For the citations of the federal tax revenues paid in and out, I got my figures here:
The temperature stuff comes from a variety of sources. Here’s one: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070830105911.htm I’m not a global warming nut but I refuse to ignore science from the widest variety of sources that informs us that temperate zones are creeping northwards. You can tell just by talking to farmers and growers. Lilacs and dogwoods are blooming in this state now - when they bloomed 3 weeks later 40 years ago. Growing seasons are changing, both in the US and Mexico.
I admire Texas and it’s “Let’s kick out all the scalawags and carpetbaggers” attitude. I do agree that you guys are getting the short end of the stick with fed disaster funds. I was just suggesting a way to turn the bag of crap you got handed into a bag of gold. I think *every* state that is considering nullification would be encouraged and admiring of a “We’ll do it ourselves” attitude blasted loud and proud by Texas.
You might want to look for those tax revenue figures here too:
Without an understanding of what went into those ‘statistics’ and what accounting practices and source figures lead to it, it’s hard to understand how this graph has any relevance to our discussion. There are no break downs of anything. Totals hide alot of inconvenient truths....lol. Like how much Texas is being forced to pay for the illegals and mexican drug runners that the federal government refuses to keep out.
As far as the nature stuff goes...it changes all the time...that’s cyclical and natural. Sometimes it changes over long periods of time and sometimes overnight. The fact that seasons may vary in length,temperature and rainfall etc. seems very natural to me. I have been growing plants for decades and some years are different from other years. In fact, I have garden logs from my grandfather’s journals and every year brought different weather patterns,bloom dates and rainfall, much like it does now. He didn’t speak of lilacs often.....but the timing of the camellia, azalea and cotton blooms were a hot topic in his logs every year...lol.
The fact that the lilacs bloomed early in New Jersey does not mean the earth is warming. You may just have an early blooming variety or spring just came early this year. Get a grip...it’s all OK.....lol. Don’t be a fool and fall for what is behind the globull warming crap because it has nothing to do with objective science and everything to do with instituting a globall tax and transferring wealth out of this country. When I was in high school and college, the eco-marxists ran around warning people of global cooling and a ‘New Ice Age’.
They wanted a global tax then too....(eye roll). I am sure they will find a ‘victim class’ that will not have to pay the ‘breath tax’ either and those of us who breathe AND work for a living will have to pay their share as well as ours. The climate exchange wall street dudes will get richer too off the globull exchange. It’s all BS!