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11-14-2012, 12:50 PM
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SFL Expatriate #2
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I take these as seriously and give them as much thought as I've taken any online petition.
No doubt these are signed by the same people that made the "Forward this message and get $1 Zillion for each recipient, guaranteed by Bill Gates!" e-mail chains a smashing success. Last edited by fasternyou929; 11-14-2012 at 01:21 PM.. |
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11-14-2012, 01:06 PM
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Soul Man
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 Not too hard to find at least 25,000 crack pots in any of the 50 states. JC
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11-14-2012, 01:03 PM
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Chaotic Neutral
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I dunno, with careful manipulation of business taxes even the most resource barren state could make a solid go of it.
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11-14-2012, 02:20 PM
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Serious Business
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11-14-2012, 02:40 PM
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This is not the sig line.
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If you actually look at the petitions on the White House website, about half of the signatures for each state are from people who don't even live in that state.
The petition for New York to secede was created by some guy in North Dakota. The best part is, some of my facebook friends are taking the petitions seriously.
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11-15-2012, 02:16 AM
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Hopster
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While I'm interested in seeing if they get a formal response from the White House, this whole secession petition thing has had me somewhere between facepalm and just shaking my head and sighing.
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11-14-2012, 03:16 PM
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Elitist
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And Texas taxpayers paid for ALL bases, not just the ones in Texas. The only way your proposal would be fair, is if the ratio of military firepower & capabilities per person was identical in each state. But it isn't. Some states like Illinois or New York have a ton of people, but low military capabilities. Under your proposal, states with aircraft carriers and nuclear weapons depots would get to keep them. Ain't gonna happen. |
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11-14-2012, 03:21 PM
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OK, Nebraska and Arizona can have the carriers, and Tennessee can have the destroyers Sheesh...such a whiner!
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11-14-2012, 04:43 PM
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SFL Expatriate #2
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 Craziest thing I've heard since talk of a shuttle in Houston! |
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11-14-2012, 05:00 PM
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Proper redistribution of resources. I mean that's what's FAIR right?
Hawaii gets all the tanks. I mean ALL of them!
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