It appears that we don't actually have a President of the United States.
We have a tyrant-king.
He needs to swing...
Texas should just secede already.
“When nearly 7,000 individual wildfires burn through more than 2.2. million acres, result in loss of life, and destroy homes, businesses, farms and ranches across the state, it’s hard to understand how these conditions don’t spell ‘disaster’ for this Administration," said Cornyn on Wednesday. "We’ve yet to enter the hottest months of the year and already wildfires have wreaked havoc in Texas – yet our state has not received sufficient federal disaster aid.[/blockquote]
It gets old saying this, but can you imagine the outrage if Bush would have denied disaster relief to California during one of its wildfires? Why its almost as if there were different rules for Republicans and Democrats.
Texas will be voting in the next election won't they?
Such petty vindictiveness by Sir Golfsalot I place into the 'high crimes and misdemeanors' category. One of many such 'high crimes' he has committed.
The sticky wicket there is the money states remit to the Feds.
To be consistent a state would also not send money to the Fed.
The sticky wicket there is the money states remit to the Feds.
To be consistent a state would also not send money to the Fed.
Good point, but I'm not sure what money the states collect and remit to the Feds. That's how it was done originally, but nowadays I think the Feds just tax the people directly, which was not in the Constitution.
http://cpr.ca.gov/CPR_Report/Issues_and_Recommendations/Chapter_1_General_Government/Increasing_State_Revenues/GG07.html[/blockquote]
In federal FY 2002-2003, Texas received 92 cents in federal payments and services for every dollar sent to Washington. [15] Federal funds are the second largest segment of the Texas state budget, accounting for $39.2 billion, or more than one-third of FY 2004-2005 appropriations. This appropriation was an increase of $2.17 billion from the previous fiscal year. [16]
An accountant probably has a formula to calculate what was originallytakenremitted by the state to the Fed.
State loyalty, in and of itself as such, never entered my thought process, I guess that makes it intentional. If states were the incubators of innovation as originally intended, then states with thriving economies, low taxes, more liberty, blind justice and true representative/non-careerist representation...then citizens would flock to that state and other states would have to compete in like fashion or devolve into a dysfunctional state. That is the kind of earned loyalty and pride I can get behind. Our mobile society could be leveraged into a positive force, if leaders of vision have the foresight to see it and act upon it. But it will be tough indeed to get enough of a states political leadership to start the ball rolling. It may require leadership from DC to give up control over certain areas on order to spark the states into action, but the top-down approach only works if you have effective control over all branches of government, something that in this day and age is not very easy to accomplish. And if Obamakov (God spare us!) gets another 4 more years, baring state action what else is there left to stave off permanent serfdom?
State loyalty, in and of itself as such, never entered my thought process, I guess that makes it intentional. If states were the incubators of innovation as originally intended, then states with thriving economies, low taxes, more liberty, blind justice and true representative/non-careerist representation...then citizens would flock to that state and other states would have to compete in like fashion or devolve into a dysfunctional state. That is the kind of earned loyalty and pride I can get behind. Our mobile society could be leveraged into a positive force, if leaders of vision have the foresight to see it and act upon it. But it will be tough indeed to get enough of a states political leadership to start the ball rolling. It may require leadership from DC to give up control over certain areas on order to spark the states into action, but the top-down approach only works if you have effective control over all branches of government, something that in this day and age is not very easy to accomplish. And if Obamakov (God spare us!) gets another 4 more years, baring state action what else is there left to stave off permanent serfdom?
That's already happening as folks are fleeing Michigan and New York. Those are just two off the top of my head. We got the hell out of the frying pan of NJ only to jump into the fire of CA, and then came to NC, looking to just get shut of laws/taxes, laws/taxes, laws/taxes. Here would be a good place to insert the issue of the "locusts" doing the same, diluting the effect of the freedom-seekers by advocating to recreate the "stifle" we all left behind -- God help us.
I can only see this mobility and liberty-seeking escalating once any state -- Texas? -- takes a stand and gains even a minor foothold, with the added benefit of the locusts being content to stay where they feeeeel "protected".
It doesn't necessarily happen that way. Some may not be locusts but hard workers who by ignorance bring the same political and culturally week mindset, they will work, obey the laws, vote, and change the laws and thereby change the culture forever.
It doesn't necessarily happen that way. Some may not be locusts but hard workers who by ignorance bring the same political and culturally week mindset, they will work, obey the laws, vote, and change the laws and thereby change the culture forever.
That's exactly what makes them locusts. They "ignorantly" work to recreate what they fled.
.45 ACP pesticide.
Or a 10 yr residency before being allowed to vote in a state, county, city, or municipal election.
Or a 10 yr residency before being allowed to vote in a state, county, city, or municipal election.