Posted on 01/16/2006 5:49:57 AM PST by Arcy
"For the second year in a row, the Census Bureau reports, the population of Massachusetts has shrunk. During the 12 months ending July 1, 2005, the Bay State experienced a net loss of more than 8,600... and the only one to do so for the second year running. residents"
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"The net outflow during the 12 years from 1990 to 2002 -- the excess of people leaving Massachusetts over those entering -- was 213,000, and the hemorrhaging has only gotten worse since then. MassINC reported in 2003 that one-fourth of Bay State residents would leave if they had the opportunity to do so."
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" suspect that fewer and fewer people want to call Massachusetts home not because of its oppressive winters but because of its oppressive and demoralizing political culture."
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"In the state that produced Michael Dukakis and Sen. Kerry, the concerns of ordinary citizens are so often met with disdain, while the political class lets nothing get in the way of its own appetites and priorities."
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"A supreme court that turns same-sex marriage into a constitutional right?"
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"This is a state in which a tax cut can be decisively approved by the voters yet never go into effect. In which grocers can be prosecuted for pricing milk too low. In which archaic blue laws decree when shops may and may not open for business. In which local officials have been known to heatedly object to opening town meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance. In which a $2 billion Big Dig ends up costing $14 billion. In which Ted Kennedy keeps getting reelected."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
We had some good discussion in the Boston Globe story on this .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1558552/posts
And where do they go? They come to MAINE. They come here and vote for every social program that comes up. Liberals have completely destroyed Maine. No Busisness in their right mind would come here. Maine is just short of having a breathing tax because of these transplanted Mass socialists. (note the tone of frustration and anger?)
I wish the expats didn't come to my state. The ones I've uh, met, defend the Kennedy culture to the hilt and say it's only for the lower cost of living that they came South. Then, disgruntled with us rednecks and our slower way of doing things, they head back north.
Massholes, these people.
I think we've seen the last of Dem Presidential standard bearers from the Bay State. It will be a looooong time before the dems go down that road again.
Move those electoral votes to the solid red South!
MA: The only state with a sorrier pair of Sinators than NJ.
They don't call it Tax-a-chusetts for nothing. Watch for the same phenomenon in New York. Limbaugh predicted that Florida will have more electoral votes than New York within ten years.
Great way for the Commonwealth to boost its population via reproduction. /sarc
I beg to differ, my state of West Virginia gives Mass a run for its money: We have to live with Byrd and Rockefeller.
Instead of spending so much rebuilding New Orleans, perhaps the displaced residence if LA should be move there.
Oh yeah? I'll see you NJ and raise you Maryland.
All the rapist's and well to do pedophiles are moving to Vermont.
Funny, how many of us feel the same!
Oh come on, MD's Senators aren't even close to the moonbats in Mass., WV, and NJ. At least Hoyer was very against immediate troop withdrawal.
You should know - Austin Texas (Capital of TX) is the one Texas city with an overwhelming liberal presence...
"In which local officials have been known to heatedly object to opening town meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance."
I would hate to live in a state where they were afraid of the Pledge of Allegiance.
My Wife and me would count as two votes against them.
Well, hurry up and come on down then! And if you've got conservative friends, bring them too!
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