Discussion for article #223204
Would such a convention be allowed to restrict manufacture, sale, and ownership of firearms?
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These are the sates that canât afford fiscal restraint.
Our DEBT/Government Spending Problem is RED STATES! THE TAKERS and the low wages
"Take a look at the difference between federal spending on any given state and the federal taxes received from that state. We measure the difference as a dollar amount: Federal Spending per Dollar of Federal Taxes. A figure of $1.00 means that particular state received as much as it paid in to the federal government. Anything over a dollar means the state received more than it paid; anything less than $1.00 means the state paid more in taxes than it received in services. The higher the figure, the more a given state is a welfare queen.
Of the twenty worst states, 16 are either Republican dominated or conservative states. Letâs go through the top twenty.
New Mexico: $2.03
Mississippi: $2.02
Alaska: $1.84
Louisiana: $1.78
West Virginia: $1.76
North Dakota: $1.68
Alabama: $1.66
South Dakota: $1.53
Kentucky: $1.51
Virginia: $1.51
Montana: $1.47
Hawaii: $1.44
Maine: $1.41
Arkansas: $1.41
Oklahoma: $1.36
South Carolina: $1.35
Missouri: $1.32
Maryland: $1.30
Tennessee: $1.27
Idaho: $1.21
Does anyone else notice the overwhelming presence of northern ârugged individualistâ states, like Alaska, the Dakotas and Montana, along with most of the South? Race to the bottom!
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What is the âHomeworkâ they need to do? Thatâs not clear in the article.
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REAL MURKINS DONT NEED NO FANCY NUMBRES. WE GOT BIBLES!!!1!!
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This could get exciting. The idea of all these wingers in a convention hall with really sweet guns and pharmaceutical-grade enthusiasm and the Fate of America at a stake⌠and wildly conflicting ideasâŚI see bodies. Lots and lots of bodies.
I put the corpse count over-and-under at 538, for ironyâs sake.
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They love the constitution the Founding Dads wroteâso much so they want to change it a lot.
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I donât know-maybe learn a little history and law?
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Yes, but the point is that an article (particularly one that calls them out in the headline!) should spell out what is incorrect in their beliefs and why.
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It seems the gross mismanagement of their own states finances is just another thing to blame on the âgubmintâ. If there were a GOPer in the white house the blame would be his because he wasnât a tea partier. One must remember when dealing with the South, that if itâs government, and itâs bad, itâs federal. Local graft and profiteering, oh! heavens, and donât forget nepotism, are just part of the landscape.
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Because the they didnât manage to make the state enough of a national embarrassment in their last session of the the General Assembly . . .
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Must try harder!
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Is it just me, or are all young white male conservative Republicans corpulently soft and doughy like Millis? None of them look like theyâve ever broken a sweat doing anything physically demanding.
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Once a CR, always a CR.
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In return, those legislators will get a free invite to the âConvention of States Conventionâ in Hawaii. I guess. Wingnut welfare all the way.
I guess it is self evident to the writer.
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Donât you know Joe The Dumber? He lifts crates of assault rifles before breakfast.
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Are these states not all taker states that take more federal taxes than they can afford to pay? Maybe they could convene and mandate that every US state be totally self-supporting.
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The whole point is to get control of âtheir moneyâ. There would be less (ignore that part, weâll figure out something!) but, most importantly, they can make sure that there ainât no âequal protectionâ or any of that other librul crap that keeps them from being an outright Jesusistan-Theocracy.
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Wouldnât it be nice if just once the right wingers proposed something useful with their time, i.e., something that would actually benefit the majority of Americans? I am constantly amazed at how easily they are side-tracked from the reality of governing.
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