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Mar 22, 2024 22:03:09   #
RascalRiley wrote:
Today I skimmed an article on a huge company that buys houses and rents them out. They are doing well on the stock market in both of our countries.

Is this a better option for small investors that just want to have enough?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4lr6jTvnNq/?igsh=MWxuNHd3YnVhNnE2dQ==


And when those big companies start to liquidate their assets what do you think will happen to the values. The price earnings ratio on rental properties is way out of sync. Houses selling at undervalued prices are mostly gone. Rent rates are stabilizing. We are possibly nearing the peak of a housing price bubble that is caused by a number of influences. Institutional real estate investors have been one of those factors. I was getting 3 or 4 investors per day wanting to buy my properties. That is down to 3 or 4 per month now. As investor interest declines so will price. When prices start to fall investors will sell quickly driving prices even lower. The days of real estate being a winning investment at todays values and rental rates doesn't work like it has for the last 10 to 12 years. The bubble may keep growing for now but the end is closer than the beginning.

Now if you have a long timeline like 25 or 30 years for returns then almost any time is a good time for real estate investments. It will just take 15 years and some additional cash to get through it at the moment. Right now the average home price to rental income is about double what it should be to be a decent investment. Over a 30 year timespan with a 15 year mortgage expect around a 4% to 6% annual return after rent and appreciation and expenses. Results will vary.
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Mar 22, 2024 20:54:57   #
PeterS wrote:
In a last-ditch attempt at finding some money, Donald "T" is taking his media company 'Lying Social' er a 'T***h Social' public which begs the question whether you MAGA morons are going to bail his ass out and get rich doing it? How about it J? You're a fiduciary, if your clients get in on the ground floor they/you could be millionaires in no time. Hell, I'm even thinking of putting in a few thousand...sorta covering my bet if you know what I mean. So what do you think J? Are you and the rest of your MAGA morons all in??? Let us know what the magnificent/economic genius JFlorio is going to do!
In a last-ditch attempt at finding some money, Don... (show quote)


Ain't it a kick in your ass. Twitter and Facebook ban Trump at the democrats behest and as a result he may more than double his net worth in just 3 years by forming T***h Social. It might cost Trump more financially if the left's irrational hatred of him ever wanes. Thanks Democrats for being so blinded with your hatred.
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Mar 22, 2024 14:49:21   #
EmilyD wrote:
"Us" is a plural pronoun.

"Me" or "I" are singular pronouns.

If I say "You are not the boss of 'me'" it means you are not the boss of one person..... me.

If I say "You are not the boss of 'us'" it means you are not the boss of more than one person, such as all the members on a forum, or everybody in an office, collectively. Plural means "more than one".

That is the difference between singular and plural pronouns.

I'm glad I can teach you this...I thought most people understood what plural pronouns are...

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"Us" is a plural pronoun. br br "M... (show quote)


They or Them have not been taught to understand plural pronouns unless it conforms to their new world view. They/Them confuse "us" as a pronoun referring to a single individual that chooses to identify as multiple individuals.
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Mar 22, 2024 14:32:28   #
proud republican wrote:
Last Tuesday anti-Israel protesters burned an American F**g.. That's what I was talking about..These people are actually pro-Hamas, they make me sick and disgusted.. But I guess even trash like that have First Amendment rights.....unfortunately..


I was just pointing out that burning the f**g can be respectful or disrespectful depending on the thought behind it. Burning the f**g became legal in the 70's when liberals have super majority one party rule. Personally I think any guest in the country, legal or not, disrespecting that Country that has welcomed them with open arms should be deported.
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Mar 22, 2024 14:20:31   #
Coos Bay Tom wrote:
Raise the self employment contribution and raise the income cap . Rich people won't go for it .


Why would you punish the self employed? Self employed pay the same as the employer/employee contribution (15.3%) and have since 1954 and the income cap is raised every year.
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Mar 22, 2024 10:24:35   #
Coos Bay Tom wrote:
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4548486-gop-faces-internal-battle-over-raising-age-for-social-security/ Maybe people will die before they are eligible . That should save a lot of money .


SS payments have always been based on average life expectancy. Some die early and others have long lives. Currently it balances out at around 80 years old. As life expectancy expands the system has to adjust. You can adjust SS by raising SS taxes and/or raising retirement age. Eventually life expectancy may increase to say 100 or 125 years. Won't the system have to adjust so the average person doesn't end up working for 45 years and then collecting SS for another 45 years. Just won't work.
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Mar 22, 2024 00:59:21   #
proud republican wrote:
How many on OPP think that burning American F**g is:

1) Is OK

2) Should be a crime..

For those of you who think that burning American F**g is ok, do you also think that burning

1) Palestinian F**g

2) B*M F**g

Is OK too??

Part 2 of OPP Polll

How many of you think that Holocaust was a myth?


Burning a worn or damaged American f**g is the proper respectful way to discard it. It's not the action it's the thought behind the action that matters.

As far as the other f**gs. I certainly don't care at all what one does with/to them.

Holocaust deniers are beyond ignorant.
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Mar 21, 2024 22:05:52   #
proud republican wrote:
I hope so.. Money talks!


No worries. Money buys advertising. Advertising is what talks. Trump already is on the news nearly 24/7. Just like in 2016. There is no bad advertising. (Oscar Wilde) to which PT Barnum added, “There’s only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Democrats with their pathological lambasting and overreaching lawfare are providing the advertising Trump needs for free. They have turned a billionaire ex-president into a David fighting the Goliath the federal government has become. Americans love backing the perceived underdog.
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Mar 21, 2024 16:26:19   #
Gatsby wrote:
As much as his Indictments did?


The Democrats have so over played the Trump card that a conviction might even help Trump. They have made a martyr out of a billionaire.
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Mar 21, 2024 15:43:18   #
Nick Nicholson wrote:
Looking back into European History, the middle ages and Dark Ages were a series of boom and bust, meaning that as the rulers became more and more greedy, and gradually extracted more and more from the peasants, eventually, the peasants rose up, k**led the wealthy rulers and educated people, and typically began a commune type existence. Eventually, this allowed the luckier few to gain economic advantage, and over time, the government again grew over years into the same thing it was before the revolt. There are numerous examples in the recent past. They include Russia, China, Cambodia, Cuba, and North Korea. In each of these countries, the wealthy ran the country, and the workers were kept poor and uneducated. And the fact is that over time, the wealthy just kept on taking more and more from the working class until they could stand it no more. Ultimately, each country experienced a revolt by the working class, the rulers and educated were k**led, and a c*******t government was installed. Sadly, I see this coming to America at some undetermined date in the future if today’s government trends do not change. Over the last 50 years, the top earning 1 percent of Americans have gone from owning 35% of America’s wealth to now owning over 50%. Wages in real dollars have steadily declined as the wealthy and corporate leaders have gradually held wage growth down. Today, approximately 40% of wage earners are paid at or below the official poverty rate. If this trend continues, I can see where the poor laborers will, like others in their position throughout history, rise up and take the country to c*******m.

For a lot of years now, government, corporate leaders, and the wealthy of America have worked hard to convince all Americans that socialism is the door to c*******m and must always be avoided. Most Americans now believe that, even though it is not true at all. It was democratic socialism that dug us out of the Great Depression, and the initiation of making America the greatest nation on earth with the greatest economy, boosted by WWII. Unions added to that effort after WWII, and unions are an exact example of socialism. And that was what made America great. Not capitalism, which has the habit of concentrating a nation’s money in fewer and fewer hands over time. That is exactly what has been going on in America over the last 55 years. How did nearly all of Europe avoid c*******m? By moving to greater degrees of socialism, which is why, at present, much of Europe enjoys far better health care, education, and quality of life than we do here in America. And the wealthy and corporate leaders own Fox News and dictate the lies and half-t***hs and spin that Fox spews daily to anyone listening. Fox News is carefully crafted to convince Americans that the wealthy and corporate world are his salvation and key to a wealthy future, when nothing could be further from the t***h. And Fox takes great care to denigrate more factual newscasts, such as NBC, ABC, and CBS, in order to get you to believe they are the liars. This is not true. But MSNBC and CNN are not much better than Fox, on the liberal side. Please learn to get your news from more than one source, and you may be able to figure out the facts in cases.

Fact is, nothing but uncontrolled capitalism causes c*******m. Certainly no case of socialism has ever resulted in c*******m. American government over the last 55 years is almost entirely uncontrolled capitalism, and the working class has seen their ages held down over most of that time, ultimately gaining only about 18 percent in income over that time, adjusted for inflation. The wealthy, on the other hand, have increased their incomes by over 300 percent in that time. Back in the 60’s, the working class owned 65 percent of the total wealth in America. The top 10 percent owned the remaining 35 percent. Today, that has dropped to approximately a 50-50 share, meaning that 90 percent of the population only owns half the nation’s wealth. Why? 55 years of the wealthy taking more and more of the income generated, largely by the working class. I am actually happy I will probably not live another 5 or 6 years. I do not want to see the America I love destroyed by c*******m.

I was asked, in this forum, why I did not want America to be Great Again. Nothing could be further from the t***h. I know what made America Great, and it is NOT the GOP handing more and more to the already wealthy. That is exactly the opposite of what made America great. It is exactly the opposite of what builds a great economy. What builds a great economy is lots of the population having money to spend on goods and services. It works like this: You buy a sofa – someone else gets a job building another sofa. Spending money generates jobs. Nothing else does. And as more and more of the total wealth in America goes to fewer and fewer people, the economy is slowed. Fact. This is not opinion. This is absolute fact. When the working class has more money, they spend it, creating jobs. When the wealthy get more money, they already have all they need to purchase what they want, so they put it in offshore banks or bid up the stock market. They are not significantly increasing jobs. These are the facts of life in the economic sector. In fact, it was a Republican president, Calvin Coolidge, who caused the Great Depression by cutting taxes for the wealthy. The wealthy had no real need for the money, so used it to bid up the stock market, creating a huge bubble. The bubble burst, the market fell on Black Friday, and the Great Depression began that day. And Hoover, a Republican president, did nothing to improve the economy, and it took FDR and his social programs such as the CCC to get the economy headed back in the right direction, until it was topped off by WWII. And the time after that is described above. But FDR did not just give money away like Biden did. That is not the right thing to do to build an economy. The right thing to do is to create jobs that pay a decent salary. After that, the decent salaries generate more jobs as people spend the paychecks. More pay means more money in circulation which means more jobs, which feeds on itself to create a great economy, which is exactly what built the greatest nation on earth.
Looking back into European History, the middle age... (show quote)


You are only seeing a part of the big picture of history. You contention that c*******m results from a revolution against the wealthy/powerful might have some merit. However, any form of government, whether capitalism or socialism, will trend/evolve into a dictatorial form of government over time. That will lead to an eventual revolution by the masses. It's a constant reoccurring cycle. It's human nature to do so. That is true history. You can not examine history without acknowledging all of human nature in the equation. That is the brilliance of the founders. Recognizing and trying to reign in the destructive side of human nature in government.
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Mar 21, 2024 14:59:33   #
BIRDMAN wrote:
Biden does not have to listen to the Supreme Court.


Biden should be held for contempt of court and impeached by congress when he doesn't comply with court orders. Just like every other person. Presidents are not above the law. Right?
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Mar 21, 2024 13:59:49   #
Ri-chard wrote:
No excuses Joe, get the border shut down.

The conservative majority on the court’s decision marks a turning point in the ongoing discussion about state vs federal control over immigration issues. The emergency request from the Biden administration, which maintained that immigration is solely under federal control, was turned down.

https://republic-brief.com/supreme-court-deals-crushing-blow-to-biden/


If I were a Supreme Court Judge my opinion would be, If the Feds refuse to enforce the laws of the country which they were constitutionally assigned to do, and, the laws were approved by the states through the states representatives in the congress, then, the states as representatives of the people within each state have a duty and obligation to enforce those laws for the people. The States are the Board Of Directors and the federal government is just a representative elected by the states. Not the other way around. If 34 states were to call for a constitutional convention the states they could fire or reorganize the Federal Government any way they want.
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Mar 19, 2024 21:08:12   #
LostAggie66 wrote:
Exactly Strycker I would like to see which ever side wins control (in congress and the E******n for POTUS) present and then pass a bill banning all b****t harvesting in ANY E******n. Then overturn Citizen's United.


Democrats will never ban b****t harvesting. It plays well into their districts where v**ers are consolidated into small overpopulated districts. It is much easier to harvest 100 b****ts in a apartment building compared to farm country.

Citizens United is another entirely different problem brought on by political abuse. Citizens United did not solve the problem and created many more, but, it did level the playing field.
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Mar 19, 2024 17:28:05   #
Liberty Tree wrote:
Democrats have already done that and made b****t harvesting legal wherever they can.


Doesn't make it right or acceptable behavior. Republicans have full or partial control of 40 states. Stop the abuse where you can and fight to change it everywhere else. A good start would be winning all congress and presidency in November and then pass a clean e******n bill banning harvesting for national e******ns. That would be the proper way to start.
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Mar 19, 2024 17:00:33   #
Liberty Tree wrote:
What choice do they have with Democrats paving the way?


I don't know what choices they do have, but, the choice to destroy e******n integrity should not be one of them. You don't win by destroying the very thing you are fighting for.
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