Texas Still Creating Jobs

[David]

Texas bucks national unemployment trend

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[Bemused]

Originally Posted by David

Texas bucks national unemployment trend

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Yeah but you folks have to live in the heat and high humidity.

Pert soon all those people you lured from California are gonna give it up and come slinking back here, taking their businesses and jobs with them, figuring the high taxes are well worth the far more hospitable climate, and leaving you folks back where you started, sweltering away

[Rifleman]

Originally Posted by Bemused

Yeah but you folks have to live in the heat and high humidity.

Pert soon all those people you lured from California are gonna give it up and come slinking back here, taking their businesses and jobs with them, figuring the high taxes are well worth the far more hospitable climate, and leaving you folks back where you started, sweltering away

I know you mean it in jest, but this summer is unusual. The last two summers were considerably milder, and there was considerable rain both years. We certainly can cope with it better than other states, like Kansas where the High pressure area is now centered. Anyway with Obama policy having raised electricity rates, which will go even higher since the EPA is now "ruling us and reportedly will close down perfectly good coal plants, we might soon have California like economy, unless we can secure our freedom from the EPA!

[dcannady]

Originally Posted by Bemused

Yeah but you folks have to live in the heat and high humidity.

Pert soon all those people you lured from California are gonna give it up and come slinking back here, taking their businesses and jobs with them, figuring the high taxes are well worth the far more hospitable climate, and leaving you folks back where you started, sweltering away

Slink back to what? There has to be a job or opportunity to which they can slink. As more leave, shrinking the consumer base, more will go out of business thus causing more to leave.

[toobdoow]

Takes ten days for the human body to become acclimatized to a new climate.

Takes a longer or shorter period of time for the human mind to adjust, and sometimes never.

Some people discover they like high heat and humidity but didn't know it until they were exposed to it for an extended period of time and some learn to deal with it because they must.

Others return to whence they came...









...'cause they're wusses...





...or worse.


On edit: Wanna see some big time whining...put me down in a cold climate.

[Bemused]

Originally Posted by Rifleman

I know you mean it in jest, but this summer is unusual. The last two summers were considerably milder, and there was considerable rain both years. We certainly can cope with it better than other states, like Kansas where the High pressure area is now centered. Anyway with Obama policy having raised electricity rates, which will go even higher since the EPA is now "ruling us and reportedly will close down perfectly good coal plants, we might soon have California like economy, unless we can secure our freedom from the EPA!

Summer here in NorCal has been milder than "usual" this year. Last few years our winters have been longer than "usual"

Five years ago this month I was still in Tupelo, MS where temps were 100+ and 90-100% humidity for all of July and August. I have the impression that kind of heat was "usual" in MS and much of the rest of the south and midwest.

The point of my rambling is that, as you imply, is that weather changes and seasonal temps vary all the time. But the computer modelers continue to try to make something of their imperfect data and flawed assumptions.

[Bemused]

Originally Posted by dcannady

Slink back to what? There has to be a job or opportunity to which they can slink. As more leave, shrinking the consumer base, more will go out of business thus causing more to leave.

Walking down the streets of this town I see plenty of new businesses that are thriving. Mexican markets, pay by the month cell phone shops, taco trucks. They must be serving all those Hispanic laborers doing all that construction work that Americans wont do, cleaning the hotel rooms which Americans wont do, working in fast food joints that Americans wont do.

Or maybe the reason for this ongoing evolution into Mexifornia is that so many non Hispanics continue to leave.

[Orin]

Takes ten days for the human body to become acclimatized to a new climate.

Takes a longer or shorter period of time for the human mind to adjust, and sometimes never.

When you've been through four different climates in a month, it gets a little confusing. I spent my formative years in stupid cold. Do not miss it at all. Hate going back. The last time I went back it was Jaunuary and 20 below F. It didn't take but a couple of days to readjust, even after decades of being in much warmer climes. I don't mind a hundred and stupid, but this humidity doesn't cut it for me. I thank God and Capitalism for central air every day starting about April.

[GeronL]

Our credit rating, at this rate, will be AAA while the rest of the country is junk

[GeronL]

Originally Posted by Bemused

many non Hispanics continue to leave.

You have to wonder why the Mexican unemployment rate is 5%... its because all their unemployed came here.

[David]

Paul Krugman Is Still Wrong about Texas

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