Blue State Death Spirals

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volfanhill said:
They are already grossly in debt. And you have these idiots running around taking about their GDP. Their own spending drives GDP! It's like taking to clowns. Unsecured pension liabilities are going to ruin California
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Not to mention those unfunded reparations coming due they can't pay
 
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luthervol said:
They may be one of the dumbest things I've seen posted.
I'm going to go check the work calendars for supreme court justices and sanitation engineers.
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The sanitation engineer schedule will be much more hectic.
 
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turbovol said:
You're probably right: I suspect the inner-city poor get a bit more money from various government agencies than the rural poor, and I have an issue with some of the money the inner-city poor get. But then the rural poor tend to vote against their own financial interest--which is not wise. Why do the rural poor vote for Republicans who do not like the poor--whether rural or inner-city--and who want to reduce or eliminate programs that assist the poor? Red-state Republicans have opted not to expand Medicaid in their states, for example, when many rural poor would benefit from expanded Medicaid help. States with big cities are likely to be run by Democrats, which probably benefits the poor in those states. If I were poor and living in rural America, I'd be voting for politicians who were interested in assisting me and other low-income people--but then rural Americans are more concerned with cultural as opposed to financial issues.
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Sow how are the poor inner-city folk in Democratic Detroit and Chicago making out in the wallet?
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
I think that the cities are going to determine the direction of the country and no matter how red the geographical map is, we will be subject to what the city dwellers/liberal voters want. I know it's a pessimistic view, but at some point, there will be more luthers than common sense voters.
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As we saw in the last election, Dems literally only have to control 5 cities to control the election. Control Atlanta, Milwaukee, Detroit, Philly and Phoenix and it’s lights out for Reps.
 
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TN Ribs said:
And teachers are more valuable than plumbers, what's your point?
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If your toilet is backed up with poop in the floor, most would disagree.
BTW, the more teachers that post to instagram and tic tic the lower their approval ratings go……of course this is true of most occupations
 
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hUTch2002 said:
As we saw in the last election, Dems literally only have to control 5 cities to control the election. Control Atlanta, Milwaukee, Detroit, Philly and Phoenix and it’s lights out for Reps.
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I just looked up Fulton County for 2016 to 2020 comparison.
2016 400K votes
https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA/Fulton/105430/web.264614/#/summary

2020 525K votes
Georgia Election Results 2016: President Live Map by County, Real-Time Voting Updates


and then we see studies like this.

Vote-by-mail had surprisingly little effect on turnout in 2020, new study shows

  • States that mail a ballot to every registered voter, including California, see turnout increase an average of 4 percent or more for all voters. The increase is more than 9 percent for voters who previously voted in-person. These effects were slightly larger in 2020.
Vote-by-Mail and Voter Turnout in the Pandemic Election.

Huge Red Flag
 
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AM64 said:
Running interstates through cities in the first place was insane. They should never have gone through cities and shifted local traffic from the regular street grid. Spurs from interstates to cities would have made far more sense.
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Yes we have a lot of poorly planned expressways which we'll have to live with for years. Knoxville, Asheville, etc. With that and our urban renewal craze we really messed up a lot of cities.
 
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TN Ribs said:
Who gives a flying F why anyone chooses to live anywhere!
Pay attention, I've said over and over again that people live in different states for reasons that are important to them.

Your non-stop policing of every post in this forum is pathetic and sad, find a freaking hobby. Live your life man, sheesh.
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The transplants' neighbors care, in a bad way if the transplants bring stereotypical Northeastern charm with them and in a good way if they're good folks.
 
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evillawyer said:
You need density to make public transportation work well. NYC and Long Island, due to natural geographic constraints, have that density. Places like Atlanta and Nashville don't have those constraints, so unless they're artificially imposed, you won't see good public transportation develop.
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Not so much. There's plenty of good public transportation in medium sized / less dense European cities, and many smaller American cities had good streetcar systems until Firestone et al bought and scrapped them.
 
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AM64 said:
It's incredible the gullibility and/or criminality of the left. Reparations to people who never suffered harm. But to LBJ's thinking, it will keep them on the plantation for a while longer ... and probably be as inversely effective as his social reforms were.
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BTW…..$800 billion is 2.5 times their entire current state budget. How in the WORLD do they think they will pay for it?
 
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OrangeTsar said:
BTW…..$800 billion is 2.5 times their entire current state budget. How in the WORLD do they think they will pay for it?
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They’ll end up asking the federal government to give the state a massive bailout, thereby spreading the cost of their insanity to the entire U.S. taxpaying population.
 
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A "panel" promoted it. But of course the right wing click bait crowd thinks it's ready for the governor's desk.
 
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lawgator1 said:
A "panel" promoted it. But of course the right wing click bait crowd thinks it's ready for the governor's desk.
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You REALLY think the California legislature has the cajones to go against the recommendation?
You poor naive soul
If anything; the legislature will be under intense political pressure to INCREASE the payout. Do you really think the Democrats will risk alienating their most loyal voting block once the prospect of all that free cash has been dangled in front of them????
 
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hUTch2002 said:
As we saw in the last election, Dems literally only have to control 5 cities to control the election. Control Atlanta, Milwaukee, Detroit, Philly and Phoenix and it’s lights out for Reps.
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Urban vote vs. the rural trailer park vote: American smackdown!
 
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volfanhill said:
The fact that a panel was even put together to discuss the topic shows how stupid that state is.
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Yup. And there is no going back. It’s like telling your kid you are thinking about getting them that new PlayStation. Just TRY blacking out of that one
 
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