Canada’s about face: They cut immigration way back then rentals and housing prices fell

Canada’s about face: They cut immigration way back then rentals and housing prices fell. By Christopher Brunet.

For years, Canada’s political elite insisted the housing crisis was caused by everything except immigration. It was a supply problem. A zoning problem. A financing problem. A speculation problem. A foreign-buyer problem. A NIMBY problem.

But never a population problem.

Anyone who suggested that record immigration levels might be overwhelming Canada’s housing and healthcare systems was treated as if he had committed a moral offense. You were not making a basic supply-and-demand argument. You were “blaming immigrants,” “scapegoating newcomers,” or spreading racist conspiracy theories. …

While the stock of “temporary” foreign workers remains high, the flow has effectively been throttled. In 2025, Carney’s first year in office, Canada saw negative population growth for the first time since Confederation in 1867! …

 

 

There is still an incredibly long way to go. But while Carney hasn’t completely shut off the tap — a political impossibility given the institutional momentum — he is at least forcing the ship in the right direction. It doesn’t excuse the years of elite gaslighting that got us here, but it is a stark departure from the Trudeau status quo.

Carney essentially stole Pierre Poilievre’s homework, but kept it quiet, technocratic, and respectable. No cringe slogans. No culture-war theatrics. No obvious permission structure for leftists to accuse him of xenophobia. That reflects a deeper understanding of the Canadian psyche. Many Canadians know the country imported people faster than it could house them, but they are too polite and still recoil from anything that feels cruel, crude, or openly anti-immigrant. Carney gave them a way to support restriction without feeling as though they had crossed a moral line. He did things politely and quietly.

The vibe is shifting. …

Housing prices went down!

The desperate bidding wars that characterized the Canadian rental market have completely disintegrated

Average asking rents across Canada have fallen year-over-year (YoY) for 19 consecutive months as of April 2026, and in April 2026, the national average asking rent for a house dropped by 7.9% YoY …

 

House prices in Brampton, Ontario, which has the highest South Asian population in the country, are in freefall

My shocked face just jumped out the window.

The about-face, but “no one was to blame:”

The numbers don’t lie, even if the politicians do. For a decade, they weaponized the language of tolerance to protect a broken economic model that enriched slumlords, corporate fast-food franchises, and strip-mall colleges at the expense of an entire generation of young Canadians.

These liars and traitors will never apologize. They will never admit that the “racists” and “conspiracy theorists” were simply describing supply and demand.

But the taboo is broken, the numbers are moving, and the old consensus is dead. …

The clearest sign that the taboo has shattered is that Liberals are now beginning to outflank Conservatives from the right. Eric Lombardi, a candidate for the Ontario Liberal leadership, is openly running on what amounts to a mass-remigration platform, calling for Canada to unwind its temporary-resident population from roughly five million people nationally to well under one million over the next five to ten years.

That would have been politically unthinkable two years ago. Not from a fringe populist party. Not from a Conservative backbencher. From a Liberal. Yet here we are: the party that spent the Trudeau years treating immigration restraint as a moral crime is now producing candidates who are willing to say, in plain language, that millions of temporary residents must leave.

This is how completely the politics have shifted. The Conservatives spent years trying to make the immigration-housing argument acceptable. Carney quietly absorbed it into government policy. Now Liberals are beginning to run ahead of the Conservative Party itself, using the language of administrative realism rather than nationalist revolt. What was racist in 2023 is Liberal pragmatism in 2026.

Coming to Your Australian Suburb?

Coming to Your Australian Suburb? By Craig Kelly.

A 60-year-old man from Gladstone Park, Melbourne, was ripped from his sleep on 24 July last year when his home was brutally invaded by a vicious Sudanese gang.

He was repeatedly stabbed, shot in the arm, and mercilessly bashed with a hammer — all while he begged for his life, crying “Take what you want, I’ll give you whatever you want.”

The animals even filmed their own handiwork for their sick entertainment. …

 

See the video (X won’t embed it, too graphic)

 

This is the direct, bloody result of decades of suicidal leftist empathy — reckless mass migration and pathetic soft-on-crime policies that have turned Australian suburbs into hunting grounds for imported thugs.

Leftists desperate for political power and virtue signallers that like to feel morally superior — have created a toxic environment over the past two decades where anyone who dared telling the truth trying to sound a warning was smeared as “racist” for simply pointing out that our migration policies are deliberately importing the wrong people — people who refuse to assimilate and bring waves of savage violence with them. …

The gutless major parties have failed Australia for years. The only party with the backbone to confront this crisis head-on is Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.

Alternatively, keep voting Labor, Greens or Teals for more of the same.

The barbarism in Belfast

The barbarism in Belfast. By Brendan O’Neill in spiked.

People are sick of paying the blood price of bourgeois virtue. That is increasingly how it feels to working-class communities — that they are expected to absorb the risk of letting in tens of thousands of unvetted men, while their betters absorb the glow of righteousness that comes with crying ‘Refugees welcome’.

 

The victim of the attempted beheading, Stephen Ogilvie, survived — fortunately the attacked only had a boxcutter. He was helping the same man who attacked him move in as a next door neighbor just four days before the attack.

 

The activist class in their leafy suburbs are shielded from the social consequences of their moral theatre. It is the lower orders who suffer the fallout. Working-class girls who suddenly have 800 men from fuck knows where in the hotel at the end of their road. Women like Rhiannon Whyte, murdered by a Sudanese ‘asylum seeker’ from the very migrant hotel she worked in. This poor man in Belfast. It seems their suffering is a small price to pay for the moral gloating of our rulers.

This is why people are angry. Not because they’re racist. Not because they want all non-whites cast out of the kingdom. Such defamatory classist bile doesn’t wash anymore.

No, it is the pathological nonchalance of the establishment that infuriates them, and the green light that such institutionalised cowardice gives to certain wicked men who come here. That image of the suspect in Belfast seeming to punch the air with bloodcurdling delight as his exhausted victim fought for his life – this will be burned into people’s minds. It deserves to become a defining image in the life of our nation. For it grimly embodies the twin horrors of an individual’s murderous intent and a state’s murderous indifference. …

Isn’t there now a case against officialdom of reckless endangerment? Every week there are reports of horrifying rapes carried out by illegal immigrants. Working-class women and girls have suffered sickening abuse at the hands of men who came on small boats under the noses of our apathetic, cowardly rulers. People have been murdered, too.

Ah yes, but the newcomers vote for our ruling class, who shower them with welfare and receive taxpayer jobs.

Drew Pavlou:

Australia’s public broadcaster ABC News just accused @elonmusk of ”inciting racial tension” in Belfast because he did not censor footage showing a Sudanese refugee attempting to behead someone.

They’re angrier at Elon than at the stabber.

 


Elon Musk:

The news orgs that say this instead of caring about innocent people being beheaded in the streets are scum of the Earth

Britain is Broken:

Police are now using WATER CANNONS against protesters in Belfast.

Amazing how these were never used against Floyd protestors.

Black Dumpling:

They sent heavily armored British police. Sent them in force. Sent them with [water] cannons.

Not to stop the grooming gangs. Not to stop the stabbings, the gougings, the decapitations. Not to stop the slaughter of children.

No, they were sent to stop you from talking about them.

Consider.. for decades these self same officers knew little British girls were being subjected to some of the most horrific abuse possible. And did nothing. Stood down. Looked the other way.

But now word’s gotten out. Now there’s discussion. Now there’s concern. Now the natives are realizing that the whole children getting knifed thing isn’t nearly as rare as they were told. Constantly.

Possibly related:

hat-tip Stephen Neil

Migrants rule, natives suck

Migrants rule, natives suck. By Marco Rubio, via QTheStorm.

Americans work 40+ years. Pay taxes. Follow the rules. Build the country. Then retire on $800, $900, maybe $1,000 a month.

Meanwhile, a new able-bodied arrival from Cuba, 28 years old, doesn’t work, receives $1,500 a month of benefits because he is a refugee. A year later, he has traveled back to Cuba 15 (fifteen) times.

New arrivals can receive more support from the same system they never paid into. The people who built America are being pushed to the back of the line.

The same sort of thing is happening around the Western world.

The third world wouldn’t come to the West if there was no welfare for them. Duh.

 

 

UPDATE:

hat-tip Stephen Neil

Even the left is starting to get it — they are crumbling

Even the left is starting to get it — they are crumbling. By Bitcoin Teddy.

Bill Maher just went so hard against Islam, it left his guests in stunned silence.

It all started when Maher recalled how people overused the term “Islamophobia” after 9/11.

He says that moment was the “beginning” of a “wokeness” that forbade you to say this out loud:

“There is such a thing as Western civilization. Remember after 9/11, if you said ‘clash of civilizations’? It was the beginning of sort of that wokeness where, ‘Oh, don’t say that. That’s Islamophobia.’”

“No, it was a clash of civilizations. The civilizations are very different, and OURS IS BETTER!”

[Guests stare at each other in silence].

Maher continued: “And if you’re not clapping, spend a week in a Muslim capital, you wouldn’t last.”

 


Commenters:

“Spend a week in a Muslim capital” is overstating it. A week in Jakarta, Ankara, or Kuala Lumpur would be pleasant. Cities run by Islamists, like Tehran or Damascus, are the problem.

After two or three generations, the descendants of Poles in England are indistinguishable from the English, except for their funny names. After two or three generations, the descendants of Pakistanis in England set off bombs on the Underground.

Multiculturalism is a purely ridiculous and uneven exchange

Multiculturalism is a purely ridiculous and uneven exchange.

Thomas Sowell:

What multiculturalism boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture. And you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

Restore Australia:

7% of the planet’s population are Europeans. These Europeans are expected to house the third world. They are also expected to be hated by the third world. They are also expected to praise the third world. They are expected to house, pay for, donate to and support the third world. They aren’t ever allowed to criticise the third world and they certainly aren’t allowed to have nations of their own, or speak in such terms.

This small 7% is being demographically erased and the justification for doing so is that we have been historically and currently the most economically, technologically and culturally advanced civilisations on earth. This small 7% is told to house 93% of the planet’s population in their tiny portion of it. The third world aren’t expected to do anything in return, they can have their own nations, their own culture, their own customs and their own preferences.

Multiculturalism for me, but ethno-nationalism for thee. The hypocrisy and idiocy is astounding.

And our ruling class fell for it, tripping over themselves to be more “virtuous” than their fellow elitists. Remember, populism is is when the populous rejects the ruling class because it is failing.

Since 1970, every western country has voted against immigration on every one of the few occasions it was ever on the ballot — e.g. Brexit. Yet the Western ruling class inflicted mass immigration from the third world upon us anyway. They broke it, now they fix it.

Democrats steal another election: LA

Democrats steal another election: LA.

The LA mayor’s race was a three way race, with the top two qualifying for the runoff election. Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and City Council member Nithya Raman are projected to advance to the November 2026 runoff election for Los Angeles mayor, defeating reality TV star Spencer Pratt in the primary.

 

Mail-ins arriving before Election Day:
🔵 Bass: 38.1%
🔴 Pratt: 27.9%
🔵 Raman: 20%

Mail-ins arriving after Election Day:
🔵 Raman: 37% (+17% surge)
🔵 Bass: 34.9% (-3% drop)
🔴 Pratt: 19% (-9% drop)

 

3rd place jumps to 1st in *every* ballot drop *after* Election Day

ChatGPT can’t find a single example of a 3rd place candidate surging, days AFTER Election Day, to overtake 2nd place.

Florida counts 90% of ballots in 1 hour. California is at 72% after 5 DAYS.

“Late votes are disproportionately for Democrats” struck me as believable. “Late votes are disproportionately for whichever Democrat needs to come in 2nd to keep a Republican out of a two-man runoff” is not.

Trump responded to the impossible results coming in after election day, writing, “No way this could have happened. Rigged Election!”

How fringe is Raman? She campaigned with the Jew hating, Al-Qaida-loving, leftist podcaster Hasan Piker, who said the U.S. deserved 9/11.

34 of 47 European counties completely forbid the practice of mail in voting … They’re way to the political left of the US.

So yeah, there probably was a lot of fraud. Any time you mail out 23 million ballots, you can expect a considerable number of them to be filled out and returned by someone other than an intended registered voter. I understand that the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles is trying to look into the situation, but the same shoddy practices that make fraud easy also make it hard to prove.

California’s voting system is designed for cheating. By Bill Essayli, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California:

California allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising, including:

-Gym membership card
-Employer ID card
-Credit or debit card
-Prescription drug label
-Insurance card (California provides free health coverage to undocumented immigrants) …

We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies.

On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters’ behalf (a practice known as ballot harvesting) with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot. …

California is blocking a federal audit of its voter rolls. …

For over a year, the Department of Justice has been trying to audit California’s voter rolls. Federal law gives the Attorney General the authority to review state voter files and confirm that only eligible U.S. citizens are voting in federal elections.

@AAGDhillon [Federal AG] sent California a letter explaining our legal authority. California refused to comply, claiming state privacy laws block the review, an argument that does not hold up because those laws don’t apply to the federal government in this context. We’ve sued California in federal court, and the case is before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

If California genuinely wants voters to trust its elections, it should open its records, not fight to keep them closed.

What are they afraid of?

How long has this been going on? Well:

NOVEMBER 30, 2010: Four weeks after losing the election as AG of CA, Kamala Harris wins due to mail-in surge from LA. Harris won by less than 1%.

Election stealing by the spooks, by BDW:

Fmr CIA officer here. Let me share how elections get stolen — and the role of intel agencies.

We all know that the CIA and NSA create and execute clandestine operations that are designed to go undetected. That ranges from recruiting human spies, tapping phone systems, and altering devices of all kinds. Yes, that necessarily includes voting machines.

The CIA and NSA have teams to execute all of these operations and missions at the direction of a President, even those ops that are deemed impossible… like machines locked in rooms that are inside secure facilities, unhooked from the internet or whatever device that could tether them to the outside world.

Those tough intel operations require extensive planning, exquisite trade craft, supporting operations (HUMINT, SIGINT, MASINT), and a degree of luck.

For many years, everything that I’m saying was understood by both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill.

Historic footage from Congressional hearings show both Ds and Rs saying that they were alarmed about voting systems with so-called “unhackable machines.” They knew then — correctly — that such a suggestion or claim was ridiculous. They were briefed by NSA and CIA teams on how they “hack the unhackable” every month without leaving a trace.

This is why Taiwan and others are resolute on conducting elections the old fashioned way: same day voting only, in person, IDs, paper ballots, a counting process that is open to the public to watch and monitor, and results announced that same night.

If Taiwan can do it with ~24M people, any US state can do it. Refusal to do so is an intentional choice to open your electoral systems to vulnerabilities.

That’s what we’re now seeing across the United States, and primarily in Democrat-dominated locales. Including Los Angeles. Those politicians choose broken systems.

California’s ~30 day process to tally votes is obviously and intentionally vulnerable that a reasonable person understands that it allows for manipulation and assured electoral outcome by a dominant power (Democrats, in this case).

And like any good intel op, you do it such that there are no fingerprints left behind — whether that be with machines, mail-in ballots, harvested ballots, etc. If you own the ops environment, anything is possible.

Still, mistakes happen in any op. In the event of disclosure, you do what we often see Democrats and the media do: deny, smear, and make counter-accusations to preserve intentionally broken systems.

Folks, this is not about Spencer Pratt. This is about the future of what’s left of our Republic.

Evil, seditious forces have broken our electoral systems and gained great power using them. Mayor Bass is but one, using the machine that her Democrat Party has built to sustain her and Leftist power. It’s the modern, Golden State version of old Chicago, NJ, or Huey Long corruption.

They will deny it, obviously. Because admission means loss of power, money, and likely prison time. There’s no incentive for them to clean up what’s broken.

Bottom line: Mr. Pratt’s earnest desire to run a righteous race to fix his city faces long odds. He didn’t just run against Karen Bass. He ran against a corrupt machine.

But if nothing else, he has shown his fellow Angelinos and the nation that, once again, we have an existential problem in our electoral system with intentional vulnerabilities and electoral fraud that naturally flows from the brokenness.

Now it’s up to the rest of us to fix it.

There are solutions, none easy or polite. But we must do so — and by whatever means necessary — or the Republic falls to Communists and Cuba-trained agitators like Karen Bass.

UPDATE: Wall Street Journal editorial:

President Trump’s charge that Democrats “rigged” California’s jungle primary has naturally elicited eye-rolls given his habit of crying fraud whenever he loses an election. But he has a point that the state’s Democrats have designed a leaky election system to juice their votes. …

California sends mail-in ballots to all registered voters who have until Election Day to send them back. … The state also lets third parties including unions, campaigns and political parties collect and return an unlimited number of ballots on voters’ behalf—a practice known as ballot harvesting. This can result in large dumps of mail-in ballots that support a particular candidate. …

Democrats legislated election rules to make it exceptionally easy to register and vote with the intent of boosting turnout among young and low-propensity voters who lean left. But these rules also create openings for fraud and improper voting….

Federal prosecutors last month indicted a California woman for paying homeless people on Skid Row to register using her former address, meaning ballots would be sent there. She agreed to plead guilty. …

A woman from Orange County, Calif., was charged last fall with illegally registering her dog to vote and submitting ballots on the canine’s behalf. One ballot was counted, the other was tossed. The fraud was caught because the woman reported herself. …

There’s no evidence so far that fraud has affected the results of the L.A. mayoral race, but the delayed results are a disservice to democracy. The state’s loose voting rules and dilatory counting fuel distrust in elections, and play into the hands of Mr. Trump. You’d think Gov. Gavin Newsom would care about this, but as long as progressives are winning, maybe not.

The latest outrage: immigrant man tries to behead white man in Ireland

The latest outrage: immigrant man tries to behead white man in Ireland.

Tommy Robinson:

Horrific scenes in North Belfast tonight as an invader was caught trying to behead a man in the middle of the street!

Go to the link or here to see the video (too graphic, X won’t embed it).

UPDATE: Here’s a version that will embed:

 

The attack took place in the Kinnaird Avenue area of Belfast at around 10:30pm. The weapon was a small Stanley knife (aka boxcutter). One man arrested at the scene. Unconfirmed reports the guy has sadly passed away — and that he lost both his eyes in the attack.

Attacks are so common now. Elon Musk merely says:

!!

Three bystanders tackled the Somalian knifeman and prevented the attempted beheading from being completed.

The woman recording shouts “There’s a cop there’s a cop back off back off back off”. She knows cops are more likely to arrest the brave men who attempted to stop this dude from murdering the Irishman instead of actually dealing with the criminal

 

Is this news relevant to us? Is there some systematic reason this sort of thing might occur here, to us or our descendants? Is there a long history of this sort of thing happening? Is there an ideology or religion that supports or even encourages this? Is there an obvious way of preventing this happening to us? Will this make it to the mainstream media news? So many questions, to which we all know the answers, but which remain forbidden by our ruling elite.

 

Albanese’s tax changes make the wealthiest tenants better off while making the poorer ones worse off

Albanese’s tax changes make the wealthiest tenants better off while making the poorer ones worse off. By Henry Ergas in The Australian.

Faulty lefty argument:

Saul Eslake’s recent article in The Guardian welcoming Labor’s proposed tax increases … is a textbook example of “progressive” economics.

Like every good progressive, Eslake approaches public policy as a search for victims and oppressors. In his telling, the victims are would-be owner-occupiers; the oppressors are landlords. Those roles assigned, the argument largely writes itself.

He begins with a conceptual confusion. Shelter, he says, is a basic human need. Quite so. But he immediately smuggles in a wholly different proposition: that a right to shelter entails a right to home ownership.

That proposition is absurd. In Switzerland, some 60 per cent of dwellings are rented; the proportions in Germany and Austria are only slightly lower. Yet no one could argue that the Swiss, the Germans and the Austrians are denied the right to shelter. By every measurable standard they are extremely well housed.

Eslake’s error is simple. A right to shelter is a claim about the consumption of housing services; a right to home ownership is a claim about the ownership of assets.

The two are no more identical than a right to nutrition is a right to own a farm. …

Follow the money:

What that means — and what Eslake astonishingly overlooks — is that Labor’s policies do not benefit all, or even a majority, of the ­“oppressed”. They may benefit tenants who move into home ownership; but to the extent the higher costs imposed on landlords are passed through into rents, they make the remaining tenants worse off. …

The new owner-occupiers are likely to be the tenants with the highest incomes: those already on the cusp of buying but not quite there. The policies therefore make the wealthiest tenants better off while making the poorer ones worse off. That is quite an achievement: a policy sold in the name of equity that redistributes from poorer renters to richer ones. …

Winners and losers:

The basic point is straightforward: it is very difficult, if not impossible, for a policy that works by raising the cost of supplying an essential good — in this case shelter — to make the community better off.

It is hard to believe that this one is an exception. It penalises most tenants to benefit a relatively small number of affluent renters, redistributing from the poorest tenants to the richest; it imposes substantial efficiency costs on the Australian economy; and if there are any gains to future buyers, they come entirely by inflicting large losses on existing asset owners, breaking election promises, increasing uncertainty and discouraging investment.

We began with a simple distinction: a right to nutrition is not a right to own a farm, and a right to shelter is not a right to own a house. Labor’s policy forgets it — and in forgetting, contrives to starve the very people it claims to feed.

That such a program should be presented as an obvious social good is remarkable. That it should be applauded as a triumph for the disadvantaged is positively perverse.

Labor has become the party of the wealthy, for the wealthy and by the wealthy. It was inevitable, as big government grew every bigger and their supporters grew wealthier due to government action. Albanese himself is clearly a wealthy man.

50 years of progress and progressivism

50 years of progress and progressivism.

Pepsi commercial from 50 years ago (the past is like a foreign country):

 

This is Pepsi’s modern version of the ad (actually, the present is like a foreign country):

 

Did you vote for this?

Possibly related: (By Anglo Saxon Logic)

Australia was 98% homogeneous white Anglo Celtic up until the 70s. That is who built the country, settled the land, built the infrastructure, federated our nation and introduced all our civic structures, culture and institutions. They are why we enjoy Football, Rugby, Cricket and other Victorian British sports, why we follow English common law, property rights and free speech and open expression. Our people being British Islanders also is the root cause of why the nation was so prosperous, safe, harmonious and positive. For 200 years our people slaved, toiled, and crafted a first world country out of an unsettled wild continent. They also shed their blood defending Australia in two world wars.

The delusional multiculturalism project, driven by boomer liberalism, weaponised empathy and deconstructed identity has given the baby boomers the greatest life imaginable.With monstrous house price growth, huge savings via inflated equities and superannuation and now endless cheap labour for the service economy and big business.

Sadly it is all a ponzi scheme, and this has come at a cost: the Zoomer and Gen alpha generations are now competing with endless foreigners in their homeland, their inheritance squandered by the boomers. Millions of Indians, middle-easterners, Asians, and Africans with antithetical cultures and customs now clog up our cities and towns, meaning our young can no longer afford a home. Their standard of life is suppressed and they now no longer enjoy the high trust homogeneous society of the 1900s-1990s. GDP per capita is in free fall, crime is up, and nobody can afford to live anything resembling a steady life here down under.

Our country is not “a social experiment” … Our nation isn’t a gamble or a venture. It is a shared homeland for the Anglo Celtic people who have a shared ancestry, a shared culture and shared values to bestow to each new generation: not to be given away to third worlders who have no respect for our past or present.

Sadly, many of their generation are so individualistic; selfish and arrogant. Our land isn’t a faceless, cultureless economic zone for all the races of the world to just use as a marketplace of goods, services and property.

Don’t know what you had ’til it’s gone.

The crucial part is assimilation. If immigration is kept slow enough for every immigrant to either assimilate or depart, we keep our unusual high-trust ways and enviable society. High-trust societies are a distinct minority in the world, and are currently being replaced due to mass migration from the third world

Big government scam of “unfixable” problems

Big government scam of “unfixable” problems. By Stephen L. Miller.

The left lets institutions and communities break down to a point of total degradation to prove why more government and non profits are the answer.

The goal is to purposely not solve problems and make life and safety worse. See the entire defund the police movement and homelessness nonprofits in California. Gavin Newson promised to end homelessness and instead it ballooned on purpose.

This is why there was such enormous flip out over Trump renovating the reflecting pool or spencer Pratt’s campaign.

Once people realize that things can be improved a lot of nonprofits and public union/money dries up.

There is a reason why cities like Chicago Los Angeles Portland Seattle and now Denver all look the same because they are all run by the same people running the exact same scam.

Commenter:

The Trump Administration cleaning up Washington DC and crushing the crime rate is a Success for everyone, except . . . . . our corrupt & incompetent Ruling Class.

The mascot group — such as Aboriginals in Australia or the homeless in LA — receive lots more government spending per capita than normal folks, but the money is actually spent employing lefties in big government and the NGO complex. If the problem is fixed, the flow of money to lefties would be reduced.

In many cases it might be better to give the money directly as cash to the disadvantaged people, rather then give it to a bunch of privileged bureaucrats or NGO types — who then pretend to do something.

The catch-22 of big government: it cannot fix a problem, or government would get smaller.

 

Conversation between a Boomer and a Gen Z

Conversation between a Boomer and a Gen Z.

Gen Z to Boomers:

Dear Boomers,

I’m writing this because a lot of us are tired of pretending everything is fine.

We grew up hearing how great things used to be. How one income could buy a house, raise kids, and still have something left over. How you could graduate high school or trade school and walk into a solid job. How communities felt safe and people actually trusted each other.

We don’t have any of that.

Instead we got sky-high housing prices, wages that haven’t kept up for decades, and student debt that follows us for life even if we paid back the original amount. We watch jobs in trades and manufacturing get crushed by cheap foreign labor and illegal immigration while politicians from both parties act like it’s no big deal. We see the Social Security and Medicare systems, the ones you and your parents paid into, getting stretched thinner every year as more people who paid far less into them start drawing out.

We feel betrayed.

You had the strongest economy in history, affordable homes, stable families, and real opportunity. Then somewhere along the way the doors were thrown open, the factories were shipped overseas, and the rules got changed so the people at the top win no matter what. Now we’re told to “just work harder” in a system that’s rigged against us.

We’re not lazy. We’re not entitled. We’re exhausted from watching the ladder get pulled up after you climbed it.

We want to know: When did you realize it was going this bad? And why didn’t more of you fight harder to stop it?

Sincerely, A frustrated Gen Z

Boomer to Gen Z:

I read your letter. I hear your anger. You feel betrayed, and a lot of you have every right to feel that way. You’re right that it got bad. But let me tell you how it actually happened from our side.

We switched parties more than once trying to get smaller government. We voted for politicians who promised to cut spending, secure the border, and put Americans first. We showed up at the polls. We wrote letters. We trusted the system.

The politicians did what they wanted anyway.

We never voted for open borders. We never voted to ship our factories overseas. We never voted to raid the Social Security lockbox or take the country off the gold standard. Those decisions were made by the generation before us and the permanent ruling class in Washington. They broke the deal no matter which party we sent to power.

We built the interstate system, the power grid, the early internet backbone, the satellite networks, and much of the physical world you live in today. You enjoy the benefits of that infrastructure every single day. We handed it to you in far better shape than we received it.

The suffering you feel, the wage stagnation, the housing crisis, the debt, the broken trust, didn’t fully hit until your generation and the one after. We watched it coming, warned about it, and got called every name in the book for doing so.

We didn’t create this mess. We inherited part of it and then failed to stop it. That’s on us. But pretending we wanted this outcome or voted for it is simply not true. We still believe in hard work, self-reliance, and building something real. We hope you do too.

The country we grew up in had real problems, but it also had real opportunity. You deserve that same chance.