ElNono
02-04-2025, 01:57 PM
GDP is overrated when you don't account for liabilities. CA might produce 15% of the US state level GDP but also 25% of the US state level debt.
That makes no sense. The Debt/GDP ratio of the US is 123%, much larger than California's Debt/GDP ratio (~12%). The US commercial power, which is undisputed, comes straight from it's GDP output.
The most expensive state. The most high maintenance state. The highest producing for sure, but also borrowing the most debt. Shedding CA would be a net gain even if a gross loss.
How is Tennessee dead weight? It's got a booming economy and apart from Florida the most efficient state in the South with tons of jobs in all sectors and a massive music entertainment sector. The other two are pretty much dumps I can't really defend. If you wrote Kentucky instead of Tennessee maybe I'd agree to some extent. But you can't just break up natural geographic parts of a country and have a modern Kaliningrad. At least with California it's attached to the Baja peninsula.
Adding a state without subtracting and vice versa doesn't make sense. It makes sense to have exactly 50 states because it makes all the numbers work out well especially for us metric system lovers. Hawaii has no business being a state and never has, it's impractical to ship so much stuff out there. It was just fine as a satellite province before the late 50s. I'll take Alberta and Saskatchewan, tons of oil up there.
I did mean Kentucky instead of Tennessee, tbh... low education, unproductive, high crime, largely racist, still cling to invisible people in the sky... shitholes anyway you look at it. They had 250 years to figure it out, and epically failed. A drag on this country.
California is expensive, not gonna lie, but it's the price to pay when you're chock full of successful people and companies. There's a reason States like Texas and Florida can't stop begging Californians to move to their States.
Alberta is cold as fuck. I visited, my sister lived there for a while. In the end, Americans love cheap, nice places. You grab some of the nicest Mexican resort spots, and it's a win-win, IMVHO.
That makes no sense. The Debt/GDP ratio of the US is 123%, much larger than California's Debt/GDP ratio (~12%). The US commercial power, which is undisputed, comes straight from it's GDP output.
The most expensive state. The most high maintenance state. The highest producing for sure, but also borrowing the most debt. Shedding CA would be a net gain even if a gross loss.
How is Tennessee dead weight? It's got a booming economy and apart from Florida the most efficient state in the South with tons of jobs in all sectors and a massive music entertainment sector. The other two are pretty much dumps I can't really defend. If you wrote Kentucky instead of Tennessee maybe I'd agree to some extent. But you can't just break up natural geographic parts of a country and have a modern Kaliningrad. At least with California it's attached to the Baja peninsula.
Adding a state without subtracting and vice versa doesn't make sense. It makes sense to have exactly 50 states because it makes all the numbers work out well especially for us metric system lovers. Hawaii has no business being a state and never has, it's impractical to ship so much stuff out there. It was just fine as a satellite province before the late 50s. I'll take Alberta and Saskatchewan, tons of oil up there.
I did mean Kentucky instead of Tennessee, tbh... low education, unproductive, high crime, largely racist, still cling to invisible people in the sky... shitholes anyway you look at it. They had 250 years to figure it out, and epically failed. A drag on this country.
California is expensive, not gonna lie, but it's the price to pay when you're chock full of successful people and companies. There's a reason States like Texas and Florida can't stop begging Californians to move to their States.
Alberta is cold as fuck. I visited, my sister lived there for a while. In the end, Americans love cheap, nice places. You grab some of the nicest Mexican resort spots, and it's a win-win, IMVHO.