As somebody from Upstate NY, I can’t say I feel too bad for them. The south has been holding this country back for decades tbh...
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Well I'm sure their wise investments in apartheid, genocide, etc. will certainly pay off. \s \s \s
Seriously tho the default is the point. It's profitable for them monetarily and ideologically.
We, especially palestinians, are all going to continue to pay the bill for these delusional wackjobs.
thats what happens if your state depends on TOURISM, and mostly farm work, and retirees that dont pay taxes.
Florida doesn't have a state income tax either.
Neither does Texas.
Keep voting for trump ya bunch of dipshits
Brown people! They came illegally, stole all the jobs, and now they've taken the economy too. Those black people probably need to go to rebalance thelosses. Maybe the white Christian holyland needs to purge the Jews and other non beleivers too? [predicting the MAGA playlist based upon world history]
With the party of financial responsibility at the helm, of course.
I was born in the top 3 empoverished states, I live in another top 3, and whaddya know, my employer is based in the third. If I came across this article in the wild, I'd check the privacy settings on my browser thinking it's a AI-generated Farticle (Fake Article) created from my own metadata. Unreal. But yet, it's true. Last week I couldn't pay for my 1 measly city college class, so I put it on the only credit card that isn't maxed out. Most days I feel like that rubber toy from the 80's Stretch Armstrong. Big smile and streeeeetch those finances!
By average not by extremes. I think a few years ago a UN Special Report revealed startling examples of extreme poverty in several places in the USA.
A couple of decades ago I was driving around New Mexico sightseeing and drove into a reservation. The poverty I saw hits really hard even now
A couple of years ago my wife was driving through New Mexico on a cross-country road trip (I had to fly due to another work trip bookending the vacation) and a truck fire forced a detour through Albuquerque, and she said the poverty she saw on the little bit of Albuquerque they drove through was insane. Described seeing presumably homeless people high out of their minds in the street, and other homeless people shooting up. And still others painfully sober and aware of their situation
Housing insecurity truly exhibits itself very differently in different places. Where we live it's not folks living in worn out tents or ramshackle shelters built from trash, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist
lol. I got the fuck out of there finally. Sink FL, Sink!
Nooooo I can't leave until next summer. Stay up for a little longer Florida!
Just get to whichever blue state you're able to afford to get to. It might be CO. Poverty is a policy choice. People want to bitch and moan about property costs in CO but I'd happily pay those costs under a presumption that I'll sooner or later have some equity out of those costs.
In FL, a huge chunk of your COL is insurance and power bills. The power company feeds like 20% of their income into GOP election campaigns. You literally need to leave the state in order for Republicans to lose their campaign finances.
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