Obama XVII: Do You Take Your Tea Party with One Sugar or Two?

[Bob Gray]

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Tony Kornheiser makes fun of his own techno-illiteracy by calling his computer "the Google Machine." It is actually a malaprop because it connotes "old people" more than "slow people." Of course, there are those of us who are both.

Can't say I listen to Tony Kornheiser. Too busy thumping my Bible!

 

[Bob Gray]

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Generally speaking, the South has stronger economies than the North. There is a net migration south in the country right now. Just look at how many congressional seats they will be gaining. If it wasn't for TX and LA the unemployment rate in the country would be even worse. I'm not saying that either north or south is better, but the smugness here is pretty amazing.

Very true. Some of the thinking we're seeing here might have made a modicum of sense 100 or 150 years ago, but not now.

But some of us are a bit more progressive than others!

 

[Priceless]

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Generally speaking, the South has stronger economies than the North. There is a net migration south in the country right now. Just look at how many congressional seats they will be gaining. If it wasn't for TX and LA the unemployment rate in the country would be even worse. I'm not saying that either north or south is better, but the smugness here is pretty amazing.

People move to the South because it's warmer. Especially old people when they retire. Or do you think senior citizens flock to FLA and AZ because they can get jobs?

Historically the North has done a lot to help the South sustain viability. Two prime examples are the Tennessee Valley Authority and Rural Electrification. Both examples of large government programs that shifted tax dollars from the North to the South. It's funny that the people who always talk the loudest about "pulling themselves up by the bootstrap" wouldn't have shoes if us Northerners didn't provide them.

 

[Kepler]

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Can't say I listen to Tony Kornheiser. Too busy thumping my Bible!

I know your radio only gets Rush.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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Generally speaking, the South has stronger economies than the North. There is a net migration south in the country right now. Just look at how many congressional seats they will be gaining. If it wasn't for TX and LA the unemployment rate in the country would be even worse. I'm not saying that either north or south is better, but the smugness here is pretty amazing.

The last talking point was from Beck. Who's this one from?

 

[Kepler]

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It's funny that the people who always talk the loudest about "pulling themselves up by the bootstrap" wouldn't have shoes if us Northerners didn't provide them.

True, but at least the South would still exist (albeit at the level of the Sudan) without Cash Infusions of Northern Aggression. The rugged individualist West OTOH was developed with federal dollars from the railroads to dams to agriculture subsidies to military contracts. Without New York City Jewish bankers there would be nothing but sagebrush and injuns between St. Louis and Sacramento.

 

[Bob Gray]

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I know your radio only gets Rush.

Naw, Rush is too liberal for my tastes. He's gone soft. Same with Beck.

 

[Bob Gray]

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The last talking point was from Beck. Who's this one from?

I'm impressed that you are so up on Beck's talking points. You must be another of those closet listeners.

 

[Bob Gray]

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True, but at least the South would still exist (albeit at the level of the Sudan) without Cash Infusions of Northern Aggression. The rugged individualist West OTOH was developed with federal dollars from the railroads to dams to agriculture subsidies to military contracts. Without New York City Jewish bankers there would be nothing but sagebrush and injuns between St. Louis and Sacramento.

At least those subsidies were limited in time and scope, unlike the ever growing welfare state that is the dream of northeastern liberals.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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I'm impressed that you are so up on Beck's talking points. You must be another of those closet listeners.

I'm not up on it. It was posted below by Rimbaud.

 

[LynahFan]

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True, but at least the South would still exist (albeit at the level of the Sudan) without Cash Infusions of Northern Aggression. The rugged individualist West OTOH was developed with federal dollars from the railroads to dams to agriculture subsidies to military contracts. Without New York City Jewish bankers there would be nothing but sagebrush and injuns between St. Louis and Sacramento.

Uh-huh. And without the natural resources of the rest of the country to exploit (mining, forests, agriculture, etc), New York Bankers would have been a whole lot less prosperous themselves, and wouldn't have had all that cash to plow into the rest of the country.

This is a silly argument...

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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At least those subsidies were limited in time and scope, unlike the ever growing welfare state that is the dream of northeastern liberals.

And a vast sea of southern tea partiers screaming "Keep the Gubbermint out of my Medicare!!!"

 

[MinnFan]

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People move to the South because it's warmer. Especially old people when they retire. Or do you think senior citizens flock to FLA and AZ because they can get jobs?

Historically the North has done a lot to help the South sustain viability. Two prime examples are the Tennessee Valley Authority and Rural Electrification. Both examples of large government programs that shifted tax dollars from the North to the South. It's funny that the people who always talk the loudest about "pulling themselves up by the bootstrap" wouldn't have shoes if us Northerners didn't provide them.

Its a lot more than retirees. Unless you think that everyone is retiring in TX too? Its mindsets like yours that is going to drive the northern economies into the ground in the long run. What many northern states have been doing is proving to be unsustainable and if they keep the blinders on the world is going to pass them by.

Fun Map

 

[Priceless]

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The last talking point was from Beck. Who's this one from?

It has to be from someone. A Google search turned up a few hits, including this gem

Generally the southern states have a much stronger economy than the north

Even has the same "generally" tag at the beginning...

 

[Bob Gray]

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And a vast sea of southern tea partiers screaming "Keep the Gubbermint out of my Medicare!!!"

If your liberal government is going to spend ever more on all your new programs, it'd be stupid for parts of the country to not participate in those programs when they are helping pay for them and seeing their children's future prospects sent to Davey Jones' locker to pay for your ever growing government and its programs? You really need to be at least slightly consistent in who you go after on stuff like this. I'd take you a little more seriously.

 

[MinnFan]

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It has to be from someone. A Google search turned up a few hits, including this gem



Even has the same "generally" tag at the beginning...

The moment you have an original thought we'll throw a little party for you. The reason there is "generally" at the beginning is because it is generally true, but not always the case. Not too many other ways to say that. I'm not surprised that someone else out there in the ether has said the same thing.

 

[Bob Gray]

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It has to be from someone. A Google search turned up a few hits, including this gem

Even has the same "generally" tag at the beginning...

So you've never said something that can be found on Google? You can google almost any phrase and find that it appears somewhere. This is really reaching. And, hey, if someone else has said something well, there's no reason not to repeat it, though of course if it's a large body of work, a citation would be good.

 

[Bob Gray]

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Its a lot more than retirees. Unless you think that everyone is retiring in TX too? Its mindsets like yours that is going to drive the northern economies into the ground in the long run. What many northern states have been doing is proving to be unsustainable and if they keep the blinders on the world is going to pass them by.

Fun Map

Fun map link doesn't work.

 

[Priceless]

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Its a lot more than retirees. Unless you think that everyone is retiring in TX too? Its mindsets like yours that is going to drive the northern economies into the ground in the long run. What many northern states have been doing is proving to be unsustainable and if they keep the blinders on the world is going to pass them by.

Fun Map

The talking point is about the South's "pro-business" climate, which is a fancy way of saying "We pay our employees less."

 

[Bob Gray]

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The talking point is about the South's "pro-business" climate, which is a fancy way of saying "We pay our employees less."

And we don't want to regulate and tax you out of existence.

Which is why in recent decades, a lot of new businesses, or foreign businesses setting up shop in the U.S. have chosen southern locations. The Japanese car companies are one of the most obvious examples.