Is Iowa Liberal? (Des Moines, Sioux City, Hawkeye: appointed, condos, house)

[DSMGuy]

Yeah, you are doing so "well" you can pass up little players like IBM and Microsoft, LOL (or Google & Yahoo in the Omaha area for that matter). Who needs 'em? If you really wanted them, they would beat a path to your door.

Sounds like the kid who never got picked for any team saying they didn't want to play anyway.

[Northern Traveler]

Originally Posted by DSMGuy

While I don't disagree we have a tax problem in Iowa, your envy and bitterness comes through on your Microsoft question, zz...

What's the matter, bitter that neither Microsoft nor IBM (congrats Dubuque btw) chose to locate in the area that proudly calls itself the "Technology Corridor"?? Cough.

(Also, from what I've seen, Iowa Citians don't want to be part of this so-called corridor because they are doing quite well on their own merits.)

HAHA this is so true. i have to laugh whenever I hear "Technology Corridor" ... Cedar Rapids, a town that basically has a cereal mill - wants to be cool and is trying to grab Iowa City under it's stinky armpit.

[RonnieJonez]

How can Iowa justify such a high tax rate? It doesn't make sense.

[pepe1]

Originally Posted by mofford

Well, we have to look at the job that needs to be done over the next few years. The job of making cuts in the state budget with declining state revenue from all the layoffs and unemployment. The mood in 2010 might be similar to the national mood we had in 1980 when Ronald Reagan was able to win. Steve King should run on a watchdog platform stressing fiscal responsibility and holding the line on taxes. King has never been a Bush neocon type, and thats why he is still around and will be there for the long road ahead.

I don't like fake republicans like McCain, and believe at the national level that Obama and his ocean of democrats should get their chance to try and improve things. They may be able to deal with some problems better, such as energy, healthcare and foreign/military policy. But the national and state level of governments are two different animals, we can't print our way out of this mess at the state level. King is what we need for Iowa 2010, like it or not.

Steve King is a racist hillbilly representing one of Iowa's most economically depressed areas. Furthermore, the man has no college education. A Culver-King gubanatorial contest would result in a Culver landslide.

[mofford]

Well pepe1, like it or not, border security and illegal immigration are important issues for alot of Iowans, King is not the only politician that ever took a stand on this issue, Mitt Romney comes to mind. I think we should look after our southern border with the same zeal that Mexico does, but thats another topic.

Having spent my childhood in the Siouxland area, I have to wonder why the state has not done more to help in terms of economic development. Sioux Falls and Counsil Bluffs are thriving while Sioux City just barely holds it own. The town needs a facelift in the downtown area similar to what has been done in Des Moines. Make the town a more attactive place and people will want to move there. I get the impression that state democrats have turned their backs on this area for decades, being that it is a strongly republican district.

As for King, yeah the guy is kind of a hard ass, but thats the type of guy we need in there for 2010 to make the painfull decisions that will need to be made and hold the line on taxes, he's not a "yes man".

I will take it from responses about King in this thread that Iowa might be kind of liberal, lol.

[DMRyan]

What does Sioux City need handouts from the Democrats for? Can't they pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and succeed on their own god-given merits? /irony

[Northern Traveler]

Originally Posted by mofford

I will take it from responses about King in this thread that Iowa might be kind of liberal, lol.

This forum has a liberal bias, IMO. Not an accurate sample of Iowa overall.

[DMRyan]

No doubt, the real Iowa would have a different slant.

:::notional photos of persons perceived to be backwards here::::

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[Chicago60614]

Originally Posted by DMRyan

No doubt, the real Iowa would have a different slant.

Haha, I love how people think that is the REAL Iowa, when 2/3 of the residents live in a metro/urban area.

Just looked it up and from 2000 to 2007 just the Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Iowa City areas grew by roughly 100,000 people....while the rest of the state lost 40,000 people. It's becoming a much more polarized state.

[mofford]

Sioux City has/had more potential for growth, it might pay off for the state to invest in the area's future. As I mentioned, Sioux Falls and Counsil Bluffs have healthy growth. Sioux City can bring new residents from Nebraska and South Dakota and keep the Iowa shoppers north and south of the area from defecting.

Build up Sioux City and your gonna snag alot of money from the west and keep money in Iowa, The morningside area in SC looks great, but make it look better along I-29 and get rid of the stinky meat packing plant. That plant did the same thing for SC that the plant here on Maurry Steet did for the east side of Des Moines, nothing but make it stink and be a less desirable place to live. The smell can drift for miles, there's no reason to have one in close proximity to any major populated area.

Population growth with increased tax revenue has the better shot in Sioux City, its worth the investment. Seems like anytime that SC has had a chance to pull something out of the state goodie bag, it always pulls out a rock like Charlie Brown.