When I first moved to New Hampshire 33 years ago – yes, I predate the Free Staters, the “joke” went like this. The Granite State didn’t have many folks on unemployment or welfare because they bussed them to Massachusetts, where the benefits were better.
The unemployment benefits are better, which is why the Granite State has traditionally had lower unemployment and higher workforce participation. We don’t pay people to sit around. You can’t live on it, so you must find work if you can or move to a state where you can live off sitting on your ass. That has evolved a bit over the years, but it still holds (mostly) true.
And while we’ve seen an uptick in illegals leaking into New Hampshire from Vermont (a sanctuary dumpster fire) and Canada, which is how they got to Vermont, we’re not inundated like … Massachusetts.
Governor Maura Healey, who lives in a shoe (Massachusetts), has so many illegal aliens she doesn’t know what to do. She has declared a state of emergency.
Governor Maura T. Healey today declared that a state of emergency exists in Massachusetts due to rapidly rising numbers of migrant families arriving in Massachusetts in need of shelter and services and a severe lack of shelter availability in the state. The declaration serves as a notice to the federal government and the Commonwealth that the state’s shelter system is rapidly expanding capacity in an unsustainable manner, and that further assistance is urgently needed. There are currently nearly 5,600 families or more than 20,000 individuals in state shelter, including children and pregnant women.
This is where we point out that the people she is asking for help created the problem. The Feds left the doos open and refused to do their Constitutional duty to secure the border and control immigration. And while it won’t matter much to Massachusetts, which is run by Democrats, the result of that dereliction is increased fiscal reliance on the Feds and all the strings and regs that come along for the ride.
The central planners, faced with the problem of sovereign states, have long worked to reduce the supremacy of the several into a dependence on the one. Even New Hampshire is not immune. We rely too much on DC dollars and keep electing politicians who can’t get enough of them. Massachusetts is just several orders of magnitude further along that path. And the open-door invasion policy of the Democrat party and the Biden administration isn’t just about embracing an army of individuals cum dependents who are expected to return the favor at the ballot box. The stress forces state governments to cry out for help.
They can’t print their own money, but the Feds can. They’ve printed trillions, devalued those dollars, and created generational debt—taxes due piled on the backs of generations yet to be born. And the feds aren’t worried about balancing that budget because it serves a greater purpose.
It unbalances power.
States need to balance their budgets so the Federal money becomes the drug whose addiction ends their right to self-govern. Massachusetts’ politicians would never get too worked up about losing that or trading it away for a few pieces of silver. It’s just a different sort of sex work. And they don’t care where the money comes from or what they must do to keep getting it. And it is of no consequence to them that they pimped your grandchildren’s labors and liberties out to the central government sugar daddy without their permission which is not, by the way, a voting rights issue.
It’s not human or child trafficking either, but it should be. Adults today are turning children yet to be born into slaves of the state. But that’s progress. They’ll keep on keeping on, and eventually, the Feds will expect things that Massachusetts or its posterity – as Democrat as it has long been – might be disinclined to allow as if that option had not been sold generations before.
The feds will demand, and refusing your pimp gets you beat when you’re a whore, after which they get what they want, especially when there’s no one to defend you or speak for you and your right to defend yourself was long ago legislated away in the name of common sense.
Yes, Massachusetts has a state of emergency, but it is not what they think it is.
And it isn’t just Massachusetts.
