While New York Bleeds Washington Thrives

Yahoo Real Estate ^ | Feb 20th, 2009 | Peter Coy

[LowCountryJoe]

As the nation's most populous metro area feels Wall Street's pain, the fourth-largest -- Washington -- is barely sensing the recession. In fact, Moody's Economy.com estimates that metro Washington's economy will actually grow 2.5% from mid-2008 through mid-2010. New York's economy is expected to shrink 4.2%.

It wouldn't be the first time that Washington benefited from a national crisis. Back in 1930 the District of Columbia was a quiet Southern town, scoffed at by New York sophisticates. But as the federal government ramped up to fight first the Great Depression and then World War II, its population grew 65% in two decades, vs. just 14% for New York City.

This time Washington is getting a boost from government spending to fight the recession and fix the financial system, as well as the ongoing expenses of fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and promoting homeland security. While President Barack Obama pointedly left Washington for Denver to sign the $787 billion stimulus package on Feb. 17, locals expect the metro area to garner a big share of the dollars.

[LowCountryJoe]

Any surprises here? Let's just make it official: Republicans should immediately support a constitutional ammendment to repeal the ninth and tenth amendments. Yes it would be a stunt and a ploy but maybe, just maybe it would call attention to the idiocy that has been occuring for quite some time. Maybe it would hasten a revolutionary movement toward limited government and via federalism. Why the #$%^ did we not nominate Fred Thompson to the ticket -- everyone else {{everyone}} was a second-rate flawed candidate. Yes, everyone, especially Duncn Hunter (no fan of capitalism and no big advocate of individual economic freedom).

[gridlock]

Leeches

[GOPGuide]

The Whore of Babylon revels in material comfort.

[Jack Hammer]

While the proles bite the bullet, the commissars live high off their takings. The story’s as old as Lenin, and the American people voted for it. Apparently, more than half of our national population learned nothing whatsoever from the history of the Twentieth Century.