bernie sanders

[MarAzul]

Urban growth boundaries get moved and expanded all the time. They're anything but inviolable. The simple fact is that there is no perfect solution. The counter-example of zero planning and zero regulation gives you sprawling shit-holes like Houston or Phoenix - hardly an improvement.

Wrong! If you don't want to increase the area people live in, you restrict your population growth. If you restrict the area (urban growth boundries do exactly this) and you allow the population to grow unimpeded, you squeeze out those that can't compete for space. Pretty simple really.

Do a little checking, your urban growth boundaries only expand when some body pays the tab (profit for some one in control).

 

[Denny Crane]

Seems to me the problem with gentrification is you can't afford a more expensive home if you're trapped on welfare.

Maybe the local banks can help by giving out loans to the local residents instead of red lining them.

And the people who are being priced out actually can succeed and afford more expensive homes. Not if they're kept down though.

 

[MarAzul]

You can't afford a more expensive home if you're trapped on welfare.

Maybe the local banks can help by giving out loans to the local residents instead of red lining them. Like Congress urged Freddy and Fanny to do, make those FHA ready loans banks!
Freddy and Fanny will take them off your hands.

And the people who are being priced out actually can succeed and afford more expensive homes, or maybe not. (See 2008).

Fify

 

[barfo]

No, it really was bleak.

Oh please. I lived through those years too.

Just because you and your parents wore shit-colored glasses for awhile doesn't mean the world was actually shit.

And just because you took them off didn't suddenly make it 'morning in America'.

barfo

 

[Sinobas]

Doesn't everyone get the COLA raises? I thought it was law.

I don't think gentrification is a racial issue at all. My generation is graduating college and wanting to raise their family in the city instead of the suburbs. I live in a up and coming area that used to be one of the real trouble areas in Portland. I don't see any racial hostility. Go up to the Safeway right up the street and I feel like a minority still. For as many blacks that moved out to Gresham and outer SE, there's still plenty in North/Northeast Portland.

Not a law as far as I know, unless it changed very recently. It's good that you don't feel racial hostility, that's the way things should be. I think that movements like BLM can be counter-productive, and whip up hostility.

 

[Denny Crane]

Oh please. I lived through those years too.

Just because you and your parents wore shit-colored glasses for awhile doesn't mean the world was actually shit.

And just because you took them off didn't suddenly make it 'morning in America'.

barfo

It took until '83, so it wasn't "suddenly."

18+% mortgage rates were great! The inflation rate was so bad a COLA raise put you into a higher of the many tax brackets so you still fell behind. Gas on Monday if your license plate ended with an even number.

Good times had by all, and it clearly was headed the right way.

Carter named his own results, "days of malaise." PBS calls it "presidential navel gazing."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/carter-crisis-speech/

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Trump = Drake
Bernie = Meek Mill

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[Sinobas]

Trump = Drake
Bernie = Meek Mill

I figured this would turn into a FoxNews talking point, "If he can't handle two women how will be be able to stand up to terrorists and forgien leaders"

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

he looked weak as shit.

 

[dviss1]

I'm voting for Bernie.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

unless two angry black women are at your polling place and force you to vote for whomever they want. Its the way Bernie would want it.

 

[dviss1]

unless two angry black women are at your polling place and force you to vote for whomever they want. Its the way Bernie would want it.

I live in the great state of Oregon. Our ballots come directly to our homes where I can vote there in comfort with my family.

 

[Denny Crane]

I live in the great state of Oregon. Our ballots come directly to our homes where I can vote there in comfort with my family.

Vote early, vote often!

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

What's the alternative? More suburbs? That isn't a great thing either.

What we need is the neutron bomb. Damn that Jimmy Carter!

barfo

By pushing high density, along with reduced parking, the City of Portland is trying to force people out of their cars and onto bikes and public transit. This will then supposedly reduce gridlock and pollution. Great idea in theory, but the higher density (along with the City's failure to follow through on affordable housing) drives home prices and rents up pushing people who can't afford those prices out to the more affordable suburbs. Now those people have to drive even farther (because of the limits of public transportation to and from the suburbs) to jobs, etc, which unintentionally exacerbates gridlock and pollution. And places additional stresses on the suburban roads and services. It's the dog chasing his tail.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

So second-term Reagan? Which term was your favorite?

Neither.....

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

First.

In the carter years, my parents frequently told me to enjoy life while I could, that things were getting worse and worse and there wasn't much hope for change for the better anywhere in sight. Reagan completely changed that.

He certainly did. That's when the decline of the middle class began in earnest. Thank you Ronny.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

He certainly did. That's when the decline of the middle class began in earnest. Thank you Ronny.

The "sharing economy" (Uber, Lyft, Manservant, etc.) really come down to democratizing servants for landed aristocracy. "Hey, you don't have anything going right now because there's no jobs for you, why not do this rich man's laundry?"

It's the logical conclusion of the long journey to end the middle class. I'm glad I managed to get on the right side of that divide while I could; now I need to build a fortune that will ensure my children remain aristocratic until civilization devours itself in 50-100 years.