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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

I do not think they can sell Federal land... just saying this story sounds bogus

The problem is, parts of Grand Teton are actually  state land. They may very well be  able to do anything they want with it, up to and including carving a new Mount Rushmore with Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Glenn Beck.

Which actually might be sorta cool, if you think about it.

I must admit that the prospect of a Rightard Rushmore is one of the very few things that would lead me to commit vandalism.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Are you denying that states are facing growing budget crisis under this administration?

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America's Worst Job Market: What 27.6% Unemployment Looks Like

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

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Theres no sense in my trying to argue with anyone who is determined to live in a state of denial, is there.

I believe he lives in California.

Uber Liberal California?

The very heart of Obamas economy?

If hes living there and he isnt aware that things are bad theres no reaching him:

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America's Worst Job Market: What 27.6% Unemployment Looks Like

El Centro, Calif., is the largest U.S. city to be situated entirely below sea level. At the moment, it's also home to the country's most underwater job market. Nationally, the unemployment rate sits at 9.5 percent. But in the El Centro metropolitan area, it's a staggering 27.6 percent. And as workers across the country struggle to navigate the anemic labor market, El Centro has emerged as a case study about just how fragile the economic recovery can be.

We haven't had unemployment at these current levels, two years over 9% nationally since the Great Depression. Not since Hoovervilles were common.

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

I now remember who else I had on ignore when I was posting as Hippiekinkster before I was banned by XI for committing the inpardonable sin of quoting from a Knoxville newspaper. It was sanity. After reading his horseshit on this thread, I regret that I was unable to remember such a simple thing. I could have saved many precious minutes of my life had I pit him back on ignore when I rejoined.

Easily corrected. But I'll never regain the lost heartbeats it took to read his moronic tripe.

THAT is the tragedy.

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Why is Wyoming so desperate for funding that its threatening to sell off cherished state lands?

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ORIGINAL: Arpig

You mean the lands they have been threatening to sell off for 10 years?

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Yet I always have four of five leftists / liberals scrambling to try to distract attention from the points that I raise, usually via personal attacks such as yours or otherwise introducing bogus red herring or strawmen arguments - but rarely directly addresing the point raised.

So as I wrote yesterday, welcome to the Democrat controlled economy. Unemployments going up, not down, so wheres the laser-like focus on jobs we were promised. Why is Wyoming so desperate for funding that its threatening to sell off cherished state lands? Why are leftists so desperate they have to launch these despicable personal attacks rather than address issues.

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Well, just like Rumsfeld said 'Every morning I wake up and wonder, where is Osama Bin Lauden'...I think that there are alot of democrats sitting out there going where can we get some jobs in this economy? 

I haven't heard anything laser like for ideas on jobs from the republican aisles.

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Liberals just can't seem to comprehend that the National Park System is unconstitutional in the first place, and a prime example of why we are $13 trilion in debt. There's a little thing called the 10th amendment to the U.S. Constitution that says, any power not specifically delegated to the federal government is reserved to the states.

No where in the Constitution does it authorize Congress to create a National Park System, therefore only the state has the power to create a state park. I would even go so far to say that the Interstate Highway system is unconstitutional, since the Constittuion does not authorize the Feds to control.

Now, this is where they supposedly get around it. There's a little thing called the Interstate Commerce Clause, which supposedly authorizes Congress to control it if it crosses state lines. However, you can't create a program that is unconstitutional to create in the first place, then claim it falls under the ICC after you created it. That's only common sense.

It's obvious parks don't fall under the ICC since 95% of the time it's a local person driving into a local park. About the only way you could argue a national park falls under the ICC is if the boundaries of the park crossed state lines.

So what about roads then. Well technically, roads don't cross state lines. They end at the state line, and a new one owned by the next state starts.

Bottom line is this. If they had followed the constitution, there would be absolutely no national debt, and each state would be responsible for their own roads, infrastructure, and social programs. This way, someone in Kansas wouldn't have to pay for the Boston Big Dig, the Bridge to Nowhere, and the hundreds of millions of dollars John Murtha Airport that services 30 people a day.