Getting more people into houses by changing the way the house is financed does the opposite of affordability. It would mean that more people are chasing the limited number of houses which in turn would increase the price that houses would sell for. Only the construction of massive new housing tracts (scale) without the ominous bureaucracy adding unnecessary cost will we get cheaper housing. But don’t look for any of that to happen here along the coast where the pious people don’t want any new construction because it will disturb their perfect world.
Andy, your article reminds us clearly that ever since the days of Jimmy Carter, Iran, under the Mullah dictatorship has been the sworn enemy of the United States. They will continue to be our very dangerous enemy until the dictatorship is removed.
Trump's error in going to war with Iran was he did not know what he was doing. He stopped when our combined military when making progress against the regime. He knows how to build buildings and golf courses, that's about it. He knows nothing of waging war. As other presidents too have found, going to war is a very risky business.
Sun Tzu, an ancient Chinese military strategist, wrote in "The art of war": "Know thine enemy". "Know thyself" "Then you need not fear a hundred battles".
Trump knew neither. The same is true of other US Presidents who have started outright wars in foreign lands. By unilaterally and inexplicably stopping the war with Iran, he lost the opportunity to win the advantage under which to negotiate peace. We shall be back again in the continuing sub-wars against Iran and Iran's surrogates when Trump withdraws our forces from the region.
Our take from the elections is slightly different but on the same path.
People voted for higher taxes, more autocracy, and less freedom. Why?
We are and have been in a cultural psychological warfare with the elite ruling class seeking to maintain their power and they are winning. In this cultural war, people are regressing to old ideologies intended to subjugate them into a feudalist system with monarchy. That's is crazy but IMO, their argument.
We voted for inequality because equality is not equal opportunity, it is equal outcomes and we also voted for homogeneity because diversity is segregation, not fairness or unity.
IMO this election has finalized California choice as a unitary state and elections and voting are no longer necessary.
Reagan's 1980 Presidential campaign secretly dealt with Iranian leaders to delay the release of the American hostages until after the election, denying Carter a victory. Iran announced the hostages' release minutes after Reagan finished his inaugural address. Reagan then shipped TOW and Tomahawk missles to Iran a few years later.
Addressing the issue of “affordability”, a systematic problem among our population is weakness in math and economics. I frequently would speak to coworkers in my file room (prior to my retirement) and ask them if they knew how much money they would need in the bank to create enough interest to support their daily $6 coffee drink. They had no idea or how to even do the math to determine how much. Berney
Our founding fathers could not conceive that ignorant people would vote. The left wing media and our public schools have molded ignorant voters into the engine running our country. God help us.
Thank you for stating the facts!
Americans need to know/learn this and then teach it to the young people who have limited exposure thru social media propaganda.
I don’t understand. Why Americans refuse to see the threat That is Islam.
Millions will pay with their lives because of the ignorance of the American populace
Getting more people into houses by changing the way the house is financed does the opposite of affordability. It would mean that more people are chasing the limited number of houses which in turn would increase the price that houses would sell for. Only the construction of massive new housing tracts (scale) without the ominous bureaucracy adding unnecessary cost will we get cheaper housing. But don’t look for any of that to happen here along the coast where the pious people don’t want any new construction because it will disturb their perfect world.
Andy, your article reminds us clearly that ever since the days of Jimmy Carter, Iran, under the Mullah dictatorship has been the sworn enemy of the United States. They will continue to be our very dangerous enemy until the dictatorship is removed.
Trump's error in going to war with Iran was he did not know what he was doing. He stopped when our combined military when making progress against the regime. He knows how to build buildings and golf courses, that's about it. He knows nothing of waging war. As other presidents too have found, going to war is a very risky business.
Sun Tzu, an ancient Chinese military strategist, wrote in "The art of war": "Know thine enemy". "Know thyself" "Then you need not fear a hundred battles".
Trump knew neither. The same is true of other US Presidents who have started outright wars in foreign lands. By unilaterally and inexplicably stopping the war with Iran, he lost the opportunity to win the advantage under which to negotiate peace. We shall be back again in the continuing sub-wars against Iran and Iran's surrogates when Trump withdraws our forces from the region.
It is difficult to not use the words "California voter" and "ignorant" in the same sentence.
Good, well written article.
Our take from the elections is slightly different but on the same path.
People voted for higher taxes, more autocracy, and less freedom. Why?
We are and have been in a cultural psychological warfare with the elite ruling class seeking to maintain their power and they are winning. In this cultural war, people are regressing to old ideologies intended to subjugate them into a feudalist system with monarchy. That's is crazy but IMO, their argument.
We voted for inequality because equality is not equal opportunity, it is equal outcomes and we also voted for homogeneity because diversity is segregation, not fairness or unity.
IMO this election has finalized California choice as a unitary state and elections and voting are no longer necessary.
A scary thought. but I believe you’re right
Reagan's 1980 Presidential campaign secretly dealt with Iranian leaders to delay the release of the American hostages until after the election, denying Carter a victory. Iran announced the hostages' release minutes after Reagan finished his inaugural address. Reagan then shipped TOW and Tomahawk missles to Iran a few years later.
Addressing the issue of “affordability”, a systematic problem among our population is weakness in math and economics. I frequently would speak to coworkers in my file room (prior to my retirement) and ask them if they knew how much money they would need in the bank to create enough interest to support their daily $6 coffee drink. They had no idea or how to even do the math to determine how much. Berney
Our founding fathers could not conceive that ignorant people would vote. The left wing media and our public schools have molded ignorant voters into the engine running our country. God help us.
Israel is not the priority of thr republicans, unless they plan to lose.