Posted on 03/29/2014 10:46:21 AM PDT by Spktyr
As Sam Houston is often credited as saying: “The United States needs Texas.
He was wrong. There is no way that you could afford to pay the United States enough money for all the military bases alone for you to survive. It would be cost prohibited to have to pay for those federal bases.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/02/is-your-state-a-net-giver-or-taker-of-federal-taxes/
Well this is might interesting. Maryland only gets about 83 cents back for every dollar given. Texas gets 91 cents for every dollar it gives. Of course South Carolina is horrid….they receive 2.39 cents for every dollar given. Why is South Carolina one of the worst states?
Um, not being part of the US we wouldn’t need all those military bases. Does, say, France or England or even Russia pay for tons of bases outside their borders? No?
Further, we could adopt a pure Sampson option - the only nuclear weapons construction and maintenance facility in North America is in Texas.
That number does not include the money ‘given’ by the government sector.
Single largest source of income for Maryland? Government. Please note the non-government sectors and how they’re mostly declining. http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.md.htm
Michigan has only very recently thrown off the chains of forced unionism thuggery. The seeds of freedom and liberty are only now taking hold. No longer bound to the slavery imposed by Big Labor goons, the road to economic recovery has now begun.
The Southern states have long been free and their economic might is unquestionable. Right to work, along the right to keep and bear arms, have been cherished for decade after decade in the Solid South.
Wasn’t Al Sharpton in Silicon Valley the other day, telling those high-tech companies to hire more minority workers?
If he’s looking for the good jobs, he went to the wrong state.
I just read about an Indiana plastics company sending some jobs to Hillsdale to other day.
When it comes to guns, Michigan is freer than Texas in some respects.
That old slogan is really in need of a 21st Century overhaul to reflect the new reality:
Not to mention the great things your (MI) state legislators have been doing, of late. Becoming quite the "success" in showing other blue states how it's done.
It was Jesse “Shakedown” Jackson. Al was in Ohio embracing the ballot box stuffer.
What we need is a part time legislature.
Take heart. A lot of us have noticed MI and it’s progress.
If you could shed the Democrat/Union paradise of Detroit....................
On second thought, even Detroit police chief is breaking new ground by publically supporting the citizens right to shoot attackers.
The 'chip' (solid state intergrated circuit) was invented by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments in 1957.
Jack got the Nobel Prize in physics for this invention.
One of the leading figures in computing algorithms, the late Edsger Dijkstra, taught at the University of Texas. And down the road a bit, the creator of the C++ language, Bjarne Stroustup, is the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M. He might be one Aggie more famous than Johnny Manziel...well, at least to geeks. And to this day, the most widely-used DSP chips come from Texas Instruments.
Does Trenton actually make anything anyone wants any more?
As for the message being conveyed, well, Trenton really doesn't make much anymore. The Roebling wire plant shut down 24 years ago. The car, anvil, tool, watch, cigar factories - all are gone. A few, scattered light manufacturing plants still carry on, but for the most part, the business of Trenton is in state government, health and other service industries.
I live here in north Texas. Just got back from running the garage sales in my immediate area. I noticed new homes being constructed everywhere I went. Crews were out working today on a lot of the sites. Folks, these are really nice homes, almost mansions, that somebody is buying at very nice prices.
And those persons sure ain’t working part-time at Mickey D’s. I was surprised to read that Texas unemployment was down to 5.7 percent. It looks like a lot of the people are coming to Texas who own businesses and bring new jobs or work in the skilled trades or professions. Much more than I thought.
Yes, Texas is blessed.
There are other issues which also draw a mark of "needs improvement" but in sum, Texas is doing things mostly right.
I was a process engineering manager in the DSP wafer fab. I retired from TI at the end of 1994 at age 50.
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