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[Michchamp]

ironically, were it not for "the welfare state" that they despise, a lot of the Macomb County Trump voters would've just been rednecks.

my family members that lived there all had unionized public sector jobs, and retired at 65 to fully funded pensions.

and they bitched about unions!

like... HELLO!

 

[turok]

ironically, were it not for "the welfare state" that they despise, a lot of the Macomb County Trump voters would've just been rednecks.

my family members that lived there all had unionized public sector jobs, and retired at 65 to fully funded pensions.

and they bitched about unions!

like... HELLO!

I have worked in unionized businesses, where membership was optional. Invariably those who eschewed membership were management suckups that expected special treatment, and who most often were granted it. For example working in pairs with friends or cheating heart-throbs, and not being randomly scheduled to work with anyone else, esp the blahs. The blahs of course, were well aware of their "subtle" racism.

Many who live in the county are/were "Reagan Democrats" and white flighters from the city of Detroit in the 60s-70s, and their children/grandchildren who followed their example. We Detroiter hoodlums used to derisively call the Macomb County city of Sterling Heights as "Strictly Whites". I lived in Detroit until age 25, then moved to western Wayne County, closer to my job.

Oakland County is wealthier and home to much more diverse and higher educated/skilled labor/professional residents. I lived in that county for 20 years, and may move back to it next year, if I don't move out of MI entirely. Kinda depends upon the outcome of the midterm elections, as to whether I stay or go. I have been thinking about moving to Colorado or New Mexico. Or perhaps even trying nomadic living out of a large RV.

 

[TheVictors]

There is NO VACANCY in Colorado...

 

[turok]

There is NO VACANCY in Colorado...

Yeah? soo...well maybe I'll just cross that state off, but I do have some relatives living there. In Littleton or another Denver burb, can't recall.

Hmm...

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...ents-moving-out-of-colorado-in-record-numbers

The state's 5.5 million is only 1.2 million more than metro Detroit's population.

 

[jwlcosu]

Denver and Aurora are both sanctuary cities, I think, so there are apparently lots of vacancies.

 

[Michchamp]

Yeah? soo...well maybe I'll just cross that state off, but I do have some relatives living there. In Littleton or another Denver burb, can't recall.

Hmm...

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...ents-moving-out-of-colorado-in-record-numbers

The state's 5.5 million is only 1.2 million more than metro Detroit's population.

You want to move to CO? Yikes. enjoy breathing the cyanide air and the fracking fluid in your drinking water. The recreational pot was apparently just a ploy to keep the residents too stoned to protest then Gov turning their state into one giant fracking well.

 

[Gulo Blue]

New Mexico has a lot of issues associated with being a less wealthy state, but man, the food.

The air is clean too. You could live in CO until your lungs can't take it anymore and then move to NM to give them a break.

 

[turok]

New Mexico has a lot of issues associated with being a less wealthy state, but man, the food.

The air is clean too. You could live in CO until your lungs can't take it anymore and then move to NM to give them a break.

If I do move out to another state, I will do some research on what the pros aad cons are. Hadn't done any yet, but I didn't know about COs pollution issues, and I am not a pot smoker anymore, ever since the late 90s.

If what now passes for the EPA remains under Republican control, and more states go red or redder, then most are going to experience worsening air and water quality from deregulation.

 

[Gulo Blue]

If I do move out to another state, I will do some research on what the pros aad cons are. Hadn't done any yet, but I didn't know about COs pollution issues, and I am not a pot smoker anymore, ever since the late 90s.

If what now passes for the EPA remains under Republican control, and more states go red or redder, then most are going to experience worsening air and water quality from deregulation.

I don't know that CO has any more of a problem than anywhere else. They were just in the news for that story MC posted.

Edit: but a big "eff you" to anybody willfully ignoring the Scott Pruit appointment to the EPA so they can keep pretending Trump was a good pick. I don't want to mention the environment without adding that.

 

[jwlcosu]

You want to move to CO? Yikes. enjoy breathing the cyanide air and the fracking fluid in your drinking water. The recreational pot was apparently just a ploy to keep the residents too stoned to protest then Gov turning their state into one giant fracking well.

This is hilarious. Something tells me the residents of Colorado are doing just fine. It's also hilarious that you chose to move to the ultimate red state. Yikes!

 

[Michchamp]

This is hilarious. Something tells me the residents of Colorado are doing just fine. It's also hilarious that you chose to move to the ultimate red state. Yikes!

yeah. "chose" to do so...

 

[turok]

This is hilarious. Something tells me the residents of Colorado are doing just fine. It's also hilarious that you chose to move to the ultimate red state. Yikes!

The "ultimate" red state of Texas has been overwhelmingly led by Democratic governors (35 to 5) since the mid-1800s.

Whats that "something" which is telling you that the residents of CO are doing just fine when a former SoS and Big Energy CEO in Rex Tillerson, who joined in a lawsuit filed by those in his wealthy Texan community, to prevent fracking operations from continuing in his own "backyard"...?:lmao:

Likely b/c unless directly and negatively affected by the results of pollution, most conservatives will be all in for allowing industry to poison the air, ground, and water with impunity.

 

[jwlcosu]

Yea boy, that's what we want. Poison air and water. Conservatives will give as much of that as we can to our kids and grandkids. Yours too. Want to poison them all. All day, every day. Poison, poison, poison.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Yea boy, that's what we want. Poison air and water. Conservatives will give as much of that as we can to our kids and grandkids. Yours too. Want to poison them all. All day, every day. Poison, poison, poison.

What do you think the argument is here?

 

[tinselwolverine]

Yea boy, that's what we want. Poison air and water. Conservatives will give as much of that as we can to our kids and grandkids. Yours too. Want to poison them all. All day, every day. Poison, poison, poison.

That's misleading.

Obviously rich people can afford health care to treat the poisoning in themselves, their kids and grand kids, while the middle class and poor, who have no health insurance will suffer and die from it.

And how do the rich get rich?

By cost cutting production of the companies they own through ignoring environmental safety, which results in - ...?

You guessed it.

Poison.

Poison, poison, poison, poison, poison.

 

[turok]

Yea boy, that's what we want. Poison air and water. Conservatives will give as much of that as we can to our kids and grandkids. Yours too. Want to poison them all. All day, every day. Poison, poison, poison.

Didn't post that conservatives "want" to poison the air, ground, and water.

Unless you are one of those Free Repubiic website asshat members, who brag about observing Earth Day by turning on all lights, every device, piece of equipment, and machinery that they own, as well as those in rural areas starting backyard bonfires, and those with diesel pickup trucks that they are 'rolling coal" with.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Didn't post that conservatives "want" to poision the air, ground, and water.

Unless you are one of those Free Repubiic website asshat members, who brag about observing Earth Day by turning on all lights, every device, piece of equipment, and machinery that they own, as well as those with diesel pickup truck that they are 'rolling coal" with

If anybody is bragging about that, they're probably just lying about really doing it.

Because it's their own money they're flushing down the toilet running devices and equipment and vehicles they don't need to run at the time.

 

[Gulo Blue]

If anybody is bragging about that, they're probably just lying about really doing it.

Because it's their own money they're flushing down the toilet running devices and equipment and vehicles they don't need to run at the time.

I saw someone rollin' coal here in Durham once. Only once, so I don't think he's a local.

 

[Gulo Blue]

 

[tinselwolverine]

I saw someone rollin' coal here in Durham once. Only once, so I don't think he's a local.

I don't know what rolling coal is.

Whatever it is it sounds dumb.

There probably isn't a single California resident who's redneck enough to want to do that.