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@SaltyMommaC @MoIndy21 @TaintedSaint2 Nope I didn't miss it.

@BarryBluebirds @MoIndy21 @TaintedSaint2 You missed that total second part, didn't you: "Do I care that she paid $150k for what should have been $20k? No. Do I care that she has housing security for an affordable price, and will have zero mortgage before she is 50? YES."

🚨🚨PSA 🚨🚨 I will forever talk smack in posts saying, "B-b-b-ut we can't afford what you have! Times are different!" -OR- "If I made what you make I could afford a house!" I am sorry you never learned how it works, but if you wanna engage, I will share how I went from being uneducated, unemployed, and homeless (with kids), to buying a house (without a dime of taxpayer money or child support). No, I don't "know it all", but I know enough to have taught myself and 5 kids how to do it. If you want to learn, just ask.

@EdgeCrusher14 @SaltyMommaC @MoIndy21 @TaintedSaint2 I quoted her word for word.

@BarryBluebirds @SaltyMommaC @MoIndy21 @TaintedSaint2 Way to take her point completely out of context.

@SaltyMommaC @MoIndy21 @TaintedSaint2 > Do I care that she paid $150k for what should have been $20k? No. There it is. Utter selfishness of older generations. You're as bad as the boomers.

No, I have more than empathy, I have true sympathy - all my kids navigated these waters, so did I. My youngest bought her first house in 2023. It was "overpriced" from what I am used to, but she has a sealed in $500 mortgage for 30 years. What 20-yr old pays rent at $500? Do I care that she paid $150k for what should have been $20k? No. Do I care that she has housing security for an affordable price, and will have zero mortgage before she is 50? YES.

@MoIndy21 @SaltyMommaC @TaintedSaint2 Older people are overwhelmingly against increasing the amount of houses being built. They are completely fine to let younger people rot.

Not at all, I have lots of empathy, my problem is that I don’t know why it’s become the norm to blame the people that came before them. That is it. I do not see that blaming other people actually solves the issue. Less moaning more doing is how I live. Sorry if that’s wrong in your mind.

@SaltyMommaC @TaintedSaint2 And how long did the 15% interest last? oh.

@BarryBluebirds @TaintedSaint2 I have done this math for you(r ilk) 1000 times over. A $68,000 in 1981 = $1,150 (no tax/ins escrows) A $200,000 in 2026 is $1,200 (no tax/ins escrows) Do go on tho and tell us how our lived experience is irrelevant.

@SaltyMommaC @MoIndy21 @TaintedSaint2 I have a house which I bought 12 years ago. If I tried to buy my house today I wouldn't be able to afford it. That is insane. The younger generations are getting screwed. I know empathy is an alien concept to you guys though.

@BarryBluebirds @MoIndy21 @TaintedSaint2 Stop analyzing stats and start working on your plan. You have merely posted every reason NOT to have a plan, so, what is your plan? If my 19-yr old can buy her house (making <$40k), what is stopping you?

@MoIndy21 @SaltyMommaC @TaintedSaint2 It cost 2/3 an average wage to buy a house when boomers were young.. now it's around 7 times. 'if we start bickering' Fed up of this nonsense. The solution is easy, build much more. Boomers repeatedly vote against doing that.

Wages were also much lower. Look no one says it’s easy now, it really isn’t, it’s never been easy. The current trend seems to be rather than looking to solve the problem, generations are pitted against each other. If we start bickering amongst ourselves we don’t notice the buggers stealing the biggest slice of cake!!!

@SaltyMommaC @TaintedSaint2 'the 80s with 15+% mortgages' Completely irrelevant. Houses were still cheaper then.

On this we agree: It is absolutely an issue of: "recognizing that things have substantially increased in price" However, developing budgeting skills to navigate those increases is the key here. We "old fogies" navigated the 70s with gas rationing, the 80s with 15+% mortgages, and on into today. Navigating death of spouses (or divorces), homelessness, etc. gives many of us a wisdom that is summarily dismissed by those who refuse to listen to a single tip we may offer. Being blamed for all their bad decisions is not the approach that will open up dialogue for how we can collectively navigate these waters. With respect, *you* are missing the point.

@NotReallyABear2 Genuinely can't wait for the boomers to die.

This generation grew up so entirely privileged that they think real life is unfair a harder than anyone else ever had it. EVERYONE struggled in their 20s. EVERYONE. It’s the building years. You’re just not hardy, and you make dumb choices.

@DukeInvests Which is still cheaper than housing costs today...

Everyone loves to say boomers had it easy. No one mentions that in the early 1980s (when boomers were in their 20s and 30s), mortgage payments as a share of income were just as crushing as they are today. Mortgage rates hit 18.5% in 1981.

@OrevaZSN They just going to kill us bro.

I really want to know what these billionaires' end game is. They take away jobs, replace everything with AI, inflation goes up, healthcare costs increase, and no one can afford rent or food. How are they going to make money if no one can afford their products?

@mdvirgilio You tell people not to have kids if they can't afford them and this is what happens.

It bums me out how many families have only two kids. It’s a pandemic! Do they really only believe they can only handle two? What’s up with that? I know the answer; it's a rhetorical question. I think it’s bordering on sin for a couple to limit themselves to having two children, for whatever reason. At best it’s a cliché. We’ve attended a goodly number of churches over the decades, and since I’ve become a full-on natalist it distresses me how many families have two children. I’m not saying all Christian families have to go old school and have ten kids like our ancestors, but as I told a young friend of mine recently and my daughter as well, you will never, ever regret having more children. You get to bring more image bearers of God into the world, and into eternity, to love and nurture and raise. So, young Christian couples, be fruitful and multiply! It’s not a suggestion.

@Warnjac Don't act like boomers didn't waste money on crap like this.

… and Boomers did not have subscriptions! We had rent or mortgage and the light bill. How much are these “kids” spending a month on subscriptions, mostly related to entertainment (TV, phone, music, gambling, etc).

@SandyofSuffolk None of this (even though most of it is irrelevant) makes up for more expensive housing, a harder job market and a burning planet. The world will be better when your generation dies off.

Just so you know. Boomers didn't have fast food. Except fish and chips. Boomers didn't have ready meals. Except Vesta beef curry. Look it up. Boomers didn't have colour TVs, front loading washing machines, central heating or holidays abroad. Boomers didn't have babymoons or baby showers nor did they go on stag or hen weekends. Boomers didn't go to restaurants. Except on birthdays. Boomers didn't have new clothes every year, every season. They made do and mended. But Boomers had a fabulous time in the 1960s to 1980s because people were friendly, respectful, dignified and hardworking. Boomers also had law and order and a judiciary who punished ALL criminals. Boomers were happy with their lot. Yes. I'm a Boomer. Just so you know.

@henrysaye Yep I've factored that in.

@BarryBluebirds Over a million already spent on Trott.

Sunny Sunday question of the day! Will our net spend this window be under or over 7.5 million? I was going to say 5 million, but thought that was too low.

@cmw2003 A Christian saying they're moving right. I am shocked.

Are you being serious? Left wing people are making me become right wing.

@TomK_Brit1993 Reform voters not caring about corruption shocker.

Mainstream media are now trying to damage Nigel Farage by digging up a story about a £9,400 CCJ. I genuinely do not care. It's irrelevant to me and hardly groundbreaking news. Still voting Reform UK 🩵

@the_cats_meowww LOL

We lost everything over J6. My husband, Jay Johnston, is an actor and comedian with a career spanning over three decades. A lifetime of work in the entertainment industry disappeared overnight, replaced with a campaign designed to banish us from society completely. Networks and studios publicly blacklisted him before any charges or arrest. He was fired from Bob’s Burgers and several other ongoing projects. Theaters around Los Angeles put messages up on their marquees. Social media filled up with thousands of death threats and hateful messages. Friends disappeared. We were de-banked. Everything we ever worked for was gone. He went from working in Hollywood for decades to doing handyman jobs just to survive. Federal agents raided our home at dawn. They dragged us out of bed in our underwear at gunpoint and forced him to kneel in the dirt while the entire neighborhood watched. The government and media worked together to destroy us. I lost my career even though I wasn’t there that day. Our daughter, who was only 11 and has autism, was kicked out of her special needs programs. School administrators denied us. Other parents boycotted us and wouldn’t let their kids near her. She was placed on the Quiet Skies terrorist watchlist and subjected to repeated invasive searches at the airport. The sensory overload was so bad we couldn’t take her to visit her grandfather while he was going through cancer treatment. Our story is not unique. Hundreds of other families went through similar nightmares. Some lost their homes, businesses, marriages, and children. Military benefits gone. Fathers spent years in prison. Many were in solitary confinement, denied medical care and religious services, missing funerals and family milestones. The stress destroyed their health. Some J6ers even took their own lives. It’s time for restitution. Every ruined life, every traumatized child, and every stolen year demands full accountability and fair compensation. The amounts must reflect the true, permanent damage done - lost careers that spanned decades, destroyed futures, and irreplaceable family time - so victims are made whole, not given token settlements.

@AndrewRTDavies Big brain Andrew strikes again, why should Wales be the only country in the world that doesn't try to build relationships with other countries?

The Senedd is not responsible for foreign affairs. Ap Iorwerth should focus on the day job.