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Liberal Plantation
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Friday, November 23, 2012
The Liberal Plantation
7 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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Plantation States has a nicer ring to it.
Tim -
11/23/12, 8:27 AM
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mostlycajun said...
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Most people won't remember when FDR threatened to 'pack the court', appointing favorable Supreme Court justices so he'd have a compliant majority on the bench who wouldn't strike down his plans.
They won't remember the 'Missouri Compromise' that said for each 'free' state joining the Union, a 'slave' state would also join so that the balance of government would not tilt.
But adding DC and PR, that's two in the Left's column and aside from splitting Texas, there's no way for the Right to counteract.
We ain't voting our way out of this.
MC -
11/23/12, 11:05 AM
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Kristophr said...
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MC: We could split California into three states, Oregon and Washington into two each.
The folks in Northern California and the Valley, and Eastern Oregon and Washington would go for it immediately. -
11/23/12, 12:32 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Just give DC back to Maryland.
Freddie Sykes -
11/23/12, 1:02 PM
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Anonymous said...
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In 1990ish Cali did vote to split the state. Southern Cali was still red and had a warrior god named Pete Wilson at the helm. Chesty is waiting for Pete at the pearly gates with a cold one.
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11/23/12, 2:37 PM
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Anonymous said...
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give DC back to Maryland, and while you're at it, give northern Virginia (everything north of the Rappahannock River) to DC or Maryland.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick -
11/23/12, 6:56 PM
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Anonymous said...
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MC: We could split California into three states, Oregon and Washington into two each.
The folks in Northern California and the Valley, and Eastern Oregon and Washington would go for it immediately.
# posted by Blogger Kristophr : 11/23/12 12:32 PM
That got me thinking ... {Yeah, I know, danger danger danger}...
It seems that LARGE chunks of the electoral college, HUGE, go to one party, and essentially make a large percentage of voters essentially un-represented. This has happened in CA, as their House has a super-democrat majority, which can pass tax bills at will. Voted into place by the following scenario.
I heard on the radio yesterday that only 37% of the CA populace works for private industry after you subtract those working for government, i.e., teachers, cops,etc. And 18% of them pay taxes. The taxes that pay for the government workers. The low wage earners, untaxed, and some higher wage earners, government types, vote for the taxes to go up, and that small minority then pays, unrepresented in Sacramento. Mathematically, it seems to me that the 18% that pay taxes, i.e. make above minimum wage, are providing the wages for the other 63%, after all, the CA government doesn't actually MAKE anything, or produce anything of value.
Multiply that by 49 more states....
However, there seems to be a problem in that those voters who make money and are taxed are finding they can leave. They are doing so. Soon there will be the ultra-rich living in their caged communities, surrounded{maybe} by the unpaid unwashed that cannot afford to move, and live on the largesse of the government. No body in the middle... Taxed Enough Already...
See the posts of Victor Davis Hanson on pjmedia.com. He nails it.
tomw -
11/24/12, 10:07 AM
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