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Indebted states stay blue. Do they hope to be bailed out?
Data from Forbes.com ^
| 11-04-10
| Dangus
Posted on 11/04/2010 9:50:03 PM PDT by dangus
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posted on
11/04/2010 9:50:06 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: dangus
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posted on
11/04/2010 9:51:14 PM PDT
by
IrishCatholic
(No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
To: dangus
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posted on
11/04/2010 9:53:07 PM PDT
by
xuberalles
("The Right Stuff" Conservative Novelties http://www.zazzle.com/xuberalles)
To: dangus
Do they hope to be bailed out? They are way too arrogant than that. They expect to be bailed out.
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posted on
11/04/2010 9:53:11 PM PDT
by
outofstyle
(Anti-socialist)
To: dangus
CA? “Drill baby Drill, you got the resources ...”
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posted on
11/04/2010 9:54:58 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
(Things that have never happened before, happen every day ....)
To: dangus
Forbes rates states not by how much debt they currently owe, but also considering how many unfunded liabilities they have. That’s probably very reasonable for Forbes’ purposes: assessing the security of their public bonds. But that can have much to do with demographics, industrial base, even disasters (in the cases of Louisiana and Mississippi), and budget crises ten or twenty years from now are probably motivating voters less.
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posted on
11/04/2010 9:55:14 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: 11th_VA
Not gonna happen under Moonbeam.
California voted for Economic Suicide this time, with NO ONE to restrain them.
When the streetlights start going out after California finally stops paying it’s bills, maybe, just maybe, they’ll get the hint.
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posted on
11/04/2010 9:57:26 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(Obama White House=Tammany Hall on the National Mall)
To: dangus
I have a modest proposal. If a state demands a federal bailout, there should be a price. Because the voters of the state have proven that they are not ready for republican self-government, Congress should invoke Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, where the federal government guarantees the states a republican government.
- The state should lose its statehood and be demoted to territorial status.
- Its senators and congressmen should be expelled from Congress.
- Its governor, legislature and judges should be fired and replaced by traditional territorial governance from Washington.
- The federal government should call a constitutional convention for the territory, or perhaps split the territory into more governable units and have each new territory hold a constiutuional convention.
- From there the usual procedures would be followed in admitting new states.
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posted on
11/04/2010 9:57:42 PM PDT
by
Publius
(The government only knows how to turn gold into lead.)
To: tcrlaf
(Jerry) Brown or Gray (Davis), the point is California’s going dark.
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posted on
11/04/2010 10:00:08 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: tcrlaf
Yep - These people don’t understand what’s going to hit them ... My comment was what the GOP should tell them when they come begging. Its like your friend who borrows money when he’s unemployed, then buys T-Bone steaks to feed himself ... reality is about to hit ...
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posted on
11/04/2010 10:03:42 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
(Things that have never happened before, happen every day ....)
To: outofstyle
They are way too arrogant than that. They expect to be bailed out. Yup, Tea Party Santa has a sack full of coal for the bad little boys and gays of Califreakia.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
11/04/2010 10:06:33 PM PDT
by
The Comedian
(I really missed you. Next time, I'll adjust for windage.)
To: tcrlaf
“California voted for Economic Suicide this time, with NO ONE to restrain them.”
After this election, I hope that the last good people make it out of the place if they can. It’s beyond hope.
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posted on
11/04/2010 10:06:35 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: 11th_VA
CA’s wealth came a lot from oil, agricultural, Hollywood’s crap and high tech.
Much of America’s wealth was largely created by various oil/energy booms. PA, then TX, then CA, then AK, then Gulf of Mexico and now ND and other shale regions.
The energy is still there.
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posted on
11/04/2010 10:07:12 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)
To: dangus
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posted on
11/04/2010 10:07:15 PM PDT
by
FromLori
(FromLori)
To: dangus
The Hawaii voters overwhelmingly voted Democrat, again. All the Democrats running for Congressional seats ran on Obama’s record. All touted his failed policies.........and won!!
Current law requires the legislature to return all unspent tax money to the taxpayers after two consecutive years of excess taxes. An amendment on the ballot this election allowed for the legislature to keep the money for whatever they wished to spend and IT PASSED. This is sick!!
To: outofstyle
No, they will DEMAND to be bailed out.
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posted on
11/04/2010 10:08:00 PM PDT
by
Lorianne
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ___ George Orwell)
To: outofstyle
They may have expected to be bailed out on November 1st, but November 2nd put a crimp in their plans.
The money comes from the House of Representatives, not the Senate and not the White House.
The fact that we didn't get the Senate back this year is bothering me less and less. Harry will be squirming with all the Remove and Replace House Legislation and Schumer will be behind him wearing his Sharon Angle Campaign Button while putting needles in his Harry Reid Voodoo doll.
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posted on
11/04/2010 10:12:31 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now...)
To: Frantzie
The energy is still there. That's my point - they don't need a bailout ...
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posted on
11/04/2010 10:13:32 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
(Things that have never happened before, happen every day ....)
To: dangus
Hilarious!
The House holds the purse strings, and this new Republican House ain’t about to “bail out” those stinking, corrupt, communist Democrat states. They can go straight to hell and take their scumbag unionized state workers and their bloated pensions with them..
To: Lorianne
“No, they will DEMAND to be bailed out”.
Wish in one hand and spit in the other and see which one fills up first.
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posted on
11/04/2010 10:14:20 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now...)
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