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Charlie Rangel: "Who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?" (..Said the Man From Harlem!!)
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006337.htm ^

Posted on 11/09/2006 12:43:12 PM PST by WBL 1952

Charlie Rangel opens his mouth...and mocks the South: (hat tip: reader CRB)

“It’s not just committees — our influence within the House Democratic caucus will grow enormously,” Mr. Rangel said in an interview.

To that end, he sketched out an expansive federal agenda: Teaming up with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on gun control, passing new tax incentives for urban job programs, and redirecting federal money to New York in return for the outsize tax collections that the federal government makes here.

“Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?” Mr. Rangel said.


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To: conservative in nyc

I'm not the one who is proposing this. Charlie Rangel is.




I know, and IMHO it's very dangerous.


301 posted on 11/09/2006 3:13:03 PM PST by durasell (!)
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To: durasell
Exactly Durasell! If every contribution of literature,culture,pride from each part of the nation can just be enjoyed as being American and not somehow measured we will all be fine!
LOL some of the short fuse comes from the occasional meeting I attend that my being from Mississippi automatically deducts 50 IQ points, and I have to prove myself. Mt Rangle hits a prejudice we have had at one time or another. All prejudices are ugly to me. Thanks again for the discussion
302 posted on 11/09/2006 3:13:07 PM PST by radioactivereb ("I'm tryin' to think but nothin' happens!"-Curly Howard)
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To: Red_Devil 232

De nada.

Meanwhile, did you notice Pickering's veiled note that Mississippi has bothered to rebuild its coast after the hurricane while Chuckles' New York WTC sits there as a hole in the ground and they're doing virtually nothing. It'll be 25 years before NY is rebuilt, meanwhile, Mississippi moves on. That wasn't lost on me. Chuckles Rangel is just a plain clown.


303 posted on 11/09/2006 3:14:07 PM PST by Kitten Festival (No on Proposition 87 in Calif - A tax hike on you to help Hugo Chavez)
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To: onyx

Have been looking for your comments on this thread....Guess I missed them.


304 posted on 11/09/2006 3:14:30 PM PST by hoosiermama
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To: WBL 1952

Who the he!! wants to live in a slum in Philadelphia, New York, or Baltimore?


305 posted on 11/09/2006 3:15:00 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: Abbeville Conservative
I would sure as hell rather live in Mississippi then New York City. Besides, Ole Miss girls are a million times better looking on the outside and inside then the skanks in Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, the Bronx and Brooklyn. No offense to NY Freepers but the city is mostly a cess pool.

NYC is the greatest city in the world.

306 posted on 11/09/2006 3:15:48 PM PST by Live and let live conservative
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To: TaraP

The best nearest chicken fried steak with "country gravy" to NYC is on the Maryland border -- but I'm not saying where.

Americana food is basically a farm diet intended for folks who did hardcore physical labor that burned off a ton of calories.


307 posted on 11/09/2006 3:16:13 PM PST by durasell (!)
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To: WBL 1952

"who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?"

Me, if its Rangel-free.


308 posted on 11/09/2006 3:16:44 PM PST by reelfoot
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To: Lexinom

If you want to see a great Baseball Game and Ballparks those are some awesome places you mentioned.


309 posted on 11/09/2006 3:17:02 PM PST by TaraP
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To: radioactivereb

Did you know that NYC has Mississippi Day? I've attended several times. It's a weird, weird scene.

27th Annual Mississippi Day Picnic
Saturday, Jun 10, 2006
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Manhattan



The 27th annual Mississippi Day Picnic in Central Park serves up Mississippi-style catfish along with sides of live blues, homemade desserts, and smiles and hospitality.




Location: E. 97th - E. 99th Streets and Fifth Avenue
EAST MEADOW

More Information:
Phone number: 718-788-2988
New York Mississippi Picnic


310 posted on 11/09/2006 3:18:36 PM PST by durasell (!)
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To: durasell
Oh, I think MS would survive. Much of that Federal money at this point is either in the form of welfare payments for poor blacks living in the Delta, or for the Navy homeport in Pascagoula or Federal contracts with shipbuilding for Naval vessels. I guess NY doesn't have any shipbuilding, or they could compete for those contracts, too, huh?

Point is, the money is not being thrown into some sort of money pit, and if it were taken away, folks would figure out something to do.

If the city fathers in Jackson had not wanted so much payola, MS could have probably gotten herself a nice automobile manufacturing facility. As it turned out, the company went across the border into AL.

311 posted on 11/09/2006 3:18:49 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: durasell

Exactly! But how many people do you think eat like that then spend 8 hrs doing hardcore farming? maybe doing hardcore *sit on the computer* and that won't wash away those calories...:)


312 posted on 11/09/2006 3:19:26 PM PST by TaraP
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To: TexasCajun

Depends on where the voters are concentrated....electoral college rules in Presidential races ameliorate the effect of populations of larger states with respect to less populated states.

Latino's still tend to congregate in the southwestern states and will cause some displacements in the congressional seating...but electoral college rules help mitigate against against those populations badly effecting the rest of the states in the Presidential elections...plus each state still only gets 2 senators! Also lets do some math...20 million divides out into 400, 000 voters per state and not all states will see that equal amount, some may see more...plus the rest of the nation is still growing.


313 posted on 11/09/2006 3:20:24 PM PST by mdmathis6 (Save the Republic! Mess with the polling firms' heads!)
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To: Live and let live conservative

I agree...Many of our ancestors arrived here via Ellis Island...


314 posted on 11/09/2006 3:21:44 PM PST by TaraP
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To: TaraP

Yes, but there's just something wrong about Thai food or Sushi in MS. Maybe if it was smothered in white gravy? Uh, maybe not.


315 posted on 11/09/2006 3:21:45 PM PST by durasell (!)
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To: Red_Devil 232
Yes the Ole Miss, Southern Miss, And Miss State Ladies are a million times better looking and better behaved and absolutely real people!

Why, thanks, hon! I'm a Southern Miss 1974 grad.

316 posted on 11/09/2006 3:22:28 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

Oh, I think MS would survive...



It would survive, but taxes would be huge. And with the dems in control those federal contracts would head north.


317 posted on 11/09/2006 3:23:28 PM PST by durasell (!)
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To: SuziQ
Since at least 1/3 of the housing stock was either damaged or completely destroyed, the prices of the remaining houses went UP.

I can understand that. Land itself was what I had in mind, though. How's that faring?

318 posted on 11/09/2006 3:24:05 PM PST by edpc (Violence is ALWAYS a solution. Maybe not the right one....but a solution nonetheless)
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To: durasell

LOL..Last time I was in MS I did not see any sushi places however they have many Waffle Houses, Piggly Wiggly's and Dairy Queens...Gulfport is a beautiful place I could live there if I could build a Trader Joe's Market next store...


319 posted on 11/09/2006 3:24:38 PM PST by TaraP
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To: TaraP

I'm a big fan of Waffle Houses.


320 posted on 11/09/2006 3:26:12 PM PST by durasell (!)
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