Posted on 06/05/2011 8:34:54 PM PDT by hout8475
If you want to get a sense of what an economic powerhouse Washington has become in recent years, look no further than the Virginia suburb of Falls Church City.
Boasting a strong school system and positioned about six miles from the nation's capital, Falls Church has for years enticed rich families, making it the nation's richest county with median annual household income of $113,313.
"It indicates that the City of Falls Church is located in a healthy economic area in the national capital region," says Wyatt Shields, city manager for Falls Church. "We are proud of the fact that we take advantage of the city's healthy economic area to attract people to live here."
It's No. 1, but it isn't alone. In fact, four of the top ten richest counties in the nation are concentrated in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, and a fifth, Howard County, Md., is equidistant between Washington and Baltimore.
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A perfect example of how out of touch government has become with the governed.
THe only local newspaper in Fall Church is the Falls Church News. Its’ editor is gay wacko leftist and his top accomplishment was to hire anti-semite Helen Thomas as his political columnists.
He also runs Paul Krugman and a couple of other leftists as his columnists.
Falls Church is actually a bus stop between Tysons Corner and Arlington/Alexandria, the Pentagon and DC. A nice place to live if you are one of the Democrat Party rich but poor people need not apply. (No illegal immigrants for them).
Over the past year I’ve stumbled across at least 6 different companies that Henry Paulson is listed as an advisor or and investor and all of those have gotten stimulus money.
Most recently I found Coda Automotive among those that meet that criteria. (While looking for info on John Bryson who Obama picked for commerce secretary. Bryson is listed as director of Coda and Paulson listed as advisor and investor.
And Iranian is now Mayor of Falls Church?
no suburb of washdc is an economic powerhouse
it is the recipient of tax money from the rest of the country. corruption and graft.
so glad i can work 50-66% of my life to support their life style
During a budget dispute between congress and the president in 1995, most of the U.S. government was shut down for awhile, and 98 percent of the employees in some agencies were deemed “non-essential” and told not to bother coming to work. So Jay Leno asked, “If they’re NON-essential, WHAT are they doing there in the first place?”
Actually a lot of the wealth in these DC suburbs does not come from the federal government but from tax-paying companies. There are many very prosperous companies like MedImmune that are headquartered near DC, and major multinationals like IBM have a big presence here as well. In addition, a great deal of tech and biomedical research goes on in a for-profit environment. Real money doesn’t come from working for the US government; that takes private enterprise. Everywhere you go in the DC area there’s office space filled with various types of tech companies with the office lights burning until the small hours because people are working hard.
Yes, but who are their main customers if not the gummint agencies, support organizations and all their employees?
Washington is the money/power sprinkler of the nation. It is natural for those that benefit from government largess (beltway bandits) to want to be as close to it as possible. Many state capitals have a similar government parasite class entrenched around them.
The only way to avoid this is to keep the government beast starved of taxes and spending. Either they thrive - or we, the citizenry thrive.
Oh yeah? What do they produce?
Better there than better, less regulated, less fascist parts of the country.
Thirty-five years ago, one of the instructors pointed out that the same thing was happening in the US. Large cities were taking wealth from the surrounding countryside to purchase luxuries, such as orchestras, museums and zoos, and provide other money-losing services such as welfare, mass transit and community centers that the rest of the state never or only rarely got to use. At the end, he mentioned that Washington would be rich no matter how poor the rest of the country would be.
A simple example of this is the new subway out to Dulles Airport. It's a good idea, but we locals are only paying about 30-50% of it. You guys in West Virginia, Kansas and the rest of the country are paying the rest.
A lot of companies in the DC area get their money by selling to the US government.
they are getting their money via govt contracts. ie: taxpayers or ‘the trough’
i worked the toll rd and downtown for a long while
Richmond has been taking money away from NoVa for years to build roads in other parts of Virginia. I don’t care if it’s state or federal money, as long as it ends up here now for Metro or roads.
Notice that these are the areas that vote Democrat? Doesn’t that tell you that most of the bureaucrats in DC are Democrats?
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