Rent is Too Damn High Party

[Adil3tr]

Please tell me we support these people

http://www.rentistoodamnhigh.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/new_party_logo_2010_a.jpg (http://www.rentistoodamnhigh.org/)

**Moderator's Note to users: You may now disregard the warnings, given that we're now in Chit Chat. Post whatever crap you like :) -Yazman

[JosefStalinator]

Rent is always too high. But New York probably takes the cake.

[EvilRedGuy]

Why not, rent is scarcity, communists opposes that. Seriously, don't see how someone wouldn't support this if he/she was an communist/socialist. :cool:

[Patchd]

Where is the option for "awsum lulz"? :D High rent isn't their only concern is it?

[DragonQuestWes]

You gotta love the way Jimmy McMillan tells things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4o-TeMHys0

[timbaly]

This has to be at least the third thread I've seen on this topic in the last week.

Check out the website: http://www.rentistoodamnhigh.org/

[Martin Blank]

I'm a little surprised to see some saying no. Care to explain? I mean, I understand the leftcoms doing it. But something tells me not all of those voting no are lefts. I'm just curious to hear the arguments.

[Bright Banana Beard]

I think it may be the terrible website. Seriously, take a look at it.

[Martin Blank]

I think it may be the terrible website. Seriously, take a look at it.

Given the look of a lot of leftist websites, I don't think they have room to talk.

[SocialismOrBarbarism]

Not like he's anti-capitalist or anything. He's full of praise for Obama if you actually watch his appearances on news programs.

[zimmerwald1915]

I'm a little surprised to see some saying no. Care to explain? I mean, I understand the leftcoms doing it. But something tells me not all of those voting no are lefts. I'm just curious to hear the arguments.
Left coms don't take part in forum polls :p

[Martin Blank]

Left coms don't take part in forum polls :p

Abstentionists! Splitters! :D

[blake 3:17]

We just got a new psycho right wing mayor last night.

I wish the left candidates had stood on a rent is too damn high platform.

[Quail]

I think it may be the terrible website. Seriously, take a look at it.
That's easily one of the worst websites I've ever seen. It looks like something from the beginning of the internet. :blink:

[gorillafuck]

Jimmy McMillan says some weird shit, like about how he has to always wear gloves because he was exposed to Agent Orange. He also for some reason randomly said that he's a karate expert.

Nonetheless, I like him even though he's not anti-capitalist. He's not a regular politician scumbag like the two main guys, and he has some good concerns. Mainly that everyone should get three square meals a day and that often people can barely afford a place to live, or can't afford it at all.

[Yazman]

I'm seeing a lot of spam-like posts in this thread. Please only make a post if you can contribute in some manner, this isn't the place for silly discussion or jokes. If I continue to see such posts I will move this thread to chit chat.

[WendigoGuerilla]

Of course rent is too damn high which is why most people have a need for a roomate because they can't simply afford to live on their own without having two to three jobs if they are even able to find another besides the one they got.

[Even then in this economy you are lucky to even find the one.]

This is a generation of people living with roomates or the basement of their parents house in their early twenties I swear............

This is also a generation of the two to three job survival standards of which it takes two to three jobs just to be able to afford the current standard of living due to the fact that there is a gross social inequality in the wage distribution where even though it was raised not so long ago it by far was not raised enough.

[RadioRaheem84]

rent is too damn high is an understatement, rent is too fucking high would be better.

Seriously though, while I support him, is this the best America can do as far as a labor candidate?

[EvilRedGuy]

This is a humour/troll party/group. :rolleyes:

[Red Commissar]

He wrote an Op-Ed over on the Guardian for those of you curious about some of his other thoughts other than rent is too damn high,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/27/jimmy-mcmillan-the-rent-is-too-damn-high


The rent is too damn high.

That's what I was thinking when the five guys jumped me as I was walking down a street in Brooklyn at two in the morning. At least, that's probably what I was thinking, since that's what I'm thinking most of the time.

I didn't see them, obviously. I don't have Spidey sense; I don't have peripheral vision. I'm a 10th degree black belt in karate, but, in the real world, there is no "crouching tiger". There's a car, exhaust steaming out like dragon's breath. I was pushed through an open door.

They tied my hands, blindfolded me. One said, "This is what you get when you talk about what you don't understand," or words to that effect. I could figure sending guys after me if I hadn't paid the rent – some of those landlords are straight-up criminals, it wouldn't surprise me – but I had. They wanted me to simply stop talking about it.

And they meant business, taking me to a wooded area off the parkway. I kept hoping this was some sort of prank. That my blindfold would come off and I'd be staring into a TV camera, into the face of Joe Francis or Paris Hilton.

I won't lie. Despite my three years as a helicopter door gunner in Vietnam, I was frightened. In Vietnam, I could see in the dark, shadows and voices guiding me through the jungle. Here, I could see nothing.

But I could smell gasoline.

They poured it over my head.

What did I say that had gotten them so mad?

George Bush and Barack Obama spent $700bn bailing out the banks, after the banks' housing Ponzi scheme collapsed. Obama spent another $787bn on the so-called "stimulus package". Every man, woman and child in America paid $5,000 to rescue Barack Obama and John McCain's top-hat-and-monocle-wearing friends. And the unemployment rate is still 9.6%. You still can't pay your mortgage or rent.

If the banks had collapsed, every homeowner who needed to could have called the bank and said, "I'm going to only pay you what I can afford, and you'll have to take it because you're too weak to say no." The free market would have solved the housing crisis. Obama and McCain only wanted the free market to apply to the little man, not their rich banker friends.

Banks have seized thousands of homes. What can we do?

First, reverse each and every foreclosure where bankers filed false documents. Arrest those bankers, right now. Filing false documents in court is illegal. Treat the banks like any other racketeering organisation that schemes to make millions by breaking the law. Bring the paddywagon, and give all these homes back to the families.

Second, nationalise the banks. If they say they are "too big to fail", and hate the free market when it applies to them, then make them a government organisation. Cut the average top banker salary from $20m a year to $45,000 a year. Bankers do not deserve big money. The free market has spoken: their businesses collapsed.

Third, use eminent domain to seize all of the other thousands of foreclosed properties that blight the urban landscape, and transfer them to families needing homes. The supreme court of the United States says that eminent domain can be used to transfer land from one private owner to another in order to further economic development (Kelo v. City of New London).

Finally, if we believe the free market theory, that putting cash into people's hands is the best way to boost the economy, then how about a rent freeze? High rent is the cancer and low rent the cure to this economic crisis. The rolling back of rent would give people money they can spend.

Grandmothers can't afford their medication; or, if they can afford it, they can't eat. You work 40 hours a week and you give all your money to the landlord. You've got no money for clothes. You've got no money to go on vacation. Even if you live in a homeless shelter, you have to pay $350 a month for rent.

When police found me that night, tied to a tree, at about 4am, I had some choice words for them.

The rent is still too damn high.

[Q]

I think it may be the terrible website. Seriously, take a look at it.

For an aweful website like that, 21 million views is pretty amazing.

Also, this made me laugh :lol: :

http://www.rentistoodamnhigh.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/jimmy_mad_as_hell_2c.jpg

But almost 9000 dollars a month for a two-bedroom apartment? Wtf? Really?

[WendigoGuerilla]

This is a humour/troll party/group. :rolleyes:

No kidding?

[Yazman]

Clearly this thread isn't being taken seriously. I'm going to end this easily by moving this thread to Chit Chat.

[Dimentio]

In Iceland, the local equivalent actually won the mayoral elections of Reykjavik, so there is hope. The problem is that the guy is seen as a clown, but if Obama is toppled and replaced by a Republican muppet, the step isn't too far for actual clowns to wield power.

[Il Medico]

I really have no idea what his or his parties positions are. (besides the rent being too damn high) I imagine they're not very anti-capitalist. Regardless, he makes me laugh, so i hope he wins the governor race. Especially considering that it is looking likely that Rick Scott is going to be the next governor of FL. :(

[Honggweilo]

I think it may be the terrible website. Seriously, take a look at it.

leave it to the APL to judge activists on their webdesign :p

[Jazzratt]

Holy shit Q, you're a moderator - you should know better, especially after I posted a public warning in this thread stating that there is to be no more crap. If I see you posting images like this in Politics again, I'm going to lay the smack down. lol internet authority hardman.

[timbaly]

A lot of people in my area have been talking about McMillan since the debate. I doubt he will get many votes even though he has had some decent exposure. The "real" race is between Cuomo and Paladino but McMillan has one more trick up his sleeves. He is releasing a music CD on election day.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/a-first-look-at-the-rent-is-too-damn-high-the-album/?ref=nyregion

[Q]

Clearly this thread isn't being taken seriously. I'm going to end this easily by moving this thread to Chit Chat.

Actually, I think this thread has generated enough serious discussion to warrant it back to Politics.

As for that picture in my previous post: I took it from the website of this party. Apparently, this is "serious propaganda" for this party (person?). I posted it here to point out that we should take this into account when we discuss about this party, despite the seriousness of the issue ($9000 for a two-bedroom appartment is fucked up, why do people even live in NYC?).