[amnestynone]

Do we even hve any freepers from the Ocean State here to comment on this article?

[BwanaNdege]

Do we even hve any freepers from the Ocean State here to comment on this article?

Nearly all of my Rhode Island in-laws have moved to NC, GA, TX and MT.

[ransacked]

I’m right next door to Rhode Island. Chronic unemployment there.

[PAR35]

But the state’s key industries collapsed long ago

Yes, transporting slaves has been on hard times for over 150 years.

[boycott]

They can keep voting for their failed liberal BS. We’re taking their jobs and we plan on taking more.

[Bogey78O]

With Lincoln Chaffee running the place what can you expect?

[farming pharmer]

"With no special economic advantages, the state has maintained an entitlement mentality inherited from an age of colonial and industrial grandeur. Rhode Island was once one of America’s most prosperous states, and its rate of higher-education attainment remains better than the national average. But the state’s key industries collapsed long ago, and its political leadership has refused to make adjustments to its high-cost, high-regulation governance system."

This is a perfect description of Detroit, yet another Democrat created disaster.

[ClearCase_guy]

“Rhode Island is in the midst of an especially grim economic meltdown,” a 2009 New York Times story began, “and no one can pinpoint exactly why.”

Total mystery. No one can figure it out. I'm baffled. It just makes me feel so sad and ... well ... blue.

[C210N]

I sense that the day of reckoning will feature red-America
having to re-engage with blue-America, much like the West
has done in the past with the east, in Germany with the tearing down of the wall, and the collapse of the USSR and west re-absorption of eastern Europe.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Rhode Island only exists so other places can be compared to it....

Torrance County in New Mexico is larger than RI, and has about 1.4 people per square mile.

[uncommonsense]

For some reason, years ago, I was under the impression that Rhode Island was pretty well off, like Connecticut. Then I had several long term projects in MA, PA, and NH, did a bunch of traveling around the leftist utopias, and found Providence a shocking $hit hole. I grew up just north of Detoilet (E. of Flint) and Providence seemed to be as bad as Detoilet.

Dumb ideas coupled with poor attitudes create bad outcomes. So far, the Ivy League schools have missed this immutable concept.

[navyguy]

Good! The Progressive Morons that live in RI are getting EXACTLY what they want. I hope they get 50 times more of it. In fact, I would argue that their taxes are WAY too low. They should triple the state income tax, sales tax and all property taxes. It’s for The Chillren!

I have ZERO sympathy for these imbeciles. NONE.

[Does so]

I was visiting in Massachusetts, and turned the TV onto a Rhode Island station. The only ads switched between ads with lawyers asking if you’d had a “slip and fall accident”, or ads for pawn shops. Depressing. :-(

[workerbee]

“Rhode Island is in the midst of an especially grim economic meltdown,” a 2009 New York Times story began, “and no one can pinpoint exactly why.”

Really, NYT... no one? And you call yourselves journalists? LOL

[Noob1999]

As I lived in RI for 35 years, now in Texas, I’ll read the
article about the most corrupt state, and comment tomorrow.

Wonderful Ocean State, corrupt as hell. Not just the
politicians, but the banks want to be sure that no local
company gets too big for it’s britches.

Gotta keep things in control, donchaknow!

[hinckley buzzard]

Brown University, in Providence, is an outrider of the fascist academy. They have systematically sought to destroy the Constitutional freedoms of the individual, although not without push-back from Americans, such as FIRE and the National Association of Scholars. Nevertheless, Brown specializes in denying first amendment speech rights via "speech codes," and in kangaroo courts to destroy innocent students' lives via false rape accusations from feminist weasels.

Yep, Rhode Island is one great place.

[sten]

decades of funneling democrat pork has its benefits

[tflabo]

Rhodent Isle Blues... DemRat Blue...

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Yep - 30 year veteran of the Ocean State - left in 2007 for the Bluegrass State and never looked back.

Liberal politicians and the clueless voters that keep electing them into office are the reason.

High taxes, high cost of living, rampant immigration, no industry, liberals, unions, impotent politicians, etc, etc - it’s a mess that won’t get any better. I saw the writing on the wall and hit the road - just in time, it seems.