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Best and Worst Run States in America — An Analysis Of All 50
Wall Street 24X7 ^ | 11/28/2011 | Douglas A. McIntyre, Michael B. Sauter, Charles B. Stockdale, Ashley C. Allen

Posted on 11/29/2011 7:06:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 11/29/2011 7:06:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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50. California

~smirk~

2 posted on 11/29/2011 7:08:31 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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Geez, this is great. CA made the list.


3 posted on 11/29/2011 7:08:31 AM PST by umgud
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RE: Geez, this is great. CA made the list.

At least it is not #57 :)


4 posted on 11/29/2011 7:10:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind (u)
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What b*s*

CT ranks far above Florida !!#@

Florida debt per person $2k ish
CT debt per person $8k ish

CT suicidal spending creates the smoke and mirrors to appear better off — NOT!


5 posted on 11/29/2011 7:11:35 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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California has moved down one slot on from last year to earn the title of the worst-run state in the country.

That's because we have something like 3 Republicans in our Assembly and 2 in the State Senate.

If we could only get rid of those guys!

6 posted on 11/29/2011 7:12:16 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’d like to see the list broken down according to political representation by Party.


7 posted on 11/29/2011 7:15:53 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Pct. without health insurance: 18.5% (8th highest)

The inclusion of this metric makes this whole exercise irrelevant as to 'how well managed' a state is! It is the responsibility of the individual to obtain health insurance. It is NOT the state's responsibility to see it's citizens are insured.

8 posted on 11/29/2011 7:17:59 AM PST by pgkdan ("Make what Americans buy, Buy what Americans make, and sell it to the world" Perry 2012)
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Nearly all the top ten(except VA) have a very low percentage of the ‘96% who voted for Obama’ residence.

Draw your own conclusions...


9 posted on 11/29/2011 7:19:17 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Texas Eagle

I’m from California and I say we are ranked 57th.


10 posted on 11/29/2011 7:19:34 AM PST by 12chachacha
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Nearly all the top ten(except VA) have a very low percentage of the ‘96% who voted for Obama’ residents.

Draw your own conclusions...


11 posted on 11/29/2011 7:20:00 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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Obama has requested to see the stats of the 7 states that did not make the list.


12 posted on 11/29/2011 7:21:49 AM PST by j_k_l
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“...Austere spending comes at a price, however. Nearly a quarter of the state’s residents are without health insurance. Also, only 80.9% of Texans 25 years or older graduated from high school. While this is an improvement from its 2003 rate of 77%, it is tied with California for worst among all states. “

And, much of that can be attributed to illegal immigration.


13 posted on 11/29/2011 7:22:13 AM PST by SuzyQue
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So, whenever state debt and default is discussed, Californicatia is mentioned... hardly ever Marxachusetts. Nevertheless, this list has CA debt at $3600/PC and MA at $11000... what gives? Will my state default 3 times sooner than CA?


14 posted on 11/29/2011 7:27:10 AM PST by C210N (zer0 - a Marxonist spreading the flames of obamunism wherever he goes.)
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Though I don’t disagree with the pathologically Blue states tending toward the bottom of the rankings, this looks like more of an analysis of which states have the highest percentages of habitual deadasses.

I would add, that the “best run” states are those in which government is small and interferes with the private sector as little as possible.

NONE of the 50 states is nearly as governmentally trim as they OUGHT to be.


15 posted on 11/29/2011 7:28:47 AM PST by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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Nearly all the top ten(except VA) have a very low percentage of the ‘96% who voted for Obama’ residence.

Draw your own conclusions...

Then there might be an ethnic/class component in here somewhere?

16 posted on 11/29/2011 7:30:55 AM PST by davisfh
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Speaking of NYS, from last year and keep in mind that NYS is about to lose 2 House seats....

(New York) State put freeze on hiring, then added 51,464 people

Check out the price tag.

17 posted on 11/29/2011 7:31:57 AM PST by mewzilla (Santelli 2012)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bump.


18 posted on 11/29/2011 7:36:03 AM PST by EternalVigilance
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Yeah!! We’re number 22!!

At least Connecticut is in the top half of the list


19 posted on 11/29/2011 7:44:04 AM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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20 posted on 11/29/2011 7:44:11 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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