Elderly Citizens Bullied By Rent Hikes & Late-Stage Capitalism 

It's time that congress do something about this. Looks like the Republicans are letting this happen and you people voted them in congress.

corporations care about profit.......that's it. Consequences be damned.

Don’t vote Republican. Anything butt lol did that on purpose😂 bc they’re so greedy they would steal from their own mamas

I live in mesa as well and 3 years ago I was making $22 per hour working 50 hrs average a week, I barely qualified for a 1 bedroom apartment by myself by $33. Part of the issue and I am not being insensitive, is that the way the economy is is partly on them as well. Wages have been awfully slow to increase while inflation has been taking off for around 40 years. I think it's awful what's happening to them, but I also don't have too much sympathy when my entire life I have found it hard to get by even with a decent job and being financially smart. They at least had the option to purchase a home and reap the benefits of inflation.

@@KendraBardot Many were in their 80’s and 90’s, with any assets long since used up to cover medical bills and inflation. Their retirement accounts on average had around $100,000 or less 20-30 years ago. Many are widowed and lost half their social security income when their spouse died. Others are disabled and have been their entire adult lives. Not everyone from the related time period made more than minimum wage when they were working. They never made enough to buy a home. How about the 3 mobile home parks that are evicting every resident so new developments can be built on the land? They have until May 31st to be out. They own their mobile home, but rent the land it’s parked on. Now there’s no land they can move to that they can afford to buy, no park with space available, and if they did find space, the cost to move their mobile home is well over $10,000 if it can be moved at all. So no, not everyone back then had the options you believe they did.

True ! Societies are judged by how they treat the very young, the very old, and the disabled. A tragic truth faced by "boomers" right now.

That's the general idea.

Like third world countries the U.S. will have the wealthy elites and the poor, the middle class will vanish. A banana republic, without the bananas!!

How about you make more than 40k then?

@Pepe Stock is Soaring how about we keep moving the goal post? Either you're a troll or a right-wing psychotic who reads too much Ayn Rand.

@@donnyramay2635 Dude 40k for a grown man is pathetic??? Go earn more or stfu about how hard the system is or how Capitalism means you can't get ahead. Man up.

@Pepe Stock is Soaring $40,000 a year pathetic? At least I have a job and I'm good at what I do. You sound like one of those people that look down on blue-collar trade folks. I'm gonna give you one of these...🖕

Same here!

Same here

which is the same problem here, in Australia for several reasons (houses are far too expensive for 1 and they hand them down to family, or sit empty till they die then divided up) and the elderly hang onto their houses instead of putting them back into housing stock, therefore there is no housing stock, therefore one of the main reasons houses, BASIC houses are now out of reach for young up to around 40/45+ years of age. I'm 46. houses where definitely out of reach for someone like me around 20+ years ago, and its only a hundred times worse now. and with all that I would still tell my elderly parents, unless they can get a very nice smaller home (ours is actually tiny 10×11?, but on 5 acres) that will support them financially for the next 20 years, to stay in their home too!! (but I'd still choose Australia set up over usa anyday)

That is yet another argument for outlawing for profit insurance. They're nothing but leeches.

Bless you!❤

Keep your parents away from these communists

It's not fair. You know whats worse. Some don't even know why the rent is going up.

Ralph Nader for president

never. americans will never stand up. in fact these elderly folk will be too busy hating on trans and black people they hear about on the fox news to realise they're being kicked out and thrown on their face for being deadbeats. They'll beg their adult children to help them, the same adult children they wanted to do nothing to help in their healthcare and education

Hold my walker.....

I'm paraplegic

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A lot of Americans are retiring abroad these days because of a higher quality of life for a lesser cost. Lots of places have good retirement visas.

costa rica is meant to be quite good.

I retire next February. I'm leaving my children and grandchildren, but I can't deal with this cutthroat capitalism anymore. It's shameful!

If you have enough money to move to a different country then I'm jealous of you because most of us can't afford to move down the road

@@undrwatropium3724 a lot of people who do this sell all of their possessions and only bring 1-2 suitcases with the necessities. A lot of overseas apartments are available fully furnished and there are many countries with a good quality of living that have much lesser cost of living and you can live comfortably for $1500-$2000 a month for everything (rent, utilities, food, etc..). It is easier for retirees because some countries have specific retiree visas, but there are ways for younger folks to do it too like TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) and every country has different requirements to be eligible. I grew up poor and now I’m middle class (no where near rich, but comfortable (mainly b/c I chose not to have kids)). I truly believe that anyone can do this, but it is definitely easier for some than it is for others and some countries aren’t options for lower income individuals. It’s all about research, planning and compromise if it is something you really want to aim for.

I garuntee you are unsuccessful

Didn't Donald Trump cut most of the regulation including what a Landlord can and can't do??

@@kenrickeason I hope so, regulation destroys the free market

​@@AbdulKhader-786 Not true, Muslim countries are the worst.

@@AbdulKhader-786 you believe that the sun does not shine in Finland?

@@AbdulKhader-786 Not according to every statistic...

@@AbdulKhader-786 Have you ever visited Finland? I lived there for 5 years. I loved Finland.The people, the scenery, decent economy,great food,and clean air.It is a magic place.Us? Would you rather live there or Syria?

@@AbdulKhader-786 I am a huge fan of seafood. The Nordic countries have some of the world's best,and of great variety. So yes, very much the food.Also, the Finnish people are some of the friendliest in the world.Think what you want.You know nothing about Finland.

Google it

It's disgusting how they're treating seniors.

Unfortunately, yes it is. We desperately m need national rent control, and prohibitions on corporations buying up huge swaths of both apartment buildings and houses, driving up home sale prices and apartment rental prices for corporate gain, while turning working people into little more than serfs.

We have to drive the change and create the change or things will continue on this trajectory. Inertia is hard to break but we must act to save our future from the grasp of the greedy.

Holy shit, wtf is wrong with you? Pull your shit together and be an adult and stop blaming the system you lazy fuck. You've had 60 YEARS to improve your life and you haven't????? Shameful

@@Pepestock I’ve spent 40 years on the lower end of the pay scale, raising two kids, living paycheck to paycheck with a spouse who liked to spend money rather than save it. I work 40 hours a week, own both my house and my car now and I’m finally financially in a position where I can start saving money. Unless you know all the circumstances of someone’s life I think it’s rather rude to call someone a lazy #uck.

@@tenaoconnor7510 No, wtf? Get your spouse under control? Why did you marry someone who is so irresponsible and neglectful of you and your children's needs? This is your fault and now your kids had to suffer because of your poor choices

It took you 62 years to pay off a small house? The fuck?

Idk where you live but In Arkansas they'll continue to vote against their own self interests out of stupidity and misinformation

@@undrwatropium3724 Yes it's exactly like that here too, it's stupid

It's money and greed and that is a problem of the world. Not just America.

It is not capitalism, it is called greed. I must say again, it is not the system, It is the people who have succumbed to the evil.

Is awesome

Money and greed is a problem in all countries. It's not just an American problem.

FDR saved capitalism from itself, now his reforms are being undone.

So "late term capitalism" can be reversed? If that's the case, then it's not so much a linear process of capitalism's rise and fall, but more of a pendulum.

@@howardmctroy3303 Corporate media wasn't a serious thing back in FDR's time, which is how he got elected in the first place. Someone like FDR winning again is extremely unlikely. We're much more likely to descend into fascism, where issues such as poverty are blamed on minorities, so that the system can stay protected.

Exactly

No let's stay home and fix our goddamn country instead of fleeing. That would be a total abandonment of everybody who doesn't have the means to follow. It's always disheartening to hear people on the left talk about, "If so and so gets elected I'm moving to Canada or wherever", like you're only here for the ride and as soon as the going gets tough you'll just look for a better opportunity elsewhere. What happened to the love of country and of one's fellow Americans?

@@Gregorypeckory I'm not American. It looks a great place if you are rich & healthy. If you become poor, ill or disabled not so great.

Ain't that a laugh! Such hypocrites, many 'christians' now spout a 'prosperity gospel' although Jesus "had no place to lay His head".

@@marionopisso212 WORD!!!

Troll elsewhere you liar

No. Inflation caused by a combination of mergers, GOP's deregulations, and Trump's poor COVID response. Try actually pulling up a study proving your point -- wait, you can't.

Caused by capitaIism. I hope it faIIs in America soon. WiII be a great day for the peopIe.

Republicans aren't pro life their grifters like tRumpy

I mean democrats literally advocate for the killing of babies in the womb and higher taxes for the successful but sure

LOL commies are delusional, your methods lead to MILLIONS of dead bodies but yeah let's try again 🤣

@@Pepestock It's not just that the minority-rule, right-wing, MAGAt fascist traitors against America's majority-rule democracy are uneducated, gorging themselves on their pin-headed, bumper-sticker philosophy and world-view, it is that they are willfully ignorant and ineducable (abjectly stupid). Capitalism has killed more than twice as many humans as has "communism". Capitalism was created in the 16th century. Socialism in the 20th century, Communism a half-century after that. Here's the historical facts: Socialist countries do not go on profit wars. They give everyone food, housing, healthcare jobs, etc… and they do not exploit other countries. They do not engage in neoliberal rape, pillage, plunder and enslavement of the rest of the world's natural resources. Capitalism on the other hand: 100,000,000: Extermination of native Americans (1492-1890) 15,000,000: Atlantic slave trade (1500-1870) 150,000: French repression of Haiti slave revolt (1792-1803) 300,000: French conquest of Algeria (1830-1847) 50,000: Opium Wars (1839-1842 & 1856-1860) 1,000,000: Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849) 100,000: British supression of the Sepoy Mutiny (1857-1858) 20,000: Paris Commune Massacre (1871) 29,000,000: Famine in British Colonized India (1876-1879 & 1897-1902) 3,445: Black people lynched in the US (1882-1964) 10,000,000: Belgian Congo Atrocities: (1885-1908) 250,000: US conquest of the Philipines (1898-1913) 28,000: British concentration camps in South Africa (1899-1902) 800,000: French exploitation of Equitorial Africans (1900-1940) 65,000: German genocide of the Herero and Namaqua (1904-1907) 10,000,000: First World War (1914-1918) 100,000: White army pogroms against Jews (1917-1920) 600,000: Fascist Italian conquest in Africa (1922-1943) 10,000,000: Japanese Imperialism in East Asia (1931-1945) 200,000: White Terror in Spain (1936-1945) 25,000,000: Nazi oppression in Europe: (1938-1945) 30,000: Kuomintang Massacre in Taiwan (1947) 80,000: French suppression of Madagascar revolt (1947) 30,000: Israeli colonization of Palastine (1948-present) 100,000: South Korean Massacres (1948-1950) 50,000: British suppression of the Mau-Mau revolt (1952-1960) 16,000: Shah of Iran regime (1953-1979) 1,000,000: Algerian war of independence (1954-1962) 200,000: Juntas in Guatemala (1954-1962) 50,000: Papa & Baby Doc regimes in Haiti (1957-1971) 3,000,000: Vietnamese killed by US military (1963-1975) 1,000,000: Indonesian mass killings (1965-1966) 1,000,000: Biafran War (1967-1970) 400: Tlatelolco massacre (1968) 700,000: US bombing of Laos & Cambodia (1967-1973) 50,000: Somoza regime in Nicaragua (1972-1979) 3,200: Pinochet regime in Chile: (1973-1990) 1,500,000: Angola Civil War (1974-1992) 200,000: East Timor massacre (1975-1998) 1,000,000: Mozambique Civil War (1975-1990) 30,000: US-backed state terrorism in Argentina (1975-1990) 70,000: El Salvador military dictatorships (1977-1991) 30,000: Contra proxy war in Nicaragua: (1979-1990) 16,000: Bhopal Carbide disaster (1984) 3,000: US invasion of Panama (1989) 1,000,000: US embargo on Iraq (1991-2003) 400,000: Mujahideen faction conflict in Afghanistan (1992-1996) 200,000: Destruction of Yugoslavia (1992-1995) 6,000,000: Congolese Civil War (1997-2008) 30,000: NATO occupation of Afghanistan (2001-present) -222,500,000+ Deaths This is only in terms of events. Think of how many die from preventable causes: Think of how many have died and will continue to die because of their lack of access to the money the monied minority hoards. Hoarding is a mental-health issue. Including the hoarding of money. Even Jesus pointed this out, but today's right-wing christo-fascists HATE that Jesus! He was the original socialist. The originator of the social contract. Corrupt crony capitalism and its criminal corporatocracy are now in their end stages because of the enormous leaps forward in advanced technologies which will completely end the entire concept of money (and its co-concomitant waste) by the end of this century and ultimately free humanity from the prison of money and the slavery of the plutocratic oligarchy's fascist corporatocracy. And at the end of the day, economic systems are not governments. Capitalism and democracy are two different things, just as socialism and dictatorships are two different things. The problems occur with the cults of personality, which is a patriarchal, chattel-mentality thing. So, your little bumper-sticker reductio ad absurdum rant is not only pointless, but extremely time-limited. Conservatism is already dead and doesn't even know it yet. There's this pesky little thing called the 22nd century and beyond just around the corner. There are those of US all about the future and then there that mindless, loudmouthed minority that is trapped in the past with their ancient, mythological fairy tales reinforcing their emotional infantilism masquerading as adulthood.

@@KKMcK1 You know if the government kills people, that that isn't capitalism, right? As in you know the definition of capitalism doesn't involve the state? You are not very well educated at all, but you think you are. You need to brush up on what capitalism actually means. Also, turn off the news and go outside. I am worried for your mental health.