Texas is no miracle, worst then Alabama actually...

In the last six years, 15 teen parents in Bexar County caused the death of their children and 2,093 committed child abuse or neglect. But there is some good news: Nationwide and in Texas, the teen birth rate has gradually fallen in the last two decades, hitting a record low in 2010, the most recent year available.

But Texas still ranks fourth highest for teen birth rate — 52 per 1,000 girls ages 15-19 — as of 2010. In the central and southwest sections of Bexar County, the rate is 137 per 1,000, almost four times the national average that year. Latinas have the highest teen birth rate of any ethnic group in the state and Bexar County.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...n-birth-rate-carries-price-beyond-3533685.php

 

Like I said, housing costs are the biggest cause for people moving. Texas receives a lot of people from California. Why? $300,000 buys a cardboard box in California, but a suburban mansion in Texas.

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Why are you thinking so hard? If you want your children to have a better chance of being poor, uninsured, obese or being a teen parent, move down South. I didn't make up the numbers.

 

Thanks for your concern.

But Texas has handled the growth just fine up to now.

One thing in Texas' favor is the un-generous welfare benefits in this state.

So many of the maggots didn't bother to come in the first place since they were expected to find jobs.

 

What I'm saying is there's no real lasting industry in Texas. Oil? Fracking? Limited. Refining fossil fuels? Limited. Only the chemical plants and ports on the Gulf Coast provide anything close to what could be called sustainable economy. Eventually, once those jobs start drying up again, all the bottom feeders serving those industries (you know you call them bottom feeders too, I've seen your other posts knocking on minimum wage workers), those people are all gonna be on the tax payer dime. Especially since the education level is being disemboweled at a surgical level.

I'm sure Perry's going to be like, "I DID THIS!" but we all know his policies didn't do anything but just let the land get raped, attract some some real-estate predators and open up a new horizon on minimum wage service industry jobs.

Wow. Nice economy. Makes me wish I could move there and work at star bucks. Or not.

 

You must have mean California.

 

Actually libs were telling us 30 years ago that the oil was running out and Texas was going to go bust.

But they didn't know about fracking back then, or tsar sands in Canada.

It's how much libs don't know that makes them such unreliable prophets.

 

As industry keeps moving South, it could be the North that will look more like Detroit. It hasn't been that long since industry started moving South and things don't change over night. Things are changing and the North might as well get use to it. The South is rising again.

 

Yes, fracking is such a great idea in state so water-rich like Texas... LOL!

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I hope it does rise.. that makes the whole country stronger. I'm sick of the South lagging behind in EVERYTHING. Hopefully they will elect some better representatives while they are at it.

No. Manufacturing is moving South. The North and West will keep its high-tech white collar jobs just fine.

 

Producing much needed energy and jobs has been a winner for Texas.

Providing enough water for everyone's needs is just an engineering problem that Texas will have to solve.

 

Yes, put everyone's needs on the backburner and corporate needs up front. Typical Texas.

 

Corporate needs?

Corporations don't consume the energy Texas produces.

Millions of people do.

In many cases the same people who have jobs thanks to the production of energy.

 

I'm more interested in what Texas businessmen and other educational leaders are saying about the low quality and lack of preparedness of high school graduates in Texas. Also the fact that in Texas Highschoolers who leave high school aren't counted in some cases as dropouts. I don't care if Texas had a 95% graduate rate when few of them are educated enough to meet the requirements of advanced education, mathematics and technologies needed in todays jobs.
Perhaps Texas needs the meaningless DOA graduation rate statistics to make it feel better about itself as a state.

 

I don't think it is only Texas but most states are not doing well in education.

 

LOL!!!!
Let's see, so if I live in Texas and make $50,000.00 a year and you live in NYC and make $80,000.00 a year, you're better off than me? No taking into account the fact that your take home pay after taxes isn't that much greater, and your cost of living is DOUBLE mine? No taking into account for any of that?
Just because the amount of cash spent per student is lower, doesn't mean it's lower quality. Especially when you consider that Texas has the highest SAT scores between Texas, New York & California.

 

No, but if you make $50,000 in Western New York, where you are more likely to have a higher salary then Texas, you most certainly are better off. A lot of people forget that incomes are inflated for Manhattan, but there are a hell of a lot of other places to live in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusettes, etc. A lot of people take their super bloated salaries back with them to the suburbs and still come out ahead. You can always cut costs, but income is income.

SAT scores are the barometer?

Give me a break. College degrees are the barometer.

 

Bachelor's degrees by state... no surprises here.



And science and engineering...



....the obvious link between degrees and "liberalism" is not a coincidence.

 

Salaries in Western NY, are no where near what you get in the City. The only way to get a NYC income is to live in NYC, not in Western NY.

BTW, Unemployment is the Barometer, which is a full percentage point lower in Texas

 

You couldn't expect manufacturing to move South before A/C became popular. The heat is why most of the population and manufacturing stayed North all through our history. You don't want them to get stronger anymore than they do down there.

 

Eventually, it's going to run out. Do you know how long it takes to have usable fossil fuel? Do you know the lengths to which we have to go to sustain our usage? Now the oil companies are running out of places to drill in America and want to basically take public land to drill in for their private profits.

Tax payer land, profits go to not the taxpayer.

Fracking is dangerous (*)(*)(*)(*) in and of itself and proves that we're heading towards a dead end in natural gas now.

The sun is shining on us every day. The wind blows every day. Nothing will stop those two things. However, because it cannot be strictly contained, the energy industry that gained a foothold during the industrial age, would stand to lose control of that power. So it's a shrewd business move to continue pushing this junk, but frankly, I'm tired of being powered by technology developed in the 1900's. Let's move on already. Texas has quite a few spots that are bombarded by sun year round. The shift could lead them to be energy independent. Besides, the oil money from the Keystone is going to be shipped out to other countries. Why the hell you think they want to to refine it on a coast?

 

They are no where near the city, but certain professions retain similar salaries statewide. We have unionized labor in New York. Teachers, police officers, firemen, government officials, higher education... they all receive livable wages in Upstate New York. A construction worker here takes home $25 / hour after benefits. A construction worker in Texas makes $12 / hour illegally and receives no benefits.

What good is low unemployment if more people are poor?

 

Yep. And the sheep just go right along with it.

It can't come soon enough.

The sunniest location on planet earth is Yuma, Arizona. We also have the sunniest big city on earth from May-September in Sacramento. Yet... no solar energy?

Where I live is windier than a mother(*)(*)(*)(*)er off the Great Lakes... we have a handful of windmills and that's it.

Hydroelectric power is here too, but its such a small scale.

I'll concede though... our energy demands are much higher than renewables. However, we should shift to make renewables primary and SUPPLEMENT them with natural gas / oil.

 

For individual transportation needs, there's already alternatives and new ones being made available like thorium powered cars being projected (which could also replace current uranium-based nuclear power plants). There's seriously no need for oil any more, it's just an addiction and like all addictions, we just need a little bit of help to get clean.

 

Of course the oil will run out someday.

That's what libs have been saying for 70 years.

But they are never right about is WHEN.

Because the oil companies keep finding new oil, and new ways of extracting oil.

And for most of mankind - libs excluded - that's a good thing because we need the energy.

 

And now those methods are becoming more and more dangerous and costing more and more money overall. Last stupid story I heard about oil companies was Shell wanted to go drill in northern areas of alaska where glaciers had melted (from global warming no less...the irony) and were asking for a special pass from the government to insure them because it was too dangerous for even insurance companies to give them the go ahead.

As well, oil companies drilling doing stick around. They're like a mosquito on the earth. They're there until they get their fill, then fly away. Whatever town sprung up around them withers and dies, so it's not even worth it because wherever they go looks like economic growth but it's really just tearing up the planet for a quick buck, using locals to do their dirty work and leaving them nothing when they skeeter out.

 

You're seriously wrong..