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Old 05-31-2016, 11:12 PM
 
Location: When you take flak it means you are on target
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They might get the socialist state of Commiefornia and the destitute state of New North Mexico, but good luck getting Arizona or Texas. We kicked their butts before and we've still got more guns than the cartels. Notwithstanding the arm assistance the ATF provides them...
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Old 05-31-2016, 11:24 PM
 
Location: San Francisco, CA
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They might get the socialist state of Commiefornia and the destitute state of New North Mexico, but good luck getting Arizona or Texas. We kicked their butts before and we've still got more guns than the cartels. Notwithstanding the arm assistance the ATF provides them...
If they get "Commiefornia", they would get the nation's largest GDP contributor BY FAR. It's like 14% of the US GDP. It's one of the top ten stand-alone economies on the planet. California is the most economically productive state this union has. Enjoy being a distant second, Texas. And Arizona? LOL...please.
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Old 06-01-2016, 12:42 AM
 
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If they get "Commiefornia", they would get the nation's largest GDP contributor BY FAR.
But NOT BY FAR on a PER CAPITA basis. California and Texas are pretty close ($61,924 vs $59,994 for 2015).
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Old 06-01-2016, 01:08 AM
 
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But NOT BY FAR on a PER CAPITA basis. California and Texas are pretty close ($61,924 vs $59,994 for 2015).
And Texas ain't "Broke"!

California is still broke


Dan Walters, a respected columnist for the Sacramento Bee, has estimated that the state’s unfunded liabilities are between $500 billion and $1 trillion. The Volcker Alliance, a group headed by Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, estimates that the state has $195 billion in promises to state-government employees.

California voters may have a chance in 2016 to vote on pension reform.

If reform does not pass, California might make Greece look good.
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Old 06-01-2016, 06:48 AM
 
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Annex Mexico? Get the **** out of here. We don't want that 3rd world cesspool apart of the United States. We are already supporting tens of millions of their citizens(illegals) and their drugs have destroyed families and communities for decades.

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Old 06-01-2016, 07:56 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Talking Aztlan Reconquista: "its a matter of tine" "de facto elimination of the border"

Listen up all y'all angry, frightened, pessimistic RWNJs:

Be scared.

Be very scared.

Of the big, bad Mexican boogie man.

He's gonna come gitcha!

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Old 06-01-2016, 09:30 AM
 
Location: New Mexico
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Listen up all y'all angry, frightened, pessimistic RWNJs:

Be scared.

Be very scared.

Of the big, bad Mexican boogie man.

He's gonna come gitcha!

Well, more likely the cucuy. But still, it's the thought that counts.


See ¡El Cucuy! - A Bogeyman Cuento in English and Spanish - by Joe Hayes | Cinco Puntos Press | Independent Book Publisher for an explanation.
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Old 06-01-2016, 10:35 AM
 
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We have every reason to object and be angry about the illegal invasion of our country by Mexicans or anyone else coming here illegally and the harm it causes our own citizens. Making fun of a serious issue and law abiding Americans is not the least bit funny or cool.
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Old 06-01-2016, 10:43 AM
 
Location: St Louis, MO
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We have every reason to object and be angry about the illegal invasion of our country by Mexicans or anyone else coming here illegally and the harm it causes our own citizens. Making fun of a serious issue and law abiding Americans is not the least bit funny or cool.
Except that it's not a formal invasion. It's a flood of economic refugees (not the same as a refugee) who have little connection to the actual government of their source country. That makes the whole idea of reconquista worthy of ridicule because it is ridiculously. It's a cultural pipe dream smoked up by a bunch of college kids who were almost always born citizens and never lived a day in Mexico.
(If they had, they would also understand why it is a horrible idea.)
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Old 06-01-2016, 11:45 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Lightbulb It's just more corporate welfare

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We have every reason to object and be angry about the illegal invasion of our country by Mexicans or anyone else coming here illegally and the harm it causes our own citizens. Making fun of a serious issue and law abiding Americans is not the least bit funny or cool.

You're still in deep denial that the illegal immigration continues precisely because it harms the American working class.

But it greatly benefits the American corporate/investing class. And that's exactly why it'll just keep coming. Those jobs they can't send to Communist China, they want filled with illegals.


Corporate America LOVES having millions of sub-minimum wage illegals here to hold down pay and benefits for the rest of us. Besides, our taxes pay for their health care as they clog up emergency rooms across the country. We pay for their food stamps, too.

All to increase the corporate bottom line.

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