Remy finds artificially low interest rates come with consequences.
Music and lyrics written and performed by Remy.
LYRICS:
You save a piece of each paycheck
To buy a house in your town
With a short white picket fence
You've got the right down payment
You're pre-approved as planned
So you can buy my house
From my cold dead hands
30 years fixed at 2.5
My name will be on this deed until the day that I die
Interest rates were kept artificially low
You think I'm ever selling? That must be some kind of joke
Zero inventory within five miles of church?
Zoom out to North America and click "redo search"
Like Amber Heard on a bed, I'm squatting right here
I hear the rental market's great around this time of year
So go and build your own house on that vacant land
Here, you can take this shovel
From my cold dead hands
More cars on the road, less sun in the sky
I will oppose all new construction till the day that I die
My property value might be slightly harmed
It would change the area's character—when you built here, this was all farms
Senior homes and row houses, I'm blocking them all
And God help the man I witness playing pickleball
Congressman! Congressman! I just want a house
But building here's illegal? Yeah, how's that allowed?
We could use a voice like yours, keep our House in your plans
You could take my seat. Really?
From my cold dead hands
Zero term limits, and industry vies
I will be the incumbent until my brain finally dies
And then a couple years more, it is what it is
I almost lost one time, so we drew the district like this
My cold hands
My cold dead hands
- producer: Austin Bragg
- producer: Meredith Bragg
- producer: John Carter
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Another winner from Remy.
And then a couple years more, lol.
It was really cruel of him to call out Biden and Fetterman like that...
Actually, I guess that's not fair to Fetterman. He only got elected after his brain died.
Music and lyrics written and performed by Remy.
If he's got more original music like this he should drop an album!
love it.
Yeah, those damned greedy people who worked and saved and bought their own houses. Fucking old people need to die!
No, the old farts just need to let everybody else do what they did and even better. Didn't Dexys Midnight Runners say: "We young farts are young and clever?" 😉
You do realize they are old farts now, right?
True. But a part of me is perpetually juvenile to think that was actually their lyric. 🙂
Excellent. Remy prob needs to buy in st Louis
How cruel! Remy would need a Remy-ngton to survive in St. Louis.
Can I just say I misplaced a post here? 🙂
Is he really complaining because old people won't sell their homes - that they're living in - and what? Move into a small apartment in the city?
I don't get this one. Maybe it's because I got one of those low interest rate mortgages to buy a nice house on a couple of acres? Am I a monster because I don't want to subdivide and build micro-housing?
The criticism is mainly of Fed policy that locked homeowners into their homes with artificially low rates so now they can't afford to sell even if they wanted to. Of course, NIMBYism is driven more by the homeowners than by the government per se so they come in for their share of abuse as well.
NIMBY-ism wouldn't have power without Government. Without that, it would be like sticking fingers in the ears and saying: "LA!LA!LA!LA!"
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