RED STATES TROUNCE BLUE STATES
By: John Hinderaker
This is no surprise at all. Red states had lower taxes and fewer regulations in the first place along with better energy policies. Now post covid and the fascist lockdowns of blue city mayors and blue state governors red state economies rock and most blue state ones including mine just totally suck. My area of California mirrors the National average rather than our state one. No wonder so many people and businesses are moving out of the blue and into the red!
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RED STATES TROUNCE BLUE STATES
One of the notable features of 21st century life is that America’s blue states are failing and losing population, while red states are thriving and growing. This is blindingly obvious to anyone who travels around the country, or to those who have seen half of their friends move to Nashville. But today Stephen Moore’s Committee to Unleash Prosperity sent an email that shows the trend graphically:
[I]f progressive tax, spend, borrow, and regulate economic policies are so superior then why are all the big blue states collapsing economically/financially? The chart below shows the highest and lowest unemployment rate states at the end of 2020.
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It takes a special kind of partisanship not to recognize that liberalism has demonstrably failed.
You’d think the “progressives” would be totally embarrassed that their economic model is such an unmitigated failure, that they have to go hat-in-hand to the fast-recovering red states begging for money? Blue states like California were once the trend-setting, wealth-producing states that laid the path for the future of America. Now progressivism has relegated them to the status of beggar states that have to go to places like Alabama and Arkansas for handouts.
Sad but true. Blue states like California, New York and Illinois are basket cases, and bailing them out will be a top priority of the Biden administration. Are liberals entirely incapable of learning from experience? Well, yeah. They are still trying to sell socialism, the most comprehensive failure in the history of the human race.
Liberals are also busily smearing successful red states. Why not, since smearing is what they are best at? To take just one example, the Democratic Party press has launched one dishonest attack after another against South Dakota’s Governor Kristi Noem. This might seem strange–when has the Governor of South Dakota ever come in for a concerted national smear campaign?
But there is no mystery. Noem is a potential presidential or vice-presidential nominee in 2024, and Democrats are conducting battle space preparation. After all, they wouldn’t want voters to know that South Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate in the country, at an extraordinary 3.0 percent. Voters might get the wrong idea!
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Cuomo & DeSantis are hung up on the same statistics but neither killed anyone by lying about nursing homes or the residential status of people who died from COVID in those two states.
More misinformation from a cartoonist.
I’ll take De Santis and his methods over Cuomo any day. Far lower cases and deaths despite a larger population and having far more senior citizens and a much better economy all for Florida. Look at all the closed NYC businesses and their owners showing up in Florida to carry on their businesses where they can.
Facts are your friends, demographics matter.
Florida is 14% larger than NY with 21 million people spread out over 66,000 square miles. 21% seniors
NY has 19.4 million people, 18.8 million of whom live in the 302 square miles of NYC area. 16% seniors
links?
And two of their most arrogant Governors are going down!
Both richly deserve their fate. I signed the recall for the one in my state.
Texas, the most "successful" red state. Without question the greatest failure of state government in American history.
Not even close. Their big mistake was too much dependence on wind and solar power.
And all the experts and actual facts say your comment is delusional.
Repeating ignorant lies does not make them any less truthful.
Coal power plants, natural gas pipelines and power plants and nuclear power plants all suffered from automatic shutdowns when
sensors and instruments failed due to freezing temps.
Despite some windmill failures ( not equipped with self heating features ) wind generation exceeded expectations
for the past week.
Comment 3.1 = Not even close to reality.
No they don’t. I’ve seen reports that place the vast majority of blame on the frozen windmills and the over reliance on them.
The reports you claim to have seen would, of course, be fake news. ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) reported Tuesday afternoon that almost twice as many gigawatts of thermal energy (gas, oil, coal, nuclear energy) were off line compared to renewable (mostly wind) energy.
"justthenews"
As I said, fake news.
Lol, yeah, that [10%.DELETED]
Except even texan officials say that is bullshit, that that the failure lies with the idiot leaders they have elected and ignoring all recommendations for securing the energy supply? Oh yeah, and how about that decision to be your own power grid or whatever the fuck and essentially cut yourself off from the rest of the country? Goddamn brilliant!
That particular decision was made mainly by Democrats.
Goddamn brilliant!!!
LOL!
So explain to me how wind turbines, coal plants, nuclear plants etc. can function just fine when temperatures get below, or well below freezing where I live, but when it happens in Texas, well everything goes to hell? It gets well below freezing a good part of the year where I live, and no power outages, water shortages, or anything here. Where we are regulated by damned "fedural gubment" and just can't seem to get anything right, we are doing just fine.
If so, as usual the GOP did fuck all to fix it or make it better, just waiting for the democrats...
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It IS so.
Blaming the GOP for not fixing Democrats' fuck ups is stupid.
The Florida solution...
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CLfPM5LpeNz/?igshid=153c1796qux54
Florida vs New York, Cuomo vs De Santis
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLr87VlnMRu/?igshid=1n19zywthntus
... yeah, it sure worked out great for texas this past week, didn't it... /s
it'll be fun when texans realize that along with their loss of income, no electric, no water, frozen pipes or other damages, and nothing left in the grocery store.... they get to pay for the basic upgrades to their low budget electrical grid too.
Not to mention some fly by night start ups that were trying to buy into the secondary electric market.
Griddy started notifying it's customers when the unregulated cost of wholesale electric went from $30 to $9,000
on day one of the crises.
my family members there seem to pay astronomical electric bills
They should be using more natural gas for things like water heaters, dryers, range and ovens, and central heat instead of electricity. That’s what I have. There are Jack asses in Sacramento trying to make it illegal for new construction to hook up to natural gas.
I’ve been buying up oil futures tracking etf indexes that make me money when the per barrel price of oil goes up ever since Biden became President. I’d bought them all during Obama and got rid of them when Trump took office. I sold all my green energy etfs when Obama took office and bought them when Trump took office. Wins all around. I figure if Dems are going to screw over the oil industry I’ll just bid the price of oil high enough that we demand a return to drill baby drill!