So there's an old adage in politics that people oftenvote with their wallet. Put another way, they vote for candidates who they believe will help them the most financially.
It's not an all-inclusive perspective, of course, and it's a broad generalization. However, old political adages become old because there is likely some element of truth involved.
Given that preface, is Ted Cruz the best presidential candidate for Alabama?
Here's the thing: On Monday, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, praised Cruz as a strong candidate- although Brooks stopped short of giving an endorsement of the Texas senator.
Brooks also said this: "He's a strong supporter of human space travel. Redstone Arsenal - both on the military side and the space side - could not hope for a better president than Ted Cruz. Because Ted Cruz is strongly in favor of human space flight, which is what the Marshall Space Flight Center's primary focus is.
"And Ted Cruz understands that the world is still a very dangerous place and just as it's good to have carrots, you need to have sticks in order to secure world peace -- which means you've got to have a strong military."
And that's where your wallet comes in.
In 2012, a study valued the economic impact of Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville at $11.47 billion and about 101,000 jobs. That broke down to about 6 percent of the state's Gross Domestic Product.
Of course, that's not a suggestion that any other candidate would wipe Redstone off the map.
But if, as Brooks said, Redstone (and its $11 billion economic impact) "could not hope for a better president than Ted Cruz," would that cause you to vote with your wallet?
Source: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/03/could_there_be_11_billion_reas.html
