Hmm, happiest and most productive countries in the world are "socialist states" in comparison to the US. Scandinavian countries, Canada, most of Europe.

Meanwhile, the US with its ultra-right government has some of the poorest health outcomes, educational outcomes, life expectancy, infant mortality, crime rates, murder rates, social unrest, happiness indicators, etc. etc. etc. of all developed nations.

Nobody believes you @bobknight33 you are full of crap.

Meanwhile, Hawaii, New York, California, Maryland continue to do very well for themselves while Kansas goes right down the tubes.

Sucks when theory and reality don't match, eh Bob? I guess you'll just go and throw out reality again (obviously it's flawed).

What happens when Conservatives run your state, spoiler alert, it's not good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment

"What Happens When Liberals Run Your State? "

Things go well. You might want to try it someday, when you finally stopped lying to yourself.

https://data.ers.usda.gov/reports.aspx?ID=17854
(pick california durr)
Looks okay to me
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https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?reqid=70&step=30&isuri=1&major_area=0&area=06000&year=2018,2017,2016,2015,2014,2013,2012,2011,2010&tableid=526&
category=5526&area_type=0&year_end=-1&classification=naics&state=0&statistic=-1&yearbegin=-1&unit_of_measure=levels
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^copy/paste whole link
here's more detailed information about industry in California specifically, looks like it's been growing steady for a while.

Also, note the sharp uptick in government spending starting ~2014 -current numbers late 2018

That spending doesn't account for all of the growth, but there's a parallel growth happening in the "All industry total" category, defined as - "The All industry total includes all Private industries and Government."

@bobknight33
I still think you're a russian troll making the rounds.

@bobknight33 may or may not be a troll. But you've got to love a guy that totally let's you use him.

Take @newtboy for instance. Regardless of what fires Bob tries to start, newt jumps right on it and douses the ignorance with facts. Quenches the lies with a tall glass of truth, and then massages him with references when needed.

As for me, I just like to use him as a good example of a poor example. He brings us his fears and we reach for him. Kind of like an abused dog that snips at you when you try to help him, because he's so cute.

So it really doesn't matter if he's a troll or not. We can play him here.

Moving this video to bobknight33's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.