Are You Better or Worse (Economically) Now Than YOU Were 3 Years Ago ?

[Mr Natural]

I said it was "renter friendly", and it is. Involving security deposits$$, fees$$, "terms & conditions" (which can include rent), "responsibilities of landlords", notice requirements.

Buy your own place and you won’t have to deal with all that crap anymore.

 

[protectionist]

Here is a real question. What exactly do you think Donald Trump is going to do for your rent or social security payments?

I dont know what he will do, and probably neither does anybody else. But I know that when he was president, my rent increased $25 each year ($75 over 3 years}.

After Biden took over, that rent increased $1000 over 3 years (13.3 times as much as when trump was president. The rnt went from $600/mo to $1600/mo in 3 years.

Gas, utilities, & food prices have also skyrocketed. When Trump left office gas was $1.89/gal in my local convenience store gas station. Now it's about TWICE that.

As for Social Security, I would trust Trump 1000 times more than I would trust the conniving, corrupt Biden.

 

[protectionist]

Buy your own place and you won’t have to deal with all that crap anymore.

See post # 24 and 89.

 

[protectionist]

I lease beach houses in Florida for vacations. Your area has always been significantly higher priced and more prone to Hurricane destruction and flooding than the Forgotten Coast, although I have been stranded on Cape San Blas when a hurricane was 60 miles off the coast and the wave cut the cape off from the mainland.

If you have a successful art business over the internet, I doubt you are suffering too bad. I hope you adjust, as I do not see it changing, only slowing more the speed of increase, as inflation rate peaked two years ago.

It WAS successful before landlords wet wild, rents skyrocketed, and so did gas & food prices. Now businesses selling non-necessities are feeling th impact, big time.

 

[Moonglow]

/—-/ I was a pharmaceutical sales rep. I sold fentanyl door to door.

I bet yer dawgs were barking.

 

[citygator]

Here is a real question. What exactly do you think Donald Trump is going to do for your rent or social security payments?

I dont know what he will do, and probably neither does anybody else.

So you don’t know how Trump will make it better you just know he will? You’ll have to teach me that knowledge trick.

 

[Moonglow]

Good idea, so how about BUYING some of that artwork ? Got any bare, boring walls at home ? Or some pictures that could be replaced ?

www.artpal.com/ats2475

Do you do body painting?

 

[citygator]

Good idea, so how about BUYING some of that artwork ? Got any bare, boring walls at home ? Or some pictures that could be replaced ?

www.artpal.com/ats2475

Link doesn’t work.

 

[Moonglow]

Link doesn’t work.

Just like the poster

 

[protectionist]

Link doesn’t work.

Bert Emanuel

Art gallery of Bert Emanuel. Buy Paintings & Prints, Drawings & Illustration.

www.artpal.com

 

[protectionist]

Do you do body painting?

Body painting is idiocy. Figures you'd be interested in it.

 

[protectionist]

So you don’t know how Trump will make it better you just know he will? You’ll have to teach me that knowledge trick.

OK. Here's your lesson >>

TRUMP ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1. RECORD positive numbers on the economy, record highs in stock market, despite Covid shutdowns
2. stopped the absurd practice of giving China unrestricted access to our valuable market, and reduced the amount of imports coming from China.
3. holding China accountable for cyber theft,
4. taking Mexico and Central American countries to task for illegal immigration,
5. created 10 million jobs in 4 months, created over 400,000 manufacturing jobs,
6. unemployment claims hit 50 year low,
7. lowest unemployment for blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and disabled in US history, 8.lowest unemployment for women in over 70 years,
9. lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma,
10. 4 million Americans off food stamps,
11. vocational training topped 4 million - highest ever,
12. highest median wage in US history .
13. Obamacare individual mandate penalty GONE,
14. FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. > drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases,
15. reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars,
16. Signed Right-To-Try legislation,
17. $6 billion in NEW funding to fight the opioid epidemic (the most ever),
18. Signed VA Accountability Act,
19. expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care (I got surgeries and benefits from this myself),
20. United States was a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957,
21. withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord,
22. pressured NATO allies, and they're spending $69 billion more on defense since 2016,
23. made the Space Force the 6th branch of the Armed Forces,
24. withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Deal, 25. moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem,
25. protected Americans from terrorists with the Travel Ban, upheld by Supreme Court, 26. issued Executive Order to keep open Guantanamo Bay,
27. MCA deal,
28. reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports
29. greatest number of heavily attended rallies in US history
30. net exports increased $59 Billion in 2018,
31. improved vetting and screening for refugees, and switched focus to overseas resettlement,
32. we were BUILDING THE WALL.
33. provided quality detention centers for migrant children in Southwest Key Programs
34. created 8,700 Opportunity Zones with investment incentives for companies to invest in distressed communities
35. Got Israel/UAE/Bahrain aggreement (the Abraham Accord), establishing Middle East peace
36. Defeated ISIS and killed their leaders incl. # 1 al Baghdadi.
37. Killed Iranian terrorist leader Sulemani.
38. Stopped domestic terrorist mobs by sending federal troops & National Guard
39. record of number of regulations cut, further boosting the economy
40. opened ANWR and approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines thereby making America # 1 energy producer in the world (no other president ever did that),
41. rebuilt the US military to a $721 Billion/yr budget
42. increased wages for military personnel
43. Through the COVID pandemic, our Covid mortality rate was REDUCED from over 17,000/week in April. to about 2000/week in June. and remained very low throughout the year, as a result of the many smart things that the president has done.
90% REDUCTION. > HUGE SUCCESS.
44. Massive production of Ventilators - These were left in short supply after the Obama/Biden admin (we now have so many we're exporting them),
45. the Navy hospital ships sent to New York,
46. the stimulus checks,
47. The Task Force advice (ex. social distancing),
48. opposition/criticism of New York's dumb nursing home policies,
49. federal aid to hospitals, rapidly expanding production & distribution of medical supplies
50. travel bans (which Democrats called Trump a "racist' for),
51. Trump's advocacy of Hydroxychloriquin (now proven to be effective, despite criticism from Democrats), and Regeneron.
52. fast, continual development of a vaccine, and rapid success of Operation Warp Speed.
53. Created & signed the MISSION ACT, replacing the failed Obama Choice Act
54. Presided over the largest GDP growth (35.2%) in US history.
55. Got $ 250 Million/year to black colleges.

 

[citygator]

Bert Emanuel

Art gallery of Bert Emanuel. Buy Paintings & Prints, Drawings & Illustration.

www.artpal.com

That one works. Really nice. Love the Florida vibe.

 

[Slade3200]

Just compare your 2021 net income vs expenses, with your 2024 net income vs expenses.

There could be a variety of answers to this, but I'm guessing a lot of people will say that they are worse off now, because their incomes haven't risen too much, but their living costs have gone up enormously. Purchasing power has decreased significantly for a lot of folks.

Much better now. Economy was in the shitter post COVID… making a nice recovery except for cost of goods

 

[eagle1462010]

We are better off, but we planned it this way. You should have, also.

Only if you liked getting fucked by inflation

 

[eagle1462010]

I dont know what he will do, and probably neither does anybody else. But I know that when he was president, my rent increased $25 each year ($75 over 3 years}.

After Biden took over, that rent increased $1000 over 3 years (13.3 times as much as when trump was president. The rnt went from $600/mo to $1600/mo in 3 years.

Gas, utilities, & food prices have also skyrocketed. When Trump left office gas was $1.89/gal in my local convenience store gas station. Now it's about TWICE that.

As for Social Security, I would trust Trump 1000 times more than I would trust the conniving, corrupt Biden.

OMFG Another rent control thread.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Just compare your 2021 net income vs expenses, with your 2024 net income vs expenses.

There could be a variety of answers to this, but I'm guessing a lot of people will say that they are worse off now, because their incomes haven't risen too much, but their living costs have gone up enormously. Purchasing power has decreased significantly for a lot of folks.

In the last three months theirs gotta be 50 threads where the leftards are just saying fuck the poor and the middle classes

Hey eviscerate the proletariat....I'm down baby

But the championions of the working classes ....the ones who will give you a twelve page lecture on how theyhave such empathy for people and that's why they're commies ......errrr I mean democratic socialist.......

Tee hee
I know shocker

Workers of the world unite and fetch me a scotch
Chop chop

 

[eagle1462010]

In the last three months theirs gotta be 50 threads where the leftards are just saying fuck the poor and the middle classes

Hey eviscerate the proletariat....I'm down baby

But the championions of the working classes ....the ones who will give you a twelve page lecture on how theyhave such empathy for people and that's why they're commies ......errrr I mean democratic socialist.......


Workers of the world unite and fetch me a scotch
Chop chop

They want Fuedalism in a sense. 2 classes. Them the Elite and peasants who if you nice they will let you live.

Arrogant Fucks to boot

 

[Smokin' OP]

Nice try, In the meantime we all know that Biden repeatedly cancelled oil leases/drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.

Biden pulls 3 offshore oil lease sales, curbing new drilling ...​

The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com › 2022/05/11 › gulf-o...
May 11, 2022 — The Interior Department confirmed Wednesday that it will not hold three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of ...

THREE?
WOW............




Trump put the holy grail for teabaggers, ANWR, up for lease.

Trump Administration Rushes To Sell Arctic National ...​

Science Friday
https://www.sciencefriday.com › Segments
Dec 11, 2020 — After decades of debate, the sale of drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been scheduled for January 6.

Sale of Drilling Leases in Arctic Refuge Fails to Yield a ...​

The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com › 2021/01/06 › climate › arcti...
May 27, 2021 — Just half of the 22 available tracts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge got bids, and big oil companies stayed away.

We all know that less supply = higher prices. In this case we've seen MUCH higher prices (like 100+% inflation).

Sure.................

US led global oil production for sixth straight year in 2023​

Fox Business
https://www.foxbusiness.com › economy › us-led-globa...
Mar 11, 2024 — The U.S. surpassed its 2019 world record for oil production with an average of 12.9 million barrels a day in 2023.

And the manufacturers ? They're just going to sit there and do nothing, while their transport costs just doubled ? There's your inflation.

BS.

Corporate profits, my ass.

Sure...............

Corporate profits hit record high as economy boomed in ...​

The Hill
https://thehill.com › business › 4561631-corporate-hit-r...
Mar 28, 2024 — Adjusted profits after taxes hit a record high of $2.8 trillion, beating the record of $2.7 trillion in the third quarter of 2022. Profits ...

 

[Care4all]

Just compare your 2021 net income vs expenses, with your 2024 net income vs expenses.

There could be a variety of answers to this, but I'm guessing a lot of people will say that they are worse off now, because their incomes haven't risen too much, but their living costs have gone up enormously. Purchasing power has decreased significantly for a lot of folks.

Didn't we get a $1400 stimulus check in the mail 3 years ago from Biden?

I'm certain there are many folks renting, in the same shape as you... Because you not only face rising food costs, but also the rising rents...and if you are in or close to retirement then there is little you can do to improve your income situation other than maybe getting a part time job, to supplement.

Have you thought of moving to a state with cheaper rents?