RTP-area local music and culture

[David Smith <davidasmithii AT yahoo.com>]

Dave, You're full of shit. The red states use the bulk
of the tax money and therefore are responsible for the
bulk of the debt. (See
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/09/red_states_feed.html
)

The red states couldn't afford to lose the blues
states 'cause that's where their funding comes from.

There won't be an amicable secession.

--- Dave Simpson <david_l_simpson AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> Chris Calloway wrote:
> 
> > > States that went red in both 2000 and 2004
> GAINED
> > > *7*
> > > electoral college votes since 2000.  States that
> > > went
> > > blue in both lost 7.  NM and IA stayed the same,
> as
> > > did NH.
> > 
> > i love it when you do stuff like this. makes me
> think
> > someone is paying attention.
> 
>   It's Hemoglobin vs. Cyanide Nation.
> 
>   This secession issue is being raised again by the
> losing side.
> 
>   While the little-minded lefties re-raise the issue
> of blue-state
> secession, the normal alternative would be for the
> USA to expel those
> Blue alien states, if not merely the worst Blue
> Losers.  Better would
> be to demote the Blue states to territories. 
> Long-needed reform in
> Washington could then progress.  The Blue
> territories would remain
> territories, not states, on probation until they
> corrected the worst
> of their problems.  Then readmission might occur.
> 
>   An amicable secession would mean Blue assumption
> of most of the
> federal debt (driven primarily by expenditures for
> Blue entitlements),
> loss of much Blue state territory in border
> revisions, and any transit
> between two sets of former US territory (which
> ultimately would have
> to become independent -- they couldnt' remain
> together; the West Coast
> would become Bangladesh, cut off) would be only on
> good Blue behavior.
> 
> 
>   Dave Simpson
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
> alt.music.chapel-hill --
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene
> 


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Doctor Oakroot ~ Rough-edged songs 
on homemade GIT-tars 
http://DoctorOakroot.com 

The Blues Weed ~ MLM for the Blues 
http://BluesWeed.com



                
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