what are the responsibilities of those entitled?How much can home owners control what is built next to or near them? How does the level of that control throttle home value/prices. Would you prefer a whorehouse next door or a mansion? Again…

I live in a popular vacation destination and lack of affordable housing is killing our community. Our homeless population is huge, and even people who have decent jobs can’t afford a home in the area (I have a government job and I can’t!) …

therefore are accessible to all citizens. You don't share ownership of privately owned land, therefore you're not entitled to it's use.We can wax poetic/virtue signal about how housing is a human right to make ourselves feel nice, but the …

They do not guarantee the allocation of anything and are categorically different from entitlements, which cannot be guaranteed.Entitlements are resources which are made available to people which society agrees is for the betterment of the …

No, your saying that the homes must be built. So who is going to build them if they won't make a profit, if they will be used to house people who can't afford them? No one. If you can't make a profit, no one will build them. Your advocatin…

Yep; lots of government money got handed out in my city a few years ago, specifically to combat the housing problem.It end ended up all going to friends of officials who had construction companies, who sold it for a nice profit to investme…

She just put in a washer dryer unit for a lady who has been renting from her for more than 20 years. My mom loves her and when asked she was happy to do it. The washer dryer unit was 1,200 the plumber was 2,200, the electrician was 800, de…

My mother owns 12 small rental in the suburbs of Chicago (they are small apts in various buildings around her house). Her income is generally 30-60k per year depending on how much maintenance costs. I wouldn't say she works more than say 4…

Even if the majority of rental income goes towards the landlord's mortgage, that's not an expense, that's equity going into the property, which the landlord gets back. It's a bit like saying 'my profit margin is slim because I put most of …

Don't blame taxes. We don't have a problem with excessive taxation. If anything we have the opposite problem as evidenced by our revenue. We haven't run at a surplus since clinton (sort of) and it's because every republican president has c…

I take great exception to any argument that advocates for deregulation. The law exists to tell the bad man what not to do. And the only reason we even have regulations is because our society has demonstrated that they can't help themselves…

Spending is out of control because of bipartisan consensus. Let's be 100% clear about this. Republicans love spending just as much as democrats do. The only difference is democrats are honest about it and republicans don't have the balls t…

I agree that housing should be a right for all people but where the question becomes more complex is over the location of that housing.In a Canadian example people often cite the crazy home prices in Toronto and Vancouver but nobody ever m…

For example, if his compensation package gives him the option to buy stock at $50 per share, and he buys 1MM shares, and the stock goes up to $150, then he would make $100MM buy selling it.Realistically, the option was negotiated back when…

They really do believe being rich just makes you better. Head to your golf game, Donnie. You earned it. Not like that Obama elitist who rose up from basically nothing during the civil rights era.That's NOT how stock compensation works thou…

If I remember correctly, Lee’s was a bit riskier since GM’s stock at that point was tanked due to the fuel crisis, cheap Asian imports and Lee’s personal reputation wasn’t super high (still respected though) after having been recently fire…

If I remember correctly, Lee’s was a bit riskier since GM’s stock at that point was tanked due to the fuel crisis, cheap Asian imports and Lee’s personal reputation wasn’t super high (still respected though) after having been recently fire…

Fuck that guy. Got fired like this. Was three minutes late after an hour and a half commute by car. So not only did I lose my job after driving 90 minutes, I had to drive the whole 90 minutes back, fill my tank with gas that I damn sure di…

It was horrible to see her. We hid under desks and then ran away when the coast was clear and I peeled out of there and went home. Terrible.Thank you. I'm mostly afraid of finding out who died. Two other women and I work out front and we k…

You'd think back before Columbine and there was one every couple of years. It turned into one high profile mass shooting every year or so, which shortened to every couple months and now we're getting into how many weeks it's been since the…

You don't shoot the tank with the rifle. You shoot the fuel dumps. You shoot the transformer hanging off a power line, and then shoot the men who show up to repair it. Soon there are no public works employees. You disable train tracks and …

It continued even after she told him she wasn’t interested and that she wanted him to stop emailing herThat may be your topic, but my topic is: If Americans are not responsible enough to stop murdering each other, then the constitutional r…

They let him go with a warning he’d be arrested for trespassing if he came back. My last two weeks at the job I was extremely concerned he’d come back. The whole point of changing careers was that I didn’t want to be involved in having to …

I've modified my thoughts on gun control, I don't care anymore, each state that continues to vote in Republicans and Democrats that side with the NRA are responsible for what they sowed. And if a person doesn't vote, I simply don't care wh…

It's almost as if all they've done is enabled people to pick a location where they can do the most carnage possible without any chance of someone defending themselvesBecause hypocrites. It’s easy to sit and say, “thoughts and prayers” inst…

Therapy is limited in most plans to once a month and they will not cover it for very long. Do you think 12 hours a year of therapy would have stopped this guy from killing these people?I don't normally lean left or right. I really could gi…

Americans need mental health holidays but they won't even vote for their own insurance because others they've deemed to be lazy will get insurance too. Nevermind that we as a society will eventually pick up the cost.How many more times doe…

Do cars reduce car accidents???? Do you argue that tax evasion laws should be repealed because criminals who evade taxes don't follow tax laws???For fucks sake 12 people are dead, have the decency to at least be honest about the situation.…

To all the idiots about to post about how we need MORE guns and about how we need "good guys" with guns.Good guys with a gun didnt stop a bad guy with a gun, the bad guy with a gun killed 12 people, and the bad guy shot a good guy with a g…

It doesn’t matter if the police didn’t report his name. CNN and the NYT both reported his name and information hours after the shooting and continue to post articles about him as they get more information. His name is all over the internet…