Home Prices Are Too High

Good thing the Federal government wants to prop them up.

One in five Massachusetts residents aged 25 to 39 plans to leave the state during the next five years, according to a survey released this week by the think tank MassINC.

Of the people who plan to leave, 32 percent told MassINC that the state's high cost of living was driving them to greener pastures. When asked what, if anything, could keep them here, respondents said lower taxes, more affordable housing and improved job opportunities.

Jaime A. Delaney, 32, of Chicopee, was one of the people surveyed. She said she understands why people plan to leave the state.

"I would if I could," she said. "Taxes are too high. It's too expensive to live here. It takes my whole paycheck just to feed my family and put gas in my car. It's horrible."

Delaney works as an order selector in a factory and has three children. An area native, she said family ties keep her in the Pioneer Valley.

"If my family lived somewhere else, I'd be gone in a heartbeat," she said.

Young adults planning to leave WMass.
Note that the article is from July 2008. Deval Partrick wants to raise taxes, there are fewer jobs, and the Feds are doing everything possible to keep home prices high.

And now even global warming is in doubt.

"As Chief of several of NASA Headquarters’ programs (1982-94), an SES position, I was responsible for all weather and climate research in the entire agency, including the research work by James Hansen, Roy Spencer, Joanne Simpson, and several hundred other scientists at NASA field centers, in academia, and in the private sector who worked on climate research," Theon wrote. "I appreciate the opportunity to add my name to those who disagree that global warming is man made.”

Theon takes aim at the models, and implicitly criticises Hansen for revising to the data set:

“My own belief concerning anthropogenic climate change is that the models do not realistically simulate the climate system because there are many very important sub-grid scale processes that the models either replicate poorly or completely omit. Furthermore, some scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model results. In doing so, they neither explain what they have modified in the observations, nor explain how they did it.

"They have resisted making their work transparent so that it can be replicated independently by other scientists. This is clearly contrary to how science should be done. Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy.”

I'm a sceptic now, says ex-NASA climate boss