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[Christians4LessGvt]

Texas may be a great place to OWN a business, but California is a better place to work in one.

yeah ask the employees that stay after their company leaves how great it is to be out of a job
(Texas=#14th best in nation in unemployment......Cali is #43rd best in nation in unemployment)
http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm

and ask the one's that move how it is selling a "shit home" for
$400K in Cali and getting a beautiful home in Texas for the same or less.

[Xavier_Onassis]

The poorest counties in the nation are in Texas.

It is hard to beat out Mississippi, this deserves some sort of commendation.

The amount a job pays in both CA and TX depends on the sort of job it is.
And then there is the weather. It is pretty hard to beat Houston or Brownsville for world-class mugginess.

I would prefer New Mexico to either, actually.

[Christians4LessGvt]

The poorest counties in the nation are in Texas.

Texas is so big...people can probably if they try hard enough find the best and worst of a bunch of stuff.

People "vote with their feet"....and that's a big reason why Texas is growing so much faster than California.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population_growth_rate

According to you.....Cali is so much better for the worker....but it's funny people aren't flocking there
like they are flocking to the state with "the poorest counties in the nation"......ha ha lol

But I'm glad you like where you are and other places....because we already have enough people moving here.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Like Texas, Florida has an idiot for a governor.

We have too many people here as well. But still, I like it better than my home state of Missouri.

There is lots of room in Texas. There is Loving County, with the highest per capita income in the state.
And in 2010, it had 82 residents.

It had the first female sheriff in the state, and *gasp* she never carried a gun.

[Christians4LessGvt]

[sirs]

It had the first female sheriff in the state, and *gasp* she never carried a gun.

Context *gasp* means everything.  Are you implying she didn't have immediate access to a gun, if she needed one?  Or that there was no violent crime in her area, such that she didn't have a need to carry one?

[sirs]

A cursory quick looksee to check out the latest xo "claim" leaves us again......wanting for some facts.  Who exactly are you referring to, xo?  Emma Banister, who simply stayed on the last 3 months of her husband's term.......in 1918??

[kimba1]

judging from the still rising prices in my surrounding area. I`m not exactly convinced thiers that great of a migration of Californians to texas. cost wise texas is very attractive so it`s still a wait and see situation.

p.s. $400k??  try 550k+ I wasn`t kidding about the rising prices. California is the place to work then cash it all to retire elsewhere.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Loving County was the home of the first elected female sheriff in Texas, Edna Reed Clayton Dewees. Dewees was appointed to the job in January 1945, then won an election to continue in the office through 1947. She never carried a firearm, and reported only two arrests during her entire term. Later she would return as a county district clerk, a job she held from 1965 to 1986. After retirement she lived on a ranch near Mentone[6] until 22 January 2009 when she died in Del Rio.[7]

This is from the Wikipedia entry for Loving County.
sirs apparently is not good at looking or seeing.

[sirs]

You didn't claim "'elected".  You claimed 1st female texas sheriff, in which case that'd be Bannister.  Now that you've clarified the "who" you were referring to, what exactly is the context in which she didn't carry a gun?  No violent crime, so no need?  Pretty paltry population, even in her time, less than the fictional Mayberry, it would seem.  Could she access one, if she needed one right away? 

[Plane]

......  Could she access one(gun), if she needed one right away?

  In Texas, ....

    This seems like a silly question.

[sirs]

Well Plane,  the initial tangential inference was along the lines  that the sheriff didn't carry a gun, but no actual context as to why, much less any factual support for the claim to begin with.   

[Xavier_Onassis]

She did not carry a gun because she did noit think she needed to, and after years as a sheriff, this proved to be a correct decision.

Notice how sirs likes to quibble. It is all he does: quibble, quibble quibble.

[sirs]

She did not carry a gun because she did noit think she needed to

And if that were actually the case, (which we still have absolutely nothing in factual back up to this claim of yours), ....good for her.  With folks like myself its always been about rights and freedom to exercise those rights.  If one doesn't think they need to carry one, fine....don't.  If this sheriff lived in such a rural county, where the greatest crime was oversleeping, then its likely that's why she didn't believe she needed to carry one, although I'm just as sure, that as sheriff, she would have amble ability to access one, lickity-split 

Contrary to twisted thought, no one, outside of Plane, is supporting the notion that everyone SHOULD be made to have a gun, much less carry one.  Nor should anyone be "shamed" into thinking they need to carry one.  That's a personal decison

Notice how sirs likes to quibble.

Notice how xo fails to provide any factual back-up.  All he does is deflect, deflect, deflect

[Xavier_Onassis]

I think it is obvious why a cop would not carry a gun, and that is because they do not think they have a need for it.

Of course, sirs HAS to have LOTS of guns because the Constitution spoke to him and told him so.