DC to become a State? by Wulfenstar

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DC to become a State?

POSTED BY: WULFENSTAR
UPDATED: Saturday, February 28, 2009 14:21
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Friday, February 27, 2009 7:53 AM

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

WTF?!!

Great, just great. Now they are circumventing the Constitution AGAIN!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/26/AR2009
022601678.html?hpid=topnews⊂=AR

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Friday, February 27, 2009 8:20 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Not a state, but a 'vote' , which is Unconstitutional

What next..... Puerto Rico to get a vote too ?

Offsetting the Dem seat with another one in Utah has a Missouri Compromise feel to it, and I don't care for it one bit.

It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

A concern of the GOP is that the people aren't informed enough to understand their policies, while a fear of the Dems is that the people ARE.

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Friday, February 27, 2009 8:58 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

It's a sticky issue. DC residents at this point aren't legally part of the United States, because they are subjected to taxation without representation. If they're not going to be represented in our government, they ought to simply refuse to go along with our government. Stop paying any federal taxes whatsoever, refuse to open the streets of DC to any federal agencies, etc.

Hey, either you're a full member of the U.S., or you're not a member at all.

Mike

If you're going to assume anything, assume you're wrong.

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Friday, February 27, 2009 9:02 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

Um, then why was it set up that way in the first place?

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Friday, February 27, 2009 9:06 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by Kwicko:

Hey, either you're a full member of the U.S., or you're not a member at all.

Mike

If you're going to assume anything, assume you're wrong.

Does that go for the Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands or various protectorates ?

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Friday, February 27, 2009 9:08 AM

KWICKO

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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Um, then why was it set up that way in the first place?

Don't know - it could be that the District was set up purely as the center of national government, and no one was actually supposed to live within its bounds... I honestly don't know HOW or WHY it became this way, only that it IS this way, and that way isn't right.

At any rate, those who DO live inside DC have no voice in government, which is frankly unconstitutional. Gotta do somethin'. Either give 'em a voice, or clear The District of all residents.

Mike

If you're going to assume anything, assume you're wrong.

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Friday, February 27, 2009 9:13 AM

KWICKO

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:

Hey, either you're a full member of the U.S., or you're not a member at all.

Mike

If you're going to assume anything, assume you're wrong.

Does that go for the Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands or various protectorates ?

It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

A concern of the GOP is that the people aren't informed enough to understand their policies, while a fear of the Dems is that the people ARE.

Wish I had an answer for ya, but I don't. There's probably a case to be made, at least for "the Puerto Rico", but it will likely have to be made on its own merits, not coat-tailed onto the DC issue.

Mike

If you're going to assume anything, assume you're wrong.

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Friday, February 27, 2009 9:37 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

I say clear them out. But, put them all in Maryland. In specific (ahem) "segregated" areas? lol

I keed I keed.

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Friday, February 27, 2009 11:59 AM

KWICKO

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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
I say clear them out. But, put them all in Maryland. In specific (ahem) "segregated" areas? lol

I keed I keed.

Isn't that what Baltimore already is? Not sure that pushing all the district's residents into "Bodymore Murdaland" is going to improve things there, though...

Mike

If you're going to assume anything, assume you're wrong.

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Friday, February 27, 2009 12:23 PM

WHOZIT

What they want is 2 more Democrat Senators and 1 more Democrat Congressman. Senator Jesse Jackson Sr?

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Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:27 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Fine, go the other way.

D.C. Residents pay no tax - then watch EVERYBODY try to move there!

Wouldn't work, but the act of tryin would send a damn strong message, wouldn't it ?

And I am firmly convinced, if you bulldozed Baltimore and paved it over for a hundred years, the ground would still reek of blood and violence, there's something *wrong* there, from a spritual aspect, and has been since approx 1862, and a steady economic decline hasn't been helpful neither.

-F

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Saturday, February 28, 2009 2:21 PM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

Ive noticed that a lot of the problems we have with America...there are not easy answers.

Oh yeah,

and the sky is blue.

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