Community Chat

[feline groovy]

$500/month two-bedroom apartments  (A)

A roof over your head - that you can afford - is the most important.

[SharkE]

B

[MoJoV]

A.  Affordable housing is most important. If you don't have somewhere to live the other things are kind of irrelevant.

[Porcelain]

I'd vote for price controls on essential goods such as all of the items in the pictures. There's nothing stopping us from doing that collectively -- except for the will to act, and corporate lobbyists.

All we everday people do is complain, but we don't take any action. It's so weak and pathetic.

[ThinkingOutLoud]

B - as others stated, it affects everything else and everyone benefits.

As far as housing - people can share living space to help each other out

(ie 3 generations in one place, 'Golden Girls' scenario, etc).

They can also share cars.

Buffets encourage over-eating.

[DSD2]

A because everyone needs shelter from the storm. A warm and dry space to sleep and to live is the most basic of all needs. Now, sadly, out of the reach of many.  

B and C go together so those would be my next choice.

[luvmybeetle]

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@Sage04 wrote:

Look at those prices for gas. My 17 year old nephew was just here and he can't stop laughing. He phone his 19 year old sister and told her.

Anyone knows when this was? He's asking me if it's true, so I told him yes.

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I'm not exactly sure but I do remember in 1972 the gas was 36 cents a gallon, I filled my car up for $3.00.  So maybe sometime in the middle 70's.

[Nonametoday]

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@MoJoV wrote:

A.  Affordable housing is most important. If you don't have somewhere to live the other things are kind of irrelevant.

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@MoJoV 

You can't have affordable housing without affordable petroleum.  Do you know how much petroleum it takes to build a house, saw the lumber, bring all the pieces to the work stations, to the hardwares, to the contractors and that is why housing is so high.  The cost of lumbar has gone up so high that contractors have to cut back on building.  That is why houses are selling so high right now.  Gas didn't just go up.  It has been going up for almost 1-1/2 years.  Groceries are high because it takes fuel to bring them to the US from where they are manufactured and steamers don't run on electricity and electricity requires petroleum to make it.  Do you realize how much fossil fuel is needed to provide electricity.  

[Nonametoday]

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@Porcelain wrote:

I'd vote for price controls on essential goods such as all of the items in the pictures. There's nothing stopping us from doing that collectively -- except for the will to act, and corporate lobbyists.

All we everday people do is complain, but we don't take any action. It's so weak and pathetic.

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@Porcelain   Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter tried that and it was the worst creator of inflation we ever had.

[Mindy D]

Definitely A. A roof over one's head is a necessity.