Monthly Archives: June 2025

Constitution, Cronyism, Economy, Liberty, Michigan, Opinion, Philosophy

Still Missing the Fire (Truck) for the Flames

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It is a higher power that creates such things as ..vultures

But I insist.

My friend Scales is a thoughtful writer, but in this case, he’s wielding a classic rhetorical sleight of hand—introducing a different frustration about private equity (fire truck manufacturing) to distract from my original argument: government-created scarcity is the true culprit in manufactured housing rent spikes.

Let’s talk about that fire truck video.

Yes, fire departments are paying more. Yes, trucks are expensive. But blaming that on private equity alone is like blaming a grocery store for high egg prices during a bird flu outbreak. It’s convenient—but wildly incomplete.

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Michigan, Michigan Politics, Opinion, Philosophy, Republicans

Private Equity isn’t the disease..It’s just buzzards circling the corpse.

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Not cheering on the villain, don't like em one bit, but..

I am a person who believes you solve problems by correctly identifying what those problems truly are.

In this case there are some ..that are real.  Scales makes a point and the video may make you feel a little bad about those mean ol money changers.

But .. They only show up after local governments have already choked off the oxygen. Manufactured home residents don’t own the land under their feet because zoning laws make sure they can’t. In Michigan, most localities have quietly outlawed new parks or single-wides on private lots unless you beg for an exception—and those usually come with fees, delays, or a fat NO. The result? A handful of legacy parks become monopoly zones, and suddenly private equity gets that look in its eye.

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