Well Yeah
February 13, 2011 9 Comments
Overheard SWPL mom: “Have you heard about the administration’s new housing plan? Basically nobody’s going to be able to buy a house. Unless, you know, they can afford it.”
Um well yeah. That’s kind of how Buying Things Or Not was always supposed to work.
Actually it’s rather tautological: if you can’t afford something, you won’t be able to buy that thing. That’s what ‘afford’ means. Or, did.
Socialism makes people retards; basic concepts, lost.
Given overpriced houses, the RWCG illusionary strawman socialist’s solution is (apparently) to let people buy on credit, while the capitalist’s solution is to have almost everyone live on the street. Neither address the deeper problem of the prices which are too high.
The traditional method of resolving the ‘problem’ of prices of something being ‘too high’ (relative to what? by what metric?) is for the people who think they are too high not to buy the thing in question unless/until the price comes down.
The capitalist’s solution also does, mind you, involve ‘letting’ people buy on credit (seriously, who’s not ‘letting’ people buy on credit?). But letting people buy on credit – which is one private party making a loan to another, by the way – is a far cry from subsidizing that credit with taxpayer money.
Another solution (granted, not traditional, quite the opposite) is the “Egyptian” one
Go on the streets, make noise, get photographed, and then, by some unspecified mechanism, you’ll be able to ‘buy’ houses you can’t afford.
Yes. Retarded. But yes.
But on a less confrontational note, the semantic issue you bring up reminds me of a question from a womens studies class in junior college. “Is it okay to drink too much?” I tried to point out that the way the question’s posed, the answer can only possibly be “no”, because if any particular amount were okay to drink, by definition that would not be “too much”. Obviously it was lost on the prof.
Obviously it was lost on the prof.
Funny. To drive home the point about constrained questions, you should have asked, “Are you still in denial about being a trans-gendered racist with a poop fetish?
But seriously, the impulse to use government policy to ‘help’ people buy homes they can’t afford is a big part of what makes them ‘overpriced’, because it props up their prices. You get that, don’t you? I really can’t comprehend complaining about the latter yet advocating the former. At least, not from people able to think more than one step ahead.
At least they’re consistent. They think the same exact way about student loans and “financial aid” and the cost of college.
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