[spacemadness]

It’s always housing. We’re basically at economic war with each other. Home owners vs. non-home owners. Home owners get anxious when their house value doesn’t continue to rise past inflation. So they vote against policies that would help non home owners get into the market without drowning out of self interest.

[drivingmenuts]

Great line from Newsroom: we waged wars on poverty, not poor people …

Kind of sums things up. Likely, we’ll never see that again. Not in my lifetime, anyway.