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Washington D.C. Is Now The Most Expensive Place To Live In The US
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
There is no greater signpost of the decay in America’s cultural, economic and spiritual life than Washington D.C.’s ascendancy into the most expensive spot to live in within these United States.
Yes, according to a recent government study, the nation’s capital is even more expensive than New York City, ground zero for America’s most unscrupulous banking criminals, as well as San Francisco, the epicenter of the latest tech venture capital binge. This is extraordinarily disturbing, considering the primary products created in the D.C. area consist of death, destruction, criminality, propaganda and lies. In a nation in which the primary driver of GDP growth has become fraud, I suppose this shouldn’t be that surprising.
The Washington Post noted the following:
The Washington region ranks as the most expensive place to live in the country, ahead of the pricey markets of New York and San Francisco, according to a government study.
The surprising statistic comes from a Bureau of Labor Statistics report that shows that — on average — Washingtonians spend more on housing and related expenses (utilities, furnishings and equipment) than New Yorkers and San Franciscans.
Naturally, this trend has been in the works for a long time. Last year, I posted an article titled, How Washington D.C. is Sucking the Life Out of America. Here are a few excerpts:
At the same time, big companies realized that a few million spent shaping legislation could produce windfall profits. They nearly doubled the cash they poured into the capital.
During the past decade, the region added 21,000 households in the nation’s top 1 percent. No other metro area came close.
At the peak in 2010, companies based in Rep. James Moran’s congressional district in Northern Virginia reaped $43 billion in federal contracts — roughly as much as the state of Texas.
The number of lawyers in the D.C. metro area increased by a third from 2000 to 2012, nearly twice as fast as the growth rate nationwide.
We have become a nation that rewards and celebrates thieving parasites. It needs to end, or we will destroy ourselves completely.
You may also be interested in this post from 2012: 70% of the Wealthiest Counties in America are in the Washington D.C. Area.
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The highest median income counties in the country are the ones that surround Washington DC
4 out of the top 5 ......
FYI-- Los Alamos is the site of a high security National lab (the only real employer), so it is a defacto extension of D.C.
Read Peter Schweizer's book EXTORTION to get chapter and verse on how it all works and exactly where the $$$ comes from!
You'll also learn the inside lingo spoken by operators like Reid and Boehner.
Meh. Way off base.
I agree completely with the main thrust of the piece. Vichy DC is home to tyrants, parasites, and idiots, BUT
For a million dollars, you can buy a mansion in Loudoun County. In New York you'd get a roach infesteted closet.
But Loudoun County is extremely boring.
Only to the vastly ignorant and shallow.
And the young, don't forget it!
When's the last time you believed the BLS?
BaltiMoar? Home to 60,000 heroin addicts
max2205
Baltimore is 50 miles north of DC. Anyway, Baltimore is a great city. Reminds me of Boston with all their local neighborhoods, such as the North End (Little Italy) and the harbor.
Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead with a needle in his arm…
Take Your Time,
Stop,
And lay it out logically,
Step By Step,
Now have you ever driven from DC to Baltimore... it can be like 30 minutes unless I was drunk.
Anyway it is not a big deal in DC to drive for 45 Minutes Every Time.
But this is not what you wanted to talk about at all... ao why the fight?
"Vichy DC is home to tyrants, parasites, and idiots"
I love that turn of phrase...
But the question is: exacrly how does the money find its way to DC?
Read Schweizer's book EXTORTION!
They have guns pointed at our heads.
Mr. Ed,
The problem is that: Peter Schweizer (the writer of Extortion) is a big time Washington insider and the president of the Government Accountability Institute, a conservative investigative “Spin” research organization.
Ah Very Insightful....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Accountability_Institute
In December 2013, a GAI analysis found that from July 12, 2010, to November 30, 2013, President Obama's public schedule showed zero one-on-one meetings between Obama and then-Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.[7]
Looks like room for Impeachment or Federal Indictment of Public Executives that Ignored their Missions, Objectives, and Goals.
Good Catch!!
Befor gambling was legal in Atlantic city, houses where cheap.
Than gambling became legal and the hookers and blow rushed in and real estate boomed.
That was in the 70's. Now it's just DC's turn
There’s some truth to (gambling/instant gratification)… Not sure about the ‘legal’ aspect.
The modern Congressman is unreachable from the people back home because the banker and corporate money (originating from the Fed) keeps him in office with a full-time staff following everything dictated by the lobbyists.
He can be reelected and even use any leftover PAC money for personal luxury and no citizen constitutent group can touch him-- the bank money is a barricade between him and the voters.
And the U.S. Supreme Court is ever in his corner (Citizens United).
Here is an excerpted passage of an EXTORTION review from the New York Times Editor’s Blog by David Firestone:
"Mr. Schweizer’s book shows how members of Congress of both parties use the unregulated vehicles known as leadership PACs to collect huge amounts of money from contributors and spend it on anything they like. The PAC of Senator Saxby Chambliss, Republican of Georgia, spent $10,000 at a Pebble Beach golf resort, $27,000 at a steakhouse, and $107,752 at the Breakers resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Representative Charles Rangel, Democrat of New York, bought a painting of himself using $64,500 in PAC money. (A PAC is one of the few things that senators as ideologically opposite as Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren have in common.)
"In an op-ed essay published in The Times… he also argued that politicians ranging from Speaker John Boehner to President Obama raise money by threatening to push provocative legislation, then holding back to see which interests contribute the most cash for or against the measures."
The Burgeiose living high on the proletariat's backs.
Marx (Karl) was right
Well, so was Groucho....
They used too.
Today has more to do with US running debts.
Are You making Excuses or Giving Waivers.
Seems like I need to sit and think about what your position is.
But you recognize Fascism as Bad and Western Politics as Corrupting Western Economies... So we are on the same Page.
"Washington D.C. Is Now The Most Expensive Place To Live In The US"
The Trend Shows the Corruption!!!!
Act Now Limited Time.
It is all over Tomorrow!!!
TeethVillage88s,
Let me answer your questions, individually.
I am not making Excuses. I am looking at the facts.
I do not think about a position. I research it; then, I make recommendations.
I do not recognize US as a Fascist nation, yet.
Western Politics, Corrupting, and Western Economies are manifestations of the same thing ... So we would be on the same Page, if that’s your view.
Washington D.C. Is NOT The Most Expensive Place To Live In The US, Period!
The Trend ‘and Internet Will” Show the Corruption!!!!
Now, about knukles statement:
The Bourgeoisie is living off the proletariat's backs….Marx (Karl) was right
My reply to knukles: “They used too…Today has more to do with US running debts.
Because
US runs trade-deficits
And, US government spend more than it collects in taxes
So, the Fed is the one paying for most of ‘both’ Bourgeoisie classes; followed by the overseas proletariat.
Bourgeoisie, by Wikipedia:
The middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
(in Marxist contexts) the capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production.
So, Marx (Karl) was right… and so was knukles (sort of).
That is absurd.
“They used too…Today has more to do with US running debts".
The Elite and Bourgeoisie are living off the worker's backs.
You agree in some sense. I just can't put you into context.
Dallas might steal Cleveland's spot in another month
I have a client couple who lives in DC. Between the two of them they make over $400K/yr. Not too shabby, right? But.... their monthly expenses are north of $20,000/mo. (ouch)
Their house is no bigger than mine (1300 sf. rancher) but on a postage stamp sized lot. And I've got a big garage, a shed for all the power equipment and enough ground to ride ATVs around on.
It's a different world in D.C. Very different. I don't go near the place. Frankly, I don't go near cities, period.
Sandia National Laboratories... A Lockheed Martin Company. They think they're clever.
You'd think you were clever too if you'd managed to get signed on by the Federal Government at roughly twice the going rate for your salary and bene's in the private sector; and that's the fact of the matter.
my neighbor's ex-wife makes $77 /hour on the computer . She has been unemployed for seven months but last month her payment was $15804 just working on the computer for a few hours. go to the website... www.job-reports.com
Federal employee salary and benes. not much of a mystery. they average about twice what tthey do in the private sector. If there is any such thing anymore.
As far as DC itself is concerned; the buying pressure, and buying power, of the lobbyers in Obama's "new, lobby free government"; has driven real estate and rentals to very high levels. The major oil companies have squads of lobbyists there trying to buy votes for carbon taxes; because the parent company already knows how to scam the game if they can just get some legislation passed. so much for warming deniers being funded by "big oil".
Think Elysium, Hunger Games.
Well, I certainly hope the oligarchs, taste better than they look.
If they don't, we can always ferment them for fuel. My car has a 4-fat-fucks per gallon EPA rating.
I would relish drving mine into the ground, balls out, red lining my way through every gear, stop light to stop light, burnt rubber on every turn--just give me those fat fucks to burn!
I wouldn't want to live in any of those cities when the collapse comes.
Those aren't so much cities as they are suburban hives. Quiet indoors and overwhelmingly crowded and stupid outdoors.
Probably going to get a downvote for saying this...but I live in one of these counties. Trying our best to save up for some land and build money to get the hell outta hear. Mrs. is a nurse and now that they're bringing the ebolers here, we're hoping we make it out in time. This cesspool is not the place to be for any number of disasters. If I had to guess, it would be a pitchfork revolution that is most likely to bring this place down.
How does the Anacostia neighborhood stack up?
Stackers,
Falls Church (Pentagon), Fairfax (CIA), Howard (NSA) I get it.
But Loudoun County? I don't get it.
Los Alamos County, N.M. $112,115.
I don't get it.
What Nuclear Missiles, Weapons Testing... all Scientists?
Hesus, must be few people to get per capital like that!!!!
You don't understand the whole article. Federal employees in general make twice what private sector employees do. Period. The .Gov has thousands, literally, thousands of completely useless officials and managers of Alphabet Soup agencies; a whole new village of them hired by the greatest liar of modern times; Obama. (small, transparent government),
my roomate's step-mother makes $72 an hour on the laptop . She has been without a job for ten months but last month her paycheck was $14012 just working on the laptop for a few hours. read this article... http://goo.gl/yioYBZ
The best nipples on the sow are always valuable real estate.
Don't forget about arlington and montgomery county, home to the dbag incredibly wealthy filled towns of potomac bethesda and chevy chase
yeah. Satan pays well.
That is why I am offering franchise opportunities for The Butters Kissing Company.
"Do you know what I am saying?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su-HUDo7XQ4
The Obolagarchy
the electronic surveillance there is revolutionary.
they pride themselves on their appetite for
cannibalism of their neighbors, astounding.
Gram Parsons - Streets of Baltimore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V4NoboSq6w&list=RD8V4NoboSq6w#t=0
The symbolic finish line to the race against centralized state corruption attempted in the American experiment. The race is over. We the People lost.
You are correct sir. During Katrina when the people had their guns taken by the man I knew it was over. The people did it willingly. No fight, simply handed over their firearms. They will do it again when asked. "Please remove your clothes and step throught that door for delousing". "Why thank you officier".
Yes and no. The "people" have matured more than you think. For what it's worth.
Louisiana after a terrible natural disaster is much different than economic perils.
Thank you for your reply
I understand your argument and I appreciate your comment.
I must agree that things are different, I wish to disagree with you that people have changed.
I do not own guns, I am pro gun.
I do hunt, I am pro hunting.
I do not drink milk if you would like to drink raw milk please do.
You have understood my point and I thank you.
My point is that 99.99 of humanity is caring, loving, law abiding, blah blah.
I just do not think WE will do anything about it
Butters
Butters Kissing Company
The
I hope the US version of Bastille day or sacking of Rome will be televised. I'll break out the champagne and popcorn.
That's why there will be no Bastille Day in America - everyone wants to sit in their recliner, drink and eat popcorn. Who's left to revolt?
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy in the United States.
http://youtu.be/GoRPVsN2SVM
Still wondering why Washington needs more tax revenue?
This is a bogus study. The cost of housing (rent and purchase) in SF and NYC is much higher than DC.
How can "household furnishing and equipment" be double in DC compared to NYC? Look at the bar chart.
Same thing for "household operations".
The study includes the metro areas
In the case of nyc - nj and suburbia ny
Manhattan vs dc not even close
freddy wasn't wrong and until we can accept (the inevitability of the need for) blood we won't get it right.
This is a bogus study. The cost of housing (rent and purchase) in SF and NYC is much higher than DC.
How can "household furnishing and equipment" be double in DC compared to NYC? Look at the bar chart.
Same thing for "household operations".
People have bigger homes in the DC area because square footage is less expensive so they buy more furniture and have more upkeep. NYC and SF are much more expensive on a per square foot basis.
This is a bogus study. The cost of housing (rent and purchase) in SF and NYC is much higher than DC.
How can "household furnishing and equipment" be double in DC compared to NYC? Look at the bar chart.
Same thing for "household operations".
Unless my eyes deceive me, it doesn't show double. Am I wrong?
They are likely including metro areas. DC metro has enough high income families to bring the average up. You simply cannot find a house for less than 500k or rent for less than 3k outside the beltway, and that's the LOW end.
How did the French get rid of their corrupt aristocracy?
Slow boat to China?
Fast gravity blade to the carotids.
I get to DC regularly. If you come in from the west, on New York Avenue, Rt 50, you have a pretty good view of the city.
I have counted, recently, as many as 20+ tower cranes. The construction, mostly of mid rise luxury condos, is astounding. The money has to be flowing like water. My son is .gov, low level, 27 yo. 65,000+. Mostly I hear average salaries of 140-150,000. FBI agents and Secret Service 150-200,000. All plugged into .gov teet.
For us that have to produce, it is la la land.
Why would anyone do a real job any more? Sheer madness.
NoPension,
And they installed new gas line to my neighborhood, so when they finished it (our construction nightmare) they had to build new sidewalks and reasphalt the streets throughout the whole neighborhood.
I could not believe… even that, especially the new sidewalk, are great now.
Have yet to find flaw with anything Bastiat wrote
Listen.
From what I have discovered about the Zero's, 1/2 of you would trade places with those folks and 1/2 of you are those folks.
LMAO all the way to the floor!
I gave your first arrow up.
Listen You.
I can tell that you have "DC ENVY"!
From your comments, I can.
Anyway, cush jobs if you can get them and stand them I guess.
Bangalore Equit...
DC is very easy to live. Very manageable city. And it is much cheaper than Boston, N York, LA, and San Francisco.
If I can live here, anyone of you can. Just give a try.
No thanks. You flaunt your zip code and brag about your high base salary, while getting fucked on income tax ass fucking. DC corporation is crumbling. Adding another zero on the dollar, twenty, fifty, and one hundred is the QE4 plan.
Time to watch the Federal Reserve Dance to Bullets reality TV show. The only ones remain if the 30 round AR- 15 dance requirements are met.
Not a joke.
During the depths of the recession, DC was hopping. Lines at the most expensive restaurants during a Monday. So much lobbyist money.
I can't help but wonder about the cost of living in The City, and many other places on planet Earth. Something tells me this should be used as a teaching device in stats classes on the difference between mean, mode and . . . median. If this average is the real story, our "public servants" are some cheap prostitutes indeed.
And that much we all must concede. No argument there.
But as even the blind can see, DC is the cradle of Marion Barry and all the rest of that deep poverty reality. Sure as hell skews the mean, don't it?
Equally well known is that the vast majority of elected .gub employees hold only crash pads in DC, if they reside there at all rather than in the better areas, say, Reston and beyond.
Only the lobbyists could drive DC prices up that way. What would cutting out K Street alone do for the DC mean?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_%28Washington,_D.C.%29
No, the my snap card ain't workin better call on my obama fone where my next babydaddy gub teet sucking parasite ho of the wrong colah whut just can't do that to the stats. Bullshit propaganda about the lavish lifestyle of the welfare set notwithstanding.
"The Law" Frederic Bastiat
The political class has built their Versailles.
It would be interesting to see a breakdown of government employees and ex-government employees, imo. Revolving door is the story here, methinks. And "non-profit" oligarch-funded lobbying interests. Plus "private" contractors.
The deep perversion of Free Speech, a fantastically neoliberal corporate tax code and wild distortion of the meaning of appropriate "national defense" rule all, imo.
Washington D.C., you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
not that any sensible intelligence or entity would
make such a search other than for survival strategies
and purposes.
.
Mussel Man
http://vimeo.com/107648358
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here is the key for the survivors, saviors
and living, words.
power, life, energy, time, exchange.
repeat ....
Gram Parsons - Return Of The Grievous Angel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PytxPaU6k4&index=4&list=RD8V4NoboSq6w
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care is of the gone times. freedom calls
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"..i saw my devil...." g.p.
Washington DC is a internal Corporation. The higher wages depicts leveled DC employees taxpayer extraction.
Title 47, Chapter 18.
http://cfo.dc.gov/page/tax-rates-and-revenues-individual-income-and-busi...
Grande Bastiat.
I don't understand.
If your first sentence is true (and I believe it is), how does it 'end?' Does the good Lilac Fairy comes in en pointe and put everyone to sleep until President Charming arrives?D.C. is world's #1 in GDP per capita. Lots of industries up there. DC also get $5 for every $1 tax paid in subsidies
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_U.S._states_and_countr...(nominal)