residences. That stumped me for a while & I went back to work, thinking about it. After a while, I realized, both the question & my inability to answer it are conditioned responses brought forth by the propaganda bath we are immersed in daily. The obvious answer is (drum roll): A landlord can make money same way tenants do: He can get a job & go to work. There’s no reason a landlord should exempt himself from work, any more than a tenant should. IOW, a landlord can work for himself & a tenant can work for himself, instead of tenants working for & supporting a slacker landlord. Problem solved. Ditto for police & prison guards. They can get a real job & go to work instead of sponging up taxpayer money for “make work” BS, putting folks in prison. So don’t be lost & don’t whine. Just go to work. There’s a lot of work to be done. – Lum L.
the Amaretto and Kahlúa! Thanks for an entertaining read. – Robert S. P.J. O’Rourke comment: Whoa, Robert... algae ? Well, I guess they can make booze out of anything that will ferment. But, if you find a bottle of Lawn Clippings Liquor behind the Amaretto and Kahlua, please don’t feel the urge to share! Scotch and Drambuie is called a Rusty Nail. The mix is 2 to 1, or so. Really good. Especially if you are sheltering in and not driving. – Steve L. P.J. O’Rourke comment: Thanks, Steve! I’ll trade you your Rusty Nail recipe for my “Crusty Martini” cocktail: 6 parts gin to 1 part gin- drinker. Re: It’s Time to Go Offensive Now it’s time for the pendulum to swing the other way. Defund the police & abolish the prisons. The funding in place for police & prisons can then go to BLM & AIM. This can be the start of reparations, funding already in place... I told an employer’s wife, during a lunch break, there’s a local housing developer who lets tenants KEEP the value of their rent payments as equity in their residences, since they are the ones paying off the mortgage on their residences. AND that means they’d own their residences at retirement age, instead of having neither assets nor a home at retirement age. She then asked me how a landlord is supposed to make money if the tenants keep the value of their rent payments in the form of equity (ownership) of their
Steven Longenecker comment: Congratulations Lum, you’ve solved
inequality through a process called “getting a mortgage from a bank and buying a house”... in which you pay a set expense for 15 to 30 years in a combination of equity and interest and at the end of that time period, you own that asset outright. This is America. There’s nothing stopping anyone from getting a mortgage, provided they can hold down a job and save a small amount of capital. And keep in mind that roughly half of the rental units across the nation are owned by individual investors – mom-and-pop landlords who typically do have a full-time job. These landlords are far from slackers... They’ve
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