Florida is looking great these days, outside of Miami-Dade of course.
Sad irony is Portland was once one of the most livable and safest big cities in the country. Like Minneapolis, both ruined by a weak mayor (figurative and literal) and a creeping wokeist city council who are so far removed from reality they are literally caricatures.
I really admire your position. That said, Kate Brownshirt and her cadre are going to continue to steamroll your rights until there are none left. They are impudent narcissists who could not care less what you think. The divide between rural and urban has never been greater... and there are far more of them now than there are of us. Add to it their lickspittle media lapdogs have no problem gaslighting the dullard class... remember all those peaceful protests?
Our country's infrastructure is garbage and getting worse every day. Pumping money into a country's heart (infrastructure) is paramount.Low reservoirs means less power so the power bills are going out of site in Arizona before long. Texas has already been hit with massive increases in the cost of power and they blame it on the weather but common sense says immigration filling up the state is going to overwhelm the infistructure.
Its headed our way too as the borders are now open and millions will overwhelm the countries infistructure.
Sadly, with 29 trillion in debt and another 14 trillion being added we are doomed so hopefully folks pick a good place to move too. You may be there for some time.
Politicians have been robbing the treasury for some time and we are trillions in debt with another 14 trillion to be added in the next 8 years. Some is set for infrastructure but after all the graft we won't see much change. Country will be third world before long if we don't get a change in Politicians. Imho
I lived in Portland 23 years ago. It was very different. There were a lot of creative interesting people running around making music. Downtown was still fun. To be sure Portland politics were always the same, but they were not in the foreground like today. Occupy Wall Street, ICE, BLM, the Guy Fawkes masks - all that stuff came later. I mostly blame Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley for weaponizing feelings.
As a "dem libtard" that lived in Portland briefly I can understand that. Apparently I'm not libby or woke enough, and I love firearms and freedom (but also drag shows, being weird is fun). Not all of us are extremists but the ones who are are unbearable (goes for the right too!).
Just my opinion but I dont believe the politicians have done a real budget for decades. They just repeat the old one and add on and add on and add on. Budgets take too much time and doing work takes time away from filling their pockets out of the treasury. Excuse me if I sound cynical, its just I am old and have watched as the world changed.
They spent $200 million ten years ago studying up on a new I-5 bridge. Nothing to show for it but more government agencies.
They are readdressing that same thing again, can't wait to see how much they waste this time around.
It isn't that they don't want to do the work, but rather that any politician has vested interests (literally vested dollarwise) in maintaining and expanding the $ spent in a given area and none are interested in reducing the $ spent because it reduces their power and lobby $ coming into them. More importantly, voters want those $ coming into their areas too, and they want the tax breaks.Just my opinion but I dont believe the politicians have done a real budget for decades. They just repeat the old one and add on and add on and add on. Budgets take too much time and doing work takes time away from filling their pockets out of the treasury. Excuse me if I sound cynical, its just I am old and have watched as the world changed.
That is CRAZY that they are doing this all over again.
No doubt Oregon built up its voting base by creating government jobs. We have 4.6 million people and 13 prisons and 45 colleges and universities. Add in the ever increasing number of government employees and those who get government checks so its obvious even if we had a real vote nothing will change.
