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California, with its high taxes, high wages and tough regulations, has the No. 1 economy in the U.S., while two states in Trumpland (Texas and Kansas) with low taxes, low wages and few regulations are struggling.
I can see Kansas the only resource there is agriculture, but Texas is booming with a diversity of resources and technology.
People are flooding here to get away from the over taxed and high cost to live states.
They cannot build houses and apartments fast enough.
Even small town Texas is in the groove. Beef prices remain relatively high and cotton, corn, milo, and sunflower and sesame seed are full swing.
Turkey and chicken farmers saw their best years with the mild heat the past 2 summers
Maybe being unwilling or unable to back up your claims works for you on some level.
Maybe I lived it, you have no clue and I see no need to explain to children past basic mention. Again, anyone who isn't a complete idiot and knows their head from their arse understands what I am talking about. Everyone else is a liar, a kid, or just plain ignorant or stupid.
This^ is a major factor as to why California ranks so highly here:
Top 10 Metro Area
Odds of Reaching Top Fifth Income
From Bottom Fifth Income 1 San Jose, CA
2 San Francisco, CA
3 Washington, DC
4 Seattle, WA
5 Salt Lake City, UT
6 New York, NY
7 Boston, MA 8 San Diego, CA
9 Newark, NJ
10 Manchester, NH
So 3 of the 10 most upwardly mobile metro areas are in California and zero are in Texas.
anything else?
Ya, in the west alone, Montana, Alaska, Utah, and Wyoming are all far more upwardly mobile than California. Considering California's enormous wealth and high taxes do you explain that?
You're just repeating the fact that California is a land of 3rd world extremes, which we already know.
Ya, in the west alone, Montana, Alaska, Utah, and Wyoming are all far more upwardly mobile than California. Considering California's enormous wealth and high taxes do you explain that?
You're just repeating the fact that California is a land of 3rd world extremes, which we already know.
I would suspect that San Jose and San Fransisco easily out perform all as a set with a higher population. And as the energy boom has bombed the numbers have radically changed. Much of that was natural resources not economic growth.
Does California not have natural resources and huge land masses?
California created more jobs because they had lost a lot more than everybody else to begin with. It's hard work employing all those Californians that moved to Texas.
Upward mobility? You've pointed out some of the least diverse cities in the state as your examples.
If anything you've proved California to be an unstable state.
So you "own this country" but apparently still want to secede because you "got owned" by this country.
US News & World Report
World University Ranking 2016
Texas: 2 of the Top 100 universities in the world
Rank #30 University of Texas--Austin
Rank #61 Rice
California: 11 of the Top 100 universities in the world
Rank #3 Stanford
Rank #4 UC Berkeley
Rank #5 Cal Tech
Rank #10 UCLA
Rank #15 UC San Diego
Rank #16 UC San Francisco
Rank #24 UC Santa Barbara
Rank #27 UC Santa Cruz
Rank #42 UC Davis
Rank #53 USC
Rank #65 UC Irvine
Texas will NEVER, EVER, EVER be on California's level if this^ doesnt change.
Sorry.
With all that expensive "higher" education, and you guys still voted for Clinton? Seems like the system has failed you. You should have backed a winner like Texas did with Trump.
It was Calvin Coolidge who famously said:
Quote:
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Well, you've proven Coolidge right as far as California goes!
Most people think CA is some power house due to policy, but it really is as you say, just many fortunate things help boost it and when you account for such, you find CA isn't doing that well. The fact that having
California has surpassed France in economic size.
California has the world's fifth largest economy.
Think about that. I'm not saying "judge it", I am asking you to literally consider the sheer size and scope of something I personally have a hard time translating into coherency.
It is a scale of almost inconceivable size. Let alone one for a single state in the USA.
California has undergone many economic resets throughout its lifetime. It began with a gold rush, and has followed the same pattern ever since. I expect there will be a bubble popping in venture capital when interest rates begin to rise. And California will start its cycle all over again.
But still. The very notion that California has grown to this size and scope means that California is doing very well, and almost inconceivably better than anyone could expect for a single state.
To that end, California is doing very, very well. You cannot argue rationally with these results.
Hahaha trashy is where the trailers are hun, and that AINT California.
What the heck? There are trailer parks in CA. Don't be dumb.
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