[NYPOST] More people are leaving the New York region than any other major metropolitan area in the country.
More than 1 million people moved out of the New York area to another part of the country since 2010, a rate of 4.4 percent -- the highest negative net migration rate among the nation’s large population centers, US Census records show.
The number of people leaving the region -- which includes parts of New Jersey, Connecticut, the lower Hudson Valley and Long Island -- in one year swelled from 187,034 in 2015 to 223,423 in 2016, while the number of international immigrants colonists settling in the tri-state area dwindled from 181,551 to 160,324 over the same period, records show.
The nation’s economy is improving, there are more jobs in cheaper places to live, and retirees are choosing to move to warmer climates, experts say.
"The historical trend is that out migration grows when economy is getting better," said Empire Center for Public Policy research director E.J. McMahon.
"As the economy gets better there are more jobs outside the region and by the same token . . . more people to buy your house if you’re a baby boomer looking to move to Boca Raton or Myrtle Beach."
Rick: Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie?
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Lose water in a city like New York and you will have to evacuate the city in 3 days. Place is a death trap.
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But so far only a couple of Trumps have made the move south, though perhaps Melania and Barron will follow later.
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The last 5 or 6 years my area of Tennessee has seen an influx of retirees coming from New York and Pennsylvania. For the most part they have "assimilated". There are some, however, who miss "how we do stuff back home". The other retirees tell them to go back home, they came here to escape back home.
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Who has been running New York since 2010? Running the COuntry? We've been told the economy is great again and again but I'm guessing the people moving aren't moving because of extra wealth to by homes in the suburbs as Mr McMahon suggests. I'm guessing folks can't afford rents any longer and are moving where they hope to find a job, or moving back in with the parents.
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I remember in California back in the 1970's it seemed like every other car had New York or New Jersey license plates. There were all these people running around who got the letter "r" in the wrong places when they spoke and forgot to use it where it belonged. Back in those days California was a red state. Not anymore.
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Abu Uluque points out the saddest part of migration. Too many folks leave their own failed state (or nation state) and then try to recreate the very things that caused that failure (be it liberalism or Islam).
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Too many folks leave their own failed state (or nation state) and then try to recreate the very things that caused that failure (be it liberalism or Islam).
As evidenced by the increasing number of California license tags in Georgia.
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while I generally agreed with the No-CA meme, I was a CA refugee here in Idaho. Keep in mind that it's probable that some of the CA tags belong to conservative political refugees (like me) yearning for a better life out of Kalifornia..
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Even back in 1990 when I was in Portland, Oregon the natives there did not like Californians moving in to Oregon. Go figure.
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Same for me, I moved to Eastern Washington in the 90s and they were fed up with Californians. But most Californians return to California when the economy returns.
With Jerry Brown in charge that may be some time though.
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Rammer- I surmise that those who leave Commiefornia are good people who just couldn't take the one-party system of corruption and leftism. I myself will move to NV or FL.
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"Idaho - Keep in mind that it's probable that some of the CA tags belong to conservative political refugees (like me) yearning for a better life out of Kalifornia.."
Most of them are retired cops from SoCal. I know a guy still working who commutes.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Robotic former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Sunday that people "should be marching in the streets" to demand changes to "antiquated" education systems that aren't preparing students to be competitive in the job market against the robots of the future.
"The looming challenge of automation and artificial intelligence and the rapid advancement of technology brings great benefits but also creates huge challenges," Bush told radio host John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York.
The threat of a number of jobs being lost to automation is "real," he said. "This is not something that's science fiction. This is happening as we speak. And yet we still have this big skills gap."
You don't suppose that Jeb's robotic speaking and political style last year was...
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illegals cheap labor has just slowed down robotics in many industries.
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Even with illegal immigration, it was going to happen eventually. We will go through a modern version of the industrial revolution. A robotic revolution. Some people will be hurt, some people will get rich beyond mortal dreams, most will adapt and get along just fine.
Not so sure about that Darth. Over the long term maybe but in the 20 year or so time frame it will be hard on a whole lot of people. You can't just wake up one day and be prepared for finding a new job in a new field.
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There is always disruption, AlanC. For a lot of the farmers, especially in Europe where it was barely subsistence living, the crowded and dirty conditions in the city were preferable as they at least got to eat regularly.
For the Union man getting $50/h for putting a part on, it will be a very rude change.
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My niece in Colorado has been having a devil of a time getting straightforward jobs done at her house: replacing (and correctly installing) a very expensive home hot water heating system, getting optical refractions done adequately, among others. I doubt the jobs she has been having trouble with, will be replaced by robots any time soon. She thinks part of the problem is legalized marijuana. Funneling even more money into the educational system won't do much to help students get jobs of the future.
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If the Dims and Rinos keep pushing minimum wage up and up for flipping burgers, and slinging the mop, American Business Enginuity will "frack" the job market.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Senate Democrats who are threatening to filibuster a "qualified" judge like Neil Gorsuch would "filibuster anyone."
"It leaves me then very stunned why there’s this talk about a filibuster. It’s quite clear that if he isn’t qualified, then nobody is. If you would be filibustering a judge like this, it’s obviously that you’d filibuster anyone, so the actions that some would want to filibuster is quite purely politics because if you’re voting on his qualifications it’s a very easy ’yes’ vote," Grassley said at a news conference with former law clerks for Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch who are supporting his confirmation.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Merrick Garland, President Obama’s pick for the seat once filled by late Justice Antonin Scalia, was "credibly qualified" but a victim of the "Biden rule," referring to then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) saying that President George H.W. Bush should not nominate a Supreme Court justice in the middle of an election year.
"To my Democratic colleagues, if he can’t get 60 votes, Neil Gorsuch, that tells me that you don’t care about qualifications any longer. I voted for [Sonia] Sotomayor and [Elena] Kagan under the Obama administration. I would not have chosen either one but I thought they were well-qualified. And I can say without hesitation, according to the American Bar Association, Neil Gorsuch is one of the most qualified people in the country to be on the Supreme Court," said Graham at the conference held outside of the Supreme Court.
Graham said the Democrats should give President Trump the same treatment he and other Senate Republicans gave Obama’s first two Supreme Court nominees.
"I just assumed like most people it would probably be a Democrat [president] and [the nominee] might be more liberal than Garland. President Trump won. He defied my expectations," he said. "He won the White House and he deserves, I believe, the same respect and treatment that was given to President Obama for his two nominees that reported out of committee."
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said the arguments Senate Democrats used to justify filibuster rule changes in 2013 for judicial appointments below the Supreme Court level could also apply to Senate Republicans using the "nuclear option" for the Gorsuch nomination.
"There is not one argument advanced in justification for the Democratic Senate majority’s decision to go nuclear in November 2013 that doesn’t also apply with equal force throughout the executive calendar," Lee said.
"There is not one argument they’ve made that can apply there, so in my view that decision was made in November 2013."
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) questioned why Democrats who voted to confirm Gorsuch a decade ago to the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals would reject him now. Because Trump
"Not a single senator spoke out against him ‐ not Dianne Feinstein, not Pat Leahy, not Barack Obama, not Joe Biden, not Hillary Clinton. Every one of them went along with confirming him to the court of appeals ‐ a question anyone should ask. If they supported him being on the court of appeals a decade ago, what’s changed?" Cruz said. They not only lost, they got their asses beat with a steak tenderizer. And they are throwing a tantrum.
"And the only thing that has changed is our energized activist friends that have Democrats senators terrified they will be primaried from the left in a Democratic primary ‐ that’s the only thing that’s changed," he added, referring to the activists that had gathered outside of the Supreme Court to protest Gorsuch.
Cruz said the Supreme Court seat was on the ballot when Trump won the presidency, since Hillary Clinton promised a liberal nominee while Trump said he would nominate someone in the mold of Scalia.
"This election was in a very real sense a referendum on the Supreme Court ‐ that has no precedent, the degree to which the voters knew precisely what they were getting," he said. "The overwhelming election results in November as the American people chose the direction gives this nomination a kind of super legitimacy."
Cruz said Democrats were very "animated" about their opposition to Justice Clarence Thomas, who was ultimately confirmed with 52 votes, and no Democrats had demanded a 60-vote threshold.
"He was confirmed with a simple majority ‐ that, if the Democrats make the ill-advised decision to filibuster [this] week, will be the rule to which we return, the rule that has governed the Senate for Supreme Court nominations for two centuries," Cruz said.
In a press conference on Capitol Hill, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said special interest money is being used to "prop up" Gorsuch’s nomination.
"He was hand-picked for the Supreme Court by the right-wing, special interest-laden Heritage Foundation and Federal Society. Now millions of dollars of undisclosed special-interest donations are being used to prop up his nomination," he said on Wednesday. "Let me be clear: he was hand-picked by special interests, supported by special interests and has a record of siding with special interests. This is no neutral, down-the-middle judge." He *GASPS* rules according to how the law is written!!!
Schumer recommended that the Republicans change the nominee rather than change the Senate rules.
"If Judge Gorsuch fails to earn 60 votes and fails to demonstrate he is mainstream enough to sit on the highest court, we should change the nominee, not the rules," Schumer said. "They could easily come to another nominee who might be a little more mainstream." Who you would filibuster
Schumer warned that Senate Republicans could change the rules for the next Supreme Court nominee as well.
"If they are so quick to change the rules this time, they will be just as quick to change it next time," he said. "If right now, already, with this kind of nominee chosen by this kind of group, they are saying ’we are going to change the rules’ they will change it again."
Toward the end of the news conference, Schumer was asked if he would be willing to work with Trump on issues like healthcare. In response, Schumer said Democrats have suggestions to improve the healthcare system.
"Once they get off this kick of repeal and stop undermining the healthcare system, we have suggestions we want to make to make the system better. They’ll have suggestions. We should get in a room and try to make the system better. We’re happy to do that," Schumer replied.
"You can’t govern from the hard right," he added. "President Trump campaigned against both the Democratic and Republican establishments but when he came into office. He chose his appointments, including Supreme Court, and governed from the hard right ‐ even without Democrats, he’s having trouble doing that as Trumpcare shows.
That's Ryancare, Senator Schumer. President Trump did not send the House a draft bill to work on. Speaker Ryan and his cronies came up with it on their own, then couldn't sell it to either the Democrats or the Tea party Republicans. But he only been been Speaker for a few months -- this was a learning experience.
He’ll have trouble constantly unless he moves to the middle. We’re waiting for him to do it." Well according to you it is only possible to govern from the hard left and no matter what it seems you are determined to throw your temper tantrum.
Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational Reid Rule!!!
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The Donks say the Garland SCOTUS nomination was stolen from them as well as the POTUS office. Hillary, the predestined and entitled candidate wasn't coronated. These losses brought about widespread derangement syndrome in the Party.
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Donks allowed the Pubs to get away with not voting on Obama's choice because they were certain Hillary would win. They were wrong and are now throwing a spat. Grassley is 100% correct.
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Hold on... despite McStain bemoaning not having a gang to suck off the collective demoncrats with... he is now saying (reported by several media outlets) that he will vote for the nuclear option.
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[NYPOST] More people are leaving the New York region than any other major metropolitan area in the country.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] 
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Senate Democrats who are threatening to filibuster a "qualified" judge like Neil Gorsuch would "filibuster anyone."
