Posted on 01/18/2012 6:53:21 PM PST by dila813
America has two basic economies, and the division increasingly defines its politics. One, concentrated on the coasts and in college towns, focuses on the business of images, digits and transactions. The other, located largely in the southeast, Texas and the Heartland, makes its living in more traditional industries, from agriculture and manufacturing to fossil fuel development.
Traditionally these two economies coexisted without interfering with the progress of the other. Wealthier gentry-dominated regions generally eschewed getting their hands dirty so that they could maintain the amenities that draw the so-called creative class and affluent trustifarians. The more traditionally based regions focused, largely uninhibited, on their core businesses, and often used the income to diversify their economies into higher-value added fields.
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Bookmarked for reading after dinner.
It’s really more a matter of the leftist enemy within versus America.
I was thinking today that this was a political calculation based on the fact that O will lose in all of the resource and ranching states anyway but this will help him in the coasts and big urban states..
He will be pandering to the states that they figure are in play for his reelection, the red fly over states are out of the equation..
NO. WRONG!
They did not and do not merely 'coexist" as separate and non-interlaced entities.
The urbane get much of their fundamental needs supplied by the 'git 'er done' dirt-under-your-fingernails part of the economy which resides in areas where resources are extracted, refined, grown, or items manufactured.
To think otherwise only pushes the folly that those in the cities can do without those in more rural and directly productive areas.
Fool the city folks who think milk comes from a box or a store into believing they don't need the more rural aspects of the economy, and they might vote to cut their own throat without ever realizing it.
Obama is dead set against the American way of life. Pure and simple.
What we see is America under attack by foreign interests, attacks financed by oil money. Thanks dila813.
Only one problem ~ everyone (with a capital E) ~ needs energy for transportation, home heating and electricity.
Alternatives are not viable yet, even with Obama trying to force the price in America at the expense of global economies. What a bubblehead!
“Traditionally these two economies coexisted without interfering with the progress of the other. Wealthier gentry-dominated regions generally eschewed getting their hands dirty so that they could maintain the amenities that draw the so-called creative class and affluent trustifarians. The more traditionally based regions focused, largely uninhibited, on their core businesses, and often used the income to diversify their economies into higher-value added fields.
The Obama administration has altered this tolerant regime, generating intensifying conflict between the NIMBY America and its more blue-collar counterpart. The administration’s move to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico represents a classic expression of this conflict. To appease largely urban environmentalists, the Obama team has squandered the potential for thousands of blue-collar jobs in the Heartland and the Gulf of Mexico.”
In a way, it’s an overlay of the red state/blue state conflict that we’ve seen beginning in the 1990’s and peaking in the 2000 Presidential election. Once again, it’s the political left being intolerant and using the force of government to impose their views.
One America and the cancer within approaching matastization - time to go into surgery.
One America and the cancer within approaching matastization - time to go into surgery.
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The Problem is that Unions want the Jobs and they are Obama Backers. Obama Needs the Money from the Enviro Nuts as well as the Unions.
Predictions are that by Memorial day Gas will be 5.00 dollars a Gallon,Obama will love that,when Bush was President and Gas got to 3 and 4 dollar a Gallon is when the economy started to tank,where we are Now,wait until gas is 5 bucks in this atmosphere
Obama is probaly trying to herd the voter support like throwing fireworks at a stampede.
he wants a stampede of wild cattle namely the voters of America, he wants them tired, thirsty and ready to accept anything he does that has even a temporary solution.
He will find a way to double gas prices for a short time and then magnanimously will reduce them them just before the elections for vote buying.
Gas may well be $5.00 a gallon by memorial day the hedge funds and international banks will use anything to drive the price higher for short term gains. The cost of oil has very little to do with either demand or the cost of production anymore.
Old School Navy dictum: “A bitching sailor is a happy sailor; When the sailors quit bitching and it gets real quiet, it’s time to worry.”
The first mention of the cancellation had quotes from Baucus, Tester, Rehberg and then a bit from an enviroweenie.
Second half hour did about the same, but different enviro type and MUCH abbreviated.
By Prime time the enviroweenies had completely vanished from that bit.
I work in engineering/construction/energy and I’m not hearing anything this morning from anybody around here but quiet. No cussing about The 0, the gummint, this “decision”, nothin’ at all.......
The title of this article might be closer to fact than some folks would wish.
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