Uproot and Overhaul Washington
Posted on 11/17/2011 11:38:25 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Retail activity is fairly brisk in Texas — and sluggish virtually everywhere else.
The Austin and Houston markets are the only U.S. metropolitan areas that have added more than 1,000 jobs to their retail sectors since the beginning of the recession in 2007, according to data by The Business Journals’ On Numbers, a division of American City Business Journals.
Austin ranked No. 2 for adding 1,500 retail jobs between 2007 and 2011. Houston took the top spot by adding 4,500.
Two other Texas metros have managed to hold their own during that span. McAllen-Edinburg has picked up 300 retail jobs in four years, and El Paso has stayed flat.
The other 96 markets in the national top 100 have suffered declines in retail-trade employment during the past four years.
Click here to to access the complete On Numbers report.
Sept 20, 2011: Texas' Personal Income Growth Over the Last 5 Years Was 66% Faster than US
Rick Perry:
FIRST: "Don't spend all the money!"
SECOND: "Have a fair and predictable tax and regulatory policy!"
THIRD: "Have a legal system that doesn't allow for over suing and make loser pay!"
August 29, 2011 Andy Ferguson on Rick Perry…… “The Texas Miracle that Perry embraces and Democrats say they loathe would make a presidential contest between the governor and President Obama more interesting than these things usually are. Voters could at last confront the tradeoff they’ve been trying to avoid since the Great Society, maybe since the New Deal. On the one hand, we might have job-generating economic growth with all its necessary disruptions and uncertainties and stark inequalities of income and living standards; on the other, free health insurance, generous labor guarantees, greater income equality, a pristinely regulated natural environment, high unemployment, and declining national wealth.
A majority of American voters may reject the first for the second, as voters have in Europe for half a century. At least in Perry vs. Obama, the choice would be clear. We can be France or we can be Texas.”…..
This is WILD! Texas Debt Clock
First I felt of the decline was 3 weeks ago, when I tried to refinance my home in San Antonio and found the appraisal had dropped in value 10% since I bought less than 5 years ago. Guess I’ll wait awhile, things are bound to come back.
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I think we're all on the edge of our seat with Obama at the helm.
Last year the news reported that people moving to Austin was adding about 500 cars per week. Believe me, the traffic here is awful. Just yesterday, we saw a moving tractor trailer rig with Florida plates following a car with Florida plates. There are cars here from every state, including Hawaii. Must have loved that car to have it transported here.
I think you guys better start thinking about secession again...
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/austin%27s-congested-roads-makes-top-20
FULL National Congestion Data for Your Corridor
http://mobility.tamu.edu/corridors/congestion-data/
Snarky.
That was on KLBJ the other day. When we moved to our current home in 1990, I could make it to work in 45 minutes. That was on 183 when there were traffic lights all the way from Cedar Park to MOPAC / Loop 1.
Now 183 is a freeway to just past 620. It now takes about one hour to drive in to work with a vanpool pickup stop near 620 & 183. The even drive is about one hour and 15 minutes at best. Leave and get home in the dark now.
That’s awful.
If we can get environmentalists and political opportunists off our backs, Texas could have more infrastructure.
Yup, and Austin has its share of both. Loop 1 and 183 should have more lanes. I really wish both had HOV lanes. There are a lot of people that carpool and vanpool here, and that is all due to traffic and fuel costs. Luckily I seldom have to get on IH 35. I avoid that slab like the plague.
For the umpteenth billionth time, TEXAS CANNOT SECEDE.
When we entered the union initially, that was in our contract.
When the South lost to the Northern Aggression War, upon Texas’ readmission to the union, we only negotiated the ability to split into 5 separate states at any time we felt we needed to.
All we can do is add 8 extra Senators if necessary. Overnight.
And how are you, FRiend? Next March the rice farmers lose their spigot to Lake Travis. They technically have already lost it (they get cut off at 50% capacity, and Travis is at 38%) but their review isn’t until March.
Don’re forget 360 could use more lanes (the bridge over the river is probably the biggest obstacle to expansion). My bicycle commute of 25 miles round trip is only 10 minutes longer in heavy traffic.
Meanwhile my neighbors are doing their best to drain the lake to water their yards. I guess a swamp for a yard is a higher priority than food and sanitation. Texas may not be habitable next summer.
Texas may not be habitable next summer.
Texas livin’ was precarious in the ‘51-53 drought, before everybody else moved here. Where are we all going to go?
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