself up by the bootstraps” types
I get calls and texts ALL THE TIME from investors inquiring about buying my home. I'm not selling, and even if I was, I would never sell to those guys.
I get the same texts and calls wanting to buy my home. It’s pretty annoying they have my phone number, but it’s 2023 and I’m sure it’s not hard to get that info. Plus if I were to sell to some douchebag “investor”, I couldn’t afford to stay in my neighborhood because the housing is outrageous! Part of the reason is these investors and “flippers”. I don’t know about your area, I’m in south Florida and ever since COVID it seems the entire country found out about moving here. 😢😢
Greed and racism is the biggest addictions in the Country. Why is 70 yr old millionaire's still chasing money, for what.
Cuz it’s the american way. “Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps”, keep the wheel turning no matter who it runs over🇺🇸🤷🏾♂️
they are SICK. That's what
I bought my house in the "ghetto" of my city for cash. In the last 2 years my property tax has increased by 114%. So, even if you own your home property tax has become crippling if you are low income, a senior on fixed income, or disabled. At this time I have to set aside $200.00 a month so I can pay my property tax. Just for the record my home is 980 square feet which includes my unfinished basement. It was built in 1929. This is the result of gentrification. My grandchildren told me that they will never be able to buy a place to live in their lifetime.
I lived in coal mining country where the mines owned the store the workers shopped in, owned the houses the workers rented, and paid their workers in script that could pretty much be only spent in the company stores and to pay the company rent for their housing. That is what our country is becoming.
Yes it is! Pre 1933 rules is what the wealthy want. You and your stinky kids work my coal mine for 12 hours and I'll feed you. There freedom!
As comedian George Carlin once said : It's Called the American Dream Because You Have To Be Asleep to Believe It"
Jessica McCabe’s rant was so spot on and relatable. The cost of living here in Canada is also out of hand. I live in B.C. and even outside of the two main cities, Vancouver and Victoria, the cheapest and shittiest homes still go for $875K+ but most homes start at $1.2M. Rent is even worse. I’m “lucky” because I only pay $1700/month for a 320 sqft studio apartment in Victoria that I started renting a year ago. Now, this same place would go for $2200/month. The average rent for a one bedroom in Vancouver is $2800 and across B.C. It’s $2550. Groceries are also insanely expensive. The same basket of groceries I bought five years ago costs me double now.
I make more than the average person (but not a ton), however, between rent, groceries, student loans payments, utilities and other expenses I’m still just barely getting by or breaking even. I had to start digging into my savings to get by and now there’s nothing left and I’ve been unable to contribute more.
I keep working hard to try to move up in my career so I can make more money but it feels like every time I do make progress or get a raise, the goal posts shift and it doesn’t end up making difference. I really don’t know how the average American pays for all the things I mentioned above AND their healthcare costs on top of that.
Ultimately, we the voters are to blame. We keep putting up with all the outright corruption and re-electing the same type of politicians or when we do go outside the box, we pick even worse, like Trump.
Marianne Williamson would be a step in the right direction imo. Let’s not be afraid to vote from our values.
@anthonyperez537 she only doesn’t win if you don’t vote for her
Unfortunately there are not a lot of good people to choose from. 😒
@@galaxyglitterlatte4664I disagree. If you value ideas like Medicare for all and an end to the corporate choke hold on government Marianne Williamson is a very good choice. She sounds practical, she is articulate, and Is focused on commonalities between the grievances of both left and right.
I agree! And it has nothing to do with Dems or GOP. It's the facts. We screw ourselves without thinking of our best j interest for us. If you think about it now, the "ultra rich" are taking up all of the housing developments and renting them out at astronomical cost that are outrageous but a hard working American with a degree is working 2-3 jobs to make it and still can't buy or rent a home. What's the logic?
Greed is ruining this country.
The national debt nullified any and all land owned by out of country peoples or conglomerates ,,,Confiscation day 1 ….the end
I live in NYC. My wife and I make a combined 200k. We cannot afford a decent house in a decent neighborhood and its not close. Having to put $180,000 down and still have a $5k/mo mortgage is ridiculous.
😢😢😢😢$10,000 doesn’t go far anymore. We are doctrines to live on credit like our government.
What...Republicans are finally realizing that the wages gap in this country sucks...and save your breath about Biden..this has been going on for decades..all politicians have done nothing.
Decades for sure! Not his fault so much corruption.
Every Democrat tries to raise the wages. Republicans block it. Republicans give huge tax breaks to the rich. It's not the same.
@@patricedixon2634 He has been a politician for many decades and has done some great things like fighting bussing and pushing the 1994 crime law through.
Me and my girlfriend live in Bucks County PA with my 13 yr old son. It took us forever to find a place we could "afford". $2000 for a rundown 2 bedroom home. We both work at Walmart as managers, and we struggle week to week. Its a shame that we work our tails off every day, and have to live this way. The American dream is DEAD
America is not a country its a corporation
She is exactly right.
If Alabama is expensive something is very wrong.
I use to believe that higher price apartments or houses was to keep “certain people” out. But it’s backfiring, these ridiculous prices are keeping everyone out that don’t make a six-figure salary! Kudos to this stating the obvious 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
What inspired you to question such things?
High prices for everything have severely affected my plan. I'm concerned if people who went through the 2008 financial crisis had an easier time than I am having now. The stock market is worrying me as my income has decreased, and I fear I won't have enough savings for retirement since I can't contribute as much as before.
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I've been saying the deaf ears for years our problem is greed. The question is how the hell do you fix it.
Republicans ten years ago: "Get a roommate."
Republicans today: "Get three roommates."
What is going on now is the result of trickled down economic.
Exactly … and it was predicted even as Reagan was making the rich, filthy rich.
I just tried to share this on my Facebook page and was warned that it goes against their Community standards... Facebook what a joke!🙄
She's absolutely right. Many seniors are also in similar positions and cannot find housing.
In 1997, I was a kid with 2 years experience in a factory, making 10 dollars an hour. Today that would be $19.05 an hour.
That same job today with 2 years experience is maybe 15 or 16 an hour.
I lost 25 dollars a week in healthcare premium, today is closer to 60. Not to mention the deductible went from 1000 dollars a year, to 3000.
The house I was going to buy was 70k,,, that same house today is 250k, which is double inflation.
This is why kids cannot afford anything.
Time to tax the rich
The problem is PRICE GAUGING.
$2000 for a one bedroom in Alabama! 30k for the average car. Gluttony and greed!
The problem isn't that there aren't enough houses being built. It's that wealthy people and companies are buying up all the property and turning them all into rentals, and jacking the prices.
This is happening all over the world. The way to fix it is with legislation. Companies are profit driven, and anything they can do, including making the housing market completely unaffordable, is what they will do. Some kind of control over corporate ownership will HAVE to happen - say, limiting what % of living space in a city may be owned by a corporation, and maybe even limiting how many homes an individual may own. That's me thinking about it for 10 seconds. I'm sure smarter people working at it for longer would be able to come up with legislation that would actually work.
But something people are forgetting is that to make houses globally affordable to their local markets, the price will have to drop by something like 75%. And obviously a lot of real estate owners would be angry at the loss in value, but do we want to have properties that PEOPLE can buy and live in, and raise their families, or do we want corporations to own everything and charge ever-raising rents forever?
This. Agree that it needs to come from legislation
It wouldn’t have to drop 75% if interest rates go down, it will alleviate things quite a bit. Agree that private equities are causing problems in housing industry.
When corporations are buying up to 25% of the new homes the price goes up same with apts
Corporate ownership of residential housing, forcing everyone to rent instead of own housing, has destroyed the American dream.
Once rents started exceeding Mortgage payments over the past 15 years, it became obvious that buying made more sense provided you can make a minimum down payment of 8%. Mortgage payments can average in the $500 range or less accordingly based on the sale cost of the home. But with the current vicious cycle, this seems impossible.
This lady nailed it. We used to have different classes but now it’s, ultra wealthy and everyone else. I barely make my mortgage (low end house), student loan, insurance, utilities and basic groceries every month. My salary is $66,000 a year.
I paid off my car but it’s an older car. I can’t afford to save for new car.
Working hard, getting college degree will help with success is bullshit.
Two classes? Hmm I think I've heard of it somewhere. What was it? Capitalists and proletaryat?
She nailed it! I do not understand how rent has doubled all of a sudden!🤔
In Florence, Alabama - a small town in North Alabama with a population of around 50,000 apartments are close to what she's saying. Not to mention a property management company from Ohio, Sundance Property Management, has swooped in and bought 18 different apartment complexes and jacked up the price. And then the University of North Alabama partnered with them and evicted a 100 apartment unit so it could become housing for the college. They then doubled the price. It's a serious crisis.
I just took my daughter to college in Alabama. This woman is absolutely correct. There were the rich and the poor. I saw a very small middle class. It made me believe that this was being done on purpose.
It is.
WHAT ABOUT FOR RENTERS!! I'm 64 years old and live in Ohio, 9 years ago my rent was $745.00 now it's 1,300!! I have never in my life paid that much for RENT THEY NEED TO BE STOPPED! People are losing their homes and getting evicted! No body cares it's all about the dollar to these landlords..😡
Ohio here too. My daughter doesn't qualify for $800 mortgage but she can pay $1,200 for rent. 🙄
@@LoriGibson1970include taxes, insurance, pmi, etc. The monthly payment on a house is way more than 800
9:52 the irony here is that young people have BEEN publicly saying this for several years but their cries haven’t been heard until an older woman says it now suddenly they wanna call her in for an interview, but if the cashier or waitress at the local restaurant said this everyone would just brush them off as “complaining” or “being lazy” for wanting to save up to buy a place to live
I've been preaching politics since I was 13, I'm 41 now. Good luck getting anything fixed until the old bigots d!e off.
Minimum wage should be between 25-30/hr at this rate
It's impossible to beat the investors to any reasonably priced property now.
it's like 3 or 4 "mega-corporations" want to own all the properties, so we can all rent from them...
Why do you want your home's value to go up? Really, why? I am a home owner and I DON'T want home's value to go up. I don't want it to go down from what I paid for it originally, but I also don't want it to go up ... at least not by a lot. What is the benefit to me if the value goes up? I get to pay more in taxes ... how does that help me? The only time it's good for me to have a high value home is if I am going to sell it. But then where am I going to live? I need to buy another house ... right? Do these people just assume that they are going to luck out and find a super cheap house to buy after selling their super expensive house? I really don't get it.
I agree. Then again, if you would want to sell, you would want to get the most value from your home. You mentioned tax. I think that there should be a cap on tax on the amount you need to pay on property taxes or a flat fee. The insurance also increases as the value of the home increases.
You are so right
I was able to buy a home in Los Angeles on a nurse’s salary.
My children with graduate degrees and better jobs have to borrow from family to buy something here.
My son told me a few years ago about investors buying up affordable housing
Neither of them can have children , due to the money it costs
Absolutely ridiculous
Is part of the problem out of country investors buying up properties and charging outrageous prices for rent?
Leaving them wmpty
Nope
A regular person like my self.
I work 2 full time jobs.
I'm a single
50ish lady and I can not
afford in an Apartment.
I can't afford rent and car PYMT .
There is no light at the end of the American tunnel.
I work and sleep.
No life
No time
No hope
Bernie Sanders warned all of us back in 2015/2016.
Doesn’t matter which party is in. Corporate America dictates everyone’s lives
Because the greedy can not be satisfied. If this country dies it will because of greed.
20 years ago my rent was $460 for a 1 bedroom apartment. Foreign investors and foreign citizens shouldn’t be allowed to buy land or property.
What were your wages in 2003 ,
Yep
Can’t remember exactly but people are still making the same. I believe it was 12/ hr.
@@redemptionhappens7725 12 and hour at what job where ?
@@LuisVelez-f5h Why are you being so gdamn nosy??? Go play games with someone else.
It’s greed on every level,
Capitalism at its finest.....unfortunately.
It sounds as if she's complaining about capitalism.
U.S. is hardly a straight capitalist system. The economy is highly regulated & also must cooperate with the rest of the world. The world is not run as a capitalist society.
And when did capitalism ever equal democracy? The two are polar opposites.
@@jerryeberts3726 Capitalism is not a system of governance, it describes the forces of trade that exist because of society. "Capitalism" has existed since societies first start buying and selling materials and goods. Adam Smith simply outlined those threads. I don't think Adam Smith was even born when the first widespread speculative market crash occured
In the U.S. capitalism IS the form of government. Politicians make decisions based on what is in their masters’ best interest. Capitalism, cloaked in the sheepskin of democracy, is the American system - in every level & aspect of life. “The business of America is business.” That’s a cold blast of honesty from a president who knew dishonesty intimately.
@@jerryeberts3726 Oh I didn't realize we were actually agreeing, my bad
@@jerryeberts3726 you are SO right. The American people have been duped by the carrot called "The American Dream" - convincing people that even though they might not be rich now, they are all part of the will-be-rich-soon group of people if only they work even harder. This way, the rich and powerful have succeeded in protecting and furthering the interrests of corporations and the rich and especially the ultra-rich, while exploiting the American people for decades.
I've never understood why more Americans don't stand up to this!
You should have interviewed her and let her tell the story that Fox didn't want to tell.
I was wondering the same thing! They should have brought her on their show!
This woman is NOT WRONG!!!! I make "GREAT" salary a year, and I have 3 kids and if I didn't have my partner we wouldn't be able to live in our home, much less FEED a family of 5 today.... How can I expect my kids to one day leave the nest when I, as an adult can barely make ends meet making 70+K a year (before taxes)...
I pay more in taxes than millionaires/billionaires.. There is so many things wrong with this it makes me ill... I loose sleep worrying about how we are going to pay our bills (Utilities, insurance, car payments, food, school) it's just wrong..
There is no longer 3 classes, Upper, middle, lower, there are now two classes, upper & lower. Unless people are making 150 K+/per person a year, we cannot afford ANYTHING, and forget retirement funds, we can't even afford to save for that...
Corporate greed corporate greed corporate greed!!!!!
No lie about that. As a housing activist I can say this been going on for a while. I met a lot of college students whom are struggling and I met people whom are middle class whom couldn't live where they were living . This was happening 8 years ago. I said 6 years ago that we need more housing and they told me no.
Whom is they?
what needs to be done is make corporate landlords go away
@RogerMcMillanyou are correct. this needs a multi pronged attack. housing is one of the major issues that affects everyone, especially the young.
Rich favored folks buy 1,2,3 homes while people like me who are paid as little as possible can't get a house.. I am almost retirement age and have yet to purchase my first home.....
truly sad, sorry to hear.
I hear ya
Jesse Ventura called it YEARS ago…America needs a MAXIMUM wage.
theyre building "affordable housing" here. rent is going to be well over 1k. this is a small town of 15k people and minimum wage is still 7.25. its a joke.
It isn't only the housing. I am in my 70's. On a fixed income. I am also a diabetic. I can do the work to make it better, but now groceries are so expensive, and I cannot eat things like rice. pasta, bread etc. not if I want to stay alive. But often I am having to choose between meds, or food. Food or rent. The right food, or eat less healthy and die younger.
Correct!! I have to start growing vegetables because they r so expensive.. As A Widow I am in the same position..Bills, meds or food 😥
Well said Anna.
I own a house, but I would happy to see values gown down, including on mine, if it means affordability for my fellow Americans.
One of the main causes, which most don't talk about is all the flippers and Wall Street investors are buying up all the starter houses, and reselling them for what is no longer starter home prices. We need regulation on people and corporations buying houses that don't live in the house.
She is right. It was smart of me to save money for the last twenty years and I bought a place overseas where I will retire. I will never retire in the US. The world is big and beautiful. Housing, healthcare, insurances, etc
Capitalism: Someone needs to be lose
Socialism: Everybody wins
Which one would Jesus prefer?
Jesus was a SOCIALIST !
@@simxntuConservatives intentionally ignored that, it seems-
My dad (May he RIP) said for years that there will be too classes in the US….the ultra rich and the poor.
In BC there is now a law against foreign investors buying properties.
I mean...kinda closing the barn doors after the horses escaped, no? My in-laws live in Richmond since the 80s. The parents can't sell because there is nowhere they can afford to go afterward. The kids are having to move a few towns over (New West, Surrey, or White Rock,) and are still challenged to find affordable housing...
I think they just did something minor about China buying property here. Doubt it did anything though
I make $2737 a month on Social Security, drive an 18 yo car and cannot afford a single occupancy apartment in Wilmington, NC. I'll be 67 this year and have to do a house-share with 2 other individuals. I hate it. And housing prices go up steadily and Wilmington's answer to the housing shortage? To build luxury townhouses and single family homes on every available inch of land.
Yes $2,000 a month for a studio and u have to make 3x that rent to even qualify to rent. U know it’s bad when rent is high in the south
Back in the day I dreamed of owning my own home. Now I dream about renting an appartment without roommates.
As a parent of adult children with decent paying jobs, for years, I've said the same thing! Our children can not afford to pay RENT, and parents want them to move out! I had my 1st NYC apt at age 21! Young people today can't do that! What I find disgusting is that African Americans and others have suffered this for years and NOWWW that White people are feeling the pain, it's a problem! I guess better late than never. It's just the ole: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't NOTICE you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." 😬 President Lyndon B. John.
@@tonkajahari3010Yes but most white people have an edge black people don't most of you have generational wealth
This is Florida too!! My son is 30 and lives with me and my daughter is 29 and I pay over half her bills because their full time jobs don't cover the bills!!
Just think what would happen if every minimum wage employee took the week off next week
Exactly. 😏
The actual reason there is a housing shortage is not other homeowners, it’s developers and builders. They don’t want to build affordable houses because they don’t find it “profitable” enough. I own my house in Detroit. I live next to two vacant lots. I would LOVE to see new houses built in those empty lots because it would increase the value of my house. Don’t blame the homeowners, that’s a completely false narrative.
Up until recently I was an electrician not far from you in Michigan, and you're right, that's a good part of the problem. Everything getting built is a 3-5 bedroom, 1.5 - 3 bath, suburban cookie cutter builds. We literally aren't allowed to build small affordable housing in 78% of this state thanks to zoning laws written by special interest groups.
Of course, everything we built was also ultimately owned and developed by corporations like Blackrock and Vanguard, with 30 year balloon mortgages that would trap people in a lifetime of debt, so ownership was also a part of the issue.
And get this -- She wasn't simply talking about a one-bedroom, two-bedroom, three-bedroom apartment -- She was talking about having to pay two grand to live in a STUDIO apartment in ALABAMA! "Studio" means you don't even have a WALL separating your bedroom area from your kitchen area. Now, I'm certain about the $2000 for a studio, but I remember when I was a teenager, ('90 -'92) my mother paid just over $900 for a nice 3-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, NY! Rent prices are effing insane! 😡😡
And the apartment is still the same. Nothing really changed in those apartments.
We're being Bamboozled.Two income homes are struggling too.
My son pays $2200 in Rancho Cucamonga, Ca, for a tiny one bedroom apartment😢