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Blue State Exodus: Why the middle-class are fleeing for the hills
Forbes ^
| 11/3/2009
| Joel Kotkin
Posted on 11/03/2009 6:54:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Who the hell goes to Boston or Chicago looking for work these days?
Those rat-holes are in massive debt, and the taxes, fees, regulations and other democrat penalties are in full effect therein.
Those towns are a fool's paradise.
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posted on
11/03/2009 6:57:18 AM PST
by
GI Joe Fan
(GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
To: SeekAndFind
Like a T-shirt I saw once said, it’s all fun and games till they call the cops.
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posted on
11/03/2009 6:57:23 AM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America.)
To: SeekAndFind
They shouldn’t have ANY California cities on that list (except maybe gays flocking to San Francisco regardless of their ability to thrive financially). The Golden State is turning brass and businesses are fleeing in a bid to stay financially stable.
To: SeekAndFind
The problem is that this leaves the “hip” blue locations even more solidly blue, but the migrants to formerly thriving red locations tend to bring their failed liberal democrat policies with them as if to say “Wow, just thing how much more better you conservative locations would have been than the liberal locations if you had run the government with liberal policies.”
To: GI Joe Fan
obama’s aunt zeituni went to boston- but she wasn’t looking for work
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:01:26 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(Ours is the only country on earth with a ventriloquist dummy for President)
To: SeekAndFind
I remember reading an article -- I think by David Brooks -- raving about Burlington, Vt. I stopped there and found myself thinking what a complete dump with crappy restaurants, poor parking, and unlike bookstores in Pa. and Delaware you needed a key to use the restroom.
Hippies not only stink they are screwups.
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:04:14 AM PST
by
Tribune7
(I am Joe Wilson!)
To: SeekAndFind
The terrible irony is that many liberals will leave their leftist hell holes for red states, bringing their catastrophic voting habits with them.
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:05:55 AM PST
by
MBB1984
To: SeekAndFind
The problem is, those that flee the “Blue States” come to the “Red States” but never stop to examine the reasons they left. The “Blue State” refugees continue to vote for liberal dims. The result is a state like NC or Florida becoming a “Blue State”.
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:06:19 AM PST
by
The Sons of Liberty
(FUBO - When 0bama Fails, Freedom Prevails!)
To: SeekAndFind
Drive around any of the big cities in Texas and you will see lots of out of state plates. Not just the normal visitors from OK,ARK or LA. Starting to see more Wisconsin, Illinois, Cali, Arizona, New York, Ohio, Florida and New Jersey.
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:08:16 AM PST
by
Texas resident
( Doing my part to piss off the heathen left.)
To: The Sons of Liberty
I hope these people realize what caused their states to go broke and lose jobs.
To: SeekAndFind
It’s easy economics.
Blue states - tax the wealthy and give everything away, incourage corruption, punish incentive. Spend tax money on frivilous programs that have no quantitave means of measuring success.
Red States - run the state with fiscal responsibility as the primary goal. Programs are monitored and streamlined. Taxes are kept low, and businesses flourish.
So, when an economy hits a depression; we have the Blue States like California, New York and Michigan that are facing bankruptcy - while Red States like Texas and Utah are still doing pretty darn well.
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:08:38 AM PST
by
Hodar
(Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Like locusts they move in and influence local and then regional politics. Solid Red areas like Charlotte and Birmingham and shading towards purple as liberals from places like Baltimore, Philly and Long Island move there. What's left in the previous areas are yes trendy metro-sexual Sons and Daughters of rich parents who after sowing oats and getting married move and infect other areas. Those “Redeveloped” areas which are basically overpriced condos and Jamba Juice franchises revert back to crapholes as the kids move out and are replaced with illegals and the urban vampire class.
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:10:01 AM PST
by
pburgh01
To: The Sons of Liberty
Good examples. I can’t fathom why they would continue on this so-called idealistic view, as it is frought with unintended consequences—if they could see beyond their noses it would help.
To: scooby321
They don’t.
Inherent in liberalism is a total blindspot for consequences and tradeoffs.
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:10:02 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: Texas resident
Drive around any of the big cities in Texas and you will see lots of out of state plates. Not just the normal visitors from OK,ARK or LA. Starting to see more Wisconsin, Illinois, Cali, Arizona, New York, Ohio, Florida and New Jersey.
Thats what I see in Kansas too. Only for a different reason. They're all Kansans but they tag their vehicles in other states to evade the criminally high personal property tax if they were to tag them in Kansas.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:12:10 AM PST
by
txhurl
(It's only a matter of time before FreeRepublic has this fraud's scalp on our lodge pole.)
To: GI Joe Fan
Yeah,
I can see lots of Floridians retiring to Chicago.
Specially about November or December.
To: pburgh01
EXACTLY!!!!
My neighborhood, in the suburbs of Philadelphia, is being infected by Democrats fleeing Philadelphia. Why are they fleeing Philadelphia? It has been ruined by Democrats!!!!
To: MBB1984
“The terrible irony is that many liberals will leave their leftist hell holes for red states, bringing their catastrophic voting habits with them. “
Ain’t that the truth? We have two blue counties now in Utah because of these a-hoes. Flee their hellholes and immediately try to re-create the same thing elsewhere.
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:16:37 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
(If you agree with the French raise your hand - If you are French raise both hands.)
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