Feds: No more education, legal services for immigrant kids

[humbolt]

He couldn't afford to live there anymore, got it.

You do? Without knowing anything, too. That's remarkable.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Anything is "worth" what a willing buyer is prepared to pay for it and a willing seller is willing to accept for it. Miss one of those points and it isn't "worth" whatever the dollar figure is.

Real estate values are estimated using more than just "whatever a buyer is willing to pay" and if you've ever shopped for a home you already know that.
Sure, we might "ask" 727K and only GET 715 or even 705....or we might get 740, depends on how hot the market is if and when we ever decide to sell.
Market heat maps exist in real estate for a reason. And you know that too of course.

We bought our home in Mansfield TX which was brand new, in 2006, for $172K. When the economic meltdown hit, the value plunged to 98 thousand bucks and we both had a serious problem on our hands. When we finally sold it in 2012 the market had begun to recover so we ended up selling it for just a hair over 200 thousand, thank God.

And that happens all over the country. But right now, the point is, our home is a good thing, it's relatively new (1996) and by virtue of that build date it meets or exceeds earthquake standards which were revised after the 1994 Northridge Quake, so it is reasonable sturdy, much more so than the older homes in the neighborhood, many of which are 1950's/60's/70's and 80's vintage.

They might not fare so well next shaker we get.

 

[Trump]

Then you know that unlike most cities in America, downtown Los Angeles isn't quite the centralized hub that most downtowns are.
Where's the cesspool in Lakewood, Santa Monica, Venice, Brentwood, Whittier, Long Beach, Bellflower, Pasadena, Santa Clarita, Burbank, Silverlake, Eagle Rock, and a thousand other towns and suburbs in LA County?

Stay safe, and find a job that doesn't make you cross The Orange Curtain, then you won't have to worry....oh OOPS, Orange County is turning BLUE....UH OHHHH!!!!

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Face it, the Republican Party in California is DEAD. And you guys brought it on yourselves. You HAD the MAJORITY for a VERY long long time out here and you blew it all to Hell.

hahahahah...all those places named have ****hole areas....santa monica is truly haves and haves not...the only thing California has going for it is the weather. I live in gated community and feel secure for now.

LA river is just an open cesspool of LA county runoff into the Ocean every rain....Dems don't give a **** about out environment ....joke:lol:

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

I don't live in any town. I'm sure that's confusing for you.

Don't get upset just because you can't get your way with your California bashing.

 

[Trump]

Yeah right, that Northam thing didn't age well, did it? :lamo

because Dems don't have a problem with a Gov in blackface...we'll see next election if it aged well:lol:

 

[humbolt]

Don't get upset just because you can't get your way with your California bashing.

Upset? You seem to be the one who's upset here. Maybe I should remind you that I'm responding to your posts. How is that train coming along, anyway? How much did your state government sink into that?

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

hahahahah...all those places named have ****hole areas....santa monica is truly haves and haves not...the only thing California has going for it is the weather. I live in gated community and feel secure for now.

LA river is just an open cesspool of LA county runoff into the Ocean every rain....Dems don't give a **** about out environment ....joke:lol:

Well there we have it, you live in a gated community. Nuff said! :lamo :lamo :lamo
Are you sure you feel secure?
Maybe you should build a panic room or an underground shelter, if your HOA allows it.

If you're only here for the weather, I daresay that's not a reason to stick around. You should move before it's too late.

 

[TU Curmudgeon]

Real estate values are estimated using more than just "whatever a buyer is willing to pay" and if you've ever shopped for a home you already know that.
Sure, we might "ask" 727K and only GET 715 or even 705....or we might get 740, depends on how hot the market is if and when we ever decide to sell.
Market heat maps exist in real estate for a reason. And you know that too of course.

We bought our home in Mansfield TX which was brand new, in 2006, for $172K. When the economic meltdown hit, the value plunged to 98 thousand bucks and we both had a serious problem on our hands. When we finally sold it in 2012 the market had begun to recover so we ended up selling it for just a hair over 200 thousand, thank God.

And that happens all over the country. But right now, the point is, our home is a good thing, it's relatively new (1996) and by virtue of that build date it meets or exceeds earthquake standards which were revised after the 1994 Northridge Quake, so it is reasonable sturdy, much more so than the older homes in the neighborhood, many of which are 1950's/60's/70's and 80's vintage.

They might not fare so well next shaker we get.

Real Estate "values" are estimated based on what a willing buyer paid a willing seller for a similar property in a similar location. If you don't know that then I wouldn't recommend that you attempt a career in real estate (either as accumulator or broker).

 

[TU Curmudgeon]

hahahahah...all those places named have ****hole areas....santa monica is truly haves and haves not...the only thing California has going for it is the weather. I live in gated community and feel secure for now.

LA river is just an open cesspool of LA county runoff into the Ocean every rain....Dems don't give a **** about out environment ....joke:lol:

I'm happy that you could afford to fort up.

Can I interest you in some bulletproofing for your home? I have access to a really good source of steel plating and can have it machined and painted so it looks just like aluminum siding. Bulletproof shutters with rifle loopholes will, of course, cost extra. You don't even want to know how much the antipersonnel reactive explosive strips (which blend nicely into the steel plating) will set you back and as you might expect the minefields for your front and back yards are REALLY going to cost.

 

[Trump]

I'm happy that you could afford to fort up.

Can I interest you in some bulletproofing for your home? I have access to a really good source of steel plating and can have it machined and painted so it looks just like aluminum siding. Bulletproof shutters with rifle loopholes will, of course, cost extra. You don't even want to know how much the antipersonnel reactive explosive strips (which blend nicely into the steel plating) will set you back and as you might expect the minefields for your front and back yards are REALLY going to cost.

you know the difference between Los Angeles County and Orange County? honest question

 

[TU Curmudgeon]

you know the difference between Los Angeles County and Orange County? honest question

Los Angeles County and Orange County have the same violent crime rate (4.3/1,000)

The difference between those two is NOT akin to the difference between Los Angeles (4.3/1,000) and Vancouver (0.24/1,000) (assuming that I did the math correctly since the figures are reported using different data collection methods and scalars).

In both Los Angeles County and Orange County a lot of people (appear to) live in daily fear that they will be murdered and that they MUST HAVE guns ready to hand in order to prevent that happening while in Vancouver the number of people who live in daily fear that they will be murdered and that they MUST HAVE guns ready to hand in order to prevent that happening is (at least) an order of magnitude lower.

If I have to choose between living in:

1. an area where I cannot secure my residence and feel that I MUST have a gun in order to prevent myself being murdered;
2. an area where I can secure my residence and STILL feel that I MUST have a gun in order to prevent myself being murdered; or
3. an area where I don't particularly worry about whether or not my residence is secured and do NOT feel that I MUST have a gun in order to prevent myself being murdered;

I'll go with Option 3 every time.

Which way would you go?

NOTE - The above says absolutely nothing whatsoever about having guns simply because you like guns and/or like target shooting and/or like hunting and those are totally outside of the scope of the question "Which way would you go?". If you WANT to have guns for ANY of those reasons, as far as I am concerned, fill your boots.

 

[Dittohead not!]

Looks like this thread has been derailed, and then abandoned for a couple of days at least. It must be OK to separate children from their parents and then provide them a bunk, some food, and nothing else for nearly $800 a day per each. As long as someone is making money, it's all good.

Right?

 

[D_NATURED]

I haven't seen any indication that democrats are any smarter than republicans. Witness the democrats in the house just now.

They make a lot of tactical errors against an unscrupulous enemy but you can't argue that their policies are as immoral. When it comes to their intent, they go much farther toward serving the public and investing in Americans. The GOP is consistently concerned with the wealth of a few.

Relatively speaking, there will always be poor people.

There's that famous, conservative futility that excuses their greed and exploitation. How do we battle a poverty that we declare to be perfectly normal? There have always been slaves, why fight it, right?

If you've ever spent significant time in third world countries, you realize we have very few poor in the US. Why do you think so many from Central America are trying to get here?

There are levels of poverty and they are all represented in this country. If you don't think there are American children going to bed hungry tonight, you're kidding yourself. Yes, the central American immigrants are escaping something worse but that does not change the American reality. That reality is, our president's budget allowed for a trillion and a half deficit so that we could give massive, historically unmatched, tax cuts to rich people while so many Americans do without the basic human necessities of nutrition, education and healthcare. Don't you see how wrong that is on a fundamental level?

I also think It's a fool's errand to task the federal government with such vast programs. Poverty, education, and the like are much more effectively dealt with on a state and local basis.

Vast programs are EXACTLY what the federal government does best. Poverty, as you seem to comprehend, is a problem that can't be stopped with walls. Policies must change. For us to be one of the worst countries for income disparity is nothing to be proud of and speaks to an inherent American apathy to the struggles of the poor. The tax code is precisely how that disparity can be addressed and it is precisely how it hasn't been.