What states have a good economy since Bush has been in office?

Question

I heard someone complaining about there state not doing well but are their any states doing well. If they are why are they different than the others.

Answer 1

notice they never mention anything about their LOCAL governments when they complain about their state.   If you look at the list of most liberal states you will see these are the ones that are also the worse off today.  yet they keep voting in the same people and keep getting the same results all the while complaining about the federal govt.  

Louisiana finally woke up and elected Jindal and they have seen the fastest and largest growth in the history of their state.  Thats not a coincidence.

Answer 2

Any of the state that are pumping oil.

Answer 3

Texas---oil.

For the first writer, Florida is far worse off. I live here, I know.

Answer 4

Well, financially all states have been growing since Bush came into office, if looking at GDP by state.

Also, when looking at the PPP development it has been very high.

Answer 5

Texas and Arizona. Michigan has had the worst. In Muskegon County, Michigan the unemployment rate was 9.1%.

Answer 6

Texas - The home of Halliburton and KBR, the worlds biggest Defense Contractors!

Answer 7

Connecticut seems to be doing well. Less Housing  Crisis, and unemployment

Answer 8

Texas. Natural gas. Life is good!

Answer 9

Where have you been living the last Seven years? Unemployment was at an all time low of 4.5%, personal income up higher than ever, minimum wage increased to its highest mark, the manufacturing and service industry was at an all time high in decades, the stock market is Twice what it was under Clinton, first time home owners and buyers was the highest ever, the housing market sky rocketed (until the Individual over extended themsleves by taking sub-prime loans with no investment) the working wage went UP. The only problem at the mment is fuel and it's related costs, due to many factor such as supply and demand,no drilliing, no new refineries! Most states are just fine!

Answer 10

Many Arab, African & European States...

Answer 11

none!

Answer 12

The United ones.

My state as a whole is doing quite well. The company I work for is growing. I make more now than I did then. And I have no complaints. Sure beats the h**l out of the Great Depression.

I do notice the states that are not doing particularly well generally have two things in common, high taxes and heavy union participation. Oh and I forgot they almost always vote for Democrats.

  

Answer 13

Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado. The Dakotas, Wyoming. The states that are not run by unions and have industry that are energy related are doing well. The places that have not priced themselves into a ridiculous economic climate are doing well. There is no housing bust is these States. It is still a seller's market

Answer 14

Texas and Oklahoma report that their economies are progressing and doing well with the rise in oil profits and the opportunity for greater future profits with higher prices. According to the Texas Comptroller's office:

Texas continues to fare better economically than most other states. The Texas economy, the world’s 12th-largest, continues to grow and is unlikely to slip into recession.  In fiscal 2007, Texas’ gross state product grew by 3.2 percent, versus a 2.0 percent increase for the national economy.

Answer 15

Upstate and western NY haven't but then again our economy hasn't been good since Reagan..

Answer 16

Not North Carolina  

Answer 17

Florida and Texas for sure.  

Answer 18

hmmm  Russia seems to be doing ok, saudi arabia and venezuela as well

Answer 19

Fifty states were in fine shape until democrats took over congress.

The people of these states need to start blaming themselves for their predicament by voting in a congress of democrats under a republican president.  The same would hold true had we had a democrat president and then vote in a republican congress.  Moral of the story, presidents are no stronger than congress allows!

Answer 20

As of this year there are 29 states with a budget shortfall. I am putting an R for Republican or D for Democrat governor

R Alabama $784 million

D Arizona $1.9 billion

D Arkansas $107 million

R California1 2 $22.2 billion

R Connecticut $150 million

D Delaware $217 million

District of Columbia $96 million

R Florida $3.4 billion

R Georgia $245 million

D Illinois $1.8 billion

D Iowa $350 million

D Kentucky $266 million

D Maine $124 million

D Maryland $808 million

D Massachusetts $1.2 billion

D Michigan1 $472 million

R Minnesota $935 million

R Mississippi $90 million

R Nevada $898 million

D New Hampshire $200 million

D New Jersey $3 billion

D New York $4.9 billion

D Ohio $1 billion

D Oklahoma $114 million

R Rhode Island $430 million

R South Carolina $250 million

D Tennessee $500 million

R Vermont $59 million

D Virginia $1.2 billion

D Wisconsin $652 million

The remaining states all have a budget surplus

Answer 21

Up until recently most states were doing very well.NJ and CA.are two exceptions.Most individual investors did well along with the states.Only in the last year or so there's been a downturn.The same thing happened with Bush SR and Clinton.It's pretty predictable actually.I'm not sure how much presidents and their policies have to do with it.