Texas-California Rivalry and Antipathy (Houston, Dallas: 2013, car insurance, high school)

[ScoPro]

Krugman doesn't know crap about Texas.

[Breaking_Good]

I'll defer to Krugman, a nobel price winner in economics, when comparing the performance of two state economies over an anonymous poster on C.D.

[Breaking_Good]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

Speaking as someone who was born and raised in Dallas...I'm just sick of people moving here and clogging up the roads and raising the COL for all of us because of massive, constant infrastructure work to keep up with population growth and constant construction on roads to attempt to deal with the huge increase in traffic. It drags down our quality of life, such as it was before.

We live in a free market...people can vote with their feet. What do you want to do..shut down the Texas border to other U.S. states? Have the government set a quota on the number of people who can move to Dallas?

Many texans come from other places as well. Unless you are a thrid or foruth generation Texan you may not have much to complain about.

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by Breaking_Good

We live in a free market...people can vote with their feet. What do you want to do..shut down the Texas border to other U.S. states? Have the government set a quota on the number of people who can move to Dallas?

Many texans come from other places as well. Unless you are a thrid or foruth generation Texan you may not have much to complain about.

*shrug* That's how I feel, I know I'm powerless to stop it. That doesn't change the way I feel.

I'm second-generation, since you asked. All four of my grandparents were WWII refugees.

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

Speaking as someone who was born and raised in Dallas...I'm just sick of people moving here and clogging up the roads and raising the COL for all of us because of massive, constant infrastructure work to keep up with population growth and constant construction on roads to attempt to deal with the huge increase in traffic. It drags down our quality of life, such as it was before.

There is a very pro-growth mentality in the State and local governments in Texas. If you want to curtail growth perhaps you should try to affect change in your local and state government instead of blaming newcomers who have basically been invited here by your local Chamber of Commerce...

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by Jack Lance

There is a very pro-growth mentality in the State and local governments in Texas. If you want to curtail growth perhaps you should try to affect change in your local and state government instead of blaming newcomers who have basically been invited here by your local Chamber of Commerce...

Aside from not voting for Rick Perry, what would you have me do?

[hoffdano]

Originally Posted by Breaking_Good

I'll defer to Krugman, a nobel price winner in economics, when comparing the performance of two state economies over an anonymous poster on C.D.

A Nobel "price" winner? You can neither capitalize or spell correctly.

Somehow the Nobel team saw fit to award our President, just one year into his term too, for doing nothing.

Krugman notably makes no mention of what will happen to California with the next economic downturn. Nothing structural has been fixed in the way California operates. Even more dependent on income taxes. No remedy to Prop 13. No reduction in citizen driven propositions.

When the economy is improving, California shines. When the economy declines, California crashes.

What about those housing prices? California is always in a housing bubble.

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

Aside from not voting for Rick Perry, what would you have me do?

Isn't complaining about the new comers a bit like blaming a sneeze for a cold ? I'm not saying there is anything you can do if you don't like the pro growth climate in Texas, I'm just saying you are focusing on the symptom, and not the cold...

[chessgeek]

Originally Posted by mbell75

The liberals in California make the "liberals" in Texas look like right wing conservatives. Nothing compared to the liberal, anti 2nd amendment nuts out here like Feinstein and Boxer, nothing at all.

They are more liberal than Texas liberals, but you could say the same for some other states' liberals in comparison to Texas, too. The fact remains that fairly recently Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor and Republican Pete Wilson not too long ago. If it was any Democrat other than Jerry Brown running the last time, Republican Meg Whitman might have had a chance. California voters passed a law banning same sex marriages in 2008. Still more liberal than Texas for sure, but still exaggerated and not always predictable. Just putting it in perspective.

BTW, many Californians own guns. You are right that in Texas it is less restricted. I like the ten day waiting period. I don't want a person that was just recently released from the state penitenciary or a mental facility to get them like they are candy. Ten days is very reasonable IMO. Anyone with common sense can agree with that. Guns have not been banned in California. The moderate Californians get less publicity than the liberals. The media prefer to cover people at either end of the political spectrum for the most part.

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by Breaking_Good

I'll defer to Krugman, a nobel price winner in economics, when comparing the performance of two state economies over an anonymous poster on C.D.

Krugman won the Nobel Prize by elaborating on work done by others long before. His ideas on rescuing the US economy are based on running up debt & deficits much more massively than they have been for the last 6 years.
Names & titles like his are about as worthwhile to the American economy as an MBA or law degree from Harvard have been with the last two presidents.

But hey, keep drinking the Koolaid those people are serving.