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Mass. Only State With Shrinking Population
Yahoo News ^ | 12-26-04

Posted on 12/26/2004 3:24:36 PM PST by rdl6989

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To: rdl6989
Gee, I wonder why?

Homomarriages do not produce children?

61 posted on 12/26/2004 7:06:40 PM PST by A. Pole (The owl of wisdom flies after sunset.)
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To: Bernard

The state of Massachusetts is losing people but the numbers
recorded are misleading. My father pointed out the legal page in his Massachusetts home town paper. He told me to look at the list of arrests. "Look at the names and tell me what you see" and I did look. The city changed, the police are busy with the change. People are moving out and the replacements need more police and social services. My father saw that long ago. He said that the changes will drain the taxpayers and cost Massachusetts dearly. He was a bluedog Democrat and totally disgusted with what he saw.


62 posted on 12/26/2004 7:17:23 PM PST by oldironsides
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To: Viet Vet in Augusta GA
Not just higher taxes and cost of living, but their houses are 40 years behind the times!!

They have electric baseboard heaters and coal stoves, and a bulkhead door from outside to the basement and a lot of gravel driveways.....and the houses mostly look the same.

63 posted on 12/26/2004 7:28:36 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.....)
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To: rdl6989
I was born and raised here in the beautiful Berkshires (Western Mass) and I am raising my family here now. Just in the Berkshires alone there is a ton of cultural attractions like Tanglewood, Norman Rockwell Museum, William Cullen Bryant Homestead, Herman Melville Home, Williams College, Williamstown Theater, Berkshire Theater, Mass MOCA...etc. lots of things to do. It's really beautiful here. Having said that, I want my kids to venture out and get away from the constant liberalism thrust down their throats in school/college. My husband and I spend a considerable amount of time countering what they learn in school. It's crazy. But I just felt like I had to defend Massachusetts for it's beauty and good people for the most part. Well, half the people anyway. And don't forget, we got the Red Sox and the Patriots!
64 posted on 12/26/2004 7:28:50 PM PST by ladiesview61
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To: Soul Seeker

They don't seek to escape Liberalism....they are seeking to escape the TAXES that they so love for others to pay.


65 posted on 12/26/2004 7:30:18 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.....)
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To: rdl6989

Massachusetts is a great place to be from.


66 posted on 12/26/2004 7:31:28 PM PST by Texas Mom
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To: rdl6989

We need to inform all illegal aliens from all over this country, Massachusetts is the New Mexico.


67 posted on 12/26/2004 7:31:36 PM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens.)
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To: Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh
LOL!!! That's the first thing that struck me as odd. If 3852 people were truly 1.1% of the population then the state would only have a population of 350,181 (the population of a moderate sized city - about half the size of Oklahoma City). They actually lost 0.06 percent.

Stupid reporters/editors wouldn't want to check the math in their stories...

68 posted on 12/26/2004 7:44:10 PM PST by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: who knows what evil?

I have a feeling it had a lot more to do with wanting their cake and eating it too. They wanted their liberty & they wanted big city (boston) money. I don't know *any* cities *anywhere* that value liberty. High population densities and personal liberty are inconsistent with each other.


69 posted on 12/26/2004 8:06:19 PM PST by agitator (...And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark)
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To: rdl6989

Taxachusetts keeps shedding people? Silly me; and I thought it was the Liberal Nirvana!


70 posted on 12/26/2004 8:38:20 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
I also heard that part about a liberal nirvana in Taxachussetts. The part I cannot figure out is why people would bail out in droves. Could it be the fools progressive thinkers they elect, such as Kennedy, DUkakis (DU intentionally capitalized), Barney Frank, Kerry etc.?
71 posted on 12/26/2004 8:51:18 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

But Mass is such a "gay" state!!!

(/s)


72 posted on 12/26/2004 8:55:43 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: rdl6989

They marry homosexuals.........which do not reproduce.


73 posted on 12/26/2004 9:01:04 PM PST by Doctor Don
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To: Doctor Don

I expect that the homosexual marriage fiasco has hurt the image of the state in much the same way that San Francisco has been damaged goods for years.


74 posted on 12/26/2004 9:03:40 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: rdl6989
Gee, I wonder why?

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It's the buggery!

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75 posted on 12/26/2004 9:37:19 PM PST by Criminal Number 18F
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To: Ann Archy

Spent three years there in law school 1969-72 and couldn't wait to get out.


76 posted on 12/27/2004 2:26:20 AM PST by Viet Vet in Augusta GA
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To: television is just wrong
Oh, well just trying to have a little fun here. Why do those stupid people keep those Jerks in office...?

The only explanation I can posit is that "those stupid people" are even more stupid than "those Jerks" they keep sending back to Washington and to Bacon Hill.

My wife and I watched an episode of The Sopranos via Comcast On Demand the other night. Someone asked Junior Soprano why he was entrusting his life to a surgeon named John Kennedy and why he loved JFK. He did not have a rational answer to either. He seemed to love JFK because Kennedy was an "outsider". Junior Soprano also blamed all the heat the Kennedys brought onto the mafia on "the brother" (meaning RFK). In short, the people here are a lot like my grandmother who had pictures of the Pope and JFK on her kitchen wall when I was a child. After JFK was assassinated, she purchased a commemorative plate with his likeness on it. She then added commemorative plates with the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy after they were assassinated. My grandmother wasn't what I would call a completely rational person. She was a very emotive person who either loved someone or despised them for no really good reason. But I guess people born in Sicily -- or Boston -- are like that.

77 posted on 12/27/2004 4:33:50 PM PST by Lunkhead_01
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To: rdl6989
With Teddy (the swimmer) Kennedy's waistline something has to give. Has Michael Moore relocated his lard ass to the great state of Mass.?
78 posted on 12/27/2004 4:37:12 PM PST by pointsal
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To: pointsal

Michael Moore's lard x$$ probably wouldn't fit in a New England state.


79 posted on 12/27/2004 6:50:31 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: pointsal

Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry, and Michael Moore fill that state up. No more room at the inn.


80 posted on 12/27/2004 8:05:44 PM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens.)
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