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AP: GOP Shifted Billions to Districts
AP
| 8-05-02
| David Pace
Posted on 08/05/2002 1:56:16 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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To: KSCITYBOY
Good point. It was from the Republican districts that the bulk of tax revenues came to spend in poor rural and urban Democratic districts. I'm tired of paying their freight.
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posted on
08/05/2002 2:35:27 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
To: My Favorite Headache
These are the areas that have the bulk of those who actually produce something for this nation. They should get the lion's share of revenues back from DC.
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posted on
08/05/2002 2:36:41 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
To: Judith Anne
BFD - the demos have been doing this to us for years when they controlled - I'm sure they are the ones now crying and complaining - boo hoo - poor babies - whiners......
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posted on
08/05/2002 2:37:11 PM PDT
by
ldish
To: My Favorite Headache
CNN is gonna have a field day with this
Why of course dont you know there the most credible news source on the globe! [laughing so hard my stomach hurts ]
....../sarcasm kept on due to temporary insanity and lack of duct tape /
To: My Favorite Headache
This sort of makes sense since, under the Republicans, the moneys are pretty much being returned to where they're being taken from, right?
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posted on
08/05/2002 2:39:36 PM PDT
by
xrp
To: My Favorite Headache
So, the millions of dollars in Federal gifts David Bonior (D-Mich) got for St. Clair Shores is for
a poor urban district?
Hmmm... I'm sure the voters in Macomb County would love to know they are part of a poor urban area...
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posted on
08/05/2002 2:41:55 PM PDT
by
DrDavid
To: My Favorite Headache
This is breaking news?
"In terms of services, for example, that translates into more business loans and farm subsidies, and fewer public housing grants and food stamps."
So the GOP shifted spending from the less-productive to the more-productive sectors.
That's to be applauded, not condemned.
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posted on
08/05/2002 2:45:49 PM PDT
by
Redbob
To: My Favorite Headache
This is good news and should cause every person in Michigan to vote for the GOP. We are tired of sending all of our dollars to support Detroit. Just let it die and be done with it.
Ironically, House leaders proved less adept at directing money toward their own districts, further showing that policy changes not pork politics were the driving force behind the spending shift. As to be expected, the most relevant sentence is buried near the end. The headline is completely misleading. But that's the play to their own constituents. Liberals are about headlines, Conservatives are about the actual details.
To: My Favorite Headache
Rather than pork barrel projects for new GOP districts, the change was driven mostly by Republican policies that moved spending from poor rural and urban areas to the more affluent suburbs Great news. I can't wait for the government to remodel my kitchen and build that addition over the garage - I think a billiards table would be just the thing to stick in it. Maybe the government will get me one out of surplus. I already got the cue sticks at a yard sale.
To: Judith Anne
Should Republicans apologize? HELL no.If they do it just goes to show that the Dems are not the only party that is totally out of touch with their constituency.
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posted on
08/05/2002 5:15:15 PM PDT
by
P8riot
To: My Favorite Headache
True junk science.
The title could have just as acurately read:
"GOP Shifts Billions to Districts With More Visible Sky".
There are at least 5 other causal corellations that I can quickly see which are just as legitimate as politics and some make much more logical sense.
Reread the article and think about it.
To: Amerigomag
Farm subsidies make me sick.
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posted on
08/05/2002 6:23:16 PM PDT
by
be131
To: My Favorite Headache
Proof that Republicans are socialists too.
And proud of it, by gum.
To: My Favorite Headache
File this one under "DUH!"
To: My Favorite Headache
Yes! Let the Blue Enclaves wither on the vine.
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posted on
08/06/2002 2:58:12 PM PDT
by
Consort
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