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1. “Voting with Your Feet”
   I did exactly that 20 years ago. Left the socialist state of Ill and moved to KY. Now with pending pension crisis in KY I’m leaving again. I’m not going to pay for public trough eaters that don’t understand basic math.
   DixieDennis

2. The story about the Utah fire and bunkers makes you wonder how many caches like this are out there on public lands.

   There’s 640 million acres owned by the Feds, in addition to that the state-owned parcels.

   Assuming 3 caches per 71,000 acres (a very conservative number) that’s at least 27,000 caches and bunkers still hidden on “public” lands.

   If someone went through that 71,000 acres with a metal detector they likely would find many more buried supplies than what was revealed by the fire.

3. The article on welfare spending by State is useless since it does not present a per-capita representation. A more informative article would show the data spent per capita and per State.

   I’m not defending welfare spending, but this is not a good article and data visualization.

   1. @PeterS
      Using Wikipedia’s list of state populations you can easily extract the data:
      Formula: Welfare/Population=percapita

      California => 2.63
      New York => 3.11
      Pennsylvania => 2.11
      …
      Montana => 1.60
      Wyoming => 1.39
      Idahoe => 1.43

      It’s not as dramatic a display, but it says the same thing. As the article itself describes, the large cities are the draw for the welfare dollars.

      1. Wouldn’t it also be a good idea to see the welfare spending per county or better still per precinct? Then we could see more exactly where the real problems are.

4. “You can make a low wage, yet live within your means along side of your neighbors”

   This is a great statement until you realize that your taxes still pay for the leaches elsewhere.

   1. TexasScout, yes, but low pay= less taxes = less tax support for leaches.

      1. Apparently, not for much longer.

5. In the early years of the “Rust Belt” when people left the north for the “Sun Belt” and jobs, we had a fair number from Michigan move to Austin, Texas. They brought their welfare ideas with them.

   It was no easy thing to make them understand that their welfare ideas were what had caused their economic problems in Michigan.

   1. I remember that, and the sarcastic comment; “last one out of Detroit turn out the lights.” It does seem that already left leaning Austin has traveled even farther down that path since.

6. Hugh Farnham: “640 million acres owned by the feds”

   More correct to say 640 acres stolen by the feds as the federal government has no lawful authority to “own” that property.

7. This is the problem with the ‘homeless’- the more you give them word gets around and more come for the handouts and services. California is going full retard on several fronts, including education, illegal immigration and now AIDS: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/12/01/california-governor-jerry-brown-to-allow-hiv-positive-people-to-donate-blood/

8. I left Oregon 2 years ago for Arizona and only wish I had done it sooner.

9. Homeless Camps
   The thing I find most disturbing about this article is the very end. “wouldn’t let churches participate.” They want these people-and everyone else-to be completely and wholly dependent on the government.

10. People are leaving Illinois in droves because of high property taxes, and the fact the Assembly has failed to address even a little of the tens of billions of dollars of debt. The current governor was a pretend Republican. Thankfully he is getting a challenge in the primary, but he’s already been personally funding the candidacy of a lot of the lackeys in the Assembly, so … pray. Then pack.

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