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Old 04-18-2009, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Washington DC
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I think you'd miss our dollars going to help fund your blue land.
The flow is the other direction. The blue states support the red states.
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Old 04-18-2009, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Texas
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The flow is the other direction. The blue states support the red states.
True with MOST blue states and MOST red states....NOT Texas. I looked it up. Texas is 35th highest, 15th LOWEST, in amount of federal money received in comparison to money sent.

Texas receives something like $0.88 for every $1.00 sent. New Mexico receives something like $3 for every $1 sent. It is #1.

Get off your high horse and find statistics that prove otherwise. Don't make generalizations and use "red states" vs "blue states"...actually look at Texas by itself. We are not talking about other red states.
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Old 04-18-2009, 02:24 PM
 
Location: Washington DC
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True with MOST blue states and MOST red states....NOT Texas. I looked it up. Texas is 35th highest, 15th LOWEST, in amount of government dollars received in comparison to those sent.

Texas receives something like $0.88 for every $1.00 sent. New Mexico receives something like $3 for every $1 sent. It is #1.
You didn't specify a state. You use a color.
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Old 04-18-2009, 02:38 PM
 
Location: 93,020,000 miles from the sun
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GREAT! Build the fence on the Texas border to keep them out.
Yeah, because EVERYBODY's dying to escape to New Jersey!
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Old 04-18-2009, 02:46 PM
 
Location: 93,020,000 miles from the sun
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For the same reason people wanna build one on the Mexican borders, to keep out illegals. If Texans want to leave let them fend for themselves, and that includes no free border crossings.
I don't know what's more pathetic: a minority of right-wing hatebreeding wackos making lofty statements about secession and fences, or ignorant Jersey-ites buying into the hoopla and assuming that if this fiction actually played out that America would be the only place Texans would want to cross borders?
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Old 04-18-2009, 05:56 PM
 
Location: T or C New Mexico
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Big Texas Budget

Texas House passes two year, $178.4 billion budget | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Texas Regional News (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/041909dntexhousebudgetpassed.e8653aaf.html - broken link)
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Old 04-18-2009, 06:03 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Big Texas Budget

Texas House passes two year, $178.4 billion budget | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Texas Regional News (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/041909dntexhousebudgetpassed.e8653aaf.html - broken link)
Texas is the second most populous state. We always have big budgets. They're almost always far lower than most other states when compared proportionally based on population.

Education alone costs the state $30 billion a year, transportation costs $7 billion, health care costs $25 billion, etc. And this was for 2 years...not 1.
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Old 04-18-2009, 06:45 PM
 
Location: 93,020,000 miles from the sun
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Texas is the second most populous state. We always have big budgets. They're almost always far lower than most other states when compared proportionally based on population.

Education alone costs the state $30 billion a year, transportation costs $7 billion, health care costs $25 billion, etc. And this was for 2 years...not 1.
Exactly. He should look at California's budget. Now THERE'S some numbers! More people = higher budget. Simple economics.

What amuses me is that most of the people trying to make some point here about secession (ie. people who took Perry's base-stirring as gospel) are not from Texas, and don't seem to grasp that it's all just a rallying cry from a desperate GOP that's losing it's political chokehold on a state that's voting more and more democratic in each election.

Those who are from Texas championing the idea of secession are not the majority voice for the state.
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Old 04-18-2009, 06:58 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Exactly. He should look at California's budget. Now THERE'S some numbers! More people = higher budget. Simple economics.
Agree there.

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What amuses me is that most of the people trying to make some point here about secession (ie. people who took Perry's base-stirring as gospel) are not from Texas, and don't seem to grasp that it's all just a rallying cry from a desperate GOP that's losing it's political chokehold on a state that's voting more and more democratic in each election.

Those who are from Texas championing the idea of secession are not the majority voice for the state.
My posts could be somewhat interpreted as supporting secession, but I'm not really. I AM a Republican and hope that Texas will stay red and that the trend will not continue. No one can ignore the simple fact that Republican leaders have done a wonderful job at keeping Texas on top in this hellish economy.

I hope that these "threats" will amount to nothing other than forcing the feds to take a hard look at themselves. That is what, IMO, needs to be accomplished.
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Old 04-18-2009, 07:15 PM
 
Location: North Cackelacky....in the hills.
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Back to history class OZ. We changed the constitution to allow blacks to vote.
But but the Supreme Court ruled on it.....remember...and that settles it...

The Supreme Court wasn't....WRONG was it?

LOL...

Funny you think the USSC is correct on the issue of Secession when it ruled 140 years ago on the issue....
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