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The Patriot Post Digest 3-30-2017
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It would appear legislators caved, though “LGBT” activists aren’t happy because the compromise doesn’t go far enough for them.
Of course, if the Associated Press is the arbiter of all truth, the price of HB2 has already soared. This week, the AP tagged the bill’s cost to the state at $3.76 billion over 12 years. The AP’s analysis25 concluded: “Over the past year, North Carolina has suffered financial hits ranging from scuttled plans for a PayPal facility that would have added an estimated $2.66 billion to the state’s economy to a canceled Ringo Starr concert that deprived a town’s amphitheater of about $33,000 in revenue. The blows have landed in the state’s biggest cities as well as towns surrounding its flagship university, and from the mountains to the coast.”
Did you catch that? PayPal’s lefty-activist move accounts for nearly three-quarters of the economic impact.
Additionally, the AP pointed26 to companies such as Deutsche Bank, which stopped plans in North Carolina due to the law; CoStar, which located a new research center in Virginia instead of North Carolina due to “negative publicity over the law”; and Adidas, which opted not to put a factory in the Tar Heel State because of the law.
First, the AP’s estimate is likely vastly overstated. Second, conveniently missing from the AP analysis is a look at North Carolina’s thriving economy despite HB2. As the Washington Times reports27, “Economic indicators released for 2016 show that the boycott has failed to derail North Carolina as a regional and national powerhouse.”
Indeed, in 2016, the state ranked fourth nationally for attracting and expanding businesses, topped the region in attracting corporate facilities, and earned Forbes No. 2 slot for business climate. What’s more, between 2015 and 2016, North Carolina’s average unemployment rate fell from 5.8% to 5.1%.
Additionally, VisitNC, part of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, announced a record-breaking year for hotel lodging. Hotel and motel occupancy in 2016 rose by 3.4% over 2015, and the average room rate increased by 3.6%. In fact, according to VisitNC, “each month of 2016 experienced the highest occupancy on record.”
This hardly bears out the predictions of doom and gloom.
As North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest recently said28 when addressing the current impact of HB2 (not a possible future impact which may or may not happen), “If you look at the most extreme instances of economic impact, by the media and by the universities and the people who come out and say ‘This is the impact,’ that most extreme impact equates to one-tenth of 1% of our annual GDP.”
Ranking this claim as “true,” Politifact noted28, “While $500 million in economic losses (not to mention at least 1,400 jobs lost) is not insignificant, the state’s overall economy is large enough that the losses are only about 0.1 percent of the total GDP.”
Given North Carolina’s highly attractive business climate, it’s very possible any future “losses” will also be significantly offset by continued growth.
In reality, the issue really was never about luring or losing businesses. It was about one thing the Left usually loves: safe spaces. As Lt. Gov. Forest stated27, “Don’t be fooled by the media; this issue is not about the economy. This issue is about privacy, safety and security in the most vulnerable places we go. This is about doing the right thing. And I will never trade the privacy, safety and security of a woman or a child for a basketball ticket, and neither should you.”
It would appear newly elected Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper and a number of Republican legislators don’t quite agree. Whether they beat the NCAA’s buzzer is another question.
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Campus Intolerance of Christians32 — American colleges are committed to only those ideas the Left deems acceptable.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Tony Perkins: Planned Parenthood’s Killer Workout33
Larry Elder: ObamaCare Was Designed to Explode — Dems Want Single-Payer34
Hans von Spakovsky & Elizabeth Slattery: Why Sen. Feinstein’s Argument Couldn’t Be More Wrong, and Dangerous35
For more, visit Right Opinion36.
OPINION IN BRIEF
R. Emmett Tyrrell: “Judge Gorsuch, in the course of his testimony last week, summed up the conservatives' much more modest formula for choosing justices and deciding cases. Not surprisingly, he quoted Justice Antonin Scalia, who said: ‘If you’re going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you’re not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you’re probably doing something wrong.’ As I say, I think the essential extremism of the American Left can be seen in its formula for choosing justices. It would choose justices who see themselves as above the other branches of government and the Constitution itself. The conservatives see themselves as complementary to the other branches and subservient to the Constitution. If they want to change the Constitution, they go to the onerous process of changing it or its laws. Conservatives are for limited government. Liberals are for hog-wild government, which is very piggish of them.”
SHORT CUTS
Insight: “The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.” —Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
For the record: “In 2016, the Medicaid expansion was $230 billion, or 53 percent, more expensive than originally projected in 2014. It will get worse. As such, rolling back the Medicaid expansion is a first step to start controlling our debt. It’s important for many states, as well, because Medicaid is now the biggest item in their budget and further spending expansion would squeeze out other items, such as education and transportation.” —Veronique de Rugy
Hyperbole: “Historians in the near future will mark today, March 28, 2017, as the day the extinction of human life on earth began, thanks 2 [sic] Donald Trump. Trump has signed orders killing all of Obama’s climate change regulations. The EPA is prohibited henceforth from focusing on climate change.” —Michael Moore
Alpha Jackass: “In order to maintain his popularity, the Trump administration will have to try to find some means of rallying the support. … I think that we shouldn’t put aside the possibility that there would be some kind of staged or alleged terrorist act, which can change the country instantly.” —lefty philosopher Noam Chomsky
Famous last words: “I am not running for public office.” —Chelsea Clinton
Those darn vast right-wing conspiracies: “It’s not like I didn’t know all the nasty things [foes] were saying about me. I thought some of them were kind of creative. But you just have to keep going.” —Hillary Clinton
“Resist we much. We must, and we will much, about that be committed”37: “These are bad policies that will hurt people and take our country in the wrong direction. It’s the kinds of things you think about when you take long walks in the woods. Resist, insist, persist, enlist.” —Hillary Clinton
Late-night humor: “Ford announced … it will create 130 new jobs in Michigan. ‘Is one of them president?’ asked Hillary.” —Seth Meyers
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