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BS, all I hear from conservatives is that liberal policies don't work, and use detriot and california as examples
Using Detroit as proof liberal policies don't work is such a complete lack of context. Detroit's history since the 1967 riots and downfall of the automotive industry and manufacturing have hurt Detroit. Now getting the right-wingers around here to admit reality is the hard part. Honest debate is not their strong suit.
I will go down that road with you. If detriot is an example of liberal policies gone bad, I want someone to explain to me why mississippi is the poorest state in this country.
Well demographics need to be looked at as a contributing factor, not the only factor but a pretty big one.
Whole what? You mean hole?
Do you deny it being a contributing factor? I didn't say it was the biggest or the sole factor.
You gonna take your ball and go home now that you got some answers you didn't like?
I'm still here, break it down for me. First tell me what conservative states best shows by conservative policies work, and then explain why kentucky is a dump.
BS, all I hear from conservatives is that liberal policies don't work, and use detriot and california as examples
I'm neither liberal or conservative (in some sense where you have to be one or the other)...but
a. everywhere in the Western world is monetarily stressed right now. Texas or California. This has to do less with conservative or liberal...and more to do with corruption in government and private industry.
b. I would put forth Canada or the UK as examples of mixed solutions that have been favorable to their citizens. Military spending, health care costs are under control, free press, free speech (and yes I know there are limits which I may disagree with), freedom of religion, rail services (in the UK)...privatized National Rail and Transport for London with government support and economies which have been healthy prior to 2008 (and while may have slowed or contracted, they aren't in freefall like Italy -corrupt, Spain -whoknows, Greece- ugh).
c. Cali. has had problems largely because they have too many bureaucrats with their hands in the pie, popular referendums (mob rule anyone??), and lack of political will to streamline government. Plus the state is entirely too big and needs to be split into 2 if not 3 states.
Detroit is a problem because the taxpaying public fled the city because of race and violence in the 1940s-1970s and left the city with an uneducated populace who voted in criminals. That's not a liberal issue...that's just you can't run a city where the entire voting population are uneducated citizens.
Indiana as of 2011 was 32th in median household income and 2010 37th in per capita income. I'm not hearing republicans point to Indiana as a place to go get jobs.
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