11-22-2016, 04:19 PM
(11-22-2016, 03:14 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(11-22-2016, 02:37 PM)taramarie Wrote: Hmm interesting. CA sounds similar to NZ "California is far from perfect. A housing shortage has driven rents and home prices into the stratosphere.""But overall, the contrast is clear. Economic success depends on tax revenues that go into public investments, and regulations that protect the environment and public health. And true economic success results in high wages."
Do you have industries that clutter around different zones? We have a lot of Big Oil near Texas, cause that's where the bulk of the oil is. Coal and Iron built a bunch of industries, in the midwest area now known as the Rust Belt. An awful lot of high tech companies built up around MIT and Stanford. As various industries grow and fade, so do vast parts of the United States.
That makes it sound simply like the luck-of-the-draw, primarily a result of natural resources. They may have been true at one time; and it may also be true that being natural resouce rich, pulls a Russia or Saudia Arabia or a Texas or Wyoming towards a dictatorship or oligarchy.
That's old school (pun intended).
Today, it is much more about allowing/investing in creativity and intellectual reality as well as freedom - all very dependent on having if not promoting diversity. If there is the political and cultural (or, as you would say, the values) that can happen just about anywhere. Gov. Tomblin is trying to make that happen in West Virginia; we should all wish him luck and promote his success as an alternative to what the Orange Anus has in store.