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The Poorest Place in America - Welcome to New York!
City Journal ^
| 6 August 2009
| Eamon Moynihan
Posted on 08/08/2009 12:54:19 AM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
08/08/2009 12:54:20 AM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
This just does not look good for the Land of the Liberals.
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posted on
08/08/2009 1:08:27 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(The Democrat Party: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
To: neverdem
99.9% of the regulations and taxes should be abolished. There fixed it.
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posted on
08/08/2009 1:10:55 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Guilty of the crime of deviationism.)
To: neverdem
Step 1. Remove Chuck Schumer....the long in the tooth crooked NY Senator.
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posted on
08/08/2009 1:25:59 AM PDT
by
yoe
(Obama, America's first Communist ruler.)
To: neverdem
Its clear that New York has a big problem. On a comparative basis, were poor, thanks to a stratospheric cost of livingwhich itself is the result, I believe, of excessive and poorly designed regulation, most notably in the area of land use. Rent control in NYC obviously doesn't help. It gooses the price of non-controlled housing into the stratosphere.
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posted on
08/08/2009 1:59:53 AM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
To: neverdem
New York,Chicago and LA,
How Americans would prosper widoutyouse.
Gambino,Capone and yes OJ,
Such great histories aboutyouse.
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posted on
08/08/2009 2:17:00 AM PDT
by
Happy Rain
("The first white president : "I cannot tell a lie." The first black president: "Yes I can.")
To: HiTech RedNeck
We’re not all Communists here.
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posted on
08/08/2009 3:36:16 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The Tree is thirsty and the hogs are hungry.)
To: wastedyears
Yeh, this is also true in Illinois. If New York City and Chicago would secede, the rest of those states would be pretty happy as their countrified selves.
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posted on
08/08/2009 3:39:14 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(The Democrat Party: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
To: neverdem
Obviously (from the fact that many more people want to live in New York than in Mississippi, or a great place like Oklahoma) there’s more to subjective “quality of life” than objective “cost of living.”
Nonetheless, the author’s statistics are very interesting.
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posted on
08/08/2009 4:05:30 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(That wasn't *my* panda using the chainsaw.)
To: neverdem
Let’s start with Manhattan and Long Island property taxes. That would be a great place to start analyzing the cost of living scam.
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posted on
08/08/2009 4:17:57 AM PDT
by
Proud_USA_Republican
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
To: HiTech RedNeck
......If New York City and Chicago would secede.....If,..... passive wishful thinking
Consider another concept, a more positive action. “If New York City and Chicago were purged from the Union.....”
The socialist blue states should be kicked out
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posted on
08/08/2009 4:32:32 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khitab)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Yeh, this is also true in Illinois. If New York City and Chicago would secede, the rest of those states would be pretty happy as their countrified selves.Unfortunately liberalism has sunk its ugly teeth a lot further than NYC in my home state.
To: JohnLongIsland
Unfortunately liberalism has sunk its ugly teeth a lot further than NYC in my home state.
Yep the boobs flee cities and states and then when the relocate they vote for the same democrat types that ruined where they just left
And when you try to tell them that you might as well be talking to one of Al Gore's trees
Talk about insanity
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posted on
08/08/2009 5:33:28 AM PDT
by
uncbob
To: neverdem
The reason liberals have to lie and cheat is because they don't have real support. The "diamond" tactic shows that... Real people - citizens show up for
our causes because we're calling for what's right - and citizens know that...
The left has to pay people. And even then they don't have enough money to pay enough people so they use tricks like the "diamond".
We don't have to because the PEOPLE really ARE ON OUR SIDE.
There is NO movement on their side, just a bunch of professionals using lies... to create an illusion.
They have to lie becaues NO ONE is with them - unless they're paid. The PEOPLE are with us.
The way to fight liars is with truth. The diamond tactic is a lie. Liberals who use it are liars. Everything about them is a lie or based on a lie, or a tactic that is a lie... Don't you see that? ( If you don't see it, don't worry - it took me more than a day to see what they were up to...)
Our best - AND ONLY tactic should be to tell the truth ...
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posted on
08/08/2009 5:50:39 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(ACORN - Losers paid to protest ...The White House has an enemies list. Are you on it?)
To: neverdem
Spend some time in upstate NY, particularly the Utica area. That whole area is quite depressed—perhaps only a notch or two above Detroit.
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posted on
08/08/2009 6:20:57 AM PDT
by
rbg81
(DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
To: neverdem
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posted on
08/08/2009 6:23:07 AM PDT
by
petercooper
(GOP: Big Tent Party??? Not if you are a CONSERVATIVE.)
To: neverdem
This article is somewhat misleading, in that it uses the price of housing if you move in right now.
If you rented or bought your apartment 30 or 40 years ago, things are very different. Large numbers of people did just that, and are paying a low stablized rent or a reasonable maintenance fee. You don’t need to own and insure a fleet of vehicles, either.
To: neverdem
The Big Sh*tty exposed!
About time, too.
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posted on
08/08/2009 9:53:18 AM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
To: HiTech RedNeck
I wish that were true. The suburban counties of New York (Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, etc.) tend to vote Democratic in national elections, only occasionally going RINO for governor.
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posted on
08/08/2009 11:44:18 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Remember our Korean War Veterans)
To: neverdem
The stats in blue state vs red state back this up. The blue states are falling fast and dragging the country with it.
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posted on
08/08/2009 11:47:27 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Obama's lies make Bill Clinton's lie small)
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