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I always got the impression Paddy's day was more of an American holiday, strangely. Chicago dyes the river green, everyone who is 1/16 Irish goes around wearing something emerald and gets plastered.

Yet a few people I know who are actually Irish didn't seem to care all that much about it.

If they could somehow get Arnold to play CoCo, and Conan to play the Barbarian, that would have the potential to be the greatest thing ever in the history of anything.

Does it bother you that it seems like the Republican party has shifted its focus from being economically conservative to socially conservative?

Listing lazily to the left?

Well, new housing keeps getting built, and prices keep going up.

Because people keep buying those houses. In a lot of areas, the issue isn't that we need to build 'low income housing', its that we need to build more housing so that there are more options. Higher income people can buy the newer homes, and everyone below them moves up, leaving the older but still not shitty housing from previous decades a cheaper commodity for lower income people.

The problems with this are that the markets are interfered with by people purchasing housing simply to turn around and rent it, which is fucking with demand. One of the things that needs to be addressed is giving priority to home purchasers who are planning on living in the house themselves rather than buying it as a financial asset.