TEXAS & the 10th AMENDEMENT!

Quote from Mom0/pH0x:

pretty defensive there buddy, who wrinkled up your foil hat?? sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bunker....

when someone from canada says that american politics are threatening "our" freedoms, that's a pretty salient fact... and of course you couldn't resist the racial pejorative jab... get some class... and yes i think it's safe to say that one's opinion about american politics is afforded some degree of credibility by way of actually living in america... you try to speak first hand about american politics and how it affects "our" freedoms, when you are in fact a canadian, your first hand narrative of american politics is a transparent farce...

but hey princess, don't get too upset, i now reside in the great nation of canadia, and i'm going to lead the secession of quebec by way of a liaison with texas! were going to work together... and if you don't shut up, i'm going to forward this matter on to my supervisor jew bogey man and he'll come hunt you down! strap on that tin foil hat and start passing out the kool aid!! jesus is coming any day now!! :D:D:D
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Thanks for that confused, yet entertaining rant. Good job, Corky.

As far as relevance, I couldn't care less what your personal feelings are towards me, or anything else. By your recent troll attempts to "expose me" as a Canadian (LOL), I'd hazard a guess you're still wound licking from the beatdown I handed you 8 MONTHS ago. Geez, let it go, dude. You're following me around like a deranged crackwhore, and its getting a bit weird.
 
Quote from dsq:

baloney, how many anti bush signs have you seen at these rallies?I noticed many obama is a fascist,commie,new world order leader.Please this is not an american thing its a racist thing.An opportunity for ignorant hicks to spew their racism under the guise of anti-tax rally.In fact obama has given these idiots a tax cut if they dont make over 250k.Now how many of these racists do you think make over that amount and will see a tax increase?Fox is uniting as many creeps they can a these rallies.Its sick.A breeding ground for tim mcveigh LOSER types.FOX NEWS:Breeding home grown terrorists in country.
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You are falling for the propaganda on the airwaves. Most of the so-called "hicks" you refer to are simply hard working Americans, unlike the "elite" who sit on their ass in an office and think they are above the great unwashed masses.
 
Quote from Brandonf:

I hate to break it to you but for most people this really isnt about the DOW, it's about the absurd increases in the power Washington has over our lives, and if ya'll had been paying attention you'd have seen many of the same people who are leading the Tea Parties where leading republican critics of Bush as well.
Its not a party thing, it's an America thing...both parties suck right now.
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You aced it with that comment.
 
Quote from Brandonf:

I hate to break it to you but for most people this really isnt about the DOW, it's about the absurd increases in the power Washington has over our lives, and if ya'll had been paying attention you'd have seen many of the same people who are leading the Tea Parties where leading republican critics of Bush as well.
Its not a party thing, it's an America thing...both parties suck right now.
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The Tea Party thing is arguably a Fox thing, because every Fox "personality" is rallying behind it, pumping it up, endorsing it, attending the shindigs and urging others to join in. Fox is the official Tea Party station. And you are saying it's not a Republican thing? Wake up, little Suzie.
 
All of this stuff is a lot of ignorance dressed up as clownish stupidity.
I distinctly remember pointing out the actual fact, to AAA, that the Red states are seriously subsidized by the Blue states. Obviously, from his comments in this thread, the lesson didn't take.
As for the rest, since no one's taxes have yet been raised, I'm assuming there's a chain of logic involved (I know, large assumption, but stick with me, this is all just entertainment anyway) that goes something like: big deficits, by way of Ricardian equivalence, lead to big taxes down the line. (Huh? Ricardo: the idea that if government spends lots of bucks, people realize that somewhere down the line they'll pay big taxes to pay for it. Ricardo, you say? Like Ricky Ricardo? Are we taking economics lessons from Messicans now??? No, first of all Ricky Ricardo was Cuban. I'm talking about David Ricardo, who was English. What, you don't know who David Ricardo was either? But you're supporting protests based on his hypothesis (which he rejected, btw) and...oh, never mind.)
A rebuttal from today's FT: A long cool look at budget deficits
As for Texas seceding, while the Constitutional validity of secession is one of those things that can inspire endless debates on the order of angels, dancing, and pinheads, the real-life validity of the idea was definitively established by Sherman, 150 years ago. I believe the answer was a definite no.
 
Quote from lolatBushites:

If Obama hacks FARM SUBSIDIES to Zero, none of these neoconservative maggots would be whimpering. Most of these maggots are collecting welfare under disguise of farm subsidies.

Btw, neoconservatives are worse than liberals when it comes to govt. spending. The difference is liberals increase taxes for spending while these neocon maggots BORROW the money from enemy countries. Fucking maggots.
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Actually the vast majority of the farmers, at least around here, are democrats.
The big corporate ones probably skew slightly republican because of enviornmental issues..but the average farmer is a democrat. You'd find that to be the case in Minnesota too I suspect. In Western Iowa, Nebraska, SD etc I suspect the skew republican because the vast majority of those states do..but to make a big generalization like that just shows how stupid you are.
Why is it ok for you to stereotype farmers as ignorant/inbred idiots and that is fine. However, if I was to stereotype blacks as loudmouth, criminal crackhead niggers I'd be a horrible racists. Your doing exactly the same thing I'd be doing.

Brandon
PS. Since I'm sure that at a later date someone will try to take this post out of context I'd like to add that I don't think of the majority of blacks as loudmouths, criminals or crackheads anymore so then I think of the average farmer as an inbred idiot. I've met plenty of both and have found that in this world stereotypes are the refuge of those who would rather not think, but they rarely are accurate. I'd also never call any person a nigger...however I think that the only way to make my point is to do so in strong terms.
 
the concept of the blue states supporting red states has to be challenged.

It was most likely based on the old bullshit blue state economic model which recently cost tax payers trillions.

And, I will bet if you looked at the map by county now you would probably see the red counties subsidize the blue counties.
 
It's based on the simple fact that crowded places have a higher cost of living, that has to be made up for by higher incomes, which are of course taxed more through the income tax.
Farm subsidy spending just offsets social service spending in the blue states, on the spending side. The difference is made up through (generally speaking; all of this stuff is generalities) defense spending, which goes more to the red than the blue states, overall, and simply the ethic, in the red states, which are largely Southern, of looking to the Feds to solve largely local problems.
Huh? you say? Yes: Lake Lanier was a Federal project. When NYC built its reservoirs, it did it with its own money.
Maintenance of the Mississippi for navigation is largely done by the Feds; maintenance of the port of NY/NJ - dredging, onshore facilities - is largely done by the jointly governed Port Authority of New York/New Jersey.
Power for the NYC subways is subsidized, but by the state, from its upstate hydroelectric plants, through the New York Power Authority.
Even highways were, until NY finally got wise to Interstate highway funding: the New York State Thruway was built by NY state, and then afterwards Moynihan got funds out of the Feds to "reimburse" the state after it became part of the Interstate highway system. Try to find a similar story anywhere in the South.
Right near my house is a small but significant example of this, by the way: the Palisades Interstate Parkway. Not terribly large, but once again, maintained jointly by NY and NJ. Once again, try to find an example of this kind of thing anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon.
Meantime, I don't see Montana's cost of living rising enough to contribute enough income tax to change the relationship. Georgia and Texas, certainly. Probably some others. But as I noted before, as states change over, they also turn blue, as did Virginia and NC in this last election.
 
Are you talking at the state level? What I'm talking about is how much each state contributes in taxes to the Federal gov't as opposed to what they get back. Whether the state gov't is running a surplus is not directly relevant to that.
 
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