Friday, January 18, 2013

Cool Tool

A comment was posted on Wednesday by someone pertaining to my earlier post this week about car v. building crashes.  The author asserted that the economy in Colorado is booming, due to the legalization of marijuana. How a story about car/building crashes turns into a discussion of the merits of legalized pot is another matter, but you'd really have to follow the thread from Monday to figure that out.

Regardless of what one might think of the proposition, I doubted that there was any conclusive research to back up this assertion.  I also reasoned that the economy in Colorado couldn't be any better than in Nebraska, and figured I'd provide some evidence of that by grabbing the two States' unemployment data. I Googled "Colorado unemployment" and almost immediately discovered the cool  tool that produced this comparative graph in a New York minute. The information you can gather in 30 seconds today is rather amazing.




8 comments:

Steve said...

There must be some native New Yorkers driving around Lincoln. I've noticed a number of times while riding with my driving students that someone behind us honks almost immediately when the light turns green.

Anonymous said...

This makes good evidence that many are self employed and by grow stores providing product to micro managers, the state will get a ton of tax income. Too early to tell but the chart here that you show, could be positive in economic growth, assuming the fore mentioned self employed are no longer giving profits to the cartel. And cheating the cartel is indeed a war on drugs. Legal really makes a ton of impact where tax dollars and writing tickets have FAILED!

Anonymous said...

Perhaps the unemployment rate is due to ungoverned or taxed growth and it's jobs in Colorado.

Anonymous said...

Steve.. Let's face it, anything is better than getting stuck behind a student driver car

Anonymous said...

A Colorado neighbor state (Wy) has a spike in crime. Guess what it is. Possession of pot. What will they do? They will build more jails. The tax payer will fund it. They will keep that wicked weed away though. Time to drink more Jack and go for a spin. Logic? Lunacy? Prohibition failed and those in the boat that floats live in Colorado.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW4RUIjOp9k

Anonymous said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr9h--91sNc

ARRRRG!!!! said...

I found a way to defend against student drivers.

Anonymous said...

Speaking of cool tools, I noticed that Google Maps began showing traffic movement for Lincoln's arterial streets, most of them anyway. How does Gmaps obtain that information; do they buy a feed from the traffic department or something like that?

I just ran across that today, but I don't know how long they've been doing it. Before, they only showed traffic info for I-80 and perhaps 77/2 and so forth.