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- MorganMghee, on 05/02/2009, -16/+261I hope Georgians have done their math. In 2005, Georgia had $.94 returned of every federal tax dollar paid. It ranked 14th of 57 in military procurement contracts, $1,766,000,000 in food and nutrition services, $1,411,000,000 in education funding, $1,800,000 in environmental protection funding and $11,868,000 in military funding. Total federal expenditures in 2005 were $59,846,000,000. Now where are they going to get the money to secure their borders, pay export tariffs etc...http://www.nationalpriorities.org/Publications/Wha ...
- Ysabetwordsmith, on 05/02/2009, -53/+287Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
- JoeParanoid, on 05/01/2009, -3/+207I'd be interested to find out what the numbers were like prior to 2009.
- Phoenix99, on 05/04/2009, -20/+221Wow. A bit extreme. Talk about a group getting overly pissy when they lose an election.
- Jordan117, on 05/02/2009, -2/+193Wouldn't that make the Georgia (USA) and Georgia (Central Asia) distinction even harder to make?
- kingofinternet, on 05/04/2009, -18/+196Where were all these patriots during the last 8 years? Where were they during the Patriot Act, warrantless wiretapping, the invasion of Iraq, etc. etc.?
Liars. - fadeout, on 05/04/2009, -18/+178As a southerner, I am not particularly surprised...
Georgia, outside the ATL loop, is like a third world country. - normlsparky, on 05/02/2009, -16/+138Just elect the guy running for governor who has sex with mules and keeps track of murdered abortion doctors. He will represent you well.
- dougbdl, on 05/04/2009, -13/+117I guess this is the new 'Patriotism' from the right.
- inactive, on 05/04/2009, -17/+120For a flag they should have a rusty car in someones front yard. on blocks.
- inajeep, on 05/04/2009, -13/+115You mean they didn't think this through? /shock
- spepin, on 05/04/2009, -5/+104"I herd on the news that rusia has invaded but i dont see them no where wats going on?"
/s - noahhoward, on 05/04/2009, -13/+104Are you ***** kidding me? You ever lived in Georgia? You think these people are upset about losing their Liberty? That is absolute *****. Any liberties they lost they lost under Bush and yet NOW they speak up?
This is because a black man is trying to turn them "socialist" and "take their guns". If you think this is anything other than a show of ignorance and racism you are naive. I live in Georgia for six years, I want to college with small town Georgia. I had a conversation with a gentleman who couldn't understand what the black folk came here in the first place if they hate our country so much. It's not all of Georgia but you can bet your is it is at least this 43% of the GOP. - jsmith39, on 05/04/2009, -13/+89The GOP is just lashing around like a spoiled 4 year old. They lost the last election so now they want to take their ball and leave the party.
Had McCain won and California been discussing secession they'd be branded as a bunch of Godless traitors to the American dream, instead secessionists are the last hope of a dieing republic. - seanstuart, on 05/04/2009, -24/+98It's not because he's black, though. Totally not.
- Grova, on 05/04/2009, -8/+75Uh...they did this once before. Didn't work out so well if I remeber right.
- nexmachina, on 05/04/2009, -11/+69This just in: GOP thinks they should secede from Earth, forming their own Planet somewhere in the galaxy.
- Kidtuf, on 05/04/2009, -10/+64As a transplant to this ***** state (from Seattle, no less), this isn't too surprising. The people outside of metro Atlanta seems to be forever clinging to the confederate flag and the "good ol' days" before the south lost the war. I saw a fat man wearing a shirt a few months after arriving here that sums up this state nicely, it said simply "Jesus got-R-done".
- kingofinternet, on 05/04/2009, -12/+62Looks like they forgot the lesson General Sherman taught them.
I love how one of the GOP's talking points is that they're the party of Lincoln. - digg4peace, on 05/02/2009, -7/+57fascism and socialism? Wow that is one giaganticallly ignorant statement! It is amazing to me how these rubes do not have even the most basic understanding of high school civics...
- Jonjonr6, on 05/04/2009, -7/+54I live in Ga. I swear I'm surrounded by idiots.
That damn Sonny Purdue and his blatant refusal to allow alcohol sales on Sunday, despite most of the state supporting it. And the stupid asses who support him always say "just buy it on Saturday". What's the point, if you're going to drink on Sunday anyway, you've already sinned.
Damned ignorant southern baptists, insist they know the "truth", and have all the answers, in the meantime go find out what they're really saying and doing behind closed doors.
If Ga secedes, I'm definitely moving out. - AgeofMastery, on 05/02/2009, -8/+54Not to mention all of the state but a small seafront is bordered by a USA that may not want to do business with them.
- inactive, on 05/04/2009, -5/+50It's Georgia. This isn't exactly the first time they overreacted to losing an election *cough cough Civil War*.
- Stavrosian, on 05/04/2009, -1/+45Update: rest of planet agrees enthusiastically.
- normlsparky, on 05/02/2009, -4/+46This idiot:
http://digg.com/politics/Candidate_for_GA_Gov_says ... - sciencelovesyou, on 05/04/2009, -5/+47Sure.
I'm really going to believe that it's just a coincidence that classic Southern ex-Confederate states are talking about secession a few months after a black man becomes President.
Yep. - Coven, on 05/04/2009, -0/+42What's his head doing up your ass? That's a weird fetish...
- wtrwlkr, on 05/04/2009, -2/+42The county next to where I grew up in Florida was dry on Sunday. I swear, that law is completely archaic. If there ever was an example of a law introduced purely to cater to the moral police that is the religious right, the "no alcohol sales on Sunday" is it. Don't wanna drink on the "lord's day"? Fine, just don't ***** legislate your moral views on alcohol on the rest of us.
- LacY, on 05/04/2009, -4/+44I grew up in GA and lived there for 20+ years... and you're totally right. This has nothing to do with losing Liberty, and everything to do with ignorance and racism. Hell, half of my family members "aren't racist" but "would never vote for a black man." That's GA in a nutshell (at least a large part of it).
The sad part is I moved north for grad school, and a little bit to get away from the south. Now people from back home (very 'religious', very 'not racist') say I moved to "the perfect place" b/c there's no black people here. Stay classy, GA... - ManUnitdFan, on 05/04/2009, -0/+39I'm confused. Research 2000 is the name of the polling firm, not the activity and the year in which it was done.
- inactive, on 05/04/2009, -4/+43The delicious irony here is how much their whining sounds exactly like what conservatives often blame liberals of doing. "Waah, I can't be successful or prosperous, waah, it's not my fault, it's the Man holding me back, waah, I'm a victim, everyone else is to blame for my failures except me!"
- gwaggy12, on 05/04/2009, -5/+42I live in Atlanta, and it is huge thriving metropolis with one of the busiest airports in the country, one of the largest media empires in the country and, despite regional stereotypes, one of the largest and most active gay communities in the country. Atlanta is pretty liberal in its general political leaning.
Outside ATL, it's pretty much downhill. The appalachians in the northern part of the state are really beautiful, but generally really low income except for all the McMansions built in the last 10 years. Middle GA sucks balls except for the coast, and Southern GA is the cutoff jean-short capital of the world.
All that being said...Florida is still worse. - FearlessFreep, on 05/04/2009, -6/+42MIsleading headline
QUESTION: Do you think Georgia would be better off as an independent nation or as part of the United States of America?
US IND NOT:SURE
ALL 68 27 5
MEN 54 32 4
WOMEN 72 22 6
DEMOCRATS 88 8 4
REPUBLICANS 52 43 5
INDEPENDENTS 61 33 6
QUESTION: Would you approve or disapprove of Georgia leaving the United States?
APPROVE DISAPPROVE NOT:SURE
ALL 18 76 6
MEN 21 74 5
WOMEN 15 78 7
DEMOCRATS 5 89 6
REPUBLICANS 32 63 5
INDEPENDENTS 14 79 7 - grinsy, on 05/04/2009, -8/+43They'd have to change their name. Georgia's already taken for countries. How about *****?
- DarkprinceArmon, on 05/04/2009, -3/+38We can have two types of government at the same time?
- rchargel, on 05/04/2009, -0/+35Oh, and saying ***** like "this is a chess game played right now between the Patriots and the gun-banning collectivists" makes you seem like a sane level-headed guy. I am a liberal and a member of the ACLU (card carrying in fact). I am also a member of the NRA (also card carrying). Most members of the Democratic party are not for banning guns. Go to states like Pennsylvania and Virginia and see if the Democrats there want to ban guns. Hell the NRA has endorsed Democrats for congress in both those states (I know, I get their fliers every election season). Once you start using stupid labels like Patriots and Collectivists, you start to sound like a crazy idiot. For one thing, patriotism is not the sole proprietorship of the political right. Patriotism is defined as a "love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it." While I might agree that Nancy Pelosi is more in love with herself than her country, I would probably say the same thing about most politicians (regardless of party affiliation). There are some exceptions. I believe that both McCain and Obama love this country. I think that John Warner (R-VA) and Jim Webb (D-VA) love this country. I even think that Bush loves this country, he was just in the throw of a bunch of crazy Neo-Cons without the intelligence to act on his own.
- inactive, on 05/04/2009, -10/+45I know exactly where these so-called patriots were - they were the ***** who would drive by the war protests and shout obscenities and call anyone there traitors, Nazis, and terrorists.
- suntzusputnik, on 05/02/2009, -25/+57the us would curb stomp georgia if it seceded. or leave it alone. either way its fail
- inactive, on 05/04/2009, -3/+34Ah.. the good old days.. when you could hang a man from a tree if he didn't pick fast enough.
- rchargel, on 05/04/2009, -3/+34This is true, but it's interesting to compare $0.94 to the national average of $0.91 (considering how much federal money goes overseas to pay for things like war and reconstruction efforts). It's also interesting to compare $0.94 to the $0.30 that Illinois gets, or the $0.24 that New York gets. Then look at those ruggedly individualistic states the don't want help from the feds, like Alaska that gets $4.81 or Arizona that gets $2.16. By these figures, if all of the red states secede from the Union, it would be a boon to the blue states, they would get so much more of their money back, and wouldn't have to carry those red states on their back anymore.
- MattDell, on 05/04/2009, -7/+37What's wrong with states wanting to secede? If it's better for them to not be part of the United States, why should they have to stay?
- kevo0954, on 05/04/2009, -5/+35If I can't win I'm going to take my toys and go home...
morons... - inactive, on 05/04/2009, -2/+32Wow, the GOP really is the party of Lincoln!
- noahhoward, on 05/04/2009, -2/+30Oh yeah that draft that's right around the corner....
Question, why would patriots be opposed to the draft? Why aren't you in your armed services already, serving your country like a patriot claims to do. - ThsGuyRightHere, on 05/04/2009, -4/+31On the one hand, you kinda have to give them credit for sticking true to their slogan of "Our country, love it or leave it." However this does kind of fly in the face of "United we stand, divided we fall."
- Chairboy, on 05/04/2009, -9/+36By your own numbers, Georgia paid out more than it received in taxes, something the two posters above this seem to have missed. So if they didn't pay the US government, they would have _more_ money, right? If they're not paying for the federal infrastructure and put that money directly into 'state' programs, then that means more $$$ is potentially available beyond the 6% increase realized by dropping out of the system.
So, anyhow, thanks for providing such a clear financial incentive to the folks in GA. Strange delivery, but numbers don't lie. - SpinningHead, on 05/04/2009, -2/+28Those people don't seem to realize that most of the southern wealth before the war was held by 1000 families who didn't have to fight. Most of the ancestors of these "proud southerners" didn't want to fight the rich man's war. Unfortunately, they've been convinced that they were all descended from rich plantation owners and lost their money in the war.
I highly recommend the memoir, "Company Aytch".
http://www.amazon.com/Co-Aytch-Confederate-Memoir- ... - gwaggy12, on 05/04/2009, -0/+26General Sherman is still universally reviled here in GA. Seriously, I've heard his name used as a curse word.
- Tehrab, on 05/04/2009, -0/+26Dugg for articulating weird dry laws.
I live in Nevada where booze flows like water 24/7/365 so I find this stuff very bizarre. I felt like I was in a different country the time I visited Salt Lake City. - traveler1217, on 05/04/2009, -0/+24You probably mean: 'this isn't exactly the first time they overreacted to losing.'
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