Posted on 12/10/2008 6:04:31 AM PST by jmaroneps37
While state after state moves toward bankruptcy and plans to beg Washington for bailout money, at least three states are showing America the way back to prosperity. None knuckle under to unions, enviro-nazis or illegals.
Wyoming expects a 100 million surplus in her next budget. North Dakota’s unemployment rate is half our national average and West Virginia is in historically good financial shape.
West Virginia is 15.1% unionized, but most of those workers are in the United Mine Workers Union (UMWU). North Dakota and Wyoming are right to work states.
All three get their wealth from effective use of natural stores of energy producing minerals. Wyoming and North Dakota have no union interference and few enviro-nazis to fight. West Virginia joins them in the latter.
North Dakota will have an 800 million dollar budget surplus for the next two years even after cutting property taxes and will still enjoy this prosperity even at $40.00 a barrel price of crude oil.
None of these states has more than 2,500 illegal aliens. Not one of these states where free enterprise and a fair labor market flourishes, has a sanctuary city to act as a magnet for alien burglars willing to help spend the state’s wealth.
In all three states the money collected in taxes and fees is used to make life better for the hard working American citizens who pay taxes and keep down their demands for service.
In West Virginia, North Dakota and Wyoming people don’t have to watch their schools being forced to teach in foreign languages or their hospitals deal with diseases found in the slums of third world countries.
The road to national prosperity is clear: low union thug interference in commerce, control enviro-nazis to get the most from natural resources and slam the door on illegal burglars.
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What a title! It says a lot.
Not with this congress, senate and executive representation...
Governor John Hoeven (R, of course), was just reelected to a third term in office, by a landslide. (North Dakota)
Fancy words and ways don't go good with meat and potaos, red blooded American men.
6% not trying to keep up with the Jones’s? That’s about right.
I wouldn't call him a conservative though.
All the more proof that the GOP wins when they nationalize elections instead of trying to out-pork the 'Rats.
There’s a pretty simple correlation — the less socialism, the more prosperous.
Our congresscritters have the formula down. Save social security for the aging demographic, pork for the biggest cities (40+% of the population), and lip service about saving the family farm.
Some folks see it as their job to go to Washington and bring back as much tax money as they can.
(Some of us would rather not send that tax money in the first place, then they could shut down the pork barrel and just save us the money.)
But, as long as they bring home enough bacon they are a shoo-in, although the Republican challengers seem to be getting a mite closer to dethroning them.
He isn't perfect, but he is better than some we have had.
He does 'get it' about the oil industry, and so far has helped stave off the sort of tax shenanigans which turned towns into ghost towns in '82, four years before the patch went belly up elsewhere (in '86). I don't think we'll see that stupidity again on his watch.
What is the % of black population of these states, compared with that of the bankrupt states of Cal, NY, Michigan?
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