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New SPAM from Dad in Texas
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tepin
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Post subject: New SPAM from Dad in Texas  Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:22 pm |
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My dad likes to spam his contact list with various things. This one is closer to my home than his (considering he lives in TX)
Joe, is this your writing and if so... when did you write it? 
Quote: Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the Presidential election:
Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years. If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.
If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom
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princewally
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:26 pm |
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He didn't.
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joelr
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:26 pm |
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It's wise -- and cynical -- enough to be Joe. Whether it is or not, I dunno.
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chunkstyle
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Post subject: Re: New SPAM from Dad in Texas Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:35 pm |
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I doubt Joe wrote it. He'd know that this part, at least was 180 degrees from the truth:
tepin wrote: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." In reality, the Feds make money flow from Blue areas to Red ones, mostly through military spending, but also road subsidies, agricultural subsidies, and many other things. States like Illinois, California, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Massachusetts are cash cows for DC. It's then spent in places like Alabama, South Carolina, Wyoming, Kansas, and Alaska.
What most call "welfare" (AFDC, food stamps, Medicaid, WIC, section 8 housing) only takes up a low-single digit percentage of Federal spending. (Last I looked into it, it was about 4%)
The vast majority of Federal spending funded through general taxes and deficit borrowing is spent on the military and police powers of the government itself. The Department of "Energy" is about 90% dedicated to making nuclear weapons. NASA is about 50% military. DoD and DVA are of course 100% military. Education funds much military research. Justice runs prisons, courts, ICE, and the FBI. Treasury, the IRS (which of course has police powers), BATF, Customs, and the Secret Service. My brother in law is a Federal LEO, working for the Bureau of Mines, Department of Interior. Transportation, the Coasties and the air marshals.
Even the Post Office has its own cops, one of whose tasks is to watch the Internet. Of course now there is a Department of Homeland Security, and a good deal of the pretense has been removed with the name change.
The fact is that the national security state consumes most of the budget, and its principal mission is to make sure its exercise of power is not interfered with.
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Lenny7
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:01 pm |
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tepin
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:13 pm |
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I'll pass the word that, yet another chain letter found on the net was bullshit. Shocking. 
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princewally
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Post subject: Re: New SPAM from Dad in Texas Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:24 pm |
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chunkstyle wrote:
What most call "welfare" (AFDC, food stamps, Medicaid, WIC, section 8 housing) only takes up a low-single digit percentage of Federal spending. (Last I looked into it, it was about 4%)
I count about $1.5 trillion. $900 billion if you don't count social security. That's a bit more than 4%.
That's wikipedia numbers. I've seen more solid figures. I'll find those tomorrow.
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