How the right can reclaim affordability and abundance on housing, education, and healthcare with one simple trick - increase supply and decrease demand through mass deportation
This ought to be obvious to everyone. Immigrants increase the demand. Why do so many people hold onto the idea that the US owes the world "a better life." If these immigrants are so hardworking and wonderful, and make our country such a wonderful place, how about they stay home and do that to their own countries?
At the same time, the world is not what it once was, so it also seems time for the West taking responsibility for everyone else. They need to fix their own problems, just as we fix our own problems. And one problem we need to fix right now is that there is no more room at the inn.
{...They need to fix their own problems,...} GREAT idea !!! 👍👍👍
How about convincing the neocons and PNAC-accolites to stay at home and NOT interfere in other people's life, business and "nation building" any more ??? ...
Billions for the CIA, FBI, NIAID and ominous NGOs heavily financed by the US-taxpayer's money would be saved instantly and kept to be spent at home, sweet home.
This would be a double whammy: better conditions in the US-mainland (infrastructure, energy, education, health, housing, etc., etc.) and foreign nation's "problems" would dissapear almost overnight !!!
I think that was a lot of what DOGE did in cutting USAID's funding, and what Trump's intelligence leaders are trying to do. Rooting out all the folks who live for that interference is probably a never ending project though.
Of course, also, we have stolen the souls of many of our own people and made that addicts to the govt dole.
So, if the govt only supported those who were truly needy, and the rest became at least self-sufficient, THEN our finances would improve a lot quickly.
But the incentives and the mindset and the politics will make those reforms hard to do.
Ex: Yes, good healthcare is good. BUT: the Obamacare solution is utterly idiotic!!! That was known before, even by its authors. (Their play was to force single-payer.) but ACA is clearly an Oxymoron. Certainly NOT affordable.
My point: politically we do not seem to fix hardly any of the MANY obvious stupidities in the ACA. (Yes, the special COVID extras to illegal aliens and to able-bodied people — maybe those have been fixed. If those changes stay, thank God!). But only some crumbs.
Yes, and more than just broke also. And broke for more reasons than just healthcare.
Let me say again: stealing a person’s soul and making that person dependent on the govt dole (when they could be proudly self-reliant) is IMMORAL!!!
I am an abolitionist against this IMMORALITY.
I doubt many people see and think this way. But I speak the truth. May the truth come to them quickly!
The issue isn't so much generosity - it is active hatred toward one's own culture which drives the modern left. They blame "The West" for colonialism etc and they are using the impoverishment of their own people today as the punishment.
What we have today isn't immigration - its retaliatory invasion.
HEH is the perfect acronym because that is what AWFL PMCs say when your voice concerns the reply is simply that if you own a successful plumbing business or otherwise self-employed, and live in Nebraska, you must be racist and selfish.
You see, your family should be priced out of existence to pay for healthcare and free buses for interns at Teen Vogue.
HEH, learn to code you stupid hick. I studied feminist literature at Brown.
In all seriousness, all of the problems described above are a function of government intervention.
"Why? You gave all those jobs to foreign visa holders who, even after they are citizens, only hire more foreigners. No American who learns to code can get a coding job."
This is a large part of what has gutted the US middle class. The top middle class jobs have been given to foreigners in a collusion between the Tech Weenies and our government.
Even if one (speculatively) invests the time and money to get a "useful" degree, chances are the job will be filled with a foreigner or within ten years one will be replaced by a foreigner and the investment will have been a waste.
Well, yes. That's the final punch line. Those jobs that the USA middle class was cheated of will all go to AI, giving Big Tech even more money and power after they destroyed the lives of tens of millions and wrecked America.
You make an excellent point that incarceration of criminals is just as important as deportation of mass migrants to reduce housing costs. Although migrants drive up demand, decarcerated criminals decrease supply by making cities and towns unfit for human habitation. Those crime-ridden areas become urban/suburban wastelands as their law-abiding erstwhile inhabitants flee to compete for housing in the increasingly fewer normal places. As prices rise in the normal places, AWFLs complain about a lack of "affordable housing" and erect housing projects that become filled with drug addicts and petty criminals to start the cycle all over again in that new place.
One thing you miss in the HEH sector inflation is the impact of private equity. Not as much in education but big time in housing and health. Those vultures are buying up housing, medical practices, hospitals, medical labs, nursing homes and even veterinary practices like crazy. Their business model is pump and dump. We are in the pump stage now and it is going to get worse. In the case of housing, private equity (globalists all) intersects with immigration.
Looking at your chart on doctors vs medical administrators, it is pretty obvious that the problem started in the early 1990s, long before Obamacare. What happened then was the big surge in "managed care". The theory was that you could reduce the cost of care by managing it more intensely. The cost, freely acknowledged, was higher administrative costs. In the event, only the part about administrative costs turned out to be true. There was also a movement to use non-physician health care professionals in front line roles. It is not clear what category these people are reported in but clearly in some roles they would replace MDs. Beware of percentage increase data that doesn't also give you the absolute numbers. Also beware of life expectancy numbers. All those other countries artificially inflate their life expectancy numbers by not counting babies until they have survived x days whereas in the US, the clock starts with the first breath, even if it is also the last. Take all those zero life durations out of the data and the average goes up.
I have got to say the Thiel is correct. The same point was made by others over many years. The "elite" overproduction issue has been around. And finally, while sector inflation is important, there is no way that we should accept 87% general inflation as normal.
Great point. That is why I called for banning institutional investors from buying up single family homes. Private equity is cronyism. They fund the RINOs who enrich them through open borders and carried interest loopholes.
The PE trend is just an example of what is unavoidable in capitalism.
When a firm gains sufficient market power, it influences those markets to its benefit. Wall Street has done it for years, Blackrock et al do it with ESG, and now PE's are buying everything in roll-up plays, where they'll then flex their power to raise margins, further harming the consumer.
And terrifyingly, doesn't matter whether dem or gop, it would always have been the same due to the corruptability of human nature.
Equity isn't the problem. It's the private part. Not subject to the disclosure that is part of the rest of the economy, assessment of fiduciary duty becomes impossible.
Respectfully, it's absolutely part of the problem.
Granting control of more and more small businesses to a group of self-serving, profit-only, smart people is the same as granting Wall Street banks market-moving power. And look how that's turned out.
I agree that we "conservatives" have been worshiping the false god of "capitalism" for much too long, while ignoring what you call "the corruptability of human nature", but there are no simple economic solutions, only the bottom-up approach of trying to improve that nature in ourselves.
One factor but there are a lot of chronic diseases as well. MAHA has identified a bunch of diet factors. High fructose corn syrup is a major menace. Food dyes and other additives are another problem as are seed oils. Russia has got a lot of lifestyle issues, mostly about alcohol but they aren't on the chart. think the US has got it right about babies and the others are just killing premies etc and not counting them. Democrats would like to do this but AFAIK, the statistics aren't done that way
Great analysis. One neglected leftist detriment to housing is Section 8 and Affordable Housing subsidies. When rent is subsidized true market corrections can't happen, so government intervention keeps rents unaffordable to the middle class-- wealthy people do fine, those with vouchers do fine, but those with modest means pay rent out of proportion to their monthly income.
Totally. No doubt wages have stagnated and housing is ridiculous, but it would be lower if consumers were faced with rents without government intervention. People would room two-three families to a unit or stay with parents longer, vacancy rates would rise, and the market would have to correct.
Re: Healthcare. It’s obvious that the system is so broken that the only two solutions are:
1: Big tax increases and Medicare for all, sneaking in sorta kinda single payer through the back door, or:
2: Burn it all down and start over.
Healthcare in America have become a clusterfuck. Private insurers and profits with none of the benefits because of over regulation. They’ve managed to take the worst features of private and public healthcare.
And while you could have reformed it 20-40 years ago, it has become too big to effectively fix. Just think of all the jobs the current system “creates”.
“For good measure, ban foreign and institutional investors from buying up single family homes.” This looks straightforward, why can’t it be done? Also, on the inflation chart, is it coincidence that prices for TVs, computer software, toys and cell services are down? Or is it just my “spider sense” tingling?
this is the plan for NYC.. as rich people leave the nice homes.. “oil money” will buy them. and them we will see many more bearded men, women in purdah and calls to prayer
Software and cell services makes sense because back then they were expensive because they were more novel and cutting edge, so prices were bound to go down. Though with the rise of subscription-based software, I'd have to wonder how accurate the numbers really are for that.
I was initially against rebating DOGE savings to taxpayers, but you make a good point. The President is accomplishing much, despite the extremely difficult environment. But we are clearly losing the messaging aspect, and not much makes voters feel better than cash in hand. No one is serious about the debt, so what the hell? The only thing allowing us to kick that can down the road (for now) is economic growth. As the Radiators sang: "Party 'till the money runs out!"
Great post. On the main cause of crime, I think it’s mainly lenient criminal laws and prosecutions, although I agree immigration increases crime too significantly.
Cities are the primary engine of dysfunction. They rot, are too expensive to tear down, literally float on sewage, oppress most of the people living there into a slave-like existence. Just repulsive. They suck resources from what used to be functional pretty manageable mid sized towns and villages, remove civic attachments, offer a platform for disgusting behaviors and political machinations at vast scale, incubate diseases. Time to abandon.
This ought to be obvious to everyone. Immigrants increase the demand. Why do so many people hold onto the idea that the US owes the world "a better life." If these immigrants are so hardworking and wonderful, and make our country such a wonderful place, how about they stay home and do that to their own countries?
Two part partial answer: we are a kind people. We are generous.
Also, we do not understand how the incentives work, and we do not see how Suicidal Empathy is killing us.
If America dies, and on current trends it will, then everyone in the world (just about) will lose.
They cannot afford our Suicidal Empathy.
But these connections are not well understood.
Great point.
At the same time, the world is not what it once was, so it also seems time for the West taking responsibility for everyone else. They need to fix their own problems, just as we fix our own problems. And one problem we need to fix right now is that there is no more room at the inn.
{...They need to fix their own problems,...} GREAT idea !!! 👍👍👍
How about convincing the neocons and PNAC-accolites to stay at home and NOT interfere in other people's life, business and "nation building" any more ??? ...
Billions for the CIA, FBI, NIAID and ominous NGOs heavily financed by the US-taxpayer's money would be saved instantly and kept to be spent at home, sweet home.
This would be a double whammy: better conditions in the US-mainland (infrastructure, energy, education, health, housing, etc., etc.) and foreign nation's "problems" would dissapear almost overnight !!!
I think that was a lot of what DOGE did in cutting USAID's funding, and what Trump's intelligence leaders are trying to do. Rooting out all the folks who live for that interference is probably a never ending project though.
And many of those NGOs get private funding.
And, basically, we are broke.
Of course, also, we have stolen the souls of many of our own people and made that addicts to the govt dole.
So, if the govt only supported those who were truly needy, and the rest became at least self-sufficient, THEN our finances would improve a lot quickly.
But the incentives and the mindset and the politics will make those reforms hard to do.
Ex: Yes, good healthcare is good. BUT: the Obamacare solution is utterly idiotic!!! That was known before, even by its authors. (Their play was to force single-payer.) but ACA is clearly an Oxymoron. Certainly NOT affordable.
My point: politically we do not seem to fix hardly any of the MANY obvious stupidities in the ACA. (Yes, the special COVID extras to illegal aliens and to able-bodied people — maybe those have been fixed. If those changes stay, thank God!). But only some crumbs.
Yes, and more than just broke also. And broke for more reasons than just healthcare.
Let me say again: stealing a person’s soul and making that person dependent on the govt dole (when they could be proudly self-reliant) is IMMORAL!!!
I am an abolitionist against this IMMORALITY.
I doubt many people see and think this way. But I speak the truth. May the truth come to them quickly!
: we are a kind people. We are generous
Speak for yourself.
Don’t agree. It is a fact. We remain far more generous than any other nation. Yes, there are some unselfish people. But it is a true generalization.
The issue isn't so much generosity - it is active hatred toward one's own culture which drives the modern left. They blame "The West" for colonialism etc and they are using the impoverishment of their own people today as the punishment.
What we have today isn't immigration - its retaliatory invasion.
Another banger. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
HEH is the perfect acronym because that is what AWFL PMCs say when your voice concerns the reply is simply that if you own a successful plumbing business or otherwise self-employed, and live in Nebraska, you must be racist and selfish.
You see, your family should be priced out of existence to pay for healthcare and free buses for interns at Teen Vogue.
HEH, learn to code you stupid hick. I studied feminist literature at Brown.
In all seriousness, all of the problems described above are a function of government intervention.
The correct response to "learn to code" is,
"Why? You gave all those jobs to foreign visa holders who, even after they are citizens, only hire more foreigners. No American who learns to code can get a coding job."
This is a large part of what has gutted the US middle class. The top middle class jobs have been given to foreigners in a collusion between the Tech Weenies and our government.
Even if one (speculatively) invests the time and money to get a "useful" degree, chances are the job will be filled with a foreigner or within ten years one will be replaced by a foreigner and the investment will have been a waste.
And the foreigner will be replaced by AI.
Well, yes. That's the final punch line. Those jobs that the USA middle class was cheated of will all go to AI, giving Big Tech even more money and power after they destroyed the lives of tens of millions and wrecked America.
You make an excellent point that incarceration of criminals is just as important as deportation of mass migrants to reduce housing costs. Although migrants drive up demand, decarcerated criminals decrease supply by making cities and towns unfit for human habitation. Those crime-ridden areas become urban/suburban wastelands as their law-abiding erstwhile inhabitants flee to compete for housing in the increasingly fewer normal places. As prices rise in the normal places, AWFLs complain about a lack of "affordable housing" and erect housing projects that become filled with drug addicts and petty criminals to start the cycle all over again in that new place.
…and fence and electronically secure their mini mansions.
One thing you miss in the HEH sector inflation is the impact of private equity. Not as much in education but big time in housing and health. Those vultures are buying up housing, medical practices, hospitals, medical labs, nursing homes and even veterinary practices like crazy. Their business model is pump and dump. We are in the pump stage now and it is going to get worse. In the case of housing, private equity (globalists all) intersects with immigration.
Looking at your chart on doctors vs medical administrators, it is pretty obvious that the problem started in the early 1990s, long before Obamacare. What happened then was the big surge in "managed care". The theory was that you could reduce the cost of care by managing it more intensely. The cost, freely acknowledged, was higher administrative costs. In the event, only the part about administrative costs turned out to be true. There was also a movement to use non-physician health care professionals in front line roles. It is not clear what category these people are reported in but clearly in some roles they would replace MDs. Beware of percentage increase data that doesn't also give you the absolute numbers. Also beware of life expectancy numbers. All those other countries artificially inflate their life expectancy numbers by not counting babies until they have survived x days whereas in the US, the clock starts with the first breath, even if it is also the last. Take all those zero life durations out of the data and the average goes up.
I have got to say the Thiel is correct. The same point was made by others over many years. The "elite" overproduction issue has been around. And finally, while sector inflation is important, there is no way that we should accept 87% general inflation as normal.
Great point. That is why I called for banning institutional investors from buying up single family homes. Private equity is cronyism. They fund the RINOs who enrich them through open borders and carried interest loopholes.
“Banning” as in “regulating”?
The PE trend is just an example of what is unavoidable in capitalism.
When a firm gains sufficient market power, it influences those markets to its benefit. Wall Street has done it for years, Blackrock et al do it with ESG, and now PE's are buying everything in roll-up plays, where they'll then flex their power to raise margins, further harming the consumer.
And terrifyingly, doesn't matter whether dem or gop, it would always have been the same due to the corruptability of human nature.
Equity isn't the problem. It's the private part. Not subject to the disclosure that is part of the rest of the economy, assessment of fiduciary duty becomes impossible.
Respectfully, it's absolutely part of the problem.
Granting control of more and more small businesses to a group of self-serving, profit-only, smart people is the same as granting Wall Street banks market-moving power. And look how that's turned out.
Banks are sort of regulated but PE are modern pirates
So what do you suggest? Socialism?
I agree that we "conservatives" have been worshiping the false god of "capitalism" for much too long, while ignoring what you call "the corruptability of human nature", but there are no simple economic solutions, only the bottom-up approach of trying to improve that nature in ourselves.
Socialism is not it, lol.
But the bottom-up approach won't work with large portions of our population exhibiting high time preference, concerned only with immediate benefit.
The Opioid Attack is what drives down the life expectancy numbers.
One factor but there are a lot of chronic diseases as well. MAHA has identified a bunch of diet factors. High fructose corn syrup is a major menace. Food dyes and other additives are another problem as are seed oils. Russia has got a lot of lifestyle issues, mostly about alcohol but they aren't on the chart. think the US has got it right about babies and the others are just killing premies etc and not counting them. Democrats would like to do this but AFAIK, the statistics aren't done that way
No one counts abortions but that's another issue.
Wondering how long Mamdani will take before he starts calling his "bad landlords" "kulaks"?
They are more like hoarders and wreckers.
This is excellent
Great analysis. One neglected leftist detriment to housing is Section 8 and Affordable Housing subsidies. When rent is subsidized true market corrections can't happen, so government intervention keeps rents unaffordable to the middle class-- wealthy people do fine, those with vouchers do fine, but those with modest means pay rent out of proportion to their monthly income.
Don't kid yourself about subsided housing. They take a huge chunk of their monthly income, leaving very little for utilities and food.
Totally. No doubt wages have stagnated and housing is ridiculous, but it would be lower if consumers were faced with rents without government intervention. People would room two-three families to a unit or stay with parents longer, vacancy rates would rise, and the market would have to correct.
These are some really informative charts. And scary as hell!
Very scary 🫣
Re: Healthcare. It’s obvious that the system is so broken that the only two solutions are:
1: Big tax increases and Medicare for all, sneaking in sorta kinda single payer through the back door, or:
2: Burn it all down and start over.
Healthcare in America have become a clusterfuck. Private insurers and profits with none of the benefits because of over regulation. They’ve managed to take the worst features of private and public healthcare.
And while you could have reformed it 20-40 years ago, it has become too big to effectively fix. Just think of all the jobs the current system “creates”.
I went to an investor's converence this past spring, and it was crazy.
Something like 25% of the US economy is some form of health care.
“For good measure, ban foreign and institutional investors from buying up single family homes.” This looks straightforward, why can’t it be done? Also, on the inflation chart, is it coincidence that prices for TVs, computer software, toys and cell services are down? Or is it just my “spider sense” tingling?
this is the plan for NYC.. as rich people leave the nice homes.. “oil money” will buy them. and them we will see many more bearded men, women in purdah and calls to prayer
Yikes. I guess I’m glad I’ve passed my “best by” date.
Absolutely realistic and chilling.
The same reason that a myriad of very obvious things aren't addressed:
Health care costs/control
Homelessness in public areas
Drag shows in front of our children
Cutting the size of the fed bureaucracy
There's not enough political will. Weak men create hard times - now we find ourselves waiting for strong men.
Software and cell services makes sense because back then they were expensive because they were more novel and cutting edge, so prices were bound to go down. Though with the rise of subscription-based software, I'd have to wonder how accurate the numbers really are for that.
My subversive thought was just keep everyone distracted and/or online.
ban ALL foreign personnel and money. close the ports, cut the cables, knock down the satellites
Yuri.. you sir have got it going On ! Thank you..
Reduced demand, lower prices. Oddly, there is a large pool of homes for sale in the Atlanta market and very slow sales. Prices are falling as well.
I was initially against rebating DOGE savings to taxpayers, but you make a good point. The President is accomplishing much, despite the extremely difficult environment. But we are clearly losing the messaging aspect, and not much makes voters feel better than cash in hand. No one is serious about the debt, so what the hell? The only thing allowing us to kick that can down the road (for now) is economic growth. As the Radiators sang: "Party 'till the money runs out!"
No dumbocraps should get the rebates. They don't deserve them.
Great post. On the main cause of crime, I think it’s mainly lenient criminal laws and prosecutions, although I agree immigration increases crime too significantly.
Yes. See Mary Moriarty Hennepin cty attorney (mn) for one example
100%. And the uniparty wonders why 5M American men follow Nick Fuentes while trying to cancel them. This article explains the cause and solutions.
Cities are the primary engine of dysfunction. They rot, are too expensive to tear down, literally float on sewage, oppress most of the people living there into a slave-like existence. Just repulsive. They suck resources from what used to be functional pretty manageable mid sized towns and villages, remove civic attachments, offer a platform for disgusting behaviors and political machinations at vast scale, incubate diseases. Time to abandon.