Why can't anyone here focus on construction and materials costs? This isn't a question of crime rates or political unrest.
Americans are taking it up the azz, and folks here are brainwashed into thinking it's all innocently justifiable through their righteous devotion to "capitalism."
When your dollar is worth about 75% of what it was a few years ago, that ain't capitalism. And, when the government seizes another 25% or more of your income while running multi-trillion dollar annual deficits, that ain't capitalism. And, if you believe the official inflation data, I have a home to sell to you in Ecuador. If official inflation numbers were calculated the same way they were in 1980, last year's 7%-8% CPI rate would've been closer to 20%. How convenient that the government changed its official methodology used to calculate inflation by messing with things such as substitution and hedonic adjustments, and these changes just coincidentally make inflation numbers lower.
If you think the news is fake, wait until you find out what "they" have you believing about the economy.
I'm all for capitalism as much as anyone here, but what we have got now in this country ain't capitalism. Folks need to wake up.
