Posted on 10/27/2013 4:12:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
They say the Lone Star State has four seasons: drought, flood, blizzard and twister. This summer 97% of the state was in a persistent drought; in 2011 the Dallas-Fort Worth area experienced 40 straight days in July and August of temperatures of 100° or higher. The state's social services are thin. Welfare benefits are skimpy. Roughly a quarter of residents have no health insurance. Many of its schools are less than stellar. Property-crime rates are high. Rates of murder and other violent crimes are hardly sterling either. So why are more Americans moving to Texas than to any other state? Texas is America's fastest-growing large state, with three of the top five fastest-growing cities in the country: Austin, Dallas and Houston. In 2012 alone, total migration to Texas from the other 49 states in the Union was 106,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Since 2000, 1 million more people have moved to Texas from other states than have left.
As an economist and a libertarian, I have become convinced that whether they know it or not, these migrants are being pushed (and pulled) by the major economic forces that are reshaping the American economy as a whole: the hollowing out of the middle class, the increased costs of living in the U.S.'s established population centers and the resulting search by many Americans for a radically cheaper way to live and do business.
To a lot of Americans, Texas feels like the future. And I would argue that more than any other state, Texas looks like the future as well — offering us a glimpse of what's to come for the country at large in the decades ahead.....
(Excerpt) Read more at content.time.com ...
You must be my age, give or take.
Rand Paul’s immigration speech
03.19.13 | Hon Sen Rand Paul (KY)
Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2998395/posts
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
[but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
As an economist and a libertarian, I have become convinced that whether they know it or not, these migrants are being pushed (and pulled) by the major economic forces that are reshaping the American economy as a whole: the hollowing out of the middle class, the increased costs of living in the U.S.'s established population centers and the resulting search by many Americans for a radically cheaper way to live and do business.
I also like to snow ski. There are about four ski areas within an hours drive of my house. I won’t have that in Dallas.
:)
I am SOOOO happy to have Ted Cruz as MY Senator!
No, you will need to drive to Colorado or New Mexico for that - but you’ll need a fast car to make it in an hour.
My liberal New York friends certainly complain at every opportunity that you can’t get a good pizza, or Italian food generally, or bagel here in Texas.
That’s because every Italian restaurant in Texas is either an Olive Garden or a Spaghetti Warehouse, and every bagel is of the frozen variety. The Texan’s idea of haute cuisine is barbequed armadillo on the halfshell.
The Mexicans working in Texas, and most of them are working, are mostly fine folks who mind their own business.
I really don’t mind many Yankees and Californians. They can come here and take our jobs, bid up our house prices, add to traffic congestion, and even marry our women. But Texans get really annoyed when outsiders come to Texas and complain we ought to do things the way they did back in their home state. (Like Wendy Davis, the abortion filibusterer, born in Rhode Island.) And some of them have really thin skins and seem unable to detect a tongue-in-cheek comment!
No, you will need to drive to Colorado or New Mexico for that - but you’ll need a fast car to make it in an hour.
Pretty sure they don’t make cars that fast. And even if they did, I couldn’t afford ‘em. Think I’ll stay put.
Yeah, we New Mexicans sure love Texas skiers.
Ski Sandia West!
Bunch of lies and twisted “facts.”
Well, I’m not paying Time to get the see the whole article.
My all electric and air conditioned 2400 sq.ft. house located 30 miles south of 2nddivisionvet had an electric bill of $181.00 last month. Highest bill for that 40 straight day 100+ last summer was $290.00. Is that "reasonable"?
I cannot argue that CA does have an appeal from a lifestyle aspect...
But you guys are paying out the nose just to wake up there...
I know, I was stationed out there for some time back in the 80’s...Got into the lifestyle, did some things I would not normally do in my home state, all legal of course...;-)
To me it is a nce place to visit, which my wife and I have done, but I cannot live there as before...It is too expensive, and its politics and I would be diametrically opposed...
But that part of it is up to you to chamge, if your up to the task...;-) Good luck on that...hehe
I was just curious what the electric rates were like in CA where the other poster lived.
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