WTF has any of this to do with socialism?
Redbaiter wrote:
> The victims of socialism are voting against it the best way they
> can. By getting to hell out of it and letting all the leeches,
> parasites and bludgers sink into their own shit..
>
> What's this got to do with NZ???
>
> Its going to happen here too, and the sooner the better. Can't
> wait to see all you state worshipping fucking leeches starving
> and homeless.
>
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>
> WONDER LAND
> Blue-State Pols Are Emptying Their Own States
> BY DANIEL HENNINGER
> August 29, 2003
>
> The most significant voting bloc in California's famous recall
> election isn't Hispanics or angry male Democrats but the people
> who were so eager to weigh in that they've already voted--with
> their feet.
>
> According to a report out this month from the U.S. Census
> Bureau, an astounding 2,204,500 Californians threw in the towel
> from 1995 to 2000 and highballed it out of the "Golden State."
> The state's net migration figure for the period is minus-
> 755,536, and would be worse if Latin American immigrants didn't
> still drop in for a look.
>
> This is the first time the net migration number for California
> has ever gone negative.
>
> We in New York should be so lucky to have a chance to recall our
> profligate pols. The Census figures make those of us staying in
> the "Empire State" look like the nation's biggest saps: Some
> 1,600,725 shrewd subjects of Albany's empire saw in the late
> 1990s that the pols were blowing the revenue surge out the
> window and escaped ahead of the recent tax hikes passed to close
> the inevitable deficit.
>
> Because so many former New Yorkers understood the meaning of
> present-discounted non-value, the state took first place in net
> migration loss: minus-874,248. The bureau says New Yorkers fled
> to every state in the Union except Nebraska and the District of
> Columbia. Don't expect this datum to show up in the welcoming
> speeches by George Pataki and Mike Bloomberg when the GOP holds
> its weirdly inappropriate convention in Manhattan next year.
>
> If you look down the Census Bureau's coming-and-going column
> nearby, the consistent breakdown of Democratic blue-state
> population losers and Republican red-state gainers is striking
> (there are exceptions; Oregon and Washington state gained, while
> Louisiana lost). This may leave the blue states bluer than ever,
> but not very pleasant places to live if their most industrious,
> motivated citizens are loading up one-way U-Hauls.
>
> It's well known that Arizona and Nevada are growth states, but
> the numbers for places generally thought to be mostly desert are
> impressive: Arizona's net gain is 316,148; Nevada's is 233,934.
>
> The economies of California, New York and Illinois have been
> supported for years by inflows of foreign-born immigrants, and
> they still come. But this census shows large net losses even of
> recent immigrants in these three blue states. Almost certainly
> these are the most motivated, successful new arrivers, who know
> a lot about maximizing their gains.
>
> When the Los Angeles Times published a story on the outflow, it
> didn't have much trouble identifying the reason: The exodus is
> economic. In the world's stalest states, such as Germany or
> Japan, people faced with cost-of-living waters rising to choking
> levels turn numb and go nowhere. But here in the U.S. moving on
> is a tradition, and today we have Web sites to reveal a suitable
> refuge from state political cultures intent on keeping the
> spending and tax spigot open.
>
> Monstermoving.com lets you discover relative buying power if you
> lived somewhere else. Let's type in L.A. and Tucson, just next
> door: "A salary of $30,000 in Los Angeles has the same buying
> power that a salary of $13,448 has in Tucson." For Las Vegas the
> figure is $13,241. If on top of this they elect a Gray Davis
> governor, why stay?
>
> New Yorkers' third-favorite refugee camp is North Carolina. Easy
> to see why: You've got to earn $45,000 in the Big Apple to buy
> what $7,191 gets in Durham. As the Census report dryly puts it:
> "Five times as many people moved from New York to North Carolina
> as moved in the opposite direction."
>
> Yes, retirees go to Florida, but the size of the flow is mind-
> boggling; in five years, 308,000 New Yorkers went there. It is
> now economically irrational for a middle-class person to retire
> in New York City.
>
> If owning a home is central to the American dream, the blue
> states are becoming a nightmare. Realtor.com lets you learn why
> the dream is turning red: a three-bedroom house that costs
> $285,000 in L.A. is $155,725 in Tucson.
>
> New York City's hostility to 20-something apartment seekers, the
> seed-corn of its economy, is legendary. But a two-bedroom
> apartment goes for $760 in Richmond, Va., and $895 in Nashville,
> Tenn. For those prices you can't sleep on the street in New
> York. Many young New Yorkers spend 50% of their before-tax
> income on rent.
>
> Of the 10 states with the highest combined tax burden, eight are
> blue states, according to the Tax Foundation.
> The ACCRA cost-of-living index, run out of George Mason
> University, provides another telling comparison. These are
> fourth-quarter 2002 numbers with 100.0 as the U.S. average.
> Blues: Los Angeles, 137.8; San Francisco, 182.3; Boston, 135.5;
> and always-frightening New York (Manhattan), 216.2.
> Reds: Phoenix, 95.1; Tampa, 90.5; Atlanta, 98.1; Houston, 90.8.
> There are exceptions; you can live like an average American and
> still be a Democrat by living in Pittsburgh, at 1.5 below the
> national average.
>
> Democratic dictum holds that all this is necessary to support
> "needs." But what is the point if only the uppermost-middle-
> class can afford their idea of Eden?
>
> Arnie Schwarzenegger should challenge Cruz Bustamante to explain
> why Hispanics should vote for a party piling cost after cost on
> their lives. This week, the state Democratic Senate President
> Pro Tem John Burton of San Francisco gave the answer: "You can't
> walk into a restaurant and have a meal without paying for it,
> without washing dishes." Gee, now you've got to wash your own
> dishes in California's restaurants? How bad can it get?
>
> Will the last person leaving the blue states please turn out the
> lights.
>
> Mr. Henninger is deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal's
> editorial page. His column appears Fridays in the Journal and on
> OpinionJournal.com.
>
