Posted on 07/27/2005 12:22:03 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Has this issue gotten any airtime in the UK? It's a perfect example of an uncouth, witless politician showing her lack of class.
The armour of Admiral Sir William Penn (d. 1670) hangs in St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. I assume he is buried there as well. He was the father of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania.
And its all due to poor governorship. As those industries died, PA should have expanded other sectors like technology and services and they did not.
Another factor is they never converted/completed a passenger rail infrustructure that would allow the freer flow of money into the state from NJ & NY as well as within PA. So, what we have now are PA communities completely cut off from major metro areas (unlike NJ & NY which have rail service everywhere.
PA's downward spiral was either unintentional or intentional. After reviewing the long list of PA failures and foot dragging, I came to the conclusion that it is most likely intentional...for what reason I am uncertain. I was told once by an old timer who worked for the state that PA was trying to return to its roots, meaning away from industry and back to the "breadbasket" it once was prior to the discovery of coal.
"Ask anyone who works on Beacon Hill, and they don't even know the names of the towns more than 15 miles beyond the city limits."
The attitudes seems a lot like here in New Zealand, Canada, or in the mother country, Britain. No wonder why our politics here is likewise dominated by feel-good leftism.
ANSWER: Democrats, because they are not in their right mind. Next question?
The people there have lost their fight to achieve the dream through hard work, believing, as they have been taught by the hillary's of this world, that they are owed their rent, medicine, food and whatever else through our hard work, or basically the taxes taken from us.
Virginia.gov - The Official Commonwealth of Virginia Home Page
Better yet, have the Old Glory-waving Southern states conquer them and then impose Reconstruction on them.
What goes around, comes around.
It's rather obvious some people need a basic course in the origins of term "Commonwealth"
The English noun 'Commonwealth' dates originally from the fifteenth century.
The Commonwealth of England was the official name of the political unit that replaced the kingdoms of Scotland and England under the rule of Oliver Cromwell and his successors from 1649 to 1660. It formed the first republic in the English-speaking world, though this quickly devolved into a pseudo-monarchy.
Four states in the United States officially designate themselves "commonwealths": Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. In these cases, this is merely a name and has no constitutional impact. They thus emphasize that they have a "government based on the common consent of the people", instead of a government legitimized through their earlier Royal Colony status that was derived from the King of England.
The term also served when the six Australian colonies federated to form the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.
When capitalised, (The) "Commonwealth" refers to the Commonwealth of Nations - formerly the "British Commonwealth" - a loose confederation of nations formerly members of the British Empire.
There seems to another banner some in Southern states are still "waving" about in place of "Old Glory".
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