Posted on 11/13/2026 6:29:30 AM PST by MtnClimber
The ‘affordability’ problem has been solved.
Gina Hinojosa, Jpardo210, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0.
Texas had a pretty shocking election, but at least the good news is that the ‘affordability’ problem has been solved… in that we’ll never heard about it again from the media except to assure Texans that everything is affordable now and if they don’t think so, they’re a bunch of bigots.
Gov-Elect Hinojosa is tackling ‘affordability’ by promising to dismantle border security and free illegal aliens. The new Attorney General Nathan Johnson is pledging to ensure ‘affordability’ by blocking the construction of a border wall and prosecuting ICE law enforcement personnel. And Rep. Suleman Lalani, a Pakistani politician operating in Texas, has chosen to tackle ‘affordability’ by introducing a bill to officially create a ‘Muslim Heritage Day’ that will take effect on September 1, 2027.
At least it’s not September 11. That would be a little too ‘affordable.’
And in a continuing battle to ensure total ‘affordability’ in Texas, one of the first bills introduced was a bill to legalize “Abortion as “a medical intervention provided to individuals who need to end the medical condition of pregnancy” and also legalizes sexually mutilating troubled children in the name of ‘transgendering’ them.
If that doesn’t make things more ‘affordable,’ I don’t know what will. Maybe renaming Texas to ‘California’ and doubling the price of gas.
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Affordability sure is strange these days.
Muslim Heritage Day? Texas is making room to commemorate the war with the Barbary Pirates? That’s America’s “Muslim heritage.”
Just a new humiliation ritual for Texans. Help break their spirit
Shullbit.
Inflation and “affordability” are mutual exclusives.
Short and succinct lesson on the cause and effect of inflationary pressures.
Too much money chasing too few goods. At the same time that artificial scarcities are being caused by failure to address the supply chains for all kinds of consumer goods and services, the money supply is being augmented by having too much money and credit made available too cheaply.
Cash given merely for the sake of buying the allegiance of individuals, and not in exchange for good and valuable materials and services, is money squandered and its worth diminished. Gresham’s Law - bad money drives out good money.
Wealth lies in the effective conversion of raw materials into items of commerce, and the means of expressing that wealth is the capability of using energy to convert that supply of raw materials. Cheap energy equals the means of creating and distributing useful goods and services at reasonable and profitable prices. Take away the cheap energy, and prices rise disproportionately, resulting in displacements in the market and eventually scarcity.
Democrats, and especially Democrat Socialists, have no more of an idea about what “affordability” means than a bullfrog.
Their ideas revolve around “subsidy”, “rationing”, “prohibition”, and “tax the rich”.
Real affordability is actually a set of ratios that society has agreed upon, based on the estimated annual income of the individual, and takes into consideration the productivity of that individual in creating wealth, either by the sweat of the brow, or the machinations of intellect. Such and such a percentage of the total gross annual income is apportioned to food, housing, personal investments, lendable capital, and self-improvement, and so long as the individual is satisfied with the personal satisfaction achieved, all these things are “affordable”.
This concept is not at all understood by the Democratic Socialists, or anybody else with socialistic leanings. They think that all capital must be distributed according to the “greater good”, but they have no clue as to HOW the capital is generated in the first place, or that the individual has any rights whatsoever in determining how this capital shall be applied, and that those enterprises that are permitted can survive on subsidies from the largesse confiscated from the achievers who started the collection and investment of the capital. Activities or goods that are prohibited or restricted are managed by a crippling rate of taxation or rationing, which is supposed to be the source of the income the socialists plan to distribute to the greater part of the society, as a “reward”, or withheld to bring the recalcitrant into conformity.
Guaranteed to fail on some level or another, without the application of police power to compel the acceptance of the demands of the governing council of the socialist elite.
Her version of “affordability” also includes coming for your guns:
“Gina Hinojosa supports gun control measures, a position that has been central to her political identity and recent electoral victory in Texas.”
Price controls and rationing are their wants to keep things to themselves.
Just like in the Soviet Union.
She’s just another Dingbat ,LOL
Everything is now affordable because Texas elected a new governor who said so?
yes toto, Dems really are that stupid, self absorbed, and narcissistic. - pretty much the majority of the United States adult population.
I tried to help them but failed because they are that stupid and there's way too many of them.
2001
HAVE SO MANY FORGOTTEN THE PAST?
Have TEXANS forgotten Mar 2 1836?
Declaration of Independence of Texas, 1836
https://www.tsl.texas.gov/treasures/republic/declaration.html
“It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments.”
Hard to believe that even in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, where the Revolution began over gun control, has given itself over to Gun Control far worse than what British General Gage forced on them in 1775.
Lowest crime rate in 126 years, so why the sudden push for gun control from the Democrats!
Left off the 30 anti-gun bills to help “affordability”.
The anti-white, anti-male, bills to discriminate in education, the workplace, and contracting.
The anti-Christian and anti-Jewish bills.
The taxpayer funded muslim footwashing station at the State Capital.
And, of course, taxpayer funded genital mutilation of children by schools without the consent of parents.
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The solution for the affordability is reparations for the unequal hordes
Inequality causes unaffordability
You cannot forget what you have never been taught. (Rhetorical. You already know this.)
Where has the long march through the institutions led us?? Something like this....
Yes, Texans should hang on to their firearms to use against the people who would steal them.
Affordability to a Democrat voter means - FREE.
This is the communist playbook. They take “other people’s money” and pay for YOUR handout of goods and services.
You pay nothing because you have nothing.
You have no ability to AFFORD anything.
Your affordability ranking remains 100% FREE.
Something-for-nothing always works fine until they run out of “other people’s money” which does not take long.
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