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I've stopped following politics and visiting this subforum except for brief visits every week or two. You know what I've found? Life is much more peaceful if you focus on your own personal growth and don't worry about politics. Trump is not doing anything that won't get reversed in a few years anyways.. his actions so far are pretty harmless.. people getting all emotional over nothing.
I didn't vote for that piece of trash currently staining the White House. I actually have a functioning brain.
This kind of stuff is just not helpful or productive in any way. So you expected people to vote for Hillary instead? I would argue that's just as silly a suggestion. You basically badmouth half the population and hold a self righteous sense of superiority over them. I would suggest you look at your own party instead and why they nominated Hillary Clinton in the first place. If you can't see that she is a person of questionable character, I don't know what else to say to change your mind that they were both bad candidates. One bad candidate won and the other bad candidate lost. The not so bad ones didn't even get nominated, in either party.
This kind of stuff is just not helpful or productive in any way. So you expected people to vote for Hillary instead? I would argue that's just as silly a suggestion. You basically badmouth half the population and hold a self righteous sense of superiority over them. Congratuations. I'm proud of you. I would suggest you look at your own party instead and why they nominated Hillary Clinton in the first place.
...Trump is not doing anything that won't get reversed in a few years anyways.. his actions so far are pretty harmless. ...
That remains to be seen.
So far, Trump and the Republicans have passed a pay day tax scam bill that is running up the national debt, are in the process of gutting health insurance/care for millions of people, are tearing families apart at the border, and getting into tariff wars with our allies.
Whether any of these can be reversed remains to be seen, but they are definitely not harmless.
We are still paying the price for Bush and the Republicans.
We will soon be our own customers at our own lemonade stand. Have to see how that works out.
More MAGA from today's business section of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Quote:
Rising costs for labor, lots and lumber pushing up new-home prices, industry pros say
In April, the Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors reported that almost 74 percent of residential properties sold in the four-county metro area that month closed for $300,000 or less.
“Historically, about 30 percent of new construction was targeted to entry level home buyers. Today it’s less than 20 percent,” said Dietz. “So the market that needs the inventory — in some ways the most because it’s the price tier where you see the most growth — is that kind of $200,000 to $300,000 range. But that’s the hardest for builders to reach because of the fact that wages are going up, lumber costs are going up, all these other factors. So builders have shifted to the high end.”
Skyrocketing lumber costs
Last year, the federal Commerce Department concluded that Canada is subsidizing its forestry industry and exporting lumber to the U.S. at prices that are unfairly low. As a result, the U.S. put tariffs of more than 20 percent on Canadian lumber.
About a third of lumber used in the U.S. is imported, and about 95 percent of that is Canadian softwood lumber, said Dietz.
“So the result is that lumber prices have skyrocketed,” Dietz said. “In fact, since the start of 2017, lumber prices are up 63 percent. That’s adding about $8,000 per single-family home and almost $3,000 per multifamily unit.”
Yes, because of Bush's Great Recession, too many left the trades - so now there is a big shortage of skilled workers - that, together with escalating lot prices - and tariffs have made new housing for purchasers under $300k unaffordable. New homes can't be built for that any longer in the more urban, prosperous areas of WI - which also drives up prices of existing housing stock.
We are not yet over the previous recession - tariffs are about the dumbest thing to implement at this time.
And dumb is what we have running country right now....
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