Jay Tea at Wizbang has news that — though New Hampshire hasn’t put anybody to death in over 70 years — there are two cases where the defendants might be facing the death penalty.
Which is good. The crimes that these men committed calls for their permanent and timely removal from the gene pool , civilized society, and the world of the breathing.
But I had to snark on this particular comment from Jay Tea:
Here in New Hampshire, we believe in taking out our own garbage. It’s that kind of attitude that played a part in CQ Press naming us both the safest and most livable state.
Yeah, I’m sure that New Hampshire’s willingness to “take out their own” criminal garbage plays a part in their safety and livable ratings.
But I’m thinking that their proximity to Mexico, their way-above-average cost of living combined with their nation-best poverty rate ranking — I’m thinking those things probably have a lot more to do with their safety and livability rankings than their criminal justice system.
Perhaps if New Hampshire had millions of illegal immigrants, drug smugglers, human sex/slave traffickers, gang-bangers, and terrorists sneaking across their borders every year, the Granite State might not be so safe or so livable.
Apparently you overlooked our proximity to Massachusetts, where — by their own admission — roughly 2/3 of the 300,000 or so Brazilians in the Bay State are illegals. And that’s just one nationality. Lawrence, MA — just one town away from the border — is loaded with illegal aliens.
Oh, and now we can add a silver in the “healthiest state” category. They released that one today, and we’re #2.
You’re quite right about how things would be if we had “millions of illegal immigrants, drug smugglers, human sex/slave traffickers, gang-bangers, and terrorists sneaking across their borders every year.” For one thing, they’d outnumber us — we only have about 1.2 million residents already.
J.
Contrary to popular belief, immigrants, not least among them Latinos, are found in healthy numbers all over the Eastern Seaboard. Three guesses as to where the heaviest concentration of Latinos in the U.S. is…
[Editor ---I can tell you where they're not --- New Hampshire, where they comprise only 2.04% of the population.]
The big thing New Hampshire has going for it is that due to decades of liberal rule all poor people and almost all of their own young people have been driven out by the very high cost of living.
When liberals take over a place they take pride in ’stopping growth’, which means their kids have to move somewhere else, and poor people need not apply.
A man was raped by Big Foot in NH, so I don’t know how you can say it’s safe and livable with straight face.
Jim Howard wrote:
What state are you talking about? New Hampshire was, for DECADES, a bastion of Republican governance and conservatism. Occasionally a Democrat would win the governorship for a little while, but the legislature and the Executive Council were solidly Republican for years and years. The Democrats have only held the reins of power since 2006.
New Hampshire has NO sales tax, NO income tax, and some of the lowest state spending levels in the nation. We pay our legislators $100.00 per YEAR for their jobs, so they can’t afford to sit around and pass new laws and new taxes. And there’s a fairly regularly recurring push to put up a fence along our southern border and keep the Massholes out.
Mr. Howard, you might want to clarify your remarks. I don’t think you said what you meant to say.
J.