Tornado Alley (PROG)

[newmedman]

I bought my first home in 95 and had a 30 year fixed for 6.9%. Proceeded to pay it off in 5 years, then used that equity as a springboard. I've seen mortgage rates dip and dive ever since yet people complain when it goes from zero to three. WTF?

The price of gasoline has fluctuated from really high to really low since then and will continue to do so. It's how the market moves. Ask me if I care.

Blaming politicians for price fluctuations in oil is your first mistake. Are you one of those guys that believes an oil well should be drilled into every backyard on the planet?

Do you believe that we should have days in the middle of the summer where there's not a cloud in the sky but the sun can't shine through the dark noxious fumes so you can have cheap gasoline to start your car with in the mornings?


Do you want to know how to get rid of your stagflation nonsense? Offer a living wage and affordable health care to workers who will flock back to it. Quit putting money in the pockets of billion and trillion dollar corporations and give it back to the people that actually consume those goods.

Then, you can raise the price on everything and we can still afford it. Yahtzee, low poverty and prosperity.

Or maybe, just maybe the people who make millions won't feel the need to make billions of more dollars that they could never spend over a lifetime anyway.

It's all a big pile of bullshit. The rich get richer while the poor get poorer and everyone is in the street fighting, blaming elected officials. You elected them Koog and so did I.

If there was an actual shred of compassion in this world we would be in a much better place than where we are today. Instead, it's a stupid competition of who could walk over the most bodies in their rise to the top of some imaginary hill.

That's why me and my ex chose to not have children 25 years ago and it's my advice to anyone today.

I'd never raise a child to teach them to cut someone else's throat to be successful and in a world where success is really undefined there's no way anyone is ever happy.