From Michael Barone – Texas showing us how America should be governed:
…In those 10 years, Texas gained 732,800 private sector jobs, far ahead of the number two and three states, Arizona (90,200) and Nevada (90,000). The nation overall lost more than 2 million private sector jobs, with the biggest losses coming in California (623,700), Michigan (619,200) and Ohio (460,900)…
…The lesson of the previous decade seems clear: if you take a previously prosperous and creative state and subject it to high taxes and intrusive regulations, it loses 5% of its private sector jobs; if you take a previously somewhat less prosperous and creative state and govern it with low taxes and light regulation, it gains 9% more jobs, even as the nation’s economy is suffering…
By 2030, unless California gets its act together, Texas will be America’s most populous State..and it may come a lot sooner because while California had population growth 2000-2010, my bet is that most of it came before 2005 when things started to fall apart in that State. Could be, though we won’t know until 2020, that California is already starting to lose population. California is becoming like New York – governed by an entrenched, liberal Ruling Class…and the results will be like New York: islands of extreme prosperity surrounding by a sea of decay (Texas population grew by 18.8% over the past 10 years, California by 9.1%…New York by 3%).
You can’t be successful if your policies are liberal – it really is as simple as that. The more liberalism there is in government policy, the worse it will be for the governed. Liberalism is, as I have long said, based upon a lie – that Mankind is perfectible by the actions of men – and as it is based upon a falsehood it cannot get it right. Not in the long term, not in the sense of having continual success in making life better. It can make a splash from time to time and can even seem like its working over a few year period, but eventually it falls apart because it is false.
In the end, liberalism is a selfish compact with death – a deal in which those who are the self-selected elites get to rule and be rich while the people are drugged with welfare and pornography (of various types – not just pictures of naked women, but the pornography of greed, envy, instant gratification, voyeurism, etc; liberals call all this stuff “freedom”). The longer liberalism predominates, the worse things get – the more arrogant and elitist become the rulers, the more apathetic and grasping become the people. And that is why we must crush it completely – it isn’t enough to shove it in to political minority status, it must be torn out by the roots and ejected from American political life. Americans should argue between conservatism and libertarianism…liberalism has no place here as it is hateful of all that America stands for.
And we can do that – it must be remembered that liberalism retains its strength via government power. Take away that power – and the taxpayer funding that goes with it – and liberalism will dry up and blow away. No one seriously supports it…no one is going to man the barricades to preserve the Department of Commerce, or funding for NPR, or diversity grants to a college. As long as there is someone passing out the cash for those things, there will be people lining up to get it…but once the taxpayer funding of liberalism is gone, liberalism will be gone for good.
The really good news is that the fact that we have Texas and California governed so starkly differently – conservatism/libertarianism in Texas, liberalism in California – will demonstrate conclusively that liberalism is a complete failure, thus giving us the chance to really get rid of it for good and all. True, the task of a generation – but a task already well underway.
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