The Glade 4.0

http://money.cnn.com/news/storysuppleme ... index.html

Wonder which states vote which way...

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

This is an intellectually dishonest argument, because it assumes that those "Red States" which tend more towards small government conservatism, would seek to impose many costly and liberally minded federal mandates on themselves, which those monies go to pay for.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

That map is just about worthless since it doesn't provide any information regarding the magnitude of the differences.

But even so, by my count, 11 out of the 29 (38% of) blue states in the last election receive more in federal revenues than they pay in federal taxes. And on the other side of the equation, the largest (and perhaps most "notorious") red state pays more in federal taxes than it receives. That's not much of a correlation, especially when you're honest and don't count "swing states" as being either red or blue.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

sounds like a good reason to cut federal spending accross the board and make states do the same or deal with their consquences all by themselves.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

it also over looks various aspects about the states make up of lands, Take arizona for instance over 70% of the state is public land
We have 6 very large National forests 15 national monuments and 24 National parks.
Compared that to Texas which is 90% privately held land.
Where do you think the funding for federal land management should come from?

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History of the Condom
In 1272, the Muslim Arabs invented the condom, using a goat's lower intestine.
In 1873, the British somewhat refined the idea, by taking the intestine out of the goat first.

Not to mention how much of any given state is Indian Reservations.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

hell I didn't even think about that, The Navajo Reservation is the largest in the US.
Large enough that they have talked about becoming their own State, It usually dies when they realize the change in federal funding would cost them money.

12 Indian reservations In AZ

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History of the Condom
In 1272, the Muslim Arabs invented the condom, using a goat's lower intestine.
In 1873, the British somewhat refined the idea, by taking the intestine out of the goat first.

70% public land is misleading in the context you use there.

Federal land should be paid by federal dollars. "Public land" can be federal, state, or local. You sort of imply that the feds own and should pay for 70% of Arizona.

Often it's hard to separate the 2 Alamo lake state park for instance, is run and funded by the state but it's a federal flood control project off the Bill Williams river, it's also backed up against a
national wildlife preserve.
good map that covers the federal Lands in AZ
http://www.nationalatlas.gov/printable/ ... nds/az.pdf

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History of the Condom
In 1272, the Muslim Arabs invented the condom, using a goat's lower intestine.
In 1873, the British somewhat refined the idea, by taking the intestine out of the goat first.

Either way the spending of this administration gives me gas.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Speak of the devil ...

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The debt incurred by states is necessary to pay for public services. Taking on debts is part of the normal functioning of government and is not a large concern.

My heterosexual lifemate!

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Who rolls in after nearly a year and posts about their gas?

Were these posted out of order?