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Bay State wants everyone to count ( Mass losing people, money, congressional seats, power ... )
Boston Globe ^
| July 4, 2006
| Andrea Estes
Posted on 07/04/2006 6:44:16 PM PDT by george76
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To: gidget7
I disagree that they are clueless... All I can think of to say to you is..you obviously don't get to Boston,Cambridge,Brookline or Newton very much,do you?
To: george76
"could lose up to two congressional seats, as well as federal money for highway, education, and development programs that are tied to population"It is not necessarily the population that determines government largess. Ask Senator Bird how many people are in West Virginia. Washington, D.C. has no voting representation in congress but does pretty well when it comes to budgets. How much did Massachusetts contribute to the Big Dig and how much did the rest of the country hand over? California just hocks itself to the gills
Where there is senority there is bucks.
yitbos
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posted on
07/04/2006 7:35:30 PM PDT
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds.")
To: The South Texan
New York losing Congressional seats actually isn't as good a thing as it would seem on the surface. Democrats have a great shot at taking both state Houses and Spitzer will likely be governor during the next redistricting. The seats that will be lost will almost certainly be Republican.
To: george76
A lot of Mass., Conn.,and N.Y., plates here this lovely weekend. Think they might stay? No sales tax and income tax!! I bet ya they will.
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posted on
07/04/2006 7:45:29 PM PDT
by
lucky american
(We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails)
To: Gay State Conservative
Hahaha no more than I can possibly help no. But I don't believe it still. Especially those in office. I have watched the debates on the floor of the legislature. Where the tears start flowing from grown men, and they start reciting from the activist playbook, and none of what they say is in fact true.
I firmly believe they know the truth.
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posted on
07/04/2006 7:46:53 PM PDT
by
gidget7
(PC is the huge rock, behind which lies hide!)
To: george76
LOL!
"We're going to look in every nook and cranny in Massachusetts to count everybody who is here."
Uh yah, and every GRAVE MARKER!
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posted on
07/04/2006 7:47:52 PM PDT
by
Richard-SIA
("The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield" JEFFERSON)
To: Gay State Conservative
Heck I live near Northampton, and I can barely stomach that! I avoid it like the plague.
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posted on
07/04/2006 7:47:58 PM PDT
by
gidget7
(PC is the huge rock, behind which lies hide!)
To: george76
Massachusetts could lose up to two congressional seatsNow that would be progress!
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posted on
07/04/2006 7:48:44 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(And you know what I'm talkin' 'bout!)
To: gidget7
What ever happened to the idea of cheap/free university of Mass tuition for illegal immigrants ?
Did it pass ?
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posted on
07/04/2006 7:51:04 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Richard-SIA
If Mass offers extra high welfare, food stamps, free health care, free housing ...they might attract many lazy bumbs to move there for the census period.
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posted on
07/04/2006 7:53:58 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Mr. Jeeves
How about a few hundred filthy buggers from Gitmo? You only get to count them as long as you are willing to keep them, however.
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posted on
07/04/2006 7:55:17 PM PDT
by
mathurine
(ua)
To: george76
They will fix this by making a law that you can be a citizen of Massachusetts without being a citizen of the United States. Illegals will flock there.
To: gidget7
Heck I live near Northampton, and I can barely stomach that! I avoid it like the plague. Your being located way out west explains your previous post.I suggest to you that a knowledge of the four cities/towns that I mentioned earlier is essential to truly understanding the politics of the state.
Although one could say that Northampton is a microcosm of Cambridge!
To: george76
I don't think it has come to a vote yet.
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posted on
07/04/2006 8:48:39 PM PDT
by
gidget7
(PC is the huge rock, behind which lies hide!)
To: Gay State Conservative
LOL Indeed it is, GSC, indeed it is.
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posted on
07/04/2006 8:49:44 PM PDT
by
gidget7
(PC is the huge rock, behind which lies hide!)
To: george76
I'm doing my part. I escaped from MA with my wife, one daughter, and two granddaughters. Now we're working on an E&E plan for our son, daughter-in-law, and another granddaughter...
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posted on
07/04/2006 9:01:46 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah" = Satan in disguise)
To: george76
You think these numb skulls would be more interested in why people are leaving and what to do about that rather than trying to tweak the numbers.
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posted on
07/04/2006 10:31:15 PM PDT
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: Jim Noble
Now that would be progress!Let's figure out a way they could loose 2 senate seats!
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posted on
07/04/2006 10:32:31 PM PDT
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: george76
We're going to look in every nook jail cell and cranny cemetary in Massachusetts to count everybody who is here."
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posted on
07/04/2006 10:35:21 PM PDT
by
Reagan is King
(Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it)
To: george76
We're going to look in every nook and cranny in Massachusetts That could get pretty nasty in Provincetown, although I'm sure there'd be plenty of volunteers with trained cranny-exploring hamsters.
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posted on
07/04/2006 11:25:52 PM PDT
by
JohnnyZ
(Happy New Year! Breed like dogs!)
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