Posted on 11/17/2016 1:00:42 PM PST by beebuster2000
yeah, but the word count was too long to put in “county”
Heard from a friend in Washington that the weed business has difficulty converting all their cash ( no credit cards, etc allowed) to “usable” funds. They are sending the money to Mexico in suit cases for a 50% haircut so the cartel is still making a large cut of the profits.
Is Wahington great - or what?
Not by a longshot, dude. Pure fantasy. Those idiots vote Dem all these years and Trump cheerleaders want to trumpet the razor thin margins as some sort of revolution.
That bubble will burst. Thank Assange for Trump, cause it may the last time in my life a non-Dem non-aligned with lameduck pubbies wins a national office like POTUS.
To be clear, I am hopeful Trump truly drains the swamp and turns the system upside down. However, I am both pragmatic and cynical as well.
In 2012 Romney carried 22 counties. If you exclude the 3 counties of King (where Seattle is) and the 2 counties immediately north and south (Snohomish and Pierce), Romney had slightly over 50% of the vote in the rest of the state. I don’t know how Hillary’s numbers compare to 2012.
In 2012 Romney carried 22 counties. If you exclude the 3 counties of King (where Seattle is) and the 2 counties immediately north and south (Snohomish and Pierce), Romney had slightly over 50% of the vote in the rest of the state. I don’t know how Hillary’s numbers compare to 2012.
It’s indicative of many many counties in WA State.
Most of the state is red but the most populous are King and Pierce which are blue.
Most of the liberal base is government and schools, dependents on federal/state assistance.
Creating good private sector jobs in the state can reduce the liberal base or its turnout and shift momentum to red counties.
The write-up here is a good synopsis and accounting of the damage that liberal policies have wrought on the state especially in the red counties which make up all but about 2 of the 39 counties in the state.
The problem is most of them are too stupid to realized it was the liberal policies they loved so much that trashed California. They will just keep voting for leftist garbage, but now in Idaho.
Liberals are like locusts: They destroy the area they inhabit then move on to another location and do it again.
Years back, when the same decline in Oregon started, we were on vacation up there. My wife made the prescient observation that of all the cars we saw, the newer ones were from out of state, with the rust buckets belonging to the locals.
Someone there said that Oregon's economy was like a three-legged stool: Fishing, Timber, and Tourism - and that Fishing and Timber had been kicked out. You could see the creeping poverty moving in.
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