But in the short run at least, the free-money policies of the Federal Reserve are supporting many blue-state economies.
Only a few states and not many non-state actors can really manage a successful hybrid warfare campaign.
Many red-state Democrats wanted to avoid handing Mr. Obama a larger defeat on a bill that was about to fail anyway, but more might have parted company once the specifics were scrutinized.
Still, too many blue-state lawmakers believe that a primary purpose of government is to redistribute income from rich to poor, even if those policies make everyone, including the poor, less well off.
If he is right, in many non-state firms the dangers of poor governance will increasingly be eclipsed by the perils posed by government, in terms of licence revocations, access to pipelines and so on not to mention, as Yukos discovered, surprise tax bills.
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But that includes many state-run universities, where in-state residents are charged a pittance.
As a classicist, it actually reminded me a lot of the state cults of many a Greek city-state.
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Many state-owned enterprises are now attempting to implement different forms of workers' control, with mixed results.
Helped by western advisers, it has slimmed many state-owned firms and split them into sellable bits.
Many state-run banks were closed and public transport disrupted in parts of the country.
When Viktor is around 18 months old he'll go into one of the many state-subsidised nurseries.
The ABB unit, based in Sugar Land, Texas, provides products and services to many foreign state-owned electrical utilities.
During the 1990s, when many state-owned businesses were privatised, Mr Dantas positioned himself as the man with the needed expertise and contacts.
Such contracts already bind many state-funded scholars who study abroad.
Like many state-owned companies, it creaked by on government support.
He said the problem was a lack of competition, which meant that many state-owned airports in Europe "still think they have a God-given right to charge" high prices for airlines to use their facilities.
As a side-show, a tone-deaf trade association of struggling European telephone companies known as ETNO put on a full-court press to dupe developing nations into endorsing a plan that would subsidize failing local telcos, many of them state-owned, by taxing the most popular Internet content providers, including YouTube, Facebook, and Yahoo!
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One wild card in the state of these levies is the will of the many newly-Republican-dominated state legislatures.
Supporters of E-Verify like Kris Kobach, the Secretary of State of Kansas and author of many different state level anti-immigrant bills, claim that E-Verify will force unauthorized immigrants out of jobs so Americans can fill them.
Our candidates in 2012 managed to visit one-fifth as many despite each having access to state-of-the-art aircraft.
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But GM's big Chinese partner SAIC Motor is on the list, as are many other largely state-owned enterprises.
Many of the state-backed attacks used phishing campaigns to try to get a foothold in a target company.
Like many other European state-owned telecoms, it had foolishly forked over billions for 3G wireless spectrum a few years ago.
Another 23% will be held by employees, and the rest by investors and Air France's allies, many of them state-owned.
Many partners are state-owned, with a long legacy of socialist inefficiency.
To the Bank's technocrats, it was obvious that the country had too many banks, many of them state-owned, and that they were not serving the economy at all well.
By supplying many of the state-owned enterprises in China, the retired army officer has built Huawei into the world's second-largest vendor of mobile network equipment behind Sweden's Ericsson, according to market research firm Dell'Oro Group.
Reporters at BuzzFeed, the Wall Street Journal, especially the New York Times and other publications have been a lifeline to so many in the tri-state area and those beyond looking for information about the hurricane, its aftermath and its victims.
Of the north-east's GDP, two-thirds was being produced by state-owned firms, many of which were loss-making, says Cui Wantian of Liaoning University (he thinks they now contribute less than 50%, compared with about 30% nationally).
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