Colorado is one of just three states that shifted from mostly Republican to mostly Democratic control in the last two decades according to Ballotpedia. Four states went the other way between the decade ’92-’02 and the ’03-’13 decade.
How did that work out? A common measure is change in state gross domestic product, as reported by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Using that measure, when Republicans mostly controlled Colorado’s state government, we ranked #3 in GDP growth. Once labor union and liberal millionaire campaign cash took over state government, we dropped to #41. Colorado had the worst drop in economic ranking of any state. We went from doing nicely better than the US as a whole to underperforming.
States that were strongly Democratic-dominated across the two decades had an average GDP growth rank of about 25th from the top. Strongly Republican-dominated states’ average rank was #19. The difference between these two groups? Republican-dominated states experienced 15% more growth than Democratic led states. That’s a lot of jobs created when Republicans control state government.
Perhaps other factors impact a state’s economic performance besides whether Democrats or Republicans control the state government.
BUT, ARE YOU WILLING TO TAKE A CHANCE THAT WHO RUNS THINGS DOESN’T MATTER?
Me neither.
Let me think… Detroit, California… Let's take back CO.
It would take a miracle to get back to pro-economy policies and the Democrats have outlawed miracles.
It matters more than most of us know… Elections have severe, extreme and long lasting consequences… Democratic 'leadership' (oxymoron) has been non existent. It has been destructive and divisive to our state. It has hurt us economically and socially and it will take YEARS to undo what has been done, but, Coloradoans will step up and do what needs to be done. Take this state back RED Colorado…
It doesn't matter who is in charge. I think it comes down to an unwillingness to change what has been. this Labor Day is the PERFECT time to address those changes that could change the way things are going. If we instituted a 30 hour week, raised minimum wage to a living wage (in Denver I understand that would be $20/hr), we would see less unemployment and greater productivity. The problem is that attitude that if you shrink your workforce, flat-line their pay or pay them less, you GET LESS. Where if you decreased the hours worked, paid a living wage and ultimately had to hire more people to cover the overtime, you've actually created MORE. Henry Ford, with his assembly line (new tech at the time), decreased the work week and doubled his worker pay and experienced great success. So much so that working conditions (5-day 40 hour work week) was instituted at a Federal level. So how is it, now that our tech has advanced so much, we are still accepting the 5 day 40 hour work week and below standard of living wages? History is meant to be learned from, not carried forward until it destroys the very standard of living it aided in created. It's time for a change. A BIG change. The means and ways we got here are now dragging us down.