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Salamendacious@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Chicago area residents flee from senior community after 300% increase in costs

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Chicago area residents flee from senior community after 300% increase in costs

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Salamendacious@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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Over the last several weeks, the Saint Charles senior living community has become a bit of a ghost town.
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  • Ejh3k@lemmy.world
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    And yet they’ll all still vote Republican.

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      A majority of Democratic voters (57%) were ages 50 and older in the 2022 midterms, compared with 51% of Joe Biden’s voters in 2020 and 53% of voters who supported a Democratic House candidate in 2018. Just 14% of Democratic voters were under the age of 30 in 2022 — similar to the 15% of Democratic voters who were in this age group in 2018, but less than their share of Democratic voters in 2020 (17%).

      Seven-in-ten Republican voters were 50 and older in the most recent election, compared with 62% of Republican voters in 2020 and 68% in 2018.

      Source

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        All that proves is that old people vote more than young people. Not that a majority of old people vote Democrat.

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          It also proves that not all older people vote Republicans

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            If you’ve ever been to St Charles, you’ll understand why I said what I said.

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      Illinois has been voting blue since 1992, the current president is a Democrat, what does this have to do with republicans?

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        Hahahahahhahahah. Another person that doesn’t realize that Chicago votes blue, but almost of the rest of the state is a deep, deep red.

        My representative is January 6’s Mary “hitler is right” Miller.

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          But the article specifies chicago area, ie cook county which votes blue

          Edited for semantics

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            Oh yeah. The world famous Chicago County. But never forget to much more famous, New York City County! And don’t miss Miami County!

            And st Charles isn’t in one county, it’s in two. Dupage and Kane.

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              Meant cook county, no need to be a jackass, jackass

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    Elderly people without family support are going to end up on the streets en masse because of things like this.

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      Euthanasia will be legalised and normalised sooner than we expwct

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        This is already happening in Canada. Even though self assisted suicide is only for those already facing a terrible and unavoidable near death, we have multiple reports of medical staff recommending it for people who can be treated… which doesn’t magically get them on some death list, it just exposes the medical staff for being an apathetic idiot.

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          Doesn’t get them on some death list YET. That kind of callous inhumanity ferments and grows in apathy.

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      Family Support

      The Boomers can have exactly as much family support as they gave to those who came after.

      “Your 17. Get the fuck out”. “Now I’m poor and elderly, and it’s your problem” ay lmao

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        Some parents love their kids, believe it or not.

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      https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/unconscionable-american-baby-boomers-are-now-becoming-homeless-at-a-rate-not-seen-since-the-great-depression-here-s-what-s-driving-this-terrible-trend/ar-AA1jnfer

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      That’s entirely possible

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    Market rate, bitch, pay up or hit the streets. #trump #republican #deregulation #sarcasm

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      Landleeches gonna landleech

      One of my old landlords did this to me after I reported them to the city for ignoring severe water damage for 2 months. The city sent a health inspector who took one look and said they had to fix it. Landlord showed up with his goon squad to intimidate me, then hit me with a 200% increase.

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        Would’ve been a real shame if his house burnt down

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          Can’t, soaked

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          I’m sure his insurance would be real upset… unfortunately

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            The one he lives in ;)

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    When nobody stands up to these corporations, they can get away with anything.

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    On the off chance I ever retire I am never going to a retirement community. I will either bother my remaining family with my care or just be found a month later during a wellness checkup, dead on my own kitchen floor after falling.

    I don’t trust these “communities”. I don’t trust any “community” that has a buy in.

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      My plan is to go to a South American country where I can get a living visa to live of the pennies I’ll get from my Social Security checks in one of their elderly care facilities.

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      Frankly, I’d rather live under a freeway overpass. Or just die.

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    How are there not laws protecting these of most vulnerable people.

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      Because capitalists run the government.

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    Good and recent episode of freakonomics covers private equity firms

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/12j1heah9A4FCTzdkH5OS8?si=CItpqhUWTOWjL80mX4wk-g

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    deleted by creator

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    What’s with all the news from Chicago in this community?

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