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Mass. exodus
The Boston Globe ^
| January 15, 2006
| Jeff Jacoby
Posted on 01/15/2006 10:56:28 AM PST by george76
Edited on 01/15/2006 11:16:36 AM PST by Admin Moderator.
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FOR THE second year in a row...the population of Massachusetts has shrunk.
It was one of only three states to end the year with fewer people than it had at the start -- New York and Rhode Island were the others -- and the only one to do so for the second year running.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Maine; US: Massachusetts; US: New Hampshire; US: New York; US: Rhode Island; US: Vermont
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posted on
01/15/2006 10:56:31 AM PST
by
george76
To: george76
2
posted on
01/15/2006 11:00:25 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: george76
taxes maybe? how about single party state and corruption?
3
posted on
01/15/2006 11:02:27 AM PST
by
minus_273
To: Fiddlstix
Teddy keeps putting on more weight, people have to leave or get smashed.
4
posted on
01/15/2006 11:03:04 AM PST
by
TYVets
(God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
To: george76
Massachusetts is Old Europe right here in America.
To: george76
Cost of living, I'd say. It necessarily puts a squeeze on those in the middle and lower-middle income groups. And their financial betters also would not mind living in cheaper place, like NH ["live free or die anyway"] the next door.
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posted on
01/15/2006 11:03:51 AM PST
by
GSlob
To: george76
Speaking as a refugee from the Peoples State of Taxachusetts:
> In which Ted Kennedy keeps getting reelected.
The problem with Teddy is not only that he represents MA,
but since they keep re-electing him, that he really is
representative of MA voters.
In MA, everything that isn't outlawed is mandatory,
unless it's heavily taxed.
7
posted on
01/15/2006 11:04:08 AM PST
by
Boundless
To: george76
But I read right here on Free Republic that the economy is booming in Massachusetts. Jobs for everyone.
I know better. The state is hurting.
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posted on
01/15/2006 11:04:37 AM PST
by
ladyjane
To: george76
Why don't more people want to move to Massachusetts? Gee, you would think with gay marriage, people would be flocking to this mecca of family values.
To: george76
Why don't more people want to move to Massachusetts? Two words - Kennedy and Kerry.
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posted on
01/15/2006 11:05:23 AM PST
by
SaveTheChief
(Give the Governor a harrumph!)
To: george76
Well who is voting for these lousy senators if it's not the populace?
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posted on
01/15/2006 11:06:25 AM PST
by
sangoo
To: george76
The last time I was in Cambridge I was walking down the sidewalk when a big shaved head weight lifter looking fellow came up and asked for money. I said "no." This clearly made the M.I.T. engineer I was walking with very uncomfortable.
The weight lifter/pan handler followed us down the sidewalk getting closer and closer and saying more threatening things. I told my companion, loud enough for the pan handler to hear, that if the guy touched me I was going to take him out because he was too big and strong looking to play around with. My friend told me that if I did that I was on my own.
My friend ran a local Judo club and was fearless so I asked him about it later. He said he was already under pressure at work for not allocating enough of his salary to give to pan handlers and could not afford professionally to be involved in an incident that involved refusing to give money.
That was the day I decided I could never live in Boston, even as beautiful and intellectually stimulating as it is.
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posted on
01/15/2006 11:06:47 AM PST
by
gondramB
(Democracy: two wolves and a lamb voting on lunch. Liberty: a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.)
To: george76
The bad part of this is that these Mass. refugees are moving to states with more sane governments bringing their stupid voting habits with them. Watch as NH and Maine become more blue as Mass. becomes more empty. Instead of one screwed up state we will have three.
To: george76
The reason the electorate remains leftist is this: the more conservative one is, the more likely that one will leave.
Yet those on the dole stay, along with the intellectual elitists.
Harvard and the slums. All literally throwing money down the rathole (bigdig).
It is a good thing to keep them bunched up in groups, this way. Mecca and Boston.
To: george76
I suspect the same trend would be observed in Ca for the same reasons if there wasn't a flood of immigrants replacing those leaving.
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posted on
01/15/2006 11:14:09 AM PST
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: sangoo
Well who is voting for these lousy senators if it's not the populace? Has anyone looked into voter fraud there? How many dead people do they see?
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posted on
01/15/2006 11:15:11 AM PST
by
DejaJude
(Admiral Clark said, "Our mantra today is life, liberty and the pursuit of those who threaten it!")
To: sangoo
Well who is voting for these lousy senators if it's not the populace?Hmmmmm. Let's examine this question. Who keeps electing and re-electing Democrats?
Many people think Democrats don't value tradition, but in election turnouts, they truly do. That's why people keep voting for them, year after year, century after century - even long after they're dead (the voters, I mean. Not - usually - the Democrats being elected).
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posted on
01/15/2006 11:15:22 AM PST
by
irv
To: GSlob
But a hatred of cold winters doesn't explain New Hampshire's net gain of 78,000 transplanted Massachusetts residents between 1990 and 2002 ...
fewer and fewer people want to call Massachusetts home ...because of its oppressive and demoralizing political culture.
In the state that produced Michael S. Dukakis and Sen. Kerry...
Ted Kennedy keeps getting reelected...
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posted on
01/15/2006 11:15:32 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: glock_fan
Instead of one screwed up state we will have three.
You've nailed the long-term on this trend.
I've suggested on a few threads that we erect a wall around
metro Boston as an "extra" for the Big Dig. This is with an eye to keep
the really nutty liberals in their own ghetto and not let them spread
their contagion.
I'm sure any enterprising conservatives will be able to find a way out.
Just like the exodus from East Berlin.
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posted on
01/15/2006 11:17:29 AM PST
by
VOA
To: gondramB
Nor allocating enough of his salary to panhandlers?
That's outrageous. When did that happen? Is it widespread? You'd think it might happen in one of those non-christian christian churches but in a judo club???
They guy should just carry Fritos and sandwiches to hand out.
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