What will they say when America’s second most conservative city, Lubbock, goes bankrupt in a few years? I believe it will, too, with a declining tax base, a poor future for some key industries, and increasingly ferocious and irrational opposition to any taxation. In particular, reckless, unregulated developers insist that the city annex their new mcMansion tracts while older areas rot from the inside out because there is no money for all the needed infrastructure. This is without the longer term catastrophe that will befall the ag sector because of climate change and the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer. I’m getting out while the getting is good.