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In reply to the discussion: Guess who voted for this....no, go ahead, I'll wait here.... [View all]LeftInTX
(34,859 posts)15. We're number one! We're number one!
I hate to say it, Republicans don't GAF.
Housing and rent prices are coming down. Gas isn't too bad. Food is still super-expensive.
The 80's oil glut and foreclosure crisis hit Texas real hard. Foreclosures were everywhere. Interest rates skyrocketed. Crazy ARM's were all over the placed and guess who they all revoted for??? Texas was bad off. They didn't give a shit. They just heard Reagan say that "Baby Jessica" was "America's Baby" and that was all they cared about.... Oh and that the Dallas Cowboy's was "America's Team". Texas was truly in financial distress and who did they vote for in 1984?? Who did they vote for governor in 1986?
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Trip to Walmart to buy summer shirts. There were two I liked but the color was heather
twodogsbarking
Sep 2025
#31
What happens when the lever breaks while leveraging, in the two states most embracing of risk.
marble falls
Sep 2025
#12
Not where I live. It's illegal to pump where I live. Or even refine where I live due to groundwater.
LeftInTX
Sep 2025
#34
The source of carcingens here is the military. The cancer tends to be confined to those exposed.
LeftInTX
Sep 2025
#36
It's like NC used to run on tobacco farming and cigarette manufacturers. ...
littlemissmartypants
Sep 2025
#43
Housing prices coming down doesn't mean much when the only people that can afford them are the investor class...
W_HAMILTON
Sep 2025
#38
They may reflect "changes". I've heard about NM, but maybe it hasn't gotten worse in NM. Whereas in Texas things are
LeftInTX
Sep 2025
#37