Posted by Tina
North Dakota is a state blessed with agricultural and energy resources, not unlike the once great state of California. Thanks to the common sense of North Dakota voters they are also blessed with leadership that knows how to make things work! The Orange County Register has details of both North Dakotas success and California’s missed opportunities:
North Dakota reaps the vast economic benefits of traditional energy procurement and production as well as agricultural spoils, while the Golden State reels from ideological obstinacy where its legislators kowtow to special interests and frolic in dream world where green jobs save the day. North Dakota’s approach to energy policy has created a boon allowing the state to achieve notable economic accomplishments, especially as the rest of the nation, and world, lags.
North Dakota also has reasonable corporate tax rates while California continues to oppress and discourage business growth.
If that news isn’t enough to warm the hearts of North Dakotans a
grass roots effort to abolish property taxes in the state is gaining in momentum:
North Dakota citizens may abolish property taxes, allowing them more control over government spending. Nearly 30,000 signatures were collected to place the people’s initiative on the ballot in June, 2012 that would constitutionally abolish all property taxes in North Dakota.
Californians could learn from the success of North Dakota and our state could once again become a prosperous place to live and do business. But it won’t happen with the clownish leadership we continue to put at the helm of our once great ship! Come on people…wouldn’t all Californians have more opportunity and be more prosperous with a common sense approach to energy policy and taxes? Do we really want California to continue to be the laughing stock of the country? As a Californian all I want for Christmas is leadership that can deliver 3.5% unemployment and a budget surplus!
North Dakota may just be too dang cold to support a population of deadbeat Occutards.
California, on the other hand, is so mild we can even “afford” to ship “green jobs” to Mexico.
Will this left wing Democratic party lunacy ever end?
Q: “there aren’t billions of dollars sitting in the banker’s pockets. By law, that money has to be USED–a major goal of the Occupy movement.”
Ahhhh…so you finally reveal your true self! You constantly accuse others of being fascist but it is YOU who is fascist!
You can skip the “cut and paste” below it’s for the benifit of those readers who may not be aware or understand my point:
FASCISM:
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html
As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism and racialismblood and soilfor the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism.
Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a societys economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the national interestthat is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (emphasis mine)
Bankers, and corporations, sitting on the cash will gladly invest when the authoritarians fascists/Marxist/communists in power are booted out and FREEDOM once again has a chance to work its magic.
Support for OWS is fading across all income groups. I’m not surprised given what you, a huge OWS freak, have just revealed about yourself!
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_US_11161023.pdf
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/poll-ows-least-popular-among-lower-income-groups
It’s not “wisdom” that drives you…it is the incessent need to control other peoples money.
Nice try Quentin but once again you miss the mark or misscommunicate in your haste to slam me.
while I am for the use of capital and continue to extoll the virtues of private investment I do not advocate laws that force or direct private investment by government (that is fascist). You implied as much when you wrote:
By law it has to be used? By what law?
The money is being used now. It just isn’t being used to invest in new hiring, expansion, innovation, or start up as it would be if the government wasn’t behaving so badly. Hostility toward private investment is the culprit; threats of higher tax rates, EPA virtually making law and bypassing our representatives in Congress, and energy and healthcare policy/law that threaten the viability of business do not inspire growth investment!
Instead the money is “used” in a way that protects fro severe loss so that when the socialist *#$%*%#’s are drop kicked out of power there will still be some investment money to use for a REAL recovery!