Texas vs. California - California may be dreaming, but Texas is working

The National Review ^ | March 14, 2012 | Chuck DeVore

[Zippo44]

OMG! This is a crisis1 What can we do to keep these California cretins out of Texas? I lived in Austin for years during the dotcom boom and I can tell from experience that Calimmigrants can ruin Texas quicker than you can imagine.

[ScottinVA]

I moved to Texas late last year, joining the 2 million Californians who have packed up for greener pastures in the past ten years, with Texas the most common destination.

I didn't know Chuck moved to Texas. Well done!!

[ScottinVA]

Calimmigrants can ruin Texas quicker than you can imagine.

Just as they did Oregon and Washington. The brighter, greener pastures they move to soon become dull and brown.

[ScottinVA]

We haven’t yet had that problem here in VA, but we have our own infestation of rot from blighted Maryland.

[q_an_a]

I hate to bring up a sore point, but when it comes to Education the reprot states TX is doing great for 4th and 8th grade kids - better than most of the country. We also have one of the lowest cost per student - that is because GWB put in place what is the model for NCLB. Education works when there is accountability! NCLB was the first time teachers across America had to face an annual review of perfomrance.

[VeniVidiVici]

Almost one-third of all Americans on welfare reside in California.

Wow.

[Logical me]

California is becoming a wasteland. The communists Democrats have destroyed this State and it is still going off the deep end with more taxes and regulations that have driven much of the real businesses and hundreds of thousand of it best citizens out of the State.

[Nip]

For me the real money line is:

“In Texas, with its part-time legislature, 75 percent of the Republicans who control both houses earn a living in business, farming, or medicine...”

Regardless of the reelection rates Texas is dominated by part-time politicians as our founding fathers envisioned 230 years ago. The entire article, IMHO, is an excellent indictment against the “professional politician” class that has come to dominate the Republic's political scene be they dimorcrat or Republican.

[DAC21]

“Just as they did Oregon and Washington. The brighter, greener pastures they move to soon become dull and brown”

Yes Oregon, WA, and Colorado caught a lot of the Cali transplant tree huggers. I suspect that is less true of those moving to Texas. Meantime more of an issue is the Universities in all 50 states, the leftist Professors are a cancer on society.

[freedumb2003]

I, too, quit Los Angeles (born and raised there) and now am a proud Dallasite (Irvinger?).

And I can’t help but shake my head when I hear California is trying to once again raise taxes (on the ballot) and fees (illegally but they do it anyway).

Gasoline is 50 cents plus more a gallon there also.

I and my 6-figure income are happy in the Lone Star State.

[Anima Mundi]

They must constantly be reminded about why they left California and came to Texas. Maybe some before and after pictures of California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, etc.Except of course the ‘before” would be better looking than the “after” in these cases. At one time Oregon had a bumper sticker: “Don’t Californiacate”...alas, they did.

[GeronL]

Chuck can stay, the liberal ones need to be sent packing. We need border guards on all the borders, not just the one with Mexico. lol.

[Night Hides Not]

I call myself a "Valley Rancher". Been a naturalized Texan for over 30 years. I grew up in CA, near Berkeley. Left right after HS, never really went back.

Thanks for posting CW.

[GeronL]

I lived here all my life and I still don’t know if its Irvingites or whatever

[GeronL]

Yesterday it was reported that tax revenue was down 22%. Tax increases can do that. lol.

Their answer is to raise them again, lol.

[TexasRepublic]

“...joining the 2 million Californians who have packed up for greener pastures in the past ten years, with Texas the most common destination.”

Much to our regret. Too many bring their failed Liberal ideas along with them and expect us to change. They are like birds that foul their own nest, then go looking for another to foul.

[af_vet_rr]

We also have one of the lowest cost per student - that is because GWB put in place what is the model for NCLB. Education works when there is accountability! NCLB was the first time teachers across America had to face an annual review of perfomrance.

NCLB will destroy our educational systems over time - it gave the federal government a chance to really get their foot into the door on the road to controlling education from Washington. NCLB is nothing to be proud of. Unfortunately, too many so-called "Conservatives" in Congress signed off on it.

[af_vet_rr]

I can tell from experience that Calimmigrants can ruin Texas quicker than you can imagine.

It won't be Californios that ruin Texas. It'll be Democrats pandering to minorities. Texas is already a minority-majority state and has been for several years. By 2020, Hispanics will be the largest ethnic group within the state, they make up nearly 40% of the state now and will be passing up whites within the next 5 years or so, give or take a year.

Just wait, the Democrats are starting to make a little noise, but by the time Hispanics are the largest group in Texas, the Democratic push to con them will be in full swing. Texas will be Democrat or close enough when 2020 rolls around. Then we'll turn into California.

[q_an_a]

Before NCLB the government sent millions to the schools with no regrad to outcome. For the first time schools have been CLOSED due to poor teaching programs and bad leaders. Is that not what conservatives are for? Charter schools exist because of NCLB - how is that bad?