Or Texas which has been doing better than California for the last twenty years.
I'm living in Houston now, so I can have an opinion on the "Texas miracle".
It's horseshit. First, Texas is not "doing better than California". Second, one of the ways Texas has attracted businesses and jobs is by deregulating and lowering taxes. But see, those chickens are starting to come home to roost. The real economic engine of Texas is the Houston/Gulf Coast area which had a big boom when gas was $4/gallon. At $1.85 (which is what I paid to fill up earlier tonight), there are a lot of oil folks out of work, which is hurting everything from trucking to local businesses like restaurants, drug stores, groceries, etc. The big boom in Houston now (and the reason that Houston is still the economic driver for all of Texas), is health care. We have the best medical centers and medical schools around and are building more. And even though Texas is a low-tax state, the state makes up for it by loading up its citizens with fees and licenses and surcharges galore.
By the way, Houston is a liberal city. Blue as blue can be. It's got more in common with Austin and San Antonio than it does in more backward places like Dallas-Ft Worth or the panhandle. Hell, until recently, the mayor of Houston was a lesbian. Think about that. A lesbian mayor in Texas. Up in Dallas, they'd force her into a re-education camp and treat her with electric shock and the Bible.
Without Houston, Texas would be sucking as bad as Kansas, which has the worst economic trend in the United States thanks to one-party Republican control of Kansas state government.
1) money will come back into the US and help our economy
It's unproven that money being shifted from an overseas bank to a US bank will "help the economy".
In fact, if it comes back and ends up in the hands of a few or used for one company to buy another it could very well hurt our economy.
Further, it's not "the economy" that needs help. It's people. And for the past 35 years, there's been little proof that helping the former necessarily helps the latter.
I can contribute to this discussion, but I have to post anonymously for reasons that will be obvious. I work at a major research institution along the east coast. I am paid well, well into six figures, as a climate researcher. My job is to fabricate data, but to make it believable enough that people accept our research is true. I can assure you that most climate research, like my own, is fabricated and completely false.
My favorite part of this is that this numbskull thinks there's a climate scientist who makes six figures.
I work at a major research institution along the east coast. I am paid well, well into six figures, as a climate researcher. My job is to fabricate data
I don't want to give my real name for reasons that would be obvious, but I am Stephen Hawking and I just gave it to your mom in the butt.
We've just seen the hottest November on satellite record.
You believe those leftard satellites and liberal thermometers? kek.
There is no real evidence for the laws of physics, just conjecture by Soros-funded so-called "scientists". It's all an SJW marxist plot, and the brave journalists at Breitbart have confirmed this, but of course, you don't want to see the truth because it doesn't fit your fact-based agenda.
I propose an experiment. Let's expose a "deep learning" AI to nothing but fake news and see how long it takes before it either a) starts to sport a comb-over, or b) bursts into flames like a Samsung smartphone.
Question: Did Carson just repeat some wild notion that Ellen G. White cooked up that he heard in Sunday School as a kid and never had any particular reason to question or look into, and all the usual suspects are playing "Gotcha!! Whadda maroon!!"? Or does he continue to maintain that the pyramids were for grain storage?
If an adult neurosurgeon is just repeating wild notions that he learned in Sunday school when speaking to public gatherings, then he might not be the guy you want in a presidential cabinet.
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I'm living in Houston now, so I can have an opinion on the "Texas miracle".
It's horseshit. First, Texas is not "doing better than California". Second, one of the ways Texas has attracted businesses and jobs is by deregulating and lowering taxes. But see, those chickens are starting to come home to roost. The real economic engine of Texas is the Houston/Gulf Coast area which had a big boom when gas was $4/gallon. At $1.85 (which is what I paid to fill up earlier tonight), there are a lot of oil folks out of work, which is hurting everything from trucking to local businesses like restaurants, drug stores, groceries, etc. The big boom in Houston now (and the reason that Houston is still the economic driver for all of Texas), is health care. We have the best medical centers and medical schools around and are building more. And even though Texas is a low-tax state, the state makes up for it by loading up its citizens with fees and licenses and surcharges galore.
By the way, Houston is a liberal city. Blue as blue can be. It's got more in common with Austin and San Antonio than it does in more backward places like Dallas-Ft Worth or the panhandle. Hell, until recently, the mayor of Houston was a lesbian. Think about that. A lesbian mayor in Texas. Up in Dallas, they'd force her into a re-education camp and treat her with electric shock and the Bible.
Without Houston, Texas would be sucking as bad as Kansas, which has the worst economic trend in the United States thanks to one-party Republican control of Kansas state government.
It's unproven that money being shifted from an overseas bank to a US bank will "help the economy".
In fact, if it comes back and ends up in the hands of a few or used for one company to buy another it could very well hurt our economy.
Further, it's not "the economy" that needs help. It's people. And for the past 35 years, there's been little proof that helping the former necessarily helps the latter.
Says the guy who still hasn't figured out how to make a Slashdot account.
Same here. This was the year I bought my first nVidia card (a 970) and have not looked back.
I was always suckered in by the fact that generally the AMD drivers are a few dollars cheaper. Never again.
Are you looking for sympathy?
It's already a giant ironic collector.
Except, not even the French want to carpool with Frenchmen.
I'll bet there are as many climate scientists (actual researchers) who make six figures as there are NFL quarterbacks making over $24 million a year.
In other words, about as many as you can count on two fingers.
She's first lady.
Whichever one of you yeggs modded that "Informative", you are my sunshine.
Who wants to be the one to break it to him?
Melanomia already said she's not moving to the White House. She has to stay in New York because she's banging Carmelo Anthony.
And pizzagate is real.
My favorite part of this is that this numbskull thinks there's a climate scientist who makes six figures.
I don't want to give my real name for reasons that would be obvious, but I am Stephen Hawking and I just gave it to your mom in the butt.
You believe those leftard satellites and liberal thermometers? kek.
There is no real evidence for the laws of physics, just conjecture by Soros-funded so-called "scientists". It's all an SJW marxist plot, and the brave journalists at Breitbart have confirmed this, but of course, you don't want to see the truth because it doesn't fit your fact-based agenda.
You're being too generous. I realize you try to see the best in people, Ol, but,
He said he believed prison makes people gay.
He said that Obamacare was worse than slavery.
He said the Big Bang is a “fairy tale” and the notion of evolution was encouraged by the devil.
"You people"?
When someone says that biblical Joseph built the pyramids to store grain, it's not a "disagreement". It's a delusion.
It's like saying you disagree with a guy who says he's Napoleon Bonaparte.
For the uninitiated, this is code for, "I voted for Trump, but I'm too ashamed to admit it."
No, I'm aware of those busts, but where is the part that says it was because of the "#pizzagate investigations"?
Where's the politics?
I propose an experiment. Let's expose a "deep learning" AI to nothing but fake news and see how long it takes before it either a) starts to sport a comb-over, or b) bursts into flames like a Samsung smartphone.
As opposed to worksexuality.
If an adult neurosurgeon is just repeating wild notions that he learned in Sunday school when speaking to public gatherings, then he might not be the guy you want in a presidential cabinet.
Just like the components of renewable energy can be made in Texas and sent to Ireland.