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I can only hope you are right. All I know is immigrants who lived under the blanket of the iron current prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union see many similarities between this system of government, and the one they escaped. Seems many are behaving like the frog in the slowly boiling pot of water.
Well, one of my late close relatives actually lived under both fascism and communism, and the US is trending closer to Mussolini type fascism than communism.
But the Washington, D.C. area has been affluent and recession-resistant for a long time, so what is anyone going to do about that? I'd rather make my money in this area than complain about it.
I seriously doubt that. What "damage" are you talking about, first of all, and second of all, what damage can be directly attributed to southeast WA getting federal tax money? YOu know what damage would have happened if not for the Superfund program? Plutonium and enriched uranium waste seeping into the ground water and soil of southeast WA. So, what damage are you talking about, again?
The money had to be taken from someone else first before it could be spent in southeast WA.
It has zero net effect on the economy. You took from one to give to another. Even Steven.
So far America (and possibly, the world) feels that the Washington, D.C. area can thank a permanent stream of taxpayer money for its good fortune and not any special ability of its residents to create value for the nation.
85% of people feel this way.
If you want to forget what a recession feels like then move to the D.C. area.
Your post merely proves that this country's educational system is in really, really bad shape.
Oh really?
Again, prove that concentrated Federal spending doesn't help local economies. After all, i live in a red city in a red county that lies within a red state....no one around here is begging the Federal government to pull back from their spending here.
What you're basically saying is that any place lucky enough to be in the crossfire of govt spending gone wild does well. That's a no brainer. Why should the entire nation have their GDP confiscated so residents in these limited areas can enjoy the good life, as well as one of the few stable economies? What ever happened to the free market?
So there's no "free market" where you live simply because some of your tax dollars end up in places like Killeen, Texas (Ft. Hood) or Fayetteville, North Carolina (Ft. Bragg)?
Then only thing I got from your topic, and I know it wasn't your intention, but federal spending DOES help lift economies up. Take, for example, the Hanford Superfund cleanup project in southeast WA State. The economy there wasn't exactly the greatest before the area was approved for Superfund dollars, but then the federal money came in and spurred all kinds of local economic activity that wasn't there before.
Yeah, but who mucked the whole place up to begin with?
I'm glad clb10 and VtHokiefan keep their complaints here instead of in the DC forum.
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