I was playing with a spreadsheet and developed the following.

Average Joe's Economic Survival Locator

Based on the following factors I have given each state in the U.S. a ranking:
Median income
Median home price
State income tax
Federal income tax

In a nutshell: If you are an average person, and hold down a job with average income for that state, pay an average mortgage for that state, and pay average taxes for that state, you will have a certain amount of money left to spend each month. Based on that amount of spending money I have given each state a score. The higher the score, the more money the average hypothetical resident will have at the end of the month.

And, no I did not skew the numbers or play favorites (hell, I live in Mississippi.)

BTW, if any states are missing, that is because I could not easily find the data for that state.

100 MARYLAND
99 CONNECTICUT
97 ILLINOIS
96 PENNSYLVANIA
93 KANSAS
91 NEW JERSEY
89 INDIANA
89 MINNESOTA
87 MICHIGAN
87 FLORIDA
86 WASHINGTON
85 IOWA
83 OHIO
83 TEXAS
82 NEVADA
82 TENNESSEE
82 NORTH DAKOTA
81 DELAWARE
80 VIRGINIA
77 NEBRASKA
77 RHODE ISLAND
76 MISSOURI
71 WISCONSIN
71 ALABAMA
65 COLORADO
65 ARIZONA
63 GEORGIA
63 LOUISIANA
62 MASSACHUSETTS
61 MAINE
60 SOUTH CAROLINA
58 OKLAHOMA
57 ARKANSAS
52 MISSISSIPPI
52 KENTUCKY
51 NEW YORK
49 IDAHO
47 WEST VIRGINIA
41 OREGON
39 NORTH CAROLINA
36 NEW MEXICO
9 CALIFORNIA
0 HAWAII

Photons may be nothing more than microscopic cavitations in space-time spinning and/or moving at C...explains how you get something from nothing.

If you think about how cavitation works around boat propellors and then you imagine each cavitation bubble moving so fast that it is insulated from the effects of time so it cannot collapse (it's frozen in time) then you will get it.

A photon is what an empty bubble in the fabric of spacetime looks like.

Here's a neat little article that piqued my interest.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2169170/teenager-builds-fusion-reactor