re: Salary of $115,627 needed in order to qualify for a mortgage on a typical American home

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The middle class is being purposefully destroyed, but because the youth are the ones suffering, instead of seeing that as an opportunity to help fix the problem, they’d rather spike the football in their faces and victim-blame.

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Here is the best part. Darth and Roger spend their entire day yelling on the PT this exact sentiment. The govt is destroying the middle class

But, then they will come in these threads and claim that’s all bullshite and it’s simply young people just buying stupid things and being lazy

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Of course your decisions matter for your life m But we are also a part of decisions and influences completely outside of our control

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This. 90% of economic policy that determines how much goods cost and how far your money goes is completely outside of the control of any voter or elected or appointed official who answers to voters. There is a vast, unfirable, unstoppable bureaucracy in Washington that tells us how every product must be made, shipped, and sold. This is done to favor certain oligarchies and crush competition, leaving consumers with only the illusion of choice. The people have no say in this. The politicians they elect have no say in this. If there was an election tomorrow on whether or not to ban incandescent lightbulbs, the no vote would win by at least 30 points. However, the ban on incandescent light bulbs will go through. Did the market vote on banning the small light pickup trucks that were so popular in the 90’s? No, but emissions and fuel efficiency mandates by the EPA made them illegal to produce and sell.

No matter what President and Congress you elect, these people will do whatever it is they will do. Blaming a generation for “causing” these problems by voting is stupid, because those issues were never on the ballot. However, blaming a generation for failing to acknowledge that a problem exists in the first place, and for victim-blaming, that’s rational. The reality is that all generations must work together to destroy the Washington machine and fix these problems. They effect the youth first, but they won’t stop there. The middle class has been targeted for elimination. The first step was keeping the children of the middle class from becoming middle class themselves. Next, they’ll rip the retirees out of their comfort. Then, the prime working middle class will become working class as well. Everyone will be ground down so gradually, that they won’t notice when exactly they all became serfs, toiling at useless jobs for meager pay that affords them nothing while the elite live in luxury and comfort.

Call it marxist or communist all you want, but something is rotten in America right now, and what we’re experiencing isn’t just capitalism.

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Exactly, I see it all the time. These kids want the same house their parents live in, but have no idea the years of work it took to get there.

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Moron. Most of these parents bought that house when they were the age these kids are now.

I guess it’s my fault for being born so late that I couldn’t buy a house, 3 kids, 2 cars, and a vacation being a vcr salesmen

Tbh 100 a month for a daily habit ain’t even that bad

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The reality is that all generations must work together to destroy the Washington machine and fix these problems.

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Which is why they spend so much energy and $$$ working to divide the American people by any metric they can scheme up.

My fear is that when the truly Hard times hit, it may be too late to turn it around(probably already is to avoid catastrophe, and even if we fixed it today it would take pain & time to fix).

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That cuts both ways. The SEC towns with actual jobs are way more expensive than the state's average

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In May 2022, the median sale price of a home in Baton Rouge was $261,480, up 3.6% from the previous year. The median list price of homes in Baton Rouge was $299,900 in September 2023, compared to $285,000 in 2022

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Why would a first time homebuyer buy a median home?

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Why would a first time homebuyer buy a median home?

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Just using the same metric

Yep, this insidious consolidation is underway in food, fuel, healthcare, insurance, telecom, entertainment, information itself. The middle is being eliminated, and the ladder to the elites pulled up.

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They’re the ones who are married or in long term relationships where both people are working more than 40 hrs/week, often with multiple jobs, to afford a WORSE home than the starter houses of the 1950’s, an hour or more from their jobs, while finding it impossible to save money.

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In the 50s and 60s you finished high school (or not) and went down to the Ford dealer and got a job working on cars. You got married, bought a house and your wife stayed home and raised 2 kids.

That America was destroyed. Blame politicians. Blame the Fed. Blame the greedy banks. Pick your favorite villain up next in the batters box of blame.