The Blue States Are Now the Beggar States
Townhall,
by
Stephen Moore
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
2/24/2021 12:08:49 AM
Last week, I visited South Florida for four days, and what a shock: Everything was open. The beaches, the hotels, the restaurants (with some sensible safety and social distancing restrictions). The classrooms are full.
The other strange thing about being in Florida was that people were happy. They were playing tennis and golf. They were going to work and getting on with their lives. Florida is a Republican, can-do kind of place.
Then, there is New York. Manhattan is a morose and deserted place to be. It's as if it's boarded up. People are living their lives afraid. They are depressed, which makes the whole place depressing.
Thanks. Now thousands more will move to FL. South FL numbers prove they are here and spring break is coming.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/24/2021 1:53:15 AM (No. 706420)
They purposely ruined their states with this entitlement BS and the CV-19 BS. Now they're going to reap rewards like bailing out their unions - all at the expense of the taxpayers of other states.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LaVallette 2/24/2021 3:49:52 AM (No. 706446)
Subdued terrorized people are so much easier to control.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
privateer 2/24/2021 6:24:56 AM (No. 706484)
I'd call them the 'Grifter States' . Unlike many beggars, they went into this with their piggish eyes wide open. FTA: ' Do they understand that in doing so, they are verifying the collapse of the very blue-state liberal model they want to impose on all of America?' Does a tapeworm understand that it is robbing its host of nutrients? Would it care?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rather Read 2/24/2021 6:46:36 AM (No. 706496)
My uber prog niece lives in New York and always sings the praises of how wonderful it is. She has been very quiet lately.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 2/24/2021 6:57:20 AM (No. 706507)
Yankees are like cockroaches who bring wreck and ruin with them wherever they go. Unfortunately Florida is too often their destination of choice.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rinktum 2/24/2021 7:04:20 AM (No. 706510)
The left destroys anything it touches. As they leave their failed states for red states, be prepared for their influx. Do not ever vote for a democrat for any office regardless how small. If you do, you will be voting for your own destruction. These mentally ill radicals are parasites. They move from one host to another until it is destroyed. Then they will move along to another. You cannot trust them.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Clinger 2/24/2021 8:10:05 AM (No. 706558)
We listened to four years of fear mongering from the left about Trump authoritarianism expressed by the leftist media. Where is the real authoritarianism coming from, the tax and regulation cuts of Trump? The solid GOP states such as Florida and South Dakota? Nope, it's all in the lock down leftist states. We have been hearing about systemic racism and watched people rise up and resist. Where did that happen, what system and who was in charge of that system and has been for decades? All bastions of leftism.
People are fleeing Illinois California and New York and flocking to where? Other leftist controlled states? Nope, they are going to Texas, and Florida.
So now since the leftists in control of states can't extort from people no longer living there (California is trying) now enlist the federal government to steal from the people in fiscally responsible states to finance the states in which the left destroyed the wealth producing mechanisms.
Somehow in the midst of an exodus from the big government left states to the limited government right states, we are supposed to believe that the left achieved the grandest election win in history?
Where are we going to run to when they are finished imposing one party rule on the entire country?
Oh but Orange man bad, republicans are racist white supremacists so that makes it all ok.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/24/2021 8:35:56 AM (No. 706605)
Now? They have always been the indigent of out society always demanding handouts...Tough Love is the only way to solve that...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/24/2021 8:43:21 AM (No. 706620)
It's tough to refer to other Americans as parasites, termites or roaches, but, our country has them, unfortunately. Lots of them. Consequently, the Peoples Republic of Colorado, once a blood red state, is now a cobalt blue state. The social justice courts in the once cow town of Denver now bear this out. Corruption runs rampant. While the suburbs of Denver area are seen by newcomers as an attractive place to live, the local governments have reduced themselves to enclaves of white guilt.
The left has destroyed everything it has touched. Denver is the latest example. This is why my wife and I left the area after being there for 42 years for western Colorado. So far the parasites, termites, and roaches have not discovered this part of the state yet. Before moving to western Colorado, we thought about moving to the ultra-red State of Wyoming despite the harsh winters there. But, what would we have done if the parasites, termites, and roaches discover Wyoming as another place to infest. Right back where we started.
On another one of today's Must Read, several very notable and highly respected Ldotters commented that living life our way while maintaining deep faith in God, our Savior, is all we have left. Yes, indeed, He is mankind's lifeline. But, while I am still on this earth, I will not consider America as lost yet and will not submit to the evil that has infected my space.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/24/2021 8:54:53 AM (No. 706640)
South Carolina is very like Florida in our covid response and Yankees are buying up or building houses here by the thousands.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
planetgeo 2/24/2021 9:05:51 AM (No. 706657)
Locusts gotta locust. And now that they control the federal government, I regret to inform you that NO place is safe any more. Even those of you who have escaped the blue insane asylums and found some rural patch of temporary sanity will soon find out you're not out of their rapacious grasp. What exactly do you think the $1.9 trillion "stimulus" is? Upon closer inspection you will find that it's really a giant national tax to be paid by everyone who still has any income or (soon) assets in order to be doled out to the failed blue cities, schools, and chosen subsets of people that are favored by our blue overlord locusts.
There really is only one way left (though we all struggle to deny it). Our founders anticipated just this circumstance. Did they misjudge our willingness to use it?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/24/2021 9:11:00 AM (No. 706664)
I would move to Florida tomorrow to escape this assinine governor in Pennsylvania but chances are good that Florida will be the first democrat target in the next election because they have embarrassed the idiot democrats who claim to know better. It's the same reason they hate Donald Trump, he did it smarter and better and exposed thousands of democrat "leaders" for the fools that they are. Floridians, enjoy your current atmosphere but I would increase efforts to keep it. The rest of us learned quickly how fleeting the free life is. Beware of your new New York neighbors.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
4Liberty2020 2/24/2021 9:23:36 AM (No. 706678)
I have watched my Conservative state of NH change and vote in Democratic senators, due to the influx of folks moving from MA.
FL, TX, and SC watch out, it can happen to you, too.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mean Gene 2/24/2021 9:41:51 AM (No. 706702)
Purely printed money has no value.....it inflates the value of real money as it enters circulation.
So, what to do?
Biden's Janet Yellen had an idea this week:
A "one time" wealth tax on everybody with any wealth whatsoever.
Yup, a 27% tax on your HOUSE!!!
Most people could not afford that, I'm guessing.
Anyway, somebody behind Biden nixed her idea, at least for now.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/24/2021 10:12:51 AM (No. 706737)
Why isn't Illinois crying? They are as much in hopeless debt as New York and California. Maybe they are on the list for the next two trillion stimulus. Lezzie Lightfoot has been strangely silent about her murder capital of the country and the needs of her oppressed people.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Zigrid 2/24/2021 10:37:37 AM (No. 706766)
Not much better here in Illinois... except for those of US that are fortunate enough to live outside chicago...our governor was installed as a political patronage stooge... and he hasn't a clue how to run a state... so WE struggle under the yoke of china's virus "news"... which dr. fauci pontificates to US every other day... he thinks WE care what he says...reality is setting in... and a lingering question always creeps to the surface...is this a case of warfare..china hid it from the world until they could send it to the countries they want to dominate... America...europe...South America...hmmmmm?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NotaBene 2/24/2021 11:12:30 AM (No. 706821)
California is dreary in the sparkling sunshine. Children out of school for a year. Teachers do not want to return to work until all children are vaccinated. University research and development paralyzed at 25%, no classes. No sports. Everyone is gimme gimme, even Illegal Aliens. Homeless everywhere and small businesses boarded up. Recall Nancy Pelosi’s Nephew!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 2/24/2021 11:44:51 AM (No. 706848)
Democrats have always been the party of begging and sponging off the productivity of others. It is what they do, unable as they are to do anything else. So the blue states are not a surprise at all to anyone who has lived long enough and paid attention in the past. We are seeing the latest consequences of continual election of democrat policies and tyranny, and with Biden/Dirty Cop in the WH instead of Trump, it is only going to get worse before it gets better.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 2/24/2021 11:55:49 AM (No. 706863)
#18 - "California is dreary in the sparkling sunshine." Perfectly expressed. Its like we're on a death watch as our beautiful state languishes under the care of a quack doctor and indifferent nurses. The recall may be a sign the patient is rallying, but the infection is fighting hard to maintain ground. The outcome is up for grabs, and unfortunately the Left are better grabbers. God have mercy.
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'Sensible safety & social distancing' - no such thing.
The virus doesn't carry a ruler, compass or protractor. This is superstition posing as virtue signal.
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