Originally Posted by Boiler

Nice to know who her friends are.

Originally Posted by Boiler

Nice to know who her friends are.

Originally Posted by sir_eccles

Putting aside Mr Trump's big mouth for a moment.

Am I the only one who was expecting President Obama to be highly targeted by nut jobs who didn't like the idea of a black man in the white house?

Originally Posted by Giantaxe

"“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”

Not sure it needs much spin to be troubled by those remarks.

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

How did I know you would say that?

Originally Posted by Gordon Barlow

There is something to be said for checking out both sides of a story like this. The WaPo is a highly prejudiced organ of the MIC, but even so... Both sides are supported by bigots who dismiss the other without checking. Don't let's be like that, eh?

Originally Posted by anotherlimey

I'm pretty sure most of what you post is copied directly from blogs. And most of the above is false.

Originally Posted by Leslie

It's huge.

Texas has been in a steady financial upswing for yonks. This largely due to the Republican leadership that saw the future folly of relying entirely on oil and gas. The economy is good, there are jobs, the rate of recent arrivals from other states and countries is staggering.

It's not perfect and the social services are presently very stretched mostly because of the Republicans refusal to take the ACA money.

Even in Texas there are some decaying areas, shuttered store fronts, bad schools, etc. There have always been areas on the decline while others are going upward. "Ghost town" is not a brand new concept. I don't think that we can expect the government to eliminate the reality of towns, and even states, that go through cycles of loss and even the death of certain communities.

Anecdotally, everybody I know is doing as well as, or better, than before the financial crisis of 2007/2008. There were definitely some scary times over the past decade and most of us were hurt financially in some way or another but things are pretty damned good right now.

I realize there are some poor areas, struggling areas, segments of the population who are lost because their lack of the right job skills means they will live in poverty. But I am sick of hearing that the entire country is in the financial toilet. Last time I checked, Texas was still in the US.

Originally Posted by morpeth

However I have spent some time in Midwest last few years and a lot of places are in serious economic decline combined with declining social conditions. Not just a few towns, whole counties. The amount of people on food stamps is quite astonishing especially considering many are employed but wages are so low they qualify for food stamps.

Originally Posted by morpeth

I have also heard from friends in Austin and San Antonio about the overall positive state of the economy in Texas, and the same from people I know in SF Bay Area, and a few months ago I visited Warner Robbins in Georgia and economy there seemed very strong. And good point that within any economy there are stronger or weaker areas.

Originally Posted by morpeth

LOL . Nothing was posted from blogs, and everything in the post you refer to is factual.

In my case I have had over 30 years experience in international business , plus both a B,SC and MBA in International Business. And specifically have been involved in doing analysis for businesses, large and small, in whether to establish or expand overseas operations, and worked closely with one of top CPA firms in reviewing tax and regulations to determine most favorable way to structure offshore subsidiaries.

I would be curious in that particular post I made how "most of the above is false" , or any of it is false.

Originally Posted by Boiler

Originally Posted by morpeth

If the corporate tax rate is a percentage of profits, how can a higher tax rate as a percentage of corporate profits be lower than somewhere else ?

Originally Posted by sir_eccles

You do realize Kansas City is a single city divided by a road called State Line Road, on one side is Kansas City Kansas on the other is Kansas City Missouri. I would not categorize them as different regions my any stretch.

The steady recovery on the Missouri side is in stark contrast to the downward spiral on the Kansas side. It is solely down to local politics.

Originally Posted by anotherlimey

Everything you write is literally almost word for word the same crap I read on Republican blogs from the Dems being the war party to trickledown economics. Or maybe some was Mr. Barlow, I don't know - you're all the same.