Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (24802)	7/18/2000 11:45:40 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 769667

Texas is a stinking squalid hell hole Having lived more than 40 years in Texas I have a soft spot for the area. I have seen most of the other states and the service level here is one of the lowest in the nation. The big cities have big city problems and the small towns are extremely poor. This situation predates Junior-George. Austin is the garden spot of the whole state. The city where my sister lives had no more than a dozen paved roads until a few years ago (with a population of 200,000). School and municipal services are spotty, with good areas where local money is prevalent, and very bad where the local money supply is deficient. There are a lot of libertarians here so many cities (like Houston) have no zoning laws, which means that asphalt or chemical plants are as likely to be built in residential areas as they are in an industrial park, it's all based on land price and deed-restrictions. Texas can be an easy target when compared to cleaner greener areas. If you get near the border with Mexico it is a third-world scene where the best of housing is a trailer and the rest is homemade. Of course the best neighborhoods of Austin, Houston, and Dallas are as good as any in the country. I don't lay this at Junior's feet although he certainly hasn't spent any political capital to change anything. TP (Texas - still the biggest once global warming makes Alaska melt)