"Thanks Senator Sanders, you dumbass, I've been invited to shmooze by the WSJ and PBS, what have *you* done? Go have another health scare. Ah, here's my limo!"
Posted on 11/06/2019 3:44:29 AM PST by Libloather
Independent Vermont senator and 2020 presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is not impressed by tech giant Apple’s efforts to increase the supply of affordable housing in California amid a growing crisis.
In a statement on Monday evening, Sanders called out the Cupertino, California-based company out for trying to distract from a problem it helped create.
“Apple's announcement that it is entering the real estate lending business is an effort to distract from the fact that it has helped create California's housing crisis – all while raking in $800 million of taxpayer subsidies, and keeping a quarter trillion dollars of profit offshore, in order to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes,” Sanders said. “Today, more than 134,000 Californians are homeless and renters need to earn $34.69 per hour to afford the average two-bedroom apartment. We cannot rely on corporate tax evaders to solve California's housing crisis.”
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Bernie doesn’t like Apple spending money on low income housing because he wants the government doing it—at 10 times the cost that Apple would do it.
“Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods.”
H.L. Menchen
No Bernie, SOCIALIST POLICIES created the homeless crisis!
No Bernie, SOCIALIST POLICIES created the homeless crisis!
Many people have an inability to think critically about anything. GibMeDat!!!
“ renters need to earn $34.69 per hour to afford the average two-bedroom apartment.”
The area has reached carrying capacity (be it natural or legal).
If you want to live there, you have to want it more than others - proven by how much you’re willing to pay. $35/hr for 2br? yes, because there’s someone willing to pay $34/hr for it.
There’s about a million square miles of empty land in USA. Move.
Thanks Libloather. WOW, that's a desperation move, right there. This is going to piss off his leftie supporters who are big Apple fans (I have a family in my circle of alleged friends who fit this descr.), but will force the Buttplug from South Bendover to yea/nay on this stupid accusation (Hobson's choice); it'll point to the fact that he's more specific and more radical than Psychojawea, who will probably just undermine herself by going even harder left, pushing socialists back to feel the Bern (he wishes); and attempts to paint Brainless Joe as some sort of houseboy of Tim Cook's for not condemning Apple. Thios is what a dumpster fire in a clown car would look like, in the Zen koan sense.
"Thanks Senator Sanders, you dumbass, I've been invited to shmooze by the WSJ and PBS, what have *you* done? Go have another health scare. Ah, here's my limo!"
All right, Bernie, would you prefer to have Apple move out of California?
“I think he has now lost any Silicon Valley support he might have had.”
I would NOT EVEN BEGIN to presume as much.
Silicon Valley rivals San Fran for die-hard, bat guano crazy leftism; I mean they’re UNHINGED. The typical leftist candidate would have to eat a living child on the 6pm news to lose support from some of these people, and maybe not even then.
If you want on or off the Apple/Mac/iOS Ping List, Freepmail me.
He seems to forget that the money that Apple had parked overseas was sheltered also from the usurious EU rates, via its temporary home in Ireland -- and the US doesn't get a cut of EU tax receipts. But, Sanders is a demagogue, so what he bleats doesn't actually make sense or conform to reality.
I've been to ghost towns. Isn't it funny that people leave when the jobs leave? And that housing becomes plentiful and cheap, but there are no buyers?
Isn't prosperity better than destitution and a deserted town? I like the idea that companies create jobs and enable people to build wealth.
Is it a bad thing that companies draw in people to an area, and some of those people are freeloaders (like Bernie's fans)?
There’s also way more than 134,000 homeless in California
Corporations get tax credits for investing in “affordable housing”. It’s been done for 50 years.
This is just a spin on that.
He’s promising free weed.
Each Apple iHome comes with a fully loaded Apple pc and tablet and an iphone and Siri device.
They will add $50 grand to the cost of the home : )
His over usage of the word FREE
$2.5 billion could probably cover the cost to build about 5000 housing units in high-rise structures. Rough math, based on news reports of recent high rise housing construction happening in California. Maybe more than 5000 units as land costs may be cheaper in the farmland outside of Cupertino.
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