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1 posted on 12/07/2025 2:57:35 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

CNN never talked about affordability during the inflationary Biden years.


2 posted on 12/07/2025 2:59:53 PM PST by Starboard
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Well I’m sure re elected the party that caused massive inflation and opened the borders to illegals will help with affordability


3 posted on 12/07/2025 3:02:29 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Though the president called affordability a “hoax” last week,

Surely he didn't because it was a key reason he got elected. And the Somalicorruptocrach just illustrates how tax payer dollars being used to raise costs for Americans as well as keep their taxes high. And Bessent has been quite public about Trump efforts to improve affordability.

So my choice is CNN making shit up again for $1 Trillion.

4 posted on 12/07/2025 3:03:26 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“Though the president called affordability a “hoax” last week”

Correct.
Biden gave us 40 year high inflation rates.
Trump has sent gas prices crashing down in next to no time.
This “affordability” crap is merely the latest hoax from the Democrats getting pushed by fake news media.
You can’t beat Trump with that nonsense.


5 posted on 12/07/2025 3:04:17 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

OK, but “doing something” requires ending the filibuster.


7 posted on 12/07/2025 3:10:23 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Fake news made up crap again.


8 posted on 12/07/2025 3:14:46 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“Though the president called affordability a “hoax” last week”

If the above is true it is unfortunate that Trump dismissed real concerns about affordability by voters.


9 posted on 12/07/2025 3:16:08 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Unfortunately, “Doing Something” is what got us to this deplorable situation.

In a great many situations, doing nothing is the preferable option by governments.


10 posted on 12/07/2025 3:18:38 PM PST by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Article is correct. GOP are experts at sitting on their asses when they win. Democrats play to win. GOP plays to attend cocktail parties and internal bitching. We have all seen it before.


12 posted on 12/07/2025 3:22:29 PM PST by Hoboto (I blame Hippies.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Healthcare, Insurance and College is all unaffordable because liberals broke them with their commie policies.

Want to make them all affordable again, try the free market.


18 posted on 12/07/2025 3:38:56 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Let’s make something more affordable.

Who should take the income hit?

The business owner?
The shareholders?
The workers?
The managers?
The landlord?
The bank’s shareholders?
The bank’s depositors?
The mortgage company’s owners?
The mortgage security holders?
The government?

Who should take the capital hit?
The university’s endowment?
The homeowners?
The shareholders?
The FDIC?


19 posted on 12/07/2025 3:48:11 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Really big expenses:

housing
health care
taxes
transportation

Substantial expenses:
utilities
food


21 posted on 12/07/2025 3:51:48 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

This is a made-in-the media topic.

All the while Biden’s borrowing was pushing up inflation, all the way to 9%, the media never had an “affordability crisis”.


26 posted on 12/07/2025 4:00:50 PM PST by Wuli ( )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The federal debt is ~$400,000/American citizen full-time worker.

What do you think is ‘affordable’ when it comes to a house, Mr. & Mrs. Young?

$300,000, tops!

The $300,000 isn’t enough to secure Mr. & Mrs. Young’s $800,000 share of the federal debt.

You might say there’s stock market value to secure the federal debt. That would need to be about $500,000 for Mr. & Mrs. Young and their kiddies. That’s $500,000 after state and federal corporate tax is paid. Yup, $500,000 profit, after tax, just from one American citizen family.

What about the migrants? They can bolt.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/latest-updates/steel-tycoon-lakshmi-mittal-quits-uk-ahead-of-proposed-taxes-on-super-rich-report/articleshow/125520763.cms

Are Ellen and her ‘wife’ back in Montecito? Rachel Reeves made the English air chillier.


27 posted on 12/07/2025 4:10:17 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Share of total health spending, by percentile, 2021

Top 1% of people with the highest health spending 24%

Top 5% 51%

Top 10% 67%

Bottom 50% 3%

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-expenditures-vary-across-population/#Share%20of%20total%20health%20spending,%20by%20percentile,%202021


28 posted on 12/07/2025 4:14:31 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“people with health spending in the top 1% had average spending of $166,980 per year”

[That’s not going to be covered by $6,000 put into an HSA for 2026.]

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-expenditures-vary-across-population/#Share%20of%20total%20health%20spending,%20by%20percentile,%202021


30 posted on 12/07/2025 4:15:06 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I find taxes from all the levels of government to be unaffordable.


32 posted on 12/07/2025 4:16:42 PM PST by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
The Democrats locked in massive ObamaCare “covid” subsidies to hide the massive expansion of government funded health care costs to millions of non paying illegal aliens and welfare recipients.

The expiration of these subsidies are going to skyrocket the premium prices for paying enrollees. Not sure how Trump intends to deal with this

40 posted on 12/07/2025 4:35:06 PM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.l)
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Re: "The deadline to extend expiring health care subsidies..."

Why does the GOP never point out that most Democrat Congress people voted to end Obama Care Covid subsidies in January 2026?

The GOP is so weak, so inept.

41 posted on 12/07/2025 4:51:53 PM PST by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Trump has always said pulling down energy prices would be a large component of producing affordability. The last month, at least around here, is the first time the downward move in gasoline price has been significant and sustained, we’re out of the $3s. Bill Clinton lived in fear of a few pennies rise in gas price. These stories about affordability are the crescendoing of the media noise to take the place of Epstein-Epstein-Epstein stories that fizzled. If Trump is right, usually is, lower transportation costs will make a lot of things more affordable; the RNC mid term convention will be in place with the messaging.


43 posted on 12/07/2025 5:12:50 PM PST by sopo
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