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| Virginia Beats Texas as Top State for Business |
| 2011-06-30 |
| Virginia jumped over the Lone Star State this year to become No. 1 again on CNBC’s annual list of “Top States for Business.” Virginia received 1,660 out of 2,500 points, which are scored using 43 measurements in 10 competitiveness categories: Cost of Doing Business, Workforce, Quality of Life, Economy, Infrastructure & Transportation, Technology & Innovation, Education, Business Friendliness, Access to Capital and Cost of Living. Texas and Virginia and have flip-flopped between first and second place on CNBC’s annual ranking. This year, Texas received 1,578 points. Texas has created more jobs than the rest of the country over the past ten years and Virginia's current unemployment rate is 6.1%. Why can't this news - and the lesson it offers - penetrate the D.C. Beltway?Why doesn't it register with the Progressives? |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #4 This is a CNBC poll, and Governor Rick Perry is going after Zero on the economy, so expect a lot of LSM polls to show that Texas is no longer number 1 in jobs or anything else. They have to protect their investment in Zero, and if they have to lie to do that, they will. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2011-06-30 15:05 |
| #3 How many of the jobs in Virginia are directly or indirectly related to the growth in the federal government? |
| Posted by: tipover 2011-06-30 11:48 |
| #2 As opposed to the next article (above) where Caliphornia is driving away jobs with new taxes. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-06-30 11:46 |
| #1 The folks inside the Beltway don't care because they've got their own business model that's working out just great. (Today I work for the government, tomorrow I lobby the government, rinse, repeat.) The hard-core progressives react to business folks like 19th century English aristocrats who have just been offered a tradesman's daughter in marriage. "But mother dear, she is so ... vulgar." It's class thing. |
| Posted by: Matt 2011-06-30 11:35 |