Posted on 10/27/2013 11:27:58 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A shape of things to come? A Time cover story seems to think so, with the Lone Star State serving as a model for the future of the U.S.
Yikes. They have seen the future, and it is us.
Texas, I mean.
The cover of last week’s Time magazine has all the states rearranged into the shape of Texas. “The United States of Texas,” it says. “Why the Lone Star State is America’s future.”
That’s flattering, but hold on a minute. Do we really want a bunch of imitators out there? Don’t mess with Iowa?
Frankly, I’m not sure what to make of the article. It starts with a cliché. “They say the Lone Star State has four seasons: drought, flood, blizzard and twister.” And then it meanders like the Guadalupe.
It was written by a professor of economics at George Mason University, Tyler Cowen, who identifies himself as a libertarian. So perhaps there’s some wishful thinking when he says the whole country will follow the Texas model of low taxes, low services and low regulation. A few tidbits are surprising, even to those of us who have never lived anywhere else. We think of Texas as a low-wage state. But it says Texans enjoy the third-highest average income in the country — when you adjust for taxes and the cost of living. (Behind Virginia and Washington state.)
So bang for the buck is a big reason people come. Time says $300,000 will buy you a 210-square-foot apartment in San Francisco or a 3,000-square-foot, four-bedroom, three-bath house in Austin.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Austin is a liberal bastion but the rest of Texas is ok
Houston and San Antonio are also becoming lib-dem hellholes.
To be fair the lib California transplants to Texas were first transplants to California. California was the state of Reagan. ..The left are like locus..they move in to a fertile and prosperous area stripped bare and move on
Don’t forget the Rio Grande area—lot of blue voters down there.
I wish there were a like button for your comment.
Steve Blow blows
Houston and San Antonio are also becoming lib-dem hellholes.
Sorry to hear this. I lived in Houston many moons ago. I was a midwest transplant and could relate to their values, lots of jobs, too!
RIP Bum Phillips.
Texas Conquers America and predicts Time magazine?
bfl
“To be fair the lib California transplants to Texas were first transplants to California. California was the state of Reagan. ..The left are like locus..they move in to a fertile and prosperous area stripped bare and move on”
Worth repeating.
Dallas County is pretty much all illegals and welfare moochers. DISD just recently announced that ALL students will receive free lunch.
Geeze—hasn’t anyone told the head of the school board that there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch?
Do they have a graphic where all the states are shaped like China? Or one where they’re all shaped like Zimbabwe? Because those are the most likely scenarios.
Time Magazine wants Liberals to invade Texas... to make it like California!!
The issue is not really states, per se, but between large cities and the rest of the country.
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