California Suggests Suicide; Texas Asks: Can I Lend You a Knife? (living, state)

[Lucidus]

More fuel for the fire, another article about how Texas rules and California blows. And there is something for you Bill White fans.

The defeated Democratic candidate for governor, the brainy former Houston Mayor Bill White, enjoyed robust business support and was widely considered more competent than the easily re-elected incumbent Rick Perry, who sometimes sounds more like a neo-Confederate crank than a serious leader.

Via Forbes

California Suggests Suicide; Texas Asks: Can I Lend You a Knife? - Joel Kotkin - New Geographer - Forbes

[orbius]

Probably not great timing considering Texas' budget deficit has magically been revealed, right after the election no less, to be much higher than previously thought and higher as a proportion than California's.

Forbes just likes the notion of a state government of the corporation by the corporation and for the corporation and thats why it always praises Texas. Its just bitter that corporate shill Meg Whitman couldnt carry California and is therefore predicting the states demise like a child throwing a tantrum after its cookie is taken away.

[Wonderful Jellal]

Ahaha no it's not from me

In the future, historians may likely mark the 2010 midterm elections as the end of the California era and the beginning of the Texas one. In one stunning stroke, amid a national conservative tide, California voters essentially ratified a political and regulatory regime that has left much of the state unemployed and many others looking for the exits.
California has drifted far away from the place that John Gunther described in 1946 as “the most spectacular and most diversified American state … so ripe, golden.” Instead of a role model, California has become a cautionary tale of mismanagement of what by all rights should be the country’s most prosperous big state. Its poverty rate is at least two points above the national average; its unemployment rate nearly three points above the national average. On Friday Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was forced yet again to call an emergency session in order to deal with the state’s enormous budget problems.


California Suggests Suicide; Texas Asks: Can I Lend You a Knife? | Newgeography.com

Very interesting article

[HtownLove]

I think California is still the most spectacular and most diversified.

Texas has spectacular cities, and a few Diverse ones, but California is more sweeping.

I think Texas is the one that shot itself in the foot electing reelecting Perry and his buddies.

Texas business oriented nature is what is keeping it a float, the Reds have nothing to do with it. Texas was business savvy way back when it was still blue.

[HtownLove]

Hmmm, I just noticed there were two of these. Anyway I don't know which will get deleted, so here is what I said in the other:

Originally Posted by HtownLove

I think California is still the most spectacular and most diversified.

Texas has spectacular cities, and a few Diverse ones, but California is more sweeping.

I think Texas is the one that shot itself in the foot electing reelecting Perry and his buddies.

Texas business oriented nature is what is keeping it a float, the Reds have nothing to do with it. Texas was business savvy way back when it was still blue.

[Wonderful Jellal]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

I think California is still the most spectacular and most diversified.

Texas has spectacular cities, and a few Diverse ones, but California is more sweeping.

I think Texas is the one that shot itself in the foot electing reelecting Perry and his buddies.

Texas business oriented nature is what is keeping it a float, the Reds have nothing to do with it. Texas was business savvy way back when it was still blue.

The Texas boom come from Perry & co.The leader in wind power is Texas, thanks to Perry.
But you're right, it's not a red thing or blue thing.Washington state is a great state to live and economically, and it is dominated by blue politics

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by RenaudFR

The Texas boom come from Perry & co.The leader in wind power is Texas, thanks to Perry.
But you're right, it's not a red thing or blue thing.Washington state is a great state to live and economically, and it is dominated by blue politics

Perry had nothing to do with the Texas boom. The Boom flows from decades of business structure laid down before Perry ever held public office.

Perry can hardly blow his nose without assistance

[Wonderful Jellal]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

Perry had nothing to do with the Texas boom. The Boom flows from decades of business structure laid down before Perry ever held public office.

Perry can hardly blow his nose without assistance

The Texas Enterprise Fund, from Perry, is a success.Many businesses came from the other states to Texas, thousands of jobs created during the crisis.
I know it's hard to accept it's a successful governor (economically) but you can't erase the datas about jobs and growth during his terms

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by RenaudFR

The Texas Enterprise Fund, from Perry, is a success.Many businesses came from the other states to Texas, thousands of jobs created during the crisis.
I know it's hard to accept it's a successful governor (economically) but you can't erase the datas about jobs and growth during his terms

Perry is benefiting from other people's labor, You don't know how it is here on the ground. I have been living it for years. Texas is business savvy and that has nothing to do with Perry

how much good can be attributed to that Enterprise fund???

Heck Bush was much better a Governor than Perry

[Spade]

The constitution of the state of Texas does not allow any governor to mess up how Texas does it's business so in essence, Perry really has little to do with the boom of Texas.