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| Tue, 08-24-2004 - 5:42pm |
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America The Horrible
You know I think that there are people who sit around all day and think up ways of blaming everything in the world on the United States of America.
It gets to the point of being silly. There is a conspiracy theory about just about everything you can think of.
Remember the Elvis sightings?
If I really thought that the U.S.A. was guilty of all the things it gets accused of by some of its own citizens, I would pack up and find me some other place to live.
In fact, since some of these people are so convinced that America is the evil monster they claim it to be, I can’t understand why they don’t do just that.
After all, according to them, the system is beyond repair and the
mischief has been going on so long and it is so firmly ingrained in American policy that all hope is gone.
America is a monolithic, evil, greedy, heartless, monopolistic,
uncaring, devious, crooked, irredeemable, domineering, thieving,
throat cutting, disloyal, arrogant, gluttonous, power seeking,
back stabbing, callous, cold hearted, rotten, misguided, non compassionate, murdering, land grabbing, bloodthirsty,
dishonest, mindless, lying, cheating, truth suppressing,
claimjumping, backshooting, ozone depleting, snail darter killing, spotted owl destroying, slime slobbering monster which
has only survived two hundred and twenty eight years and become the world’s only super power by sheer luck and treating the rest of the world like inferiors.
Oh save us John Kerry, get us all visas so we can move to France and champion the causes of the exploding Muslim population there and leave behind this despicable place called the United States of America.
I’ve got an idea, let’s take this whole thing to the United Nations, they can pass a resolution.
Why is it so important to some people to paint the greatest nation the world has ever known as being responsible for so much of the world’s woes?
I personally think that some of them spend way too much time on the internet. You can find just about anything you want to on the World Wide Web. You can always find somebody to agree with you.
But don’t count me among them, I am American, red white and blue
through and through, American born, American bred and when I die I’ll be American dead.
I don’t have a problem with people who want to change this country, that’s their right, but wanting to tear it down and blame all the blood that was shed by innocent people on 9-11 on America or any American is way beyond the pale.
Are you listening Michael Moore?
You can and should leave America if you feel so inclined but as for me, I’ll take the United States of America and when I have to leave it I want to go to Heaven. It’s the only better place I know of.
Pray for our troops.
What do you think?
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
Copyright © 2004 Charlie Daniels
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from the Center for Government Research website:
http://www.cgr.org/Articles/?id=124
New York City Contributes $7 to $11 billion to Rest of NYS in 2000-2001
CGR traces the flow of funds through New York State government, assigning state revenue to its source and state expenditure to its destination. New York City and its suburbs (Long Island and the Lower Hudson Valley), whether considered together or separately, are large net contributors to the rest of New York State. New York City, for example, while home to many individuals and families who benefit from state-funded public assistance programs, is also the source of substantial business income and home to many high income taxpayers. As the state's principal public assistance programs-Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Safety Net and Medicaid-all require substantial local cost-sharing, the redistributional impact of these programs is diminished.
Long Island and the Lower Hudson Valley, also home to many high income taxpayers both corporate and individual, contribute far more to the state's revenue picture than they receive in benefits.
Upstate communities, both urban and rural, are significant net recipients of revenue from downstate. While this finding is consistent with that of CGR's 1999 study, the late 1990s brought vibrant economic expansion to the downstate economy and relative stagnation upstate, exacerbating these differences in fiscal contribution.
This report covers four NYS fiscal years, from SFY9798 (ending March 31, 1998) through SFY0001 (ending March 31, 2001), the latest year for which complete data are available. Personal income tax revenue from full-year residents, part-year residents, and full-year non-rnon-residents is included in the study. Consumption taxes and fees allocated by region include the sales, auto rental, cigarette and tobacco, motor fuel, and alcohol taxes plus motor vehicle fees and SUNY and CUNY tuition and fees. Business taxes included in the study are the corporate franchise, utility, insurance, banking, petroleum gross receipts, and highway use taxes. Miscellaneous other taxes allocated include estate and gift, real estate transfer, and pari-mutuel gambling taxes. Expenditures included in the study were payments to localities and grants, state operations spending, wages and salaries of NYS employees, Empire State Development and NYSTAR grants, and lottery disbursements.
http://www.cgr.org/Articles/?id=124
It's late and I'm tired but here are a few links:
http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/issueoftheweek/20001204/200/148
http://www.academic.marist.edu/~jzry/context.htm
http://www.bcnys.org/whatsnew/2004/0816upstate.htm
http://www.catskillcenter.org/programs/csp/H20/Lesson4/lesson4.htm
Edited 8/27/2004 11:33 pm ET ET by sweetswah
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