Democracy is Failing the Young – No Wonder They Want Change

[nauseus]

22 hours ago, Baht Simpson said:

It's a bit rich (sic) of The Telegraph to criticize the rise of median prices for houses when they're bemoaning the end of double-digit price rises for property this year on their money page. 

 

Affordable housing is probably the most crucial issue for the young now, and the problem can only be rectified by getting wages higher and housing costs lower.

 

Sounds like limited and managed immigration might help sort that out. Innit?

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

 

Tosh. Get away from the cities and see how the wages, health care, schooling, and housing compare.

This is a very good point.

 

I spend most of my time in the U.S. in NY, specifically in Westchester County, an affluent district with first class schools, medical facilities, though very high housing costs.

 

One need only drive forty or fifty miles West or North out into the more rural districts from Westchester and affluence picture changes dramatically, house prices plummet, public facilities are more basic and the number of late model cars seen declines. People are struggling.

 

What’s more stark is that this negative gradient of affluence has increased markedly over the past thirty years.

 

Blue collar workers and increasingly the middle class are having the fruits of their labour stripped from them and passed up to the Billionaires now unquestionably running America.

 

 

[Bkk Brian]

10 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

This is a very good point.

 

I spend most of my time in the U.S. in NY, specifically in Westchester County, an affluent district with first class schools, medical facilities, though very high housing costs.

 

One need only drive forty or fifty miles West or North out into the more rural districts from Westchester and affluence picture changes dramatically, house prices plummet, public facilities are more basic and the number of late model cars seen declines. People are struggling.

 

What’s more stark is that this negative gradient of affluence has increased markedly over the past thirty years.

 

Blue collar workers and increasingly the middle class are having the fruits of their labour stripped from them and passed up to the Billionaires now unquestionably running America.

 

 

Quite a few Walter Mitty types live there I have been told