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Where do people buy 70k houses?Here 30k buys you an empty 100m2 plot, if such tiny plots were ever sold.100m2 = 10mx10m = 30ftx30ft =very roughly 900sq ft.That leaves another 30k to build the house, which is doable for such a small house, and 10k as a buffer and/or furniture.

I would love to buy a 70k house, imagine the tiny mortgage!

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I think you can find large swaths of this country where people would be glad to unload their homes for $70,000 - like, say, upstate NY. And you certainly don't have to build a new house....

But, it's hard to buy a home at any price if one can't find dependable, well-paying employment, too ( unless you're independently wealthy ). That's the whole point of that para in the Rude Pundit's piece - and what Rump fails to understand.

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An interesting comparison can be made by running, side by side, interviews with President Kennedy and our current lump in the White House. You can't even believe they are the President of the same country.

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Someone has to pay Dame Peggy's liquor bill.

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Republicans are so mired in the past that they think all their food comes from the Joad family.

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Is this person literally saying he's blind? Because you'd think that, even if he had somehow managed not to know that beforehand, standing in front of an audience of 40,000 children would have disabused him.

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An awful lot of them are thinking "He talks just like us!"

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I thought it was North Carolina. Now that I think about it, though, you're probably right.

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No, one of those things is not like another. Jill Stein is legitimately smart. Unfortunately she gets her view of the world entirely from propaganda.

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Actually, that's just about exactly what they intend to do. Ol' Rupe didn't hire Gerard Baker for no good reason: he hired Gerard Baker as an ideological enforcer on the "news" side of the Journal, the way he hired that odious woman-beating Paul Gigot on the "opinion" side.

Baker was issuing preemptive threats that nobody had better leak the transcript, and no doubt is going bring in the big guns (maybe people with actual guns, given how these right wingers operate) to expose the leaker now that it's all out in the open.

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Trump should watch "The Late Show," to see what a real standing ovation looks like.

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check the cost of living there, housing is through the roof these days

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Oh, hell. I never even made it to Bobcat.

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So, you know, and these are like countries, you know, fairly large, like 300 million people.

...Like your own fucking country, assmuch?

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He tells it like it is! He speaks the truth! He says what he means!

Everything is all projection with these assholes, so they're really thinking of Obama.

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I really think it's even beyond what you described. Living in an alternate reality, and living BY it.

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