The Demographics Research Group at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service has released their population projections for Virginia between now and 2040. Virginia’s population will grow to 10.2 million, making it the 10th largest state in the nation. Northern Virginia will continue to show the most growth.
Between now and 2030 the population of elderly in Virginia will double, one in five Virginians will be over 65 years old. The urban/rural divide will increase with the urban areas being younger and more diverse.
More details of Virginia’s population changes and an interact map by county here.
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It’s interesting to see people bash President Trump for not living up to his campaign promises. He has checked off a whole bunch of them and remember, he has only been in office 5 months. Obama took a wrecking ball to our country for 8 years. It would also help if the Republican Congress could get their acto together. For 7 years they pounced on Obama about Obamacare. You would have thought the solution would have been ready on day one.
Other than the SCOTUS justice, Trump has done just what he accused Obama of doing. Nothing but sign executive orders. Name one important piece of legislation Congress has sent to Trump? He has signed a few small screw the poor/middle-class pieces of garbage that ended up on his desk.
The Republican health care proposals are exactly opposite of what Trump promised. Trump said he wouldn’t touch SS or Medicare, and look at what he is doing. His healthcare plan is nothing but a tax break for the rich. The trade deficit is increasing with China and Mexico. Where are the promised tariffs? We still have over 11 million illegals in this country. DACHA and the dreamers are still here, and Trump is letting them stay. China is in bed with Trump. N. Korea is very happy with Trump.
You people talk a good one until the actual facts are presented. And I ain’t a Democrat and didn’t vote for Hillary. And I voted for Stewart and Reeves. So, there you have it.
Jim, I wasn’t pointing any fingers at anyone, but since you felt the need to respond to my thought, I’ll answer you back. President Trump has signed 42 pieces of legislation into law. Here is the link… https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/signed-legislation?field_legislation_status_value=0 In his first 100 days, he signed into law 29 pieces of legislation which is more than Obama and Bush combined…and more than Clinton also. Putting Gorsuch on the Supreme Court totally saved our bacon and is paying huge dividends already. As for the border, illegal crossings are at its lowest in 17 years…these are “actual facts”. The President can’t make Congress work at the speed he does, but he seems to be trying.
So “you people” should do a little bit more homework before attacking someone. Yes there is a lot more to be done on the topics you mentioned, but once again, he has only been there 5 months.
Don’t take this wrong, but telling me you voted for Stewart sure gives me a lot of insight on your thinking…BTW, I wasn’t a big Trumper when he was in the primary…So there you have it.
They get their news from “the news”, so what do you expect.
Or, to say that another way, the Left has only one objective at the moment, and that is to regain power. That is all. Even arguing against real initiatives by Republicans doesn’t meet their needs, because even that highlights that Republicans are doing something. The Left’s only focus is on anything that might persuade a voter to vote against Republicans, that. is. all. And that doesn’t include talking about actual legislation. Look at it from their point of view – there’s absolutely NOTHING they can do to stop it, so why even talk about it ?
We agree with much of what you’ve said were flaws, weaknesses, and inadequacies of ‘the Left’. And as you say in your other comment on the same theme – ‘karma is a b_ch … ‘ …. OH, did you mean ‘beach’? Yes, the law of conditioned co-arising of phenomena – ‘karma’ – is like a beach: ga-zillions of possibilities for sand grain against sand grain …. each sand grain impacting, the the next and the next and next grain – a gazillion more possibilities. And because the sea appears, eternally, to rolling in more sand and taking some sand away ga-zillions of ga-zillions more possibilities. Each human choice is like that single grain among the ga-zillions of ga-zillions. But has inestimable power despite the appearance of being inconsequential or ‘meaningless’. The law of karma reveals that, IN FACT – not ‘fake news’ – that the seeming meaningless action may be inestimable power. And so, the Rabbis said that ‘saving a single life is as if saving the whole universe’, and the Buddhists know that killing a single bug has an impact for the future, and Jesus said that God knows every bird and its welfare and know every hair of every head, and said that if you walk by one homeless with disdain you walked by the GOD OF ALL CREATION WITH ALL THE POWER OF THE UNIVERSE with disdain, etc (see Matthew 25). And that scripture in the New Testament makes clear that the judgement is OF THE NATIONS : v. 31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, … So on that beach to the law of dependent co-arising, Jesus burns down the meaningfulness of each action to a simple parable: HOW will YOUR NATION be judged for its service to ‘the least among you’, ‘the poor’, ‘the widows and orphans’, ‘the strangers in the land’, etc.? The judgement coming is NOT about political-correct statements or beliefs, NOT about whether or not Trump’s tiny hands mean something about his penis, NOT about idiot tweeting or ‘gotcha’ media storms, etc …. but about the very things Jesus said that it would be about.
The debate isn’t about whether to help the poor, etc, it’s about whether doing those things in a stupid way is going to bankrupt the country and leave us all poor with nobody left to help.
We are in agreement! And provide these guidelines: FIRST should DO NO HARM or LEAST HARMS possible, and absolutely MORE GOOD than harm. And this includes harms and goods into the future considering future generations of need, and future generations of taxpayers. 2. EFFECTIVENESS MUST BE PROVED, through scientific findings of evaluation science or other reliable, valid evidence. 3. TRANSPARENCY is critical at every step of the decision making process.
Telling me you didn’t vote for Stewart gives me insight of your thinking. I voted Republican, apparently you voted Republicane?
Looks like MS-13 will not be hurting for members. Maybe it will branch off and we will have MS-14, MS-15, and beyond.
WELL, of course,
Subsidiary Overlord Trump – under the thumb of his Imperial Overlord Putin – would tweet that your data from a ‘Crooked Hilary Clinton’ group – the Weldon Cooper Center – contrived by ‘Obama-not really American’ UVA elites … and therefore, ‘FAKE news. BAD!’
The Left is wandering around in the wilderness. You could see it today in their responses to Trump’s silly wrestling tweat – some wanted to call it violence against the media, some argued that their own side was being stupid for taking it so seriously, some said it was childish, on and on, it was all over the map, some are pushing for impeachment, some for article 25, some arguing to double down on social justice, some arguing to try to reach out to Wisconsin and other voters that were lost, some to keep Pelosi, some to change their leadership, there’s just no end to it. At the moment I don’t think you can take anything they say as anything more than a temper tantrum, grasping at straws, they are just lost. They have no power to stop anything Congress or the President are doing so they just mouth off about it on the streets and in the press, they have no plan for how to regain any of the 1000’s of seats they have lost. If they hadn’t been such complete a-holes for the past 8 years you’d almost feel sorry for them. Karma is a b*tch.
Pronto, todo el estado va a ser mia..
Coming soon. RINO OIL… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b1c85a2a5db94979dcdaf55cf76bbc5c05565d92b9caf969f98752978053b272.jpg
Not looking forward to the upcoming highway gridlock.
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Lmao, “written by”?
You posted a couple graphs, regurgitated a couple snippets and provided a link…..
Yes, check the link. And read the first sentence of the post.
Thanks!
Jeanine – thanks for the interactive map of Va. Fascinating how Va will look in 23 years.
Yep and with “conservative” politicians like this, Virginia will continue to turn blue… http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/02/self-proclaimed-fiscal-conservative-coun
My thoughts exactly. We will become very blue.
We only “become very blue” because Trump is not doing what he said he would do.
Calling a tax break for the rich a healthcare care plan is from the Bob McDonnell play book. I have been asking for the Republicans healthcare plan since at least 2011. By the end of Trump’s term, people will be willing to elect Donald Duck as their president.
And, the trade deficit with Mexico and China continues to climb under the Trump regime. N. Korea is moving forward with it’s nuclear program. The wars Trump promised to end are instead being ramped up. The deficit is even more out of control.
Meanwhile, the president tweets when he is not playing golf….
I’m optimistic about the tax reform plan. Even if all they did was change us over to a territorial tax system it would be a huge improvement.
How can a country that is paying almost $1 Billion each day on it’s $20 Trillion debt even think about a tax decrease? Corporate tax revenue is down because corporations went bankrupt because of cheap communist and Mexican labor, or they moved off shore and don’t pay US taxes. Corporations are not paying their share, but, is that any surprise????? McConnell and Ryan both refuse the Trump tax on imports. The establishment is in charge.
One way or another, Trump is determined to boost the economy by running up the deficit based spending via tax decreases, unfunded infrastructure spending, and more Republican wars. Or, the unfunded Trumpcare plan. What Republicans don’t tell you is that without the mandate and taxes of Obamacare, they have to run up the debt to pay for Trumpcare.
Republicans tell us we need to fix SS and Medicare. Well, what we really need to fix is the debt, deficit spending, and make healthcare affordable. All the things they refuse to do because of lobbyists carrying checkbooks.
Not one word or line in Trumpcare that would decrease the cost of healthcare. The Republicans are kidding themselves if they think the Republican Senators in states that expanded Medicaid are going to give it up. Not going to happen.
First, what does a territorial tax system have to do with “decreasing taxes” …. ?? Do you even know what it is ?
Second, and I’ll be the first to admit that lowering taxes will cause the deficit to increase, I still think that’s the right thing to do. Democrats insisted on putting us on a course that will make it impossible to avoid default, which will play itself out as a devaluing of the dollar. That train has left the station long ago, there’s no way to pay back Americas creditors. So if that is reality, then I’d rather just go ahead and have tax cuts and let it crash faster. Why should I care about Democrats agenda if they don’t care about Republicans ? See Chicago and Illinois, Republicans let that go on for … what, 5 or 6 decades, let Democrats run the state into the ground, WITH high taxes, so what they’ve suffered through high taxes for 5 or 6 decades and now they end up paying even higher taxes when it all goes to hell because Democrats can NEVER find the political will to stop spending money. So why not just lower taxes and let it all go to hell in 2 or 3 decades and enjoy the money you saved. A few percentage points in tax rates isn’t what is destroying the dollar … entitlements are.
Edit, does anyone know what the tax rate would have to be to completely balance the budget and pay off the national debt ? Find out that rate and then ask yourself if you’d rather have tax cuts now and fix it sooner, or you’d rather raise taxes a little bit now, suffer longer, and still end up with a totally wrecked dollar.
You’re making me laugh! Just this morning Trump floated the idea of a tax increase for infrastructure. Last I heard, Trump is a Republican, who has the support of the real leaders of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh and Rupert Murdoch.
Until people get off this Right & Left, D&R BS, we’re going down the toilet. The establishment has you right where they want you.
It’s both party’s, all of em’. The whole thing is all about the cabbage.
Trump is not a Republican. Hell, in the way that I mean the Republican (conservative) most Republicans aren’t Republicans.
It doesn’t matter if anyone gets off the Right vs Left BS, etc, because that ship has sailed, that train has left the station, whatever metaphor you want to use.
I asked a question in my previous post, now let me answer it. If we lived in some magical world where every person in this country continued to do what they were doing for 365 days, continued to drive themselves to work, continued to eat, continued to go to Lowes and get lumber to fix their roof, continued to create products at their businesses that continued to find customers to buy them, and everyone somehow managed to do that WITHOUT SPENDING A SINGLE PENNY and then they donated every penny they made to the federal government, the entire GDP of this nation for an ENTIRE YEAR .. that STILL wouldn’t be enough to pay off the national debt.
People simply need to resign themselves to the FACT that this will never, and can never happen. There is NO WAY to pay off the debt, in fact, we are to the point now where there is no way to even stop it from getting worse. Our debt-to-GDP is now 106%. IT. IS. OVER. So cut taxes, build infrastructure, increase pensions, .. I basically don’t care anymore, free health care, sure, why not … because none of that &^%$ is going to survive the next 20 years, and probably not the next 10. People are living in a fantasy world where they think increasing the debt can go on forever, but it simply can’t. Illinois is our future.
Answer this simple question, please? The numbers are intentionall small just so you can understand the math.
If your total personal revenue/income was $3.50 for one year, and your total debt was $20, would you be saying it was hopeless, the ship has sailed, let’s run it all in the ground?
You’re going to think this is a cop out because I’m not going to argue the point, but it isn’t because I couldn’t easily win that argument, it’s because the argument is so pointless to have that I just don’t feel like arguing the point.
If you want to believe that there is a way that this country can get its spending under control and pay the debt off, I want you to keep believing that, this country really needs that kind of blind optimism.
Thank you brother for having faith in your fellow countrymen, especially on this the 4th of July. I’m not even being sarcastic.
The debt is a very big problem. But,my last comment sent your rhetoric down in flames! You lost!
Ha, ha, ha.
I’m untrollable. Have a nice day. 🙂