4um: Texas vs. California: No contest

One is a big government state, the other a small government state. One has lost population, one has gained. One has low taxes, the other high.

Is it any wonder that California is near default while Texas thrives?

Michael Barone:

Texas is a different story. Texas has low taxes -- and no state income taxes -- and a much smaller government. Its legislature meets for only 90 days every two years, compared with California's year-round legislature. Its fiscal condition is sound. Public employee unions are weak or nonexistent.
But Texas seems to be delivering superior services. Its teachers are paid less than California's. But its test scores -- and with a demographically similar school population -- are higher. California's once fabled freeways are crumbling and crowded. Texas has built gleaming new highways in metro Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth.
In the meantime, Texas' economy has been booming. Unemployment rates have been below the national average for more than a decade, as companies small and large generate new jobs.
And Americans have been voting for Texas with their feet. From 2000 to 2009, some 848,000 people moved from other parts of the United States to Texas, about the same number as moved in from abroad. That inflow has continued in 2008-09, in which 143,000 Americans moved into Texas, more than double the number in any other state, at the same time as 98,000 were moving out of California. Texas is on the way to gain four additional House seats and electoral votes in the 2010 reapportionment.

People vote with their feet. If citizens wanted big government to run their lives, they would be flocking to California, New York, Illinois and other states where huge government bureaucracies manned by public employee unions dominate individual's lives.

But the California miracle that was so much a part of the post-World War II economic boom appears finally to be over - or at least derailed by runaway nanny state initiatives. From here on out, it will be the "Texas Model" to which states will aspire.

That's about it. I feel sorry for those decent souls who have to stay on the Titanic....as for the fruits & nuts? Eff 'em.

California will always have beautiful scenery despite the worthless people occupying its' government, it's just a matter of how much abuse the people can take before they move on.

Meanwhile, it's almost springtime in Texas and I'm looking forward to bluebonnets and turkey's:

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Oregon is almost as bad. We've been Californicated by the influx of loony tunes lefties escaping with their booty to Oregon. Most of the state votes conservative but 3 counties, with slightly more than half the population, control the state. And of course a heavy preponderance of city dwellers vote liberal. They are conditioned to accepting government and so look for it as the solution to everything including tooth decay. Ask Nuke - he lives a few miles from me and knows the score here in the delightful "People's Republic of Oregon".

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I love Oregon. It is a beautiful state with a very livable climate. I have traveled to all corners of the state on highways and out the way ways. However, the problem is that the libtards are making it economically an oppressed wasteland by taxing the public into the ground. If it wasn't such a wonderful place to live people would be bailing out in droves. The libtards with their pie in the sky giveaways never think about how their programs actually make life less livable and people's choice more restricted by the suppressive tax load to fund the Utopia they will never have.

If I allowed myself the vice of hate that is one group I could hate. The tyranny of false "good intentions" which just never seem to work out - except for those in control.