how fragile is the flame that burns within us all to light each passing day? ~ bad religion

a tale of two maps

so besides the fact that urban dwellers are a far superior class whose advancements in civilization dwarf that of our country folk friends, why the discrepancy?

In 2002, Dean Lacy of Ohio State University and the Hoover Institution. published "A Curious Paradox of the Red States and Blue States: Federal Spending and Electoral Votes in the 2000 Election." He found that,

"Thirty of the U.S. states reap more in federal spending than their citizens contribute to the federal government in taxes. The other 20 states provide more in taxes than they receive in spending. In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, George W. Bush won most of the states that are net beneficiaries of federal spending programs, while Al Gore won most of the states that are net contributors to federal spending. A state's ratio of federal spending to tax dollars, particularly non-defense spending, is a statistically and substantively significant predictor of Bush's margin of victory across the states.

.gov borrowing limit, 8,180,000,000,000.00

yes. 8,180,000,000,000.00

why is there a cap in the 1st place? a cap means you can't exceed a specified limit. not that you just adjust it when you get close to exceeding. just make the cap a billion-gazillion dollars, k?

how is kerry wrong when he labels this a birth tax?

A divided Senate approved an $800 billion increase in the federal debt limit Wednesday, a major boost in borrowing that Sen. John Kerry and other Democrats blamed on the fiscal policies of President Bush.

The mostly party line, 52-44 vote was expected to be followed by House passage Thursday. Enactment would raise the government's borrowing limit to $8.18 trillion - $2.23 trillion higher than when Bush became president in 2001, and more than eight times the debt President Reagan faced when he took office in 1981.

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amen.

nothing i've read post 11/02 can 2nd my emotion as perfectly as this.

And Shame on You America. You let yourself be used. Get your ass home, take a shower, and put on the hap-hap-happiest fucking face you can. Cause Tomorrow you have to face the world, and they ALL know what you did last night.