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Over the last year or so there has been great criticism of California’s political climate and the public policy decisions made here. That criticism often points to Texas as the promised land because Texas seems more business friendly and it has continued to grow jobs while California and much of the nation has lost jobs.
At the same time, there has been an on-going attack on defined benefit pension plans by people advocating that 401K plans are the best, most affordable way to go. The argument is that defined benefit plans are in the long run unaffordable, and since most of them today are found in the public sector it is unfair to have public employees benefiting from a more secure retirement plan. And, besides, with a 401K model the working employee can manage his or her own money, and be responsible for his or her own retirement nest egg.
So, as we reach the middle of August, 2011, we read that Dallas, Texas, has had over 33 days in a row of temperatures above 100 degrees, some days reaching 110 or more. And, the world economy seems to be teetering on the brink of something bad, with our stock market having plummeted by, depending on when you start counting, 2,000 points or more on the Dow, wiping out roughly 20% of the market value.
A couple questions need to be asked at this point – how is that Texas lifestyle this summer? Are you packing to move? And, how are your 401K and your retirement plan doing?
You are so stupid by comparing politic with weather.
If you want to live in the US version of a 3rd world future, where minimum wage jobs are king and the governor is an evangelical fanatic, then off to Texas with you!
Pisscallion, I suggest that you inform yourself about your Pro-Cuban-Communist Brown who was snooping there recently to figure out why they are prosperous in Texas and in California they are not.
Um, no, wrong! (And what’s wrong with trade with Cuba? We trade with Vietnam.) There has been this odd campaign of disinformation that Texas has some sort of handle on creating jobs. Again, and please listen, if you consider a proliferation of minimum wage jobs as being progress, while the state as a whole has a massive deficit and is circling the drain, please say so. I know people who live there, and it sucks, as they say. But please feel free to go there and enjoy the heat, humidity, mosquitoes, churches and whacky governor.
Somehow you must understand that all economy function on supply and demand and not based on what some idiot in Sacramento will legislate.
You probably never will.
As to Cuba, I am not referring to market forces but ideological one.
Cuba is failure same as Brown’s California is.
You obviously are confusing a government that functions for the betterment of the population with a capitalistic enterprise, that exists to squeeze as much profit out of the system as it can. You’d love Texas, then, or China, which is a capitalistic dictatorship–right up your alley.
As far as I know Pisscalion, there is only one type of the government to which any reasonable person refers as “Necessary Evil”.
There never was and never will be the betterment of the population government.
I should add that someones betterment of the population is someone else population tyranny and oppression.
Geporge Strait said it best: “All my X’s live in Texas”……..well, except Rick Perry…
who was always the campus clown. That was the Everly Bros. “Here he comes…
that;s Kathy’s Clown!”
Off your meds today, OJ?