High Cost of Colorado
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High Cost of Colorado
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#2You can either (1.) build more housing or (2.) not solve the problem. I hope Colorado (and the rest of the country) eventually makes the right choice.
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#3Nearly one million people became citizens last year, and that doesn't count unregistered crossings. People are shooting the Darien Gap at a chance to get into the US. I am so tired of hearing about the US housing crisis with no mention of the firehose of new people coming into the country, every single one of whom needs housing, and is far more likely to go to an urban center, where the majority of available jobs are and the housing crunch is worst. This is on top of a rural-urban drain occurring all over the US, where younger people are abandoning rural areas to seek their fortunes in cities. A similar immigration crunch is occurring in the wealthier EU countries, and a similar rural-urban crunch is occurring in South Korea, China, and Japan.
Somewhere between 20 and 40 million people have entered the US since 2000 with the intention to stay. The idea that this somehow hasn't exacerbated the housing shortage is absurd. I haven't heard a left-leaning person mention this source of new demand for housing a single time, and I read a lot of housing crisis news.
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#4Nearly one million people became citizens last year, and that doesn't count unregistered crossings. People are shooting the Darien Gap at a chance to get into the US. I am so tired of hearing about the US housing crisis with no mention of the firehose of new people coming into the country, every single one of whom needs housing, and is far more likely to go to an urban center, where the majority of available jobs are…
Marxist here. You're right, except there is no left wing to speak of in the US.
Regardless, the reason for the mass immigration is plainly capitalism. Immigrants are profitable (exploitable) in so many ways that citizens are not, and the ruling class only stands to gain from mass immigration as their property prices rise.
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#5Nearly one million people became citizens last year, and that doesn't count unregistered crossings. People are shooting the Darien Gap at a chance to get into the US. I am so tired of hearing about the US housing crisis with no mention of the firehose of new people coming into the country, every single one of whom needs housing, and is far more likely to go to an urban center, where the majority of available jobs are…
Marxist here. You're right, except there is no left wing to speak of in the US. Regardless, the reason for the mass immigration is plainly capitalism. Immigrants are profitable (exploitable) in so many ways that citizens are not, and the ruling class only stands to gain from mass immigration as their property prices rise.
You nailed it. They've got the citizens here mostly hoodwinked, too. "We need immigrants to do jobs you don't want to do." No, they need immigrants so they don't have to pay me to do jobs that my grandparents and great-grandparents did, and so there's a larger base of consumers on which to grow share prices via increased sales and debt contracts.
> except there is no left wing to speak of in the US.
I'd say this is true if you're talking about people with real authority, but among the populace there's a sizeable group of people who would support a communist re-establishment of the government.
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#6Nearly one million people became citizens last year, and that doesn't count unregistered crossings. People are shooting the Darien Gap at a chance to get into the US. I am so tired of hearing about the US housing crisis with no mention of the firehose of new people coming into the country, every single one of whom needs housing, and is far more likely to go to an urban center, where the majority of available jobs are…
Illegal immigration is incredibly easy to stop.
You make it a felony directly to the CEO to employ any illegal immigrant or any business that employs illegal immigrants anywhere in the contracting/subcontracting chain.
Employing illegal immigrants will come to a complete halt which will cause illegal immigration to come to a complete halt.
The problem is that everybody likes slave labor from illegal immigrants.
I believe it was Georgia(?) who cracked down on illegal immigrants and then couldn't get their crops harvested because nobody local would do the work even at minimum wage.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Marxist here. You're right, except there is no left wing to speak of in the US. Regardless, the reason for the mass immigration is plainly capitalism. Immigrants are profitable (exploitable) in so many ways that citizens are not, and the ruling class only stands to gain from mass immigration as their property prices rise.
You nailed it. They've got the citizens here mostly hoodwinked, too. "We need immigrants to do jobs you don't want to do." No, they need immigrants so they don't have to pay me to do jobs that my grandparents and great-grandparents did, and so there's a larger base of consumers on which to grow share prices via increased sales and debt contracts. > except there is no left wing to speak of in the US. I'd say this is t…
No left wing? The US has essentially become socialist.
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#8Colorado is at a crossroads, and in a precarious position. As to what quacked said, talk all you want about immigration, but it's not the ones shooting the Darien Gap who are buying 2 bed 2 bath houses in Denver for 1.4 million dollars. But it is true that the immigrants don't help, and drain enormous resources from the state.
No one seems to want to talk about it, but Colorado needs to heavily develop east of I-25. Watkins to Limon needs massively expanded. But it won't be the 'right kind' of people who move/live there and Colorado seems to have no interest in that. And yet they also have no interest in doing anything with the massive homeless and immigrant population. It's like when you do an environmental survey and the best option is... let the bridge collapse.
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#9Nearly one million people became citizens last year, and that doesn't count unregistered crossings. People are shooting the Darien Gap at a chance to get into the US. I am so tired of hearing about the US housing crisis with no mention of the firehose of new people coming into the country, every single one of whom needs housing, and is far more likely to go to an urban center, where the majority of available jobs are…
Illegal immigration is incredibly easy to stop. You make it a felony directly to the CEO to employ any illegal immigrant or any business that employs illegal immigrants anywhere in the contracting/subcontracting chain . Employing illegal immigrants will come to a complete halt which will cause illegal immigration to come to a complete halt. The problem is that everybody likes slave labor from illegal immigrants . I b…
I would love to make it a felony to employ illegal labor.
I also would like a reckoning over farm labor. If it's possible to tear down the neo-serf system for agricultural work via a goods pricing war, that's fine with me. I would labor in the fields for a month or two out of the year. (I've done hard outdoor work before, I'm not just saying that.) I just don't want to lose my normal job, mortgage, or insurance because I'm out somewhere else for a bit.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
You nailed it. They've got the citizens here mostly hoodwinked, too. "We need immigrants to do jobs you don't want to do." No, they need immigrants so they don't have to pay me to do jobs that my grandparents and great-grandparents did, and so there's a larger base of consumers on which to grow share prices via increased sales and debt contracts. > except there is no left wing to speak of in the US. I'd say this is t…
No left wing? The US has essentially become socialist.
The parent commenter probably meant: There's no Marxian left wing composed of serious people in the US.