Progressive bubble in action... Yesterday I drove “down the hill” to have lunch with a couple of friends (at Siam Nara, most excellent!). On the way there, I listened to NPR for a while, until I heard this: an interview with a business reporter for NPR in Texas, opining on why businesses were starting to relocate from China to Texas – in particular, why Texas more than any other state.
That report twisted himself into pretzels to avoid giving the real reasons: Texas' business-friendly regulatory environment, low taxes, and large number of well-educated and willing workers. Instead he cited things like climate (and he lives there!), the Houston seaport, and proximity of natural gas production. It's clear that the reporter had either never talked with an actual business decision maker, or had ignored everything he heard. Doesn't fit the narrative, you know...
I turned off the radio.
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