Quick, somebody tell Fiat Chrysler that America doesn't build stuff anymore.
Tell em that the future lies solely in the millions of imaginary Green jobs AOC and her brain dead comrades are promising with her $93 trillion Green New Deal.
Here's the deal.
While you Trump hating Dipshits are out there running around making fools of yourselves with your global warming bullshit, made up transgender nonsense, hate mongering, race-baiting, and 24/7 lies, President Trump has been busy keeping his campaign promises.
And what promises would those be?
The promise to Make America Great Again.
The promise to bring back high paying American manufacturing jobs.
Remember how all the experts told us American Manufacturing was dead in America?
I do.
Remember how those same experts said Trump's tariffs were the final nail in the American Steel Industry's coffin?
I do.
Remember how they claimed Trump's threatened 25% tariffs on automobiles coming into the country would lead to thousands of Americans losing their jobs?
I do.
Remember how that big eared, spineless former president Barack Hussein Obama mocked then candidate Trump for promising to bring back the jobs he willingly watched go overseas?
Remember how he babbled on about a magic wand?
I do.
But a funny thing happened along the way.
The American Steel industry is roaring back along with thousands of good, high paying jobs.
And just yesterday Fiat Chrysler announced it's plans to reopen a long ago idled Detroit engine plant. invest billions more into five existing Michigan plants, and create about 6,500 U.S. auto jobs.
Read the entire article below.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/26/fiat-chrysler-to-reopen-idled-detroit-plant-bring-6-5k-u-s-jobs-back-to-michigan/
And that's in a town and an industry all those so-called experts had long ago written off as dead in the water.
It seems to me the American have a choice between two very simple and distinct futures to make.
Do we go with AOC and her Green New Deal which will cost the American tax payer somewhere around $93 trillion or about $600,000 per American household?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/25/analysis-green-new-deal-93-trillion-price-tag-would-pay-for-3-7-thousand-border-walls/
Do we go with her as she celebrates ruining the Amazon deal and 25.000 jobs along with it?
Or do we go with a proven leader who is keeping his promises and bringing back American jobs by the millions?
You Dipshits out there go ahead and fall for the lies.
Go ahead and fall for the socialism bullshit you've bought into.
Go ahead and keep slaying those imaginary global warming dragons.
And by all means go ahead and keep supporting infanticide.
For the rest of though, we'll keep backing the winning team.
Still winning, bitches!!!
Kevin McGinty
He has done everything he said he would, even still building the wall, Kicking ass as he does it, Way to go Mr President Trump way to go. MAGA, Whooo Hooo .
ReplyDeleteAnd he's just getting started...
ReplyDeleteWell back from the store, it must be my lucky day wind blowing snowing cold, and some nice young man came over to help me unload my cart into my truck, see the world still has good people, Thank you young man where ever you are!!!
ReplyDeleteLol... Maybe there's hope for this country after all...
ReplyDeleteYes there is no doubt in my mind. And Topeka has many of them...
DeleteCome on Kevin, you KNOW the entire media, Dems and their assorted sycophants will NEVER give the POTUS any credit for positive things. You know, Trump was a big friend of the movers and shakers in the black community (he was mentioned in more rap songs than anyone else) until ... he ran against the Harridan (who is, of course, a paragon of truthfulness).
ReplyDeleteAs for Boz on the prior thread, you aren't around at our get-togethers (although you've been invited), and thus don't hear our conversations among ourselves. Venting on the threads counts for less.
If the issue is accepting science, fair enough. The way science proves itself is in results. We were talking about the Greenland ice cap. I remember a number of Chicken Little "scientific experts" who assured me in the late 90s that the Greenland (and some said Arctic) snowcaps would be gone in 20 years and dear old New York would become Venice - or Atlantis. Those are some experts I'd sure as hell never depose; their opinions being pretty much discredited.
Now no one here thinks science is bunk - if NASA were to discover an asteroid heading our way I'd get a little nervous. Of course we trust medical science (I don't know of any anti-VAXers here) and good engineering to boot. Hell, Boz, when you stay in your lane, I've learned a bit from you about head trauma and a few other things. It's when I hear "experts" start to tell me how to organize my life and that "we'd" better do something or we'll all face dire consequences that my sensitive "BS detectors" go off. With good reason.
To wit, the Greenland predictions I used to hear so much about.
And when such as AOC start in with their "expertise" I most get entertained. While I'm SURE she could whip up a dry martini better than me, her opinions on anything else seem a little, well, you know ... And she's the most pleasant of the recent Dem harpies, although beating such as Tlaib and Omar doesn't say much.
So yes, our anti-VAXers make me cringe. Nonetheless, you've more than enough wack-jobs on the left, so don't get on any high horses.
Fair enough. But AOC is hardly the face of climate science, or necessarily the political response from the left, and the rest of the advanced world. But sometimes someone like her is needed. It is my understanding that the consensus of climate scientist is that the extremes of weather that we are seeing is a result. I.E. we are not going to wake up one day to a temperature of 140 degrees. The changes will be incremental but appear to be accelerating.
DeleteI know around here, national treasures like Tangier Island which is a small island off the coast of Virginia where the native folk still speak the old English dialect that has faded out in the U.K. BUt it will likely be lost in the next few decades. The people settled from Cornwall, and speaking a Cornish accent from the mid to late 1600's. People sometimes refer to them as the "Hoy Toyders"... i.e. high tiders. They are pretty tough to understand sometimes, but hard working solid people. They're crabbers and have been forever, but they'll have to leave sooner rather than later, because of the sea level rise.
Back to the issue, would people in Topeka want a coal burning power facility around Silver Lake ? It seems to me we are missing an opportunity to not only get ahead of the issue, but make some money in the process. Yes, I hear the arguments in the midst of the cussing and insults - about saving jobs. Not a problem - but don't ignore the science.
As an aside, my wife and I were on Capital Hill not too long ago, going to the Eastern Market and stopped by the Hawk and Dove, an old hamburger and beer joint . Who shows up but AOC herself. I got to meet her, not any particular reason other than I thought it would be kind of fun, and so did my wife. We didn't talk long because everybody wanted to talk to her.
All I can say is that she is sharp as a tack - and if you want an example of someone who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, it would be her. She is btw, a Boston U. grad ( with honors ) and she has a pretty compelling bio. She seems to be just the kind of person posters her have held up as a "real 'Murican", well sort of. In any case, I'm convinced she could hold her own and then some going toe to toe with the likes of Ivanka Trump, that entitled little Barbie doll. I'd also add that AOC is funny, down to earth, earnest but stayed mostly away from politics wanting to know where to hang out on in the Hill area, what was going on in the H street area, the Yards and Wharf... all in all, I bet most everybody here would actually find her surprisingly likable. And hey, she is all of 29 years old. Cut her some slack.... and btw, she is real easy on the eye.
Silver Lake is a nice community, awesome folks living there... but also a high flood zone area.
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So how would putting a coal burning plant in a high flood zone work for Kansas? The low lying areas that are prone to flooding deal with flooding every year - whether it be from torrential rainfall to having creeks overrun their banks. Silver Lake is a low lying area that sees a lot of this. That coal burning plant would be better placed in an area that is not prone to flooding.
"Coal plant in Silver Lake..." Isn't there already one at Jeffries Energy Center? A few miles west of Silver Lake? What most of us would like is one more along the lines of Wolf Creek. Nuclear - ZERO carbon emissions!! Isn't that GOOD of us?
DeleteWhy would a sea level rise affect Virginia islands any more than New York ones? I'm telling you, the water level in Bellmore Bay hasn't risen since 1993. Now I've given your warming scenario over 25 years - that's a quarter of a century - to raise the water levels. It hasn't done it. I'm sure you can remember the climate alarms in the 90s that coastal areas were going to be toast if we didn't do something RIGHT NOW. Well we didn't and still no water rise and the ice caps look pretty solid to me. Of course, we COULD have closed factories, gone vegan and a bunch of other reactions to a "crisis." What good would that have done?
AOC? Sharp as a tack?? BU ... well Boz, my student job at AC was with the admissions office (they used me to interact with non-trads). Let's just be kind and say that everyone who gets into Amherst and BU, goes to either Amherst or a third school. Our losses to BU were the empty set. My story could be compelling too. Unlike the guy who wrote Hillbilly Elegy, I grew up with 4 siblings, but in similar circumstances. So I don't know how compelling AOC's story is; if that's what you're looking for, I suppose Omar may have it only more so. I've already said that AOC is at least amiable (stark contrast to some other female Dems), so we agree on that.
Howdy writes that the ocean hasn’t risen around NYC. Wrong. From the NY state government, the ocean has been rising around NYC for some time now. Hurricane Sandy was seen as only one sign of things to come. I won’t bore you with multiple projections of what is likely to occur in the future, only what has been observed to date. There are too many other sources that make the same observation btw. If you want to verify this info, check valid sources. Sean Hannity doesn’t count.
DeleteSea Level Rise
What is Expected for New York
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Fast Facts
• New York has experienced at least a foot of sea-level rise since 1900, mostly due to expansion of warming ocean water.
https://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/45202.html
AOC not sharp as a tack ? I beg to differ. So does Caroline Fredrickson, Columbia law grad ( hope that meets your lofty standards ). Her take on AOC is quite different from yours. From her op-ed in the NY Times Link below
DeleteOpinion | "How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Won the Cohen Hearing ...
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Too many representatives chose to bloviate instead of interrogate — except for one."
“ Consider the line of questioning from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. She asked Mr. Cohen a series of specific questions about how Mr. Trump had handled insurance claims and whether he had provided accurate information to various companies. “To your knowledge,” she asked, “did Donald Trump ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company?” He had.
She asked whether Mr. Trump had tried to reduce his local taxes by undervaluing his assets. Mr. Cohen confirmed that the president had also done that. “You deflate the value of the asset and then you put in a request to the tax department for a deduction,” Mr. Cohen said, explaining the practice. These were the sort of questions, and answers, the committee was supposed to elicit. Somehow, only the newer members got the memo.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez continued, asking, “Do you think we need to review financial statements and tax returns in order to compare them?” She pressed Mr. Cohen for the names of others who would be able to corroborate the testimony or provide documents to support the charges. In response, Mr. Cohen listed the executives Allen Weisselberg, Ron Lieberman and Matthew Calamari — names that, thanks in part to Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, we will probably hear more about in the coming months.
These questions were not random, but, rather, well thought out. Like a good prosecutor, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was establishing the factual basis for further committee investigation. She asked one question at a time, avoided long-winded speeches on why she was asking the question, and listened carefully to his answer, which gave her the basis for a follow-up inquiry. As a result, Mr. Cohen gave specific answers about Mr. Trump’s shady practices, along with a road map for how to find out more. Mr. Cohen began his testimony calling Mr. Trump a “con man and a cheat;”
In just five minutes, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez actually helped him lay out the facts to substantiate those charges.”
So evidently you were thinking of somebody else ? That last line was conforms with my thought when I watched AOC Wed. evening. She may not have impressed you, but she impressed more than a few in the law profession.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cohen-hearing.html
Sounds like AOC expanded Cadet Bone Spurs' exposure to criminal charges and provided a road map for investigators. Poor thing, should have gone to Washburn law huh ?
DeleteLike a lot of lefties, Boz, you mistake an actor for the real thing. How do you think your little cutie-pie got those questions? Overheard some prosecutors at a cocktail table? No, she has a real attorney (probably a prosecutor) on staff. Do I criticize that practice? No, it's a wise choice. But do I think she has the incisive mind of a prosecutor? Nope. Since you're sure AOC's act means she is qualified to be a prosecutor, you likely believe that Alec Baldwin is really a President. In reality, her getting in to Washburn Law would have probably depended on her LSATs.
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ReplyDeleteA VETERAN for a LIFETIME
When a Veteran leaves the 'job' and retires to a better life, many are jealous, some are pleased, and others, who may have already retired, wonder if he knows what he is leaving behind, because we already know.
We know, for example, that after a lifetime of camaraderie that few experience, it will remain as a longing for those past times.
We know in the Military life there is a fellowship which lasts long after the uniforms are hung up and dust collects back of one’s closet.
We know even if he throws them away, they will be on him forever and with every stride and breath that remains in his life. We also know how the very bearing of the man speaks of what he was and in his heart still is.
These are the burdens of the job. You will still look at people suspiciously, still see what others do not see or choose to ignore and always will look at the rest of the Military world with a respect for what they do; only grown in a lifetime of knowing.
Never think for one moment you are escaping from that life. You are only escaping the 'job' and merely being allowed to leave 'active' duty.
So what I wish for you is that whenever you ease into retirement, in your heart you never forget for one moment that you are still a member of the greatest fraternity the world has ever known.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Get upset if you're too busy to talk to them for a week.
ReplyDeleteVETERAN FRIENDS: Are glad to see you after years, and will happily carry on the same conversation you were having the last time you met.
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Have cried with you.
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it's yours.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Know a few things about you.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Could write a book with direct quotes from you.
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that's what the crowd is doing.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Will stand by you no matter what the crowd does.
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Are for a while.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Are for life.
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have shared a few experiences...
VETERAN FRIENDS: Have shared a lifetime of experiences no citizen could ever dream of...
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will take your drink away when they think you've had enough.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Will look at you stumbling all over the place and say, 'You better drink the rest of that before you spill it!' Then carry you home safely and put you to bed...
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CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will ignore this.
VETERAN FRIENDS: Will forward this.
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A veteran - whether on active duty, retired, served one hitch, or reserve is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The Government and People of the United States ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life'.
From one Veteran to another, it's has been an honor to have met, worked, and known you and to have enjoyed your company. Thank you for your service to the United States and defending the freedoms we enjoy today.
A lot of truth and good remarks in that. Thank You
ReplyDeleteHell that's nothibg. I stopped by McDonald's this morning and ran into Elvis. Nicest guy you'd ever meet...
ReplyDeleteGood Morning Rm. 235.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, I'm am sick and tired of hearing about Michal Cohen.... in my book he's just trying to save his own skin.
The summit with Kim and President Trump ended with no deal, but I still have faith in my President that eventually there will be something positive coming forth.
Had a couple of mugs worth o' coffee already.
Does IAN remind you of Lucy from CJ passed, you name a town or a city and she lived there, mention a Country and she has been there, mention a person and she met that person, oh the stories that broad could tell, Education hell she would put Blue and Ian to shame. Lol.. Those were the days!
ReplyDeleteOh and good morning room 235...
DeleteAnd who would these people be ? I can think of one I've mentioned that I've met - Anthony Fauci.
DeleteLet me explain a few things to you Sargejr - DC is a tiny place in terms of land mass. It is officially 68 sq. miles, but actually 61, with 8 miles being the Potomac. The population density is about 11K per sq. mile. The Hill, especially around Eastern Market is a very popular area, has its own subway stop... great market with sea food and produce. The Hawk and Dove is famous, and it is usually full of staffers and elected officials both. To see someone like AOC is common. In fact, I can think of friends who saw her out slamming down some drinks a few miles to the west.
SO, yeah, I'm sure you question a lot of things. Go for it. If you ever find yourself in D.C. I'll even take you there and treat you to a hamberder made to order. But if you need to, you'd have to remember to bring your chompers. Here, just for you - a review of the place and a link
" A New Look for an Old Institution
Since 1967, visitors, college students, Capitol Hill staffers, interns, congressmen, clerks, and lawyers have graced this iconic Capitol Hill neighborhood bar dining on burgers and cheap beer. Longtime patrons remember the look of a rambling, musty, and dark two-story saloon before it closed in 2011. Under new ownership and 14 months of structural renovations, the bar reopened in January 2013. Today, the Hawk N' Dove features an open dining area, 18-foot ceilings, French windows, fireplace, a stage for live music and a 40-foot bar that offers 18 beers on tap including local brands Chocolate City, Lost Rhino, and Flying Dog." https://www.afar.com/places/hawk-n-dove-washington
And just fyi, Eastern Market - right around the corner from the Hawks and Doves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVGrYjbSZ0
It is not appreciated how you attack and belittle folks here on the blog Ian (though we know that is not your real name).
DeleteAre you one of such low self esteem that your only purpose in life is to demean and belittle? Wow, with all the posting you've done just today alone, one would guess that you are not at work but at home trolling. Here you try to portray yourself as this prestigious medical professional - nothing professional about you with all the faulty mumbo jumbo you post and your weblinks are a joke - pro liberal junk.
Stop with your nonsense! Cease and desist with the attacks on my friends here.
Yeah, Boz, I know you can meet people if you get out of town. I sat at a table next to Woody Allen at Elaine's one evening. I didn't, however, presume to intrude on his privacy. And I've met Karl Rove, shared a hotel room at the Midwest Convention of College Republicans in 1973 with John Kasich. Those were all a long time ago. True, you don't meet too many famous people here in T-Town. I haven't haunted DC much. Yeah, I'm sure you meet lots of polly-ticians there.
DeleteHe did mention Silver Lake - but Silver Lake is prone to flooding.
ReplyDeleteDon't have an answer for you if he's really Lucy or not though.
What I do know is that like you, I noticed whatever anyone said, Lucy was there, knew someone there, or something happened there.... either way she would always "one up" with her posts even though we could always see through her bologna.
We have had a lot of snowfall this season already. Hoping we don't have an overload of rain for the Spring time.... Remember 1993? We had a lot of rain that year and Tuttle was trying to hold onto the water to try to prevent flooding down the way, but they were in risk of going over their banks and opened their gates which put the KS River bank to bank... that was a frightening time. The river went out east of Topeka if memory serves correctly.
ReplyDeleteYa know... if we knew then what we know now about flood zones.... there probably wouldn't be a lot of little towns along the Kaw River.
ReplyDeletebut hind site 20/20
ReplyDeleteWhen Rick was watching the overnight cbs news....they had a segment of Cohen's testimony. In that segment, he called the President racist and the President was concerned about Stormy Daniels.
ReplyDeleteI've said this before and I will say it again.....if President had an extra marital affair with Stormy Daniels... something of this nature needs to be between the President and First Lady because this didn't happen before he took office....
Now, in the case of the sex pervert Bill Clinton.... his bold face lie to all of America on camera in a press conference from the Oval Office over Monica Lewinsky.... Clinton should have been forceably removed from office! That affair happened after he took office and his web of lies got him and he had to go back in front of the camera and admit he lied.
As for "Russian Collusion"..... Cohen couldn't give the Dems what they wanted to hear.
But we all know there wan't collusion.
My favorite part of the circus was during his closing statement when he stared at the camera with those droopey ass eyes and proclaimed he was afraid that if Trump is defeated in 2020 there wouldn't be a peaceful transfer of power.
ReplyDeleteWhat a dipshit he is...
You need to do your homework, Blue.
ReplyDeleteTopeka sits in between two of those evil coal fired power plants.
One sits 35 miles to the east in your favorite People's Republic of Lawrence.
And another one 35 miles to the west just north of St.Marys.
Both have been there for decades.
And to the best of my knowledge there have been no large scale elimination of the general population like you Green Freaks had hoped for.
Epic Fail.
Try again...
Um, no I don't. Topeka has been losing population for five years in a row. Even Shawnee County has lost population. No, the sight of billows of smoke belching out of power plants doesn't appeal to much of anybody.
DeleteWrong again, Blue.
DeleteI think it appeals to just about everybody that enjoys lights when it's dark outside and being able to enjoy a nice warm house on these cold winter days...
That's why I like Wolf Creek. No billows of smoke, no smoke stacks. Just a lake and moat and lots of electrical power. And that lake (with lots of warm water) is filled with smallmouths. Nuclear is the way to go.
DeleteBlue try Door number 3...
ReplyDeleteHey comrade bedpan, check it out. From Joel Kotkin:
ReplyDelete"In fact, as a new Brookings study shows, millennials are not moving en masse to metros with dense big cities, but away from them. According to demographer Bill Frey, the 2013–2017 American Community Survey shows that New York now suffers the largest net annual outmigration of post-college millennials (ages 25–34) of any metro area—some 38,000 annually—followed by Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Diego. New York’s losses are 75 percent higher than during the previous five-year period.
By contrast, the biggest winner is Houston, a metro area that many planners and urban theorists regard with contempt. The Bayou City gained nearly 15,000 millennials net last year, while other big gainers included Dallas–Fort Worth and Austin, which gained 12,700 and 9,000, respectively. Last year, according to a Texas realtors report, a net 22,000 Californians moved to the Lone Star State.
The other top metros for millennials were Charlotte, Phoenix, and Nashville, as well as four relatively expensive areas: Seattle, Denver, Portland, and Riverside–San Bernardino. The top 20 magnets include Midwest locales such as Minneapolis–St. Paul, Columbus, and Kansas City, all areas where average house prices, adjusted for incomes, are half or less than those in California, and at least one-third less than in New York."
Funny, perusing that list I don't see any cities around DC. But I do see Kansas City which is a scant 60 miles from Topeka. So apparently millennials, the big talent base for tech companies are leaving the big sewer pits that are big cities and heading elsewhere. Like Texas, where they love business, jobs, and freedom and don't tax everybody to death.
Interesting stuff, there.
Interesting ... yes. But not entirely accurate. KC booming ? I'm not seeing it. Neither evidently is the KC Star.
DeleteMy grandparents had a house in what once a fairly nice inner city neighborhood near Westport. Houses there now go for $50,000 to $70,000. That’s pretty pathetic. But some excerpts from the Star :
KC Star, Yael Abouhalkah
"New gloomy population forecasts add to Kansas City region’s woes
Counties on the Missouri side of the state line were going to surge by more than 414,000 people by 2040. The potential gain on the Kansas-side counties was pegged at 331,000 residents.
Then the gloomy news arrived this summer.
The latest MARC population projections are far less robust. They make it even clearer, as I have detailed in recent columns, this region faces big problems in creating a robust future. Just one example: According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, our area ranked a woeful 21st out of 25 peer cities in job growth rates from June 2011 to this June."
Now the good news. The numbers here are for the Washington-Baltimore area. Like DFW we share an airport, and are connected by commuter rail lines. Yes, Baltimore has its inner city, but it’s no worse than St. Louis. Baltimore now counts for around 3 million. DC and its immediate suburbs about 6.2 million. But I will yield to the article below just a few months old. I will say, your comments about the Bay Area don’t jibe with what I’m seeing here.
From Greater Greater Washington of Oct 2018
The new Census estimates put greater Washington's population as of July 1, 2017 at 9,764,315, and Chicagoland's population at 9,901,711. Yet the estimates show Chicagoland's population falling slightly each year since 2014, while greater Washington has added 70,000-80,000 residents per year. If these estimates are correct and if those trends continued, greater Washington's population would have surpassed Chicagoland's in August of 2018.
Chicago could fall further down the league tables by the 2020 Census. The San Francisco Bay Area, known in Census nomenclature as the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA, was recently expanded to incorporate Modesto and Merced, two cities in the Central Valley that send many commuters into Silicon Valley.
This boundary expansion expanded the Bay Area CSA's population by 9%, putting it not far behind greater Washington's population. Since the Bay Area is growing even faster than greater Washington, it will also soon pass Chicagoland in population.
Uh...houses on Westport Drive average 150,000 to 250,000 and up. Try again.
DeleteAs for the Brookings report - um... not so fast. Here is an excerpt from the article it appears you quoted from :
Delete" Perhaps just as noteworthy as modest gains of interior low-growth metros are recent reductions in population gains for some of the high flyers. Depicted in the right panel of Figure 3 are the experiences of Houston, Miami, and San Jose, Calif. All three have registered healthy population gains for much of the last decade, but have shown marked recent declines in their still high rates of growth. In fact, of the 12 areas with greatest numeric population gains from 2016 to 2017, all but two (Washington, D.C. and Riverside, Calif.) received fewer people that year than from 2015 to 2016. "
Riverside is in the Greater L.A. area. And note that Washington was cited as it should be, as a growing city, and metro area.
L.A. is god awful expensive. So, there is a shift of population from expensive to less expensive areas. Places like the The "Inland Empire" Central Valley are benefiting and beginning with cheaper places like Bakersfield not too far north of L.A. to points north are seeing growth. But it's mostly Latino. Bakersfield is now majority Latino. But established cities are hardly dying off.
From Jeff Clabaugh - WTOP
" WASHINGTON — The Washington metropolitan area added 65,908 new residents last year, the fifth-largest numerical increase in population in 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The D.C. area’s total metro population is now 6,216,589, a growth rate of 1.1 percent.
D.C. remains the sixth-largest metropolitan area by population, unchanged from 2016.
The biggest shift in the D.C. area’s population change was a jump from the 11th-largest increase in population in 2016 to the fifth-largest last year.
Baltimore cracked the top 20 on the most populous metro areas last year, bumping St. Louis from the number 20 spot, and up from 21st place in 2016.
However, it still saw its population decrease. Baltimore City had a metro population of 616,958 at the end of 2017, a loss of 5,310 residents, or a 0.9 percent decline in population."
Okay.. so there are some fresh numbers. It appears there is some confusion though. Look at the housing market in NY. Or for that matter, D.C. A one bedroom condo in D.C. will run around $450 to $500,000. We're talking about a 750 sq. foot condo. It is very expensive. Check the Bay Area.
The cost of real estate is normally a good indicator of economic health. But when cities begin to enter the top out of sight range, in the U.S. or really, all over the world ( check Tokyo, or Singapore ), people and businesses have little choice but to move to cheaper areas. I don't know of anybody who 'wants' to move to the KC area. And Dallas and Houston don't send most people into fits of the vapors. But it's cheap.
But an important point is being missed here - North Carolina is a great example of this trend - Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham are booming. The Research Triangle area near Raleigh has attracted a lot of high tech firms, and well educated people. There is also a significant investment in education. UNC is an excellent university, and its medical school is among the best in several specialties.
Now, the bad news. NC is becoming more purple each election cycle. So is Texas. Case in point - Ted Cruz barely... BARELY beat O'Rourke. In NC the repub party showed its true colors by trying to steal a congressional election and then got caught. The bottom line is the more educated and international a population is, the more it will tend to vote blue. This is what I have been preaching for years now. Kansas city is not a major growth city, but when it grows a 'little', think tanks like Brookings will take note.
You're running out of fuel, running on fumes.... get your crapola and get you gone! All you do is post fallible junk and you know it!!!!
DeleteOkay Rikki - I'll try again. I said WESTPORT. Think Hyde Park, Westport - the areas that used to be where the gentry of KC used to live. 4314 Paseo Blvd
DeleteKansas City, MO 64110 (Manheim Park)
3 beds 1 bath 908 sqft 3049 sqft lot size Single-Family Home
FOR SALE
$48,000
59,900
* This is just east of Gillham Park. That used to be one of the better areas of KC. Now the house cited just dropped to $48,000.
Maybe Captain Bone Spurs should invest in real estate in KC. He could not only rip more people off, he could get some awesome hamberders at Winstead's.
Here's the Blue. As far as the things Americans worry and or care about, jobs comes in at the top of the list and global warming ranks right down there at the bottom.
ReplyDeleteSo you and your comrades just keep slaying those global warming dragons, back the hell out of your $93 trillion Green New Deal and once again find yourself on the wrong side of history...
As with any city across the Continental United States, there is a fluctuation of population.
ReplyDeleteThe census is taken every 10 years:
For Topeka:
https://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US2071000-topeka-ks/
1990 Census 126,588
http://censusviewer.com/city/KS/Topeka/2000
2000 Census 124,087
http://censusviewer.com/city/KS/Topeka
2010 Census 127,473
The 2020 Census hasn't been done yet. From what I see Topeka is grown and I've got weblinks to prove my information Ian.
I'm beyond tired of hearing you bash Topeka. We live here - so what - it's home to us.
I'm beyond tired of having you attack our intelligence just because geographically we're here in Topeka.
Originally I'm from Los Angeles, California! Beautiful place to visit but too many people!
Coming to Topeka was the best thing my parents did! I'd rather be in the wide open spaces than in the over crowded populated metropolitan cities.
https://www.cjonline.com/.../census-bureau-topeka-population-falls-for-sixth-straight-...
DeleteMay 24, 2018 - Topeka's population fell last year for the sixth straight year, ... Pivarnik said the census numbers and trend are “exactly why we have ...."
Uh Huh... Right Rikki... well oh shit, look at the CJ quoting the U.S. census bureau... Bummer
And for 2017:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/topekacitykansas/IPE120217
the latest total for Topeka is 126,587!!
This was taken in 2017!!
Unlike you with your faulty mumbo jumbo Ian, I have actual credible websites that back up what I'm posting.
For it's size Topeka suits me and mine just fine!
and on average -
ReplyDeletegetting the four totals of population for Topeka, the average is 126,183....
So what you say about steady decline is untrue, but you already know that but you cannot help yourself can you Ian!?
Hmm... Looks like our imaginary internet doctor has been caught in yet another lie...
ReplyDeleteI'm shocked...
What a commie, socialist, Liberal. Lie? Good Grief who knew,,,
ReplyDeleteTopeka's population hasn't gone up much since 1960. That much is certainly true. And I'm not going to get into research here, but some blue area micropolitan central cities that have done worse - Springfield, Mass., Syracuse, NY, Wilkes-Bare, Penna., Kankakee, Ill., Flint, Mich., etc. A few blue metro cities for our consideration here - Detroit, Mich., of course, but also Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore.
ReplyDeleteAnd losing or stagnant population isn't even the end of it. Your west coast beacons of enlightenment, LA, SF, Seattle and Portland are beginning to reap the benefits of their generosity with the flotsam and jetsam of society. Poop patrols for San Fran, huh? Perhaps they will find some Berkeley types to scoop up.
But perhaps Topeka is losing population because it has gone blue. You know, people moving to Potawatomie, Jackson, Jefferson, Osage and Wabaunsee counties, all safely red. Somethin' to think about, huh?
besides, if you want to get a "guesstimate" of the population of the City of Topeka.... go to the high schools, get the number of graduating students.... they represent the families in the city's population.
ReplyDeleteWhen I graduated from TWest in 79, there was 435 Seniors that year. The year prior... 78 had 450 seniors. I do not know the number of seniors in the others schools, but tallied up it would still come to the average I came to.
Bottom line here, Blue, is none of us give a damn what you think about us.
ReplyDeleteI suspect you're still bitter and still trying to figure out how a bunch of hayseeds were able to kick the living shit out of your beloved Hillary.
Just hang tight and you'll see it again in 2020.
And all it's gonna take is for you and your comrades to keep doing what you're doing.
Global warming is a losing proposition.
Destroying individual insurance and employee sponsored insurance plans in order to provide Medicare for all will go down in flames.
The gun grabbing hysteria your party has embraced will bite you in the ass.
The completely insane refusal to address the out of control illegal immigration issue is gonna blow up in your face.
And whether you believe it or not the American people are sick and tired of the non stop attacks on the president.
Like I said, just keep doing what you're doing...
Lol... I stand corrected...
ReplyDeleteNo problem glad to help...
ReplyDeleteThat commie do go on, don’t he? That boy got diarrhea of the mouth. And what’s sad is he imagines anybody here either reads his diatribes or cares what he thinks. He admires the sound of his own voice disproportionately to his IQ methinks.
ReplyDeleteDo to things out of my control I must depart to get ready to crash for the night, see ya's in the morning Good lord willing.
ReplyDeleteDo to things in my control, I say good morning room 235..
ReplyDeleteGood morning Sarge...
ReplyDeleteGot a winter advisor for Sat. and it is 18 degrees out now, I am staying in How about you?
ReplyDeleteGood Grief you don't seem to be able to catch a break...;(
ReplyDeleteIt's not so bad.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, that's what I have to keep telling myself...
But the good news is that Friday's blog is up and running.
ReplyDeleteTry not to puke...