Yeah!!!
Posted on 03/14/2013 6:42:25 AM PDT by Son House
A record number of U.S. counties -- more than 1 in 3 -- are now dying off, hit by an aging population and weakened local economies that are spurring young adults to seek jobs and build families elsewhere.
New 2012 census estimates released Thursday highlight the population shifts as the U.S. encounters its most sluggish growth levels since the Great Depression.
The areas of natural decrease stretch from industrial areas near Pittsburgh and Cleveland to the vineyards outside San Francisco to the rural areas of east Texas and the Great Plains. A common theme is a waning local economy, such as farming, mining or industrial areas of the Rust Belt.
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I was just about to post the same story but from the dis-Associated Press! LOL!
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CENSUS_DYING_COUNTIES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-03-14-00-13-18
Isn’t the Dow at an all time high and real estate sales up?
From:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/03/04/federal-reserve—quantitative-easing/1963539/
“To combat the Great Recession, the Fed has bought trillions of dollars of mortgage bonds and U.S. Treasuries to juice the housing market and the economy in general.”
My opinion on the DOW being high is, when they are printing more money, know to cause inflation, you want your money in an investment that isn’t going to lose that value.
It’s amazing how the financial engineers can prop up an economy that is just a house of cards waiting to collapse.
The economy has no clothes!
Good luck.
And isn’t the government trying to push people into cities? And aren’t the cities which are “growing” (according to article) the ones receiving federal funds?
How sustainable is that?
Take the deterioration of the Cleveland-Pittsburgh axis. What a hill of beans. The first steel tube plant to open in 35 years in the Mahoning Valley did so last year. Over time, fracking, a return of great lakes shipping and additive manufacturing will alter the economic landscape in the region. There’s a difference between transtition and decline. It’s decline if your skills are no longer in demand. It’s transition if your skills are needed.
A much more intellectually honest approach would be to take the metropolitian or regional economic production, divide it by population, and see who is going to make it in the long run because they are doing things which are economically productive. Just because you are adding population and receiving federal dollars doesn’t mean you’ve got a good thing going on.
Both the federal and the GlowBull governments, via Agenda-21...
Obama Recovery- Change from Recession to Depression.
It will be a while before shipping picks up on the Great Lakes. Water levels are down to the point where the biggest boats are short loading ore by 4,000-5,000 tons per trip. In an area where 40 trips per year are typical, that adds up quickly.
And, the last new boat was built 30 years ago...
That's a relevant snipe for reports on the overall jobs picture, but not really relevant to this article: most of the "dying counties" are rural counties that are "dying" because agriculture has become less labor-intensive than it once was. In Kansas, an awful lot of our counties are "dying" because more and more folks are moving into the larger towns and cities which only lie in a few counties. The land is still being farmed, but the farms are bigger, as is the equipment used to farm them.
St Johns county, here is growing, we’re in north east FL, St Augustine and guess what .
republicans outnumber Dems and non party combined, we;re not a small county and we’re one of the fastest growing counties in the country and have been for years
Oh yea we are not in debt but then again we have republicans in power and in all dept’s.
No Dems mean we have a good county which is run right.
Yeah!!!
Call me a border-line hermit, but I would LOVE to live in an area like this. Crime is usually almost non-existent (parasites prefer the glitz and "opportunities for enrichment" in a high-density, high-victim urban area) and the values tend to be good old-fashioned American.
If Middle America dies (or goes Galt), the cities and coastal states will literally starve. There will no longer be any meaningful politics other than hunger and force.
It is not us that needs luck.
And it seems to be working. I live in a rural area of my county. I've lived here for better than thirty years. Up until about a year ago houses in this area when listed for sale often sold within days. Right now there are three houses for sale within a mile of me that have been listed for better than three months. I know that that isn't unusual everywhere but it sure is here. I don't really mind too much. The last couple of "move ins" seem to have moved here more to escape the cities as opposed to moving to enjoy the country.
I can't say that I blame them but some of them are finding that the country isn't for everyone.
Wonder of both will take a huge hit by june?.
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