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Dear Liberals: I Want a Divorce!Red States Feed at Federal Trough, Blue States Supply the Feed
Monday, September 27, 2004
The Tax Foundation has released a fascinating report showing which states benefit from federal tax and spending policies, and which states foot the bill.
The report shows that of the 32 states (and the District of Columbia) that are "winners" -- receiving more in federal spending than they pay in federal taxes -- 76% are Red States that voted for George Bush in 2000. Indeed, 17 of the 20 (85%) states receiving the most federal spending per dollar of federal taxes paid are Red States. Here are the Top 10 states that feed at the federal trough.
Spending Per Dollar of Federal Taxes Paid:
1. D.C. ($6.17)
2. North Dakota ($2.03)
3. New Mexico ($1.89)
4. Mississippi ($1.84)
5. Alaska ($1.82)
6. West Virginia ($1.74)
7. Montana ($1.64)
8. Alabama ($1.61)
9. South Dakota ($1.59)
10. Arkansas ($1.53)
In contrast, of the 16 states that are "losers" -- receiving less in federal spending than they pay in federal taxes ..... Here are the Top 10 states that supply feed for the federal trough (with Blue States highlighted in bold):
States Receiving Least in Federal Spending Per Dollar of Federal Taxes Paid:
1. New Jersey ($0.62)
2. Connecticut ($0.64)
3. New Hampshire ($0.68)
4. Nevada ($0.73)
5. Illinois ($0.77)
6. Minnesota ($0.77)
7. Colorado ($0.79)
8. Massachusetts ($0.79)
9. California ($0.81)
10. New York ($0.81)
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/09/red_states_feed.html
We don't actually need to split the country. We just need to take away the neocon nutjobs keyboards.
Oh yeah that's right - you would have to make money and buy the food from us "redneck evil conservative rural farmer types.".... You'll be like North Korea in a matter of years begging for food aid - all the while claiming your system and economy works.
You guys can have the corporate monoculture, which will fail eventually. We have sustainable, non polluting small farms that are actually more productive than monoculture and do not depend on big oil at all. You guys are the ones who won't know what you're doing.
We don't actually need to split the country. We just need to take away the neocon nutjobs keyboards.
What we need to do is jail every progressive on charges of treason and conspiracy...
Hey your dear leader FDR threw Japanese and Italians in camps so I'm sure you will understand.
Ah, now you're getting into the spirit of it. I'm afraid you'll have to forego the big box stores, however, as they are all part of those big evil corporation that your side hates and that will be moving to our side. You will have all the illegals to work those farms though so I am sure you guys will have plenty to eat. And I'm sure there's a liberal engineer or two that will go to your side and can build an electric or solar powered tractor and combine. As for stores, if the government is enlarged and empowered to distribute everything everybody needs equitably, you won't need many stores.
I said we would "reclaim" the land the big box stores are on for farm land or that's what I meant - we don't need 'em. Mom and pops can supply everything we need just fine. Of course there would be stores. You seem to think we want the government to do everything - I'm not sure where you get this idea from other than talk radio. We do not. We DO want our government (we the people ) to have control over corporate exploitation, though. And not the other way around as it is today.
We don't actually need to split the country. We just need to take away the neocon nutjobs keyboards.
What we need to do is jail every progressive on charges of treason and conspiracy...
Hey your dear leader FDR threw Japanese and Italians in camps so I'm sure you will understand.
FINE............
What are you apes going to do for food???
Oh yeah that's right - you would have to make money and buy the food from us "redneck evil conservative rural farmer types.".... You'll be like North Korea in a matter of years begging for food aid - all the while claiming your system and economy works.
We can build our own cities while you destroy yours.....
We can build our own education institutions....
Hell, you didn't even think about natural resources - you want cities and colleges..and you think progressives could run anything?????
You remind me of the idiots from Katrina who were looting stores for plasma TV's and forgetting the water and food...
The key question is: What are you apes going to do for food?
You will work for low wages on corporate farms and not even be able to afford what you labor for
Forget about educational institutions....they are only for the rich in a conservative utopia
Corp. farms? You are really off there.
People would own their farms.
The Cons educational system would actually teach, like U.S.History, the Constitution, math, science. Not social things like 2 mommies and 2 daddies are ok.
There's not much conservative about you, really.(Disclaimer: This is an adaptation of a divorce agreement that has been circulating around the internet for awhile.)
To All My Dearest Beloved Liberal, Leftist, Social Progressive, Regressive, Marxist, and Liberation Theologist Friends:
Since we are not going to get gasoline back to $1.50 per gallon and coffee to $2.00 per pound, it is time to divide up our common property and split the sheets so to speak. To wit I propose the following:
DIVORCE AGREEMENT
WHEREAS, we have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake of the kids and for sake of future generations, but the whole of this latest election process has revealed that our relationship has clearly run its course, and
WHEREAS, our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all,
THEREFORE let's end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is the suggested model separation agreement:
1. Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass apportioned according to numerical representation. You can have California, Oregon, and Washington State. We'll take all the rest.
2. We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.
3. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
4. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.
5. We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with all the wind, solar, and bio-diesel.
6. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them.
7. We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.
8. You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless homeboys, hippies, druggies, illegal aliens, unions, peaceniks, war protesters, and the OSW groups.
9. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks.
10. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood
11. You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us or hit back when we are threatened or attacked.
14. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLain. You can also have the U.N., but we will no longer be paying the bill.
13. We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
14. We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Chevy Volt you can find.
15. You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any doctors to deliver it. We'll continue to believe that healthcare is more affordable and more excellent in a free market system.
16. We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", "God Bless America", and "The National Anthem."
17. You get "Imagine", "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", "Kum Ba Ya," or "We Are the World".
18. We'll practice trickledown economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.
19. Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our constitution and our flag.
Please sign and pass it on if you will agree to this equitable distribution of property, values, and practices.
In the spirit of friendly parting, we will arrange for a community picnic in about 10 years to compare notes and see how each other are doing.
Sincerely,
Your Conservative Friends
P.S.: Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbara Streisand, Alec Baldwin, and Jane Fonda with you.
P.S.S..: And you won't have to "Press 1 for English" when you call our country.
We don't actually need to split the country. We just need to take away the neocon nutjobs keyboards.
What we need to do is jail every progressive on charges of treason and conspiracy...
Hey your dear leader FDR threw Japanese and Italians in camps so I'm sure you will understand.
The key question is: What are you apes going to do for food?
You will work for low wages on corporate farms and not even be able to afford what you labor for
Forget about educational institutions....they are only for the rich in a conservative utopia
You're the one who proposed trading all the cities and universities for everything else....
Hell, I'd even give you the entire northeast - it still doesn't change the fact you will fail...
Chicago has been progressive for the last 75 years and Chicago is a shithole, the same with Detroit....
Your policies are destructive - and that is because you're all greedy... You want something for nothing and there will always be a power-hungry politician to give it to you in exchange for your vote...... Nothing is free and you progressive just cant comprehend that.... You drain society of resources and energy - not to mention promote immoral and bad behavior.... That's why 25 people were shot and 12 died from their wounds this past weekend here in Chicago. Chicago is more dangerous for US citizens than Iraq... Yet you call this progressive controlled city with their progressive politics a success????
Come on Mr. Nick. Get with the spirit of the concept. We want an amicable divorce and we can't have that if the two sides are just throwing the same old insults, whether or not they contain any truth.
Let's focus on what a conservative country would look like and they can focus on what their liberal country would look like. We each believe we have the right way so let's find out. We'll each go our own way and we'll each do our own thing with each giving their full blessings and best wishes to the other. Ten years down the line we can compare notes at that community picnic and then we'll know. Maybe we're both right. Or one will prosper more than the other.
The only way to find out is to do it.
You're the one who proposed trading all the cities and universities for everything else....
Hell, I'd even give you the entire northeast - it still doesn't change the fact you will fail...
Chicago has been progressive for the last 75 years and Chicago is a shithole, the same with Detroit....
Your policies are destructive - and that is because you're all greedy... You want something for nothing and there will always be a power-hungry politician to give it to you in exchange for your vote...... Nothing is free and you progressive just cant comprehend that.... You drain society of resources and energy - not to mention promote immoral and bad behavior.... That's why 25 people were shot and 12 died from their wounds this past weekend here in Chicago. Chicago is more dangerous for US citizens than Iraq... Yet you call this progressive controlled city with their progressive politics a success????
Come on Mr. Nick. Get with the spirit of the concept. We want an amicable divorce and we can't have that if the two sides are just throwing the same old insults, whether or not they contain any truth.
Let's focus on what a conservative country would look like and they can focus on what their liberal country would look like. We each believe we have the right way so let's find out. We'll each go our own way and we'll each do our own thing with each giving their full blessings and best wishes to the other. Ten years down the line we can compare notes at that community picnic and then we'll know. Maybe we're both right. Or one will prosper more than the other.
The only way to find out is to do it.
The funny part about our side would be that it would be almost communal based, with small local government(s) and a small central government, with the economic emphasis being free market....
It would be great.....
Few regulations, no Nazi's telling us what we can and cant eat, do, say etc.... People could practice religion without being challenged with crap that doesn't even appear in the Bill of Rights.
We don't actually need to split the country. We just need to take away the neocon nutjobs keyboards.
What we need to do is jail every progressive on charges of treason and conspiracy...
Hey your dear leader FDR threw Japanese and Italians in camps so I'm sure you will understand.
We don't actually need to split the country. We just need to take away the neocon nutjobs keyboards.
What we need to do is jail every progressive on charges of treason and conspiracy...
Hey your dear leader FDR threw Japanese and Italians in camps so I'm sure you will understand.
Does this mean we get to keep GTMO open? Does it remain a U.S. Territory in the settlement as described in the OP?
We don't actually need to split the country. We just need to take away the neocon nutjobs keyboards.
What we need to do is jail every progressive on charges of treason and conspiracy...
Hey your dear leader FDR threw Japanese and Italians in camps so I'm sure you will understand.
If the Pubs and dupes of the day weren't trying to string them up, he might not have. You dupes know nothing about history or anything else...a disgrace...
Ah, now you're getting into the spirit of it. I'm afraid you'll have to forego the big box stores, however, as they are all part of those big evil corporation that your side hates and that will be moving to our side. You will have all the illegals to work those farms though so I am sure you guys will have plenty to eat. And I'm sure there's a liberal engineer or two that will go to your side and can build an electric or solar powered tractor and combine. As for stores, if the government is enlarged and empowered to distribute everything everybody needs equitably, you won't need many stores.
I said we would "reclaim" the land the big box stores are on for farm land or that's what I meant - we don't need 'em. Mom and pops can supply everything we need just fine. Of course there would be stores. You seem to think we want the government to do everything - I'm not sure where you get this idea from other than talk radio. We do not. We DO want our government (we the people ) to have control over corporate exploitation, though. And not the other way around as it is today.
Yes. that is one thing we seem to all agree on, is getting rid of crony capitalism. No lobby money what so ever.
We don't actually need to split the country. We just need to take away the neocon nutjobs keyboards.
What we need to do is jail every progressive on charges of treason and conspiracy...
Hey your dear leader FDR threw Japanese and Italians in camps so I'm sure you will understand.
Does this mean we get to keep GTMO open? Does it remain a U.S. Territory in the settlement as described in the OP?
You ever see the movie Escape from New York or Escape from LA???
I'd just take Chicago and build a wall around the city and throw all the progressives in there.
It be like a progressive fish tank...
Then we can throw them food every once in a while and watch them fight over it.... Watch them cannibalize Michael Moore.....
It be like watching Lord of The Flies in real life.....
I don't want a divorce, I want the Fairness Doctrine back....some argument based on reality for Rush, Beck, Savage etc so we wouldn't have to deal with tin foil loudmouth morons on here...
