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I think I may agree with this

Builders aren't going to go on a limb and sit on a bunch of unsold inventory. That's a hard lesson to learn. Instead of building 100 homes in a neighborhood they build 20(examples). There is also more money in building the bigger homes. Americans used to be ok with the 1300 squar foot rancher. Not now. They big builders have this stuff down to a science just like Amazon or Walmart.

If Abortion is your #1 issue

It's estimated that 30% of pregnancies end in miscarriage.
About 20 years ago on here, I made that claim in an argument about abortion. I pissed a lot of the old posters off by telling them that Jesus Christ was the biggest abortion doctor in the world according to them and provided the estimated number of annual natural miscarriages (there is a term for it, but head injury prevents me from recalling it).

I think I received a warning email for it . . . or maybe by that point, they realized that the warnings didn’t work on me, so it may have been an email asking me to not mock Christianity.

I think I may agree with this

New listings “fly off the shelf” for one reason, there are not enough homes being built or listed for sale. ..
Yep. What we are currently seeing has very little to do with the fed rate and much more to do with just not enough houses. If people want to be in the game and buy, they are forced to pay higher (even though a rate increase usually lowers prices).

I’ll concede one minor part to KY Jelly’s and the piece of shit as a human’s claim: the increased rates have resulted in current home owners refusing to put their home on the market, since they don’t want to get stuck having to buy with a rate 2X+ as high as what they have. So that impacts the available houses number and is partially to blame on the fed rate increase.

I think I may agree with this

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So keeping my corporation from buying investment property shouldn't be allowed? Should corporations be allowed to invest and build housing?

This is all another "boogie man" argument. The same imbeciles trying to limit entities from buying housing are the same ones ignoring who actually impacts the price of homes the most: The Federal Reserve.

Government policies created the issue to begin with. The subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 that was caused primarily by Clinton's and Barney Franks' housing and lending policies.


I remember having a conversation with what I used to think was a pretty intelligent guy. He was talking about how great negative amortizing home loans were. I countered this was a recipe for disaster for numerous reasons, which is exactly what happened.

The result - the government bailed at the (ir)responsible parties out on the backs of the taxpayers...


"As for who directly benefitted, Lucas found that the main winners were the large, unsecured creditors of large financial institutions. While their exact identities have not been made public, most are likely to have been large institutional investors such as banks, pension and mutual funds, insurance companies, and sovereigns."
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Too big to rig

Dems generally don’t vote on Election Day anywhere near the level of republicans since the latter group is used to getting up to go to work, own their own transportation and are responsible members of society.

If you can’t place the ballot in their hand, help them fill it out, pick it up and drive it to a drop box for them dems aren’t voting.
You're a lying idiot. Dems get their work done before you lazy dimwits are out of bed.

If Abortion is your #1 issue

It's estimated that 30% of pregnancies end in miscarriage.

This used to cause me emotional anguish. If life begins at conception, and that little two cell bugger has a soul right off the bat, what the hell is God doing? Then I realized life really doesn't begin at conception and it made better sense.

I'm not sure what the answer is to the abortion debate, besides us deciding to mind our own business. But it's definitely somewhere in between a last minute abortion for shits and giggles (extremely rare to the point it is zero statistically) and believing two cells is the same as an actual human being (very common, and very wrong).

I think the 30% number is a little high and I think the late-term abortion numbers are underreported for various reasons. These are a little dated but are the result of a quick search.


The 6 million-plus pregnancies in 1996 in the U.S. resulted in 3.9 million births, 1.3 million induced abortions, and almost a million fetal deaths. This means that 62 percent of pregnancies ended in a live birth, 22 percent ended in abortion, and 16 percent ended in a miscarriage or stillbirth. Trends in birth, abortion, and fetal loss have varied over the past 20 years, but since 1990 the rates for all three have declined: live births, down 8 percent; induced abortions, down 16 percent; and fetal loss, down 4 percent.
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