Comments by "Andy Hughes" (@andyhughes1776) on "Michael Bordenaro" channel.

  1. If U.S. consumers have so much money to spend, then why do they owe $1.3 TRILLION in credit card debt? They keep spending alright - ON CREDIT CARDS they can't pay off!
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  2. The US has now turned into "A Tale of Two Cities." "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...."
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  3. In other words, they ran out of rabbits to pull out of the hat. Kicking a can down the road doesn't get rid of the can - it just makes it dirtier and nastier when you finally have to clean it up!
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  4. Living in a haunted house may not be that bad...in fact, it was great for my brother. True story: About 15 years ago, my brother bought a house in Manassas, Virginia. He didn't know it was haunted. He hired our brother-in-law to paint the living room while he was at work. While Jimmy (not his real name) was high on the ladder painting, he felt someone rocking his ladder. At first, Jimmy thought it was his imagination but it became persistent and more forceful. He said he felt the presence of someone behind his shoulder but when he turned his head, no one was there. When our parents came to visit, our father would take a nap in the afternoon in one of the bedrooms. When he woke up, he looked out at the hallway and saw an Asian woman in her early 30's standing there. He thought someone came to visit so he asked my mother who that pretty young woman was and she said, there's no one there. She told him, "Oh, you, and pretty young women!" 😁 At night when she got up to go to the bathroom, she would feel someone dashed by her as she opened the bathroom door. Scared that the ghost would harm my brother, my mother set up an altar and prayed to the ghost that my brother didn't mean to take her house and that if she helps him sell the house, he would move. The very next day, a buyer offered him a great deal and he sold the house for a handsome profit. That house netted him enough money to tip his finances over to millionaire status. The ghost really helped him! Later, we came across a newspaper article about a couple who owned that house. They own a Korean grocery store that didn't do too well, so they always argued. One night, while they argued, he lost his temper and slapped hard across her face at the two-level foyer, and she fell over the railing on her head and died. Her head hit the chandelier before she hit the floor below, and the lamp fixture was never fixed. I saw it when I visited and thought it was broken by some kid playing ball in the house. My brother never saw the ghost. I guess she liked him because at that time, he was single and would often run naked around the backyard when it rained at night (he said he felt free doing that!) I guess the ghost liked what she saw! 😁🤣😂😅 True story. Happy Halloween!
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  5. ​ @kalef1234 That something is social unrest. Mark my word, there will be some serious protests in the coming months, the likes of which not seen since 1861 Civil War.
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  6. Because they refuse to even look at the evidence, much less allow it to register in their mind.
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  7. The only other time in American history when there were this many homeless was during the Great Depression in the 1930's.
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  8.  @frankrusso2093  Canada is the same as the US because they are ruled by the same Western empire.
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  9.  @kennethmcgurn3830  The East is where it's at now. BRICS is taking apart Western hegemony. They are meeting this week as we speak - 10 member countries and growing, $65 Trillion GDP (bigger than G7), half of humanity, and new Global Reserve currency to challenge the US Dollar. The Western Empire is waning.
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  10. Meanwhile, the U.S. Dollar is about to crash due to de-dollarization efforts around the world. This is not just a run-of-the-mill Recession or even a Depression. We are facing the end of U.S. global dominance.
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  11. "There are two ways to enslave a nation - one is by the sword, the other is by debt." - John Adams, 2nd President of the U.S.
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  12. ​ @Skepticismistheway That is why they don't have nearly as many homeless people as we do in America. They protect their citizens!
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  13. No need to ban, just tax the heck out of them. Then use that tax revenue to help local buying residents offset the resulting higher price. Do the same with foreign buyers. And flippers. Houses are primarily for living in FIRST, not for short-term investments by those who don't even live in those houses.
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  14. What do you mean our economy "will fail" - it's ALREADY failing!
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  15. Ironically, everytime the Feds cut interest rates after a long hike, the economy immediately tanks. Let's see if it happens this time too.
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  16. Sustainable home prices must jive with the local salary. So, unless there is another force that keeps inflating it (such as foreign buyers, corporate buyers, extreme low mortgage interests, etc), prices will ALWAYS fall back to local salary levels.
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  17. I own a Tesla Model X since 2016 and I'm never going back to gas cars. Unlike in Sweden where there aren't enough supercharging stations, I live in Southern California where there are literally a Tesla Supercharging Station with at least 10 stalls every 5 miles. I have free supercharging (early adopter privilege) so I saved $50,000 on gas since I got my Tesla 8 years ago - that's enough to buy a Mercedes! No pay for gas, no oil change, no radiator flush, no smog check - no nothing! So, I don't know what he's talking about. And I am about to drop that $50k on a 2023 Mercedes EQS EV that cost twice that amount just a year ago when it was brand new. So, keep badmouthing EVs so I can buy more at at 50% off!
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  18. "Mickey Mouse Job" - haha...I love that description!
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  19. This was how the Roman Empire looked before it collapsed.
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  20. @@benjones621  That means there is another force that keeps propping the inflated price. In the last decade or so, that force were foreign buyers, corporate buyers, and artificially low mortgage interest rates, and remote work. Those forces are waning so it's just a matter of time before DFW housing market comes tumbling down too.
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  21. You are a great man!
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  22. I suspect that home equity line is what made so many people not work in the last couple years. Many long time residents of California bought their home decades ago (or their parents handed the home down to them) when it was $200k to $300k. In the last 2 years, their home went up to $1 million or more. So, they just use it as an ATM machine. One guy I know took advantage of a new law in California that allows people to convert their garage into rental units. He converted his elderly father's garage into 2 units and charge $2,500 each. That is $5,000 in income each month for not working. Some people are so lucky!
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  23. There are lifeguards in California making over $200,000 per year...and that was years ago. No telling how much those Bikini-watching guys get paid for today.
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  24. Not to those who want to rule the world.
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  25. You can thank the U.S. for blowing up the Nordstream Pipeline that supplied cheap Russian gas to run the EU economy. Without the cheap gas, the EU must buy expensive American gas shipped from the U.S. To keep prices competitive, businesses must lay off workers to compensate for the increased cost in energy. That is why you suffer.
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  26. @ranger70  One can never prosper for long by devastating people's lives for monetary gain. And we see that now as Blackstone, Opendoor, and other similar companies are tanking.
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  27. Who forces you to buy anything? But they definitely forced you to pay taxes!
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  28. @Beyondabsence  So you'd rather let the government subtract your paycheck even BEFORE you get paid than to have a choice on whether to buy a foreign product or not? Tax revenue MUST come from somewhere. I'd rather have a choice!
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  29. By definition, a government's job is to govern, i.e. referee the game to make sure its fair. It is NOT fair for someone earning $180,000 a year or more somewhere else to compete with locals that only make $55k a year. Solution: tax NON-local renters / buyers then use that tax revenue to offset the cost for those who earn local salary. That way, landlords STILL make more money YET locals could STILL afford a home. No need to use Socialist solutions such as rent control, government housing, etc. Problem solved!
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  30. You think that's bad? Get this: Did you know that if a squatter stays in your house for a long time, say, 15 to 20 years or longer, he could LEGALLY take your house! This happened to many people back in the late 1970's when they bought land in Florida to build a house on when they retire years later. When that day came, they went to look at their land only to find out someone had built a house on it (or put a shack on it) and claimed its their property. And since they were there for so long, all the neighbors around them acknoledge that they have lived there that long. So the law sided with the squatter and the real owner had paid for the land all that time for nothing. Property laws in this country must change. If you have the legal paperwork that proves you own the property, then it should not matter how long someone else occupy that land.
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  31. And don't forget foreign buyers too. No country on earth allows foreigners to own their land without at least a foreign tax to help offset the resulting price increase for locals.
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  32. By design!
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  33.  @ashishpatel350  You do realize that the Greenback will soon not be a global reserve currency anymore, don't you? More than 30 countries have joined BRICS that represent over 42% of the global economy. Among those countries who are de-dollarizing are oil-rich countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Their oil is what gave the Greenback value since the 1970's. Not anymore!
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  34. @keyisersoze Disagree. The US became a dominant global economy after WWII (1945) when Bretton Woods made the Dollar the global reserve currency. That made the U.S. economy go up, not down. It was only when they moved all manufacturing overseas beginning in 1990 that the economy started to unravel.
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  35. Remote work is what cause even more homelessness (the other causes being foreign buyers, flipping homes, and corporate buyers). How so? Let's say you are a high-tech worker from Silicon Valley who gets paid $150,000 per year. Your company allows you to remote work so you move to a small town where the median salary is only $55k. You buy a house there so the price of homes increase in price beyond affordability for the average Joe there. Soon more high-tech workers move in, which Jacks up all home prices, including low priced homes. Those in the low income could no longer afford to buy or rent. Some will end up homeless.
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  36. The word "Mortgage" comes from the French word "Morgage", which means "Dead Pledge" - you pay until you die!
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  37. ​ @hablamosdemisterio7751 Let me guess, you have never driven a Tesla. Why do you let others dictate how you feel about a product when you yourself haven't experienced it?
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  38. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...."
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  39. There will be a lot of layoffs of hourly wage workers in California starting this Spring when the minimum wage increases to $20 per hour. Small to medium size businesses will simply lay off some workers in order to afford to pay the higher wages of workers that remain.
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  40. Depends on where you live. When I moved to Southern California in 2010, housing costs me $2,200 per month. I made a little more than 3X that so it fits my income. Today, the same house costs me more than $4,000 per month. My salary didn't double to cover that. Move, you say? Same story in all major cities where my line of work is....and the salary there is proportionally less. "Never criticize someone until you have walked in his shoes for a thousand miles." - Old Native American Wisdom
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  41. Neurotraveller, Not even Chinese citizens can own land in China (they can still own the property on top of that land, though. We have a similar thing in America and it is called "leasehold land". You can often find that in Hawaii). But look what happened to us Americans when foreigners are allowed to buy the land along with the property - it jacked up prices beyond local salary, which forces many Americans out in the streets. The best solution, though, is NOT to ban foreign buyers but to tax them. Then use that tax revenue to help offset the high price for local buyers. But if we ban foreign buyers altogether, our builders won't be able to sell hence they can't hire construction workers. Not only construction workers will be out of work but furniture stores, appliance stores, electricians, etc. No jobs - bad economy!
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  42. Now that Trump is elected President, I think people will continue to spend due to their hope that the economy will get better. I have no doubt Trump will fix the economy but that takes time. Meanwhile, people must face a big credit card bill after the Holiday Season is over.
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  43.  @HarrisonCountyStudio  Well, it's been a good 80 years of U.S. global dominance. All Empires must come to an end eventually. I just wish the shadow Rulers of the U.S. Empire weren't so exploitative that the world must combine force to fight back.
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  44. The government should NOT levy additional property tax on the rich but on ANYONE whose income does not come from the local area where they buy their house. Especially corporate, foreign, or investor buyers. In other words, whoever cause housing prices to artificially skyrocket beyond local salary should be the one who must pay higher. Hey, they broke it, they must fix it. And there is no need to build affordable housing - just normal houses will be sufficient if it's cost is offset by those who broke the price.
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  45. Property taxes SHOULD be increased for NON-owner occupied homes only. This is to keep home prices from skyrocketing beyond local salary.
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  46. But we can certainly afford to send tens of billions of dollars more to Ukraine!
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  47. Opendoor is experiencing Karma. They are the ones who jacked up home prices beyond affordability, which forced many into homelessness. Now, it's time for them to pay for what they did
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  48. And it's the highly paid people who spends the most, hence drives our economy the most. Low-paid people could only spend on neccessities that are not enough to move our economy forward. By definition, that is a Recession.
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  49. @Beastlife50  That's why I suggested taxing them instead and use that tax revenue to help local buyers afford the resulting increase in price due to corporate investors' action.
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  50.  @OpenSourceFan  Then why didn't you get a government job then? Funny I don't hear anyone jealous of government workers when the economy was doing great with all the high paying jobs. I don't envy government workers.
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  51.  @OpenSourceFan  Look who's crying about government workers getting pensions and form unions? Who's the baby again? 😁😄😃😀
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  52.  @Yodasstuff  Then go get a government job that pays you $40,000 starting instead of $80,000 in the corporate world!
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  53. I bought my Tesla because of the out-of-this-world acceleration and performance. I don't give a hoot about the environment! If a gas car can rip my head off everytime I accelerate, I'll switch back to gas cars. Even a $4 million Bugatti Shiron with over 1,000 horsepower cannot accelerate as fast as a Tesla. Now, the new Lucid Sapphire can out-accelerate a Tesla so I am saving to buy it.
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  54. If the government managed the economy correctly, there would not be a need for government housing in the first place!
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  55. Not true that EV's are expensive to fix therefore insure. I own a Tesla Model X since 2016, a 7 seater much bigger and heavier than the Model 3 that the owner said he pays $230 per month for insurance. I pay $77 per month. I live about 40 miles south of Los Angeles and I drive about 16,500 miles a year.
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  56. @@njerseydavid  Somewhat, yes, but remote work is waning as many tech companies demand that their workers return to the office at least a day or two out of a work week. So, if say a worker has a house in Nashville but his company is in California, he STILL must fly to California to show up for just one day then go back. How long do you think he can do that before giving up? Again, unless there is another force at play, eventually, home prices MUST fall back to its local market level. In the last 10 years, one force after another kept it inflated for so long. But I can't think of another one that would continue the high prices this time. Can you? No more rabbits to pull out of a hat!
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  57. @HVABALL  So what you are saying is this: Let's say median house price in your area WAS $350k. That means your mortgage is around $2,200 per month. So your monthly salary is $6,600. But because the median price of a house there is now $900k, your employer must raise your salary so you can afford that $900k house? That would be $12,000 per month! Your employer must give you a raise to TWICE your previous salary to match your house price? You make NO SENSE!
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  58. Then we wonder why they shoot up their school.
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  59. Their days are numbered. Since the Pandemic when no one could travel, international tourist destinations such as Dubai are collapsing. I bet you are not seeing many of those guys doing that in Beverly Hills anymore, do you? A similar thing happened here in Irvine, CA every year but not this year.
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  60. But not if they abandon people (homeless). 😁😁
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  61. If you are of retirement age and choose to work, most likely it's due to not having enough money. If you are in this situation, move to another country where the cost of living is much less, yet you live even better than many rich people in America today. Look into living in Vietnam. You can live in high comfort for about $1,000 - $1,500 per month in Beach Towns like Danang. There are blocks dedicated to English- speaking expats such that you don't need to learn a new language. When my kids are grown, that is exactly what I will do.
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  62. Helping firefighters, cops, and military personnel buy a home is not only a moral thing to do but it is actually financially less risky than doing the same for just anybody in need. Here is why: These responders HAVE STEADY INCOME, which means they CAN consistently pay their mortgage. We want to help but not put our economy at risk of collapse due to too many defaults. People with steady income are more reliable in their payments.
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  63. @keyisersoze Bretton Woods catapulted the U S. to a dominant global empire that is only now being seriously threatened. So no, the U.S. economy did NOT start to go down 162 years ago.
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  64. Tax revenue must come from somewhere. I'd rather have a choice as to whether I buy a foreign made product than to have my paycheck cut automatically!
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  65. "It's a club, and you ain't in it - you and I aren't in The Club!!" - George Carlin
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  66. This time it's not just the collapse of the housing market but the collapse of the U.S. Dollar, hence collapse of the U.S. Empire. This is no exaggeration - look it up.
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  67.  @mtmg3648  At first, yes. But once the collapse settles down, then the U.S. will become like Britain and other former empires - just another country.
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  68. @ThE4EvRPs3GaMeR  Local housing prices were ALWAYS in line with local salary throughout history. For example, a blue collar town with lower income will have affordable houses that those earners could afford. That means, monthly mortgage payment must not exceed 1/3 of the monthly income or the homeowner will likely default. The only time housing prices are beyond local salary is when investors FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE (that made their income in their richer area) come and buy. That jacks up prices beyond local salary - not fair! Here's a clear example for you to see: In the last 30 years, China's economy grew by leaps and bounds due to the U.S. moving our factories to China. They became rich from that and came here to buy homes in the U.S. Since their income came from now-rich China, they jacked up prices beyond affordability for now-poor local Americans. Is that fair? No country on earth let foreigners buy property without a foreign tax to offset the devastation on local citizens. Only the U.S. is that stupid. Hence, we now have tens of millions who are homeless and many cause trouble for everybody else INCLUDING those who got rich over the housing bubble. Everyone loses!
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  69.  @ThE4EvRPs3GaMeR  Yep.
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  70. Simple solution to the driverless taxi accident in San Fracisco: Driverless car company sends fire stations and police stations transponder to be placed in every one of their vehicles that will automatically turn on when siren is on. The transponder broadcasts emergency vehicle position, direction, speed to all driverless cars in the area. Driverless cars know to avoid emergency vehicle(s). Problem solved!
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  71. Not true. In 2023, EV sales exceed 1 million for the first time ever. And guess how many are Tesla's? Over 600,000. Tesla is the only EV maker that could sell and profit ($9,000 per car). Look it up!
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  72.  @MichaelBordenaro  But your thumbnail showed Tesla in the background.
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  73.  @OpenSourceFan  Not entirely true. If government workers are paid so well, how come so very few college grads accept a government job?
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  74.  @OpenSourceFan  I also gave you facts - government workers make A LOT LESS than corporate workers. Look it up Better yet, go work for the government then. Why are you crying about it like a baby? Then accuse me of being a " big baby"? Are you ok? 😀😃😄😁
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  75. It takes about 6 to 7 years after a crash for home prices to reach rock bottom. When the housing bubble burst in 2008, housing prices immediately dropped but didn't reach absolute rock bottom until about 2014 when.... Chinese foreign buyers began buying U.S. real estate, which jumpstarted the economy and brought housing prices up. Once the economy recovered, local Americans jumped in and the domino effect accelerated the prices. Then the Pandemic free money and low interest rates further inflated home prices. But now that interest rates went up (and keeps going up) COUPLED with China's economy faltering, nothing could support the high prices anymore - not local Americans, not Chinese foreign investors. That is why the housing market MUST finally collapse!
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  76.  @soil-play  In order to: 1) Get illegal votes 2) Cheap labor for corporate farms
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  77. Now that Trump is in office, they can publish the real economic numbers now! 😁😀
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  78. "You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything!" - George Carlin
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  79.  @ihave35cents95  He made money by making people laugh, NOT by owning anyone. Understand the difference?
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  80. The U.S. is now more Communist than Communist China. China doesn't even do that!!
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  81.  @mountainman6549  Yep, the fact that all other EV makers are struggling to make sales only means that Tesla will continue to dominate the EV market.
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  82. @jmb9701  Better than the government taking money out of your paycheck month in and month out whether you buy something or not!
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  83. The powers that be are too busy focusing on taking over the world via their proxy wars rather than take care of America. But Putin and Xi are kicking their buttocks from military to economic dominance. As the former advisor to the British Prime Minister recently said, "we (the West) are f * ucked!"
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  84.  @MichaelBordenaro  Perhaps you could use your influence along with others such as Dan of I Aleged to push for such tax laws in every municipality. We need a fair and just way to end housing unaffordability yet still preserve Free Market Capitalism.
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  85. But most people do not pay attention to the revision. They already accepted the initial report and that's all there is to it! This is how our government can lie without anyone noticing!
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  86. Not to worry - help is coming! As the war with China becomes more probable, Chinese investors are beginning to dump their properties onto the market. They are doing pocket listings first so few will see it. But as soon as missiles start flying over Taiwan, you will see a boatload of homes being offloaded by foreign Chinese owners. That is when you will see the Feds lowering interest rates to facilitate Americans snatching up these homes. By that time, those homes will cost 1/3 to half less or more! This is how our Federal government will fix our housing market. Time will tell if I am correct or not.
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  87. @DianaCarolinaGirl22  She certainly didn't hurt him - he became a millionaire ever since then! And she never made herself known to him, yet she did everybody else - she tried to push our brother-in-law off a ladder, remember? My brother never saw or felt her presence. He often played his piano alone at night after everyone had left. I guess she enjoyed listening to him play and didn't want to scare him. To this day, my brother doesn't believe that the house was haunted.
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  88. @@MichaelBordenaro  Like I said, "another force". You call it, "external factors" Same thing!
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  89. @HVABALL  ok, now, the real world: If your argument is true then NO ONE in California has been moving to a cheaper state to live...to the tune of 7.5 million since 2010 and 340,000 more than it gained in 2022. The Number One reason why Californians move out is housing cost. In other words, if their salary had increased to match housing prices like you said, they wouldn't have moved!
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  90. Raising minimum wage apease those workers to get votes. That is why they did it. They dont care if it results in economic suicide.
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  91.  @jonathantaylor6926  Only time will tell but history tends to repeat itself. So I don't think this time is any different, except it could be even worse!
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  92. So what part of Putin's description of the US, "A nation of lies" is not true? The US government even lies to their own people!
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  93. Good, let Karma impoverish them as they impoverished so many people by artificially inflating home prices beyond affordability for so many hard-working locals. Hey, it's just supply and demand free market Capitalism, they claimed, right? Not at the expense of others. Now they must pay. They devastate others, now they get devastated. Nature is very fair!
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  94.  @-OBELUS-  He is turning over in his grave!
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  95. GDP does NOT measure the wealth of the people - it measures the wealth of the top 10%.
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  96. @Joe Garcia  Again, our builders and Real Estate agents won't be able to make as much per house. My way is best because Builders/ Real Estate agents can make more, yet local buyers only pay what their salary can cover (the rest is taken from foreign buyer tax). Everybody's happy!
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  97. @10_Door_Tycoon  Exactly! There are 2 ways for our enemy to take our land: 1) By military invasion 2) By just buying off our land and putting our people in the streets That is why no country on earth allows that except the geniuses in charge of the U.S.
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  98.  @tlindsay1007  As much as it takes to help offset the price hike. The idea is to keep the price the same for local buyers as if there were no foreign buyers to jack up the price.
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  99. They'll just blame Trump when he takes office in January.
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  100. Bad plan because it will jack up home prices even higher as investors will buy up all the properties to flip or rent out. Result: you will get only renters for neighbors and they won't care to take care of the property they live in. Your home value will go down along with everybody in your high-renter community. Not only that, you will get bottom-income renters that double up, triple-up, and quadruple-up to rent the houses in your community. They may even turn it into a meth lab. This very thing happened in my community in Irvine California where an average price of a townhouse (not even a single family home!) is $1.7 million. About a year ago, cops raided a $3 million house in my community because it had turned into a meth lab. So, bad idea! Better idea: end property tax for OWNER OCCUPIED homes ONLY!
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  101. Its not just the car payment. My auto insurance went from $961 to cover 3 cars for 6 months to $2,200. No accidents, no claims, no speeding tickets.
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  102. Funny that during the last economic downturn, officials NEVER ADMITTED high unemployment until AFTER the economy had recovered years later. I suspect they are doing the same now by claiming that it's ,3.8% nationwide and 5%, in California. Whatever they claim, multiply it by 2 or 3 times and that is closer to the truth. So nationwide, unemployment is really 12% And in California, it's really 15 to 20%.
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  103. If he uses government data then of course it shows that inflation is going down. Somebody paid him to spew that lie.
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  104. Who the heck is stupid enough to believe that interest rates will go down to 5.5%? Inflation is astronomically high so the Feds have NO CHOICE but to raise interest rates AND KEEP IT there until inflation goes down. Either that or riots will be everywhere. Violence everywhere already began but would be worse if inflation is not kept under control. It may not even be possible at this point. Don't be surprised when you see riots stepping up even more as the days pass.
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  105. I trust my own logic. Unlike most people today, I use my brain and connect the dots instead of just accept what I see / hear.
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  106. Signs of collapse of the Western Empire, which has been in charge of the world for 400 years.
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  107.  @GCPCA-p5b  Yep, ESPECIALLY to corporations!
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  108.  @onastick2411  Go woke and become broke.
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  109. There is no easy way for the Feds to fix this without collapsing our entire economy. If they lower interest rates, then inflation will rise further. If they raise interest rates to control inflation, then nobody could afford to buy a house. Ever since they moved all manufacturing jobs overseas beginning in 1990, they kept pulling rabbits out of a hat to prop up our economy. And everytime they do that, they dig a hole deeper and deeper. Now they ran out of rabbits to pull out of a hat and the only way out is a total crash so that the economy could reset. Just like the Great Drepression of the 1930's. And guess how they solved that and how long it took? It took WWII and 16 years to pull us out of the Great Depression!
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  110. I've said it many times before, we live in a Corporate Totalitarian, NOT a Constitutional Republic. "We don't have freedom...we have owners - they own you!" ,- George Carlin
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  111. And oh BTW, this just in: The new Tesla Model Y Juniper was just released in China not even in the US yet, but it already has 50,000 orders in one day! The Model Y is THE MOST SOLD cars (including gas cars) in 2023 at 1.2 million units worldwide. The only people who hate Tesla's are the ones who've never driven one because it's not in their budget range (or they are too cheap to spend that much). And ones who got smoked by a Tesla on the road. It is simply ILLOGICAL not to choose a Tesla if you are in a market for a comparably priced car.
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  112. @chapman1569  True that EV's cost higher than a comparable gas cars INITIALLY. Concerning the battery, recent REAL-WORLD data showed that an EV battery lasts at least 400,000 miles. How many gas cars last that long? Because EV's lasts many times longer than a gas car, you can keep an EV longer thereby in the long run, it costs you less. In my case, I bought my Tesla Model X in 2016 for $100k. I pay for no gas in 8 years and saved $50k. So in reality, my Tesla only costs me $50k (that's the average price of a car today!) And I intend to drive it for another 10 years, which saves me even more money.
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  113. @freddyhollingsworth5945  Not a Tesla! Hybrids don't count! No gas car can last much longer than 200,000 miles, much less than 477,000 miles. Don't lie!
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  114. Yet, Americans get offended when someone says the US is a nation of greedy liars. Our system rewards liars so why wouldn't people lie?!?
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  115.  @totalyVAmentaldisabled1975  Honest people can't do that!
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  116. So, if you don't rent and you don't buy, where do you live, in the streets?
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  117. Sorry, I disagree with you on EVs being more prone to catch on fire than gas cars. Name me one gas car - just ONE in the last 100 years - that went over a 250 foot cliff and ALL 4 occupants walked away. A Tesla Model Y did exactly that in January 2023. It didn't even catch on fire. Fact ( look it up): 100% EV cars are LEAST likely to catch fire followed by hybrids then gas cars. Look up NTSB statistics, not emotionally laden opinions.
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  118.  @justanotherguy469  Shhhh...😁😄😃
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  119.  @Xlargenoob  ALL of our problems today have their roots in the massive moving of our manufacturing plants overseas beginning in the early 1990's (remember the push for Globalization - that's what it was all about, not to "bring people together." That was just to con the public into adopting it) Ever since then, our economy went down. So to stop it from collapsing then, the Feds "stimulated" the economy by lowering interest rates. That created the Dotcom bubble (remember?) to give the illusion that the economy was booming....until that bubble popped. To fix that, they lowered interest rates again and created the housing bubble, which collapsed in 2008. To prop that up, they allowed foreign investors to buy up homes in the US, which stimulated our economy (people bought furniture, appliances, etc to go with their new homes) Then the FEDS cut rates again and by then, ordinary Americans jumped in the housing market and began flipping. That brings us to where we are today - unaffordable homes for local Americans with local salaries. So, this is not a partisan issue. It spanned 30 years under how many presidents both Democrat and Republican?
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  120.  @Xlargenoob  This economic problem went back 30 years. I posted an explanation of why but it got deleted.
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  121. People fell for Biden's promise of student loan forgiveness. He said that and only did it for a few people to get votes from everyone. But most loans will not be forgiven!
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  122. @quandingleberry445  Income tax is not a cut of your paycheck?
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  123.  @quandingleberry445  Not a break if the tax is cut PERMANENTLY - ZERO Federal income tax FOREVER!!!
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  124. The thing about lies is that it just delays the bad news while the bad news grows bigger until it blows up more devastatingly than it would have.
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