I just did.
Posted on 11/09/2006 12:43:12 PM PST by WBL 1952
Charlie Rangel opens his mouth...and mocks the South: (hat tip: reader CRB)
“It’s not just committees — our influence within the House Democratic caucus will grow enormously,” Mr. Rangel said in an interview.
To that end, he sketched out an expansive federal agenda: Teaming up with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on gun control, passing new tax incentives for urban job programs, and redirecting federal money to New York in return for the outsize tax collections that the federal government makes here.
“Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?” Mr. Rangel said.
NY was very close to siding with the Confederacy in the war.
> Cut off the 40% federal welfare hand out to the great state of Mississippi and what do you think would happen? <
Lotsa folks would start looking for work. Not necessarily a bad thing!
Note he's complaining about money going to Mississippi, but I'd guess there's at least as much going to West Virginia, and he didn't (and won't) say squat about that.
Maybe he didn't have time to make a list...
Automotive manufacturing is old style industrial.
High tech -- like chips and bio engineering, nano stuff -- are among the most hotly competed for industries. California, NY, and Mass. are in a death struggle for them. I suspect that California will eventually win.
Aerospace I don't know too much about.
What the hell do you think the reaction would be if a Republican majority House Leader said this???
BTW, I am in Mississippi.
LLS
I know a lot of Europeans snatched up investment properties -- eight and ten unit apartments. Don't know of any who moved in.
I was up on 125th a couple weeks ago. It's thriving. Harlem can still be block to block nice and not so nice, but a lot of those brownstones are gems, particularly the ones on or near Sugar Hill.
> we have some mighty big hills. See from Natchez to Brookhaven, and near McComb amd Magnolia <
And don't forget Summit!
Given the stuff they dug up up there, they certainly had a major stake in slavery. Wonder what the country would look like if they had and the South had won.
I regret to say that my maternal great-great grandfather came down here with Sherman and the 80th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.. I LIKE to think he behaved better than the bulk of that crowd.
High tech is leaving California for the Gulf Coast States. The business climate here is very hostile. NY and Mass are not much better and will get worse as well.
I'm guessing it's more an issue of the letters in parentheses after the names "Lott" and "Byrd".
What Rangel said was expected from a Northeast liberal - it was Gene Taylor's (D-MS) pathetic response or lack thereof that has me steaming...
Taylor's district is as conservative as one can get but they keep sending the jerk back to Washington.
> there's just something wrong about Thai food or Sushi in MS <
Oh yeah? Whadda you know? Your comment sounds like typical anti-Southern bigotry.
Just try the authentic Thai cusine at Thai House, I-55 South in Jackson -- operated by a Thai family, or the authentic sushi at Little Tokyo in Ridgeland -- operated by a Japanese family.
And last time I heard, there was even a Thai restaurant in Yazoo City, of all places!
[Also, there used to be a couple of good Thai restaurants in Ocean Springs. But I guess they got wiped out by Katrina.]
We can drive 70 miles west and eat food in New Orleans that will rival that of anywhere in the world... and I have eaten at the finest restaurants in Paris... yep, a Mississippian in Paris... we can eat the finest seafood in the world here, and we even have Emeril Lagasse cooking for us!
Did you know that Emeril and his parents live in Mississippi and lost homes in Pass Christian during Katrina. Did you know that after Katrina he actually cooked for survivors along the coast?
If we want St. John's clothing, Neman Marcus merchadise, Bruno Mali shoes, Bulgari watches, Louis Vuitton handbags (and any other snotty elitist stuff), we actually have wideband Internet and American Express Platinum cards. Imagine that!
LLS
I didn't say it didn't exist, I just said there was something "wrong about it."
We do have a Nissan plant!
LLS
High tech is leaving California for the Gulf Coast States. The business climate here is very hostile
The other thing you have to remember is that except in rare cases high tech does not employ a whole lot of people per company.
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