The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
Those people are gone, Sean.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
They're not back.
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#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
You look at the immigrants that are in New York today, and I'm all for a legal immigration process.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
Like, we need that to be able to prosper.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
Otherwise, you become Japan, right?
The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
You need immigration, but you need the right type of immigrants.
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#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
You need the right incentive.
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#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
It's not the immigrants that are in that country.
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#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
city today that are absolutely destroying it and looking for handouts and have created that problem.
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#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
And everyone says, oh, it's just a mayor and it's just New York.
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#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
No, that is a metaphor for what could be happening to this country unless we start changing those things.
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#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
And that's the problem with the 50-year mortgage and all these band-aids that we're trying to create to kick the can down the road and not take the medicine that we need to put our boots on and start getting back to what made this country great.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
Doing what he says he's going to do.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
You're not entirely wrong.
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#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
And the thing is, I know you, Sean, and we kind of share this philosophy of
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#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
the value of home ownership.
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#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
And so one of the things that I have to always balance is the art and the science of business planning and financial planning, because there's numbers, like you said, right, to say, hey, if you amortize this over 50 years, you're paying X amount of interest, stupid, horrible idea.
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#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
Then there's the human side of being able to lay your head down on a pillow at night and know, I own this.
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#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
I can paint my walls purple if I want.
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#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class
I know that the landlord's not going to say, hey, my brother-in-law wants to move in there at the end of this term.