Can the ‘Texas Miracle’ Survive?
Texas Monthly,
by
Christopher Hooks
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
5/21/2020 10:33:29 AM
On an average day in 2019, the Texas Workforce Commission received about 13,000 calls from Texans applying for unemployment benefits. Toward the end of the year the state unemployment rate hovered under 4 percent: it had not risen much higher than 8 percent in three decades. Texas almost effortlessly added jobs month to month, amid a rapidly expanding economy driven by population growth and a long-running energy boom that attracted vast sums of capital. Life was very, very good.
By the end of March this year, the commission was receiving, on average, 1.5 million calls a day. The state’s economy had collapsed almost overnight. The service industry
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Texas544 5/21/2020 10:43:32 AM (No. 417700)
A New York magazine about Texas publishing a leftist Austin reporter.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/21/2020 10:47:41 AM (No. 417706)
I don't get my views from the Texas Monthly, which are ridiculous and left wing. Texas is a state of individuals that love their freedom. All of them have hands and minds that will adjust and bring them out of recession before anybody else. Texas is the nation's leading energy producer. I still see a lot of cars on the roads in Houston. We have ups and downs. We are down today, but we will be back up tomorrow. So don't be sending us any more liberal i told you so's, like Krugman, whose postulates are insanely wrong, even in this article. Krugman whines that we have low taxes and no zoning in Texas. Krugman don't live here, thanks for that.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ByteGuru 5/21/2020 11:02:28 AM (No. 417724)
What a load of menudo ... the only thing 'Texas' about Texas Monthly is the first word in the magazine title.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Quigley 5/21/2020 11:13:37 AM (No. 417735)
An article that quotes paul krugman about economics is a political propaganda piece, not an informative piece. I guess it may be entertainment for the Gullible Class.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
TXknitter 5/21/2020 11:22:55 AM (No. 417744)
I don’t agree with Texas Monthly’s eagerness to nitpick my state. Courageous Americans (and their Governors) in not only Texas but Florida, South Dakota, Wyoming etc. have already stood up against the prevailing scaredycat media and resisted excessive lockdown. Krugman has been wrong so often. Who cares what he says?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
TJ54 5/21/2020 11:35:52 AM (No. 417755)
Unemployment claims have been going down 5 weeks In a row. Not widely reported
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
EQKimball 5/21/2020 12:19:41 PM (No. 417814)
This fall there will be two competing themes: 1. Keep America Safe. 2. Reopen America. No question that what happens in Texas, Florida, Georgia and other red slates, for better or worse, will be be pivotal. I am betting on a red tide. Don’t mask with Texas.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/21/2020 12:22:17 PM (No. 417820)
I was born in and still live in TEXAS. WE will not give in to the Nazi/Communists even if they take over, it will be a real WAR! That said, we REAL Texans live a quiet satisfied life, just don't peeve us or you will severely regret the results! Remember the ALAMO! Don't MESS WITH TEXAS!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Ret.TxLeo 5/21/2020 1:59:40 PM (No. 417903)
Pssst hey Chris....little news flash. So far in a small little tiny town about 30 miles down the road from us has reported at least 4 cases of unemployment fraud. Someone who has never worked for thier closed Mom and Pop Grocery Store applied for and got unemployement. The former store owner called and let them know real quick those folks never worked there, don't live there and quit sending them checks , had sent two to each false/felony filer. This is in Texas. I highly suspect the numbers might be a be screwed? Don't doubt that unemployment is up but not the the numbers gleefully reported by you. The system is ripe for fraud right? Kind of like IRS sending dead people stimulus checks, prisoners refund checks and the dead voting right?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 5/21/2020 2:33:09 PM (No. 417949)
If you can keep the Californians, New Jerseyites and New Yorkers from moving there and bringing their dysfunctional political view, yes. Texas should have quotas on people moving from those states.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MDConservative 5/21/2020 3:15:17 PM (No. 417994)
Texas is a great place, soon to become my home. And it has an emerging problem, its twin dependence on mineral (oil and gas) repatriation fees and property taxes for government financing. Then toss in the loss of sales taxes from restaurants and other businesses, and other revenue sources. The mistake, not unique to Texas, is that the supposition is that it will never end, and when things go kaflooie, as they are now, that stuff that hits a fan goes everywhere. The same folks rooting for cheap gasoline to drive their pick-ups and SUVs to shop and church don't realize the connection with their eventual public liabilities to make up the differences when budgets fall waayy short. Politicians don't manage budgets and cut expenses the way the public does. And up to now they've been taxing the virtual man behind the tree. (What's up with this property tax "revolution" down here?)
It's easy to whistle past the graveyard with bravado. Texas has major financial issues facing it. Be interesting to see how this works itself out.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
4poster 5/21/2020 4:33:15 PM (No. 418059)
I’d rather you not come here if that is what you think. Texas is much more diverse. You left out medical, IT (think Austin) and manufacturing (Tesla?). Texas rainy day fund is the opposite of blue state debt. The Texas can do spirit is alive and well.
Please stay home if that’s your view of Texas.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 5/21/2020 4:45:41 PM (No. 418068)
All part of the plan ... get enough Texas unemployed to vote for Biden (a chicken in every pot) along with illegal immigrants, mail in ballots and vote harvesting.
Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio and El Paso are the largest cities in Texas and they're all blue.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 5/21/2020 4:48:39 PM (No. 418072)
Folks want to move to southern states and then can't understand how those "poor dumb fools" managed to get to where the were, and vote to "help make things better"....just like they did in their home states....say, Maryland, for example.
When you move to a new state, LISTEN to the locals for a long time, you might learn something. And leave your Yankee ideas with you in the state you bailed out of.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
SALady 5/21/2020 9:29:10 PM (No. 418264)
For many years, "Texas Monthly" was a great magazine about all-things Texas. Then awhile back, the lie-berals took over.
And lie-berals did what they do best -- they destroyed a once-great publication!!!! Lie-berals always destroy everything they touch, so that should come as no surprise to anyone.
I haven't subscribed in probably 25 years, and haven't even looked at a copy in the last 10 years. The biggest waste of paper in the Lone Star state!!!!!
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