Reports about Rick Perry’s secret libtard leanings are swirling in over the flood walls these days, almost as fast as those “Rick Perry is gay” rumors used to knock down our doors before “everyone” was apparently required to stop calling him a closeted homosexual and seriously discuss his asinine policy positions super seriously in case he gets elected, so that we may “know the enemy” and such. We miss those older days! Whatever, here we are today, and former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich has probably the most salient point we’ve seen so far about Rick Perry’s tired fixation with states’ rights: the freedom from federal government institutions like the IRS and Federal Reserve that Perry is in favor of would likely help to further impoverish many of the annoying Teatards always complaining about the federal government since most of them live in red states that receive more federal assistance than they contribute in taxes. We were just going to say, “build a wall around them and let them eat each other,” but sure, an “economic” argument sounds so civilized!
The whole “red states are welfare queens” point gets brought up again every so often, but it’s worth a revisit in Rick Perry’s case, to prove that he is secretly living a slew of Marxist fantasies in the Stalinist sex torture gulag in his brain. From Robert Reich’s blog:
Perry doesn’t like the Federal Reserve Board. He hates the Internal Revenue Service even more. Presumably if he had his way taxpayers would pay states rather than the federal government for all the services and transfer payments they get.
This might be a good deal for Texas. According to the most recent data from the Tax Foundation, the citizens of Texas receive only 94 cents from the federal government for every tax dollar they send to Washington.
But it would be a bad deal for most other red states. On average, citizens of states with strong Republican majorities get back more from the federal government than they pay in. Kentucky receives $1.51 from Washington for every dollar its citizens pay in federal taxes. Alabama gets back $1.66. Louisiana receives $1.78. Alaska, $1.84. Mississippi, $2.02. Arizona, $1.19. Idaho, $1.21. South Carolina, $1.35. Oklahoma, $1.36. Arkansas, $1.41. Montana, $1.47, Nebraska, $1.10. Wyoming, $1.11. Kansas, $1.12.
On the other hand, fiscal secession would be a boon to most blue states. The citizens of California – harder hit by the recession than most – receive from Washington only 78 cents for every tax dollar they send to Washington. New Yorkers get back only 79 cents on every tax dollar they send in. Massachusetts, 82 cents. Michigan, 92 cents. Oregon, 98 cents.
[Robert Reich via Salon]
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States Rights are just talking points thrown to teabaggers/republicans to get their man elected. Once they get back in power, they will do or say whatever is necessary to make profits for their corporate sponsors.
Corporate sponsors that live in states, duh!
or in some other state. or China.
Remember, countries are also called "states". Otherwise, we'd have a Secretary of Fifty States, Plus Puerto Rico, Guam, and Various Islands in the Caribbean Too Small to Mention.
Actually, State's rights started out as a code for "We want the federal money, but we want to put darkie in his place."
That's exactly what all this foofaraw is about. Despicable, but transparent to anyone who has the wherewithal to think. Which would not be yon teabaggage.
I seem to remember going to war over this whole states rights thing a while back and their side losing.
Good luck and doGspeed oh new Republic of Tejastan! Get all Jeezussy and have a ball, just not on our dime anymore. Please secede! Oh pretty please with sugar and Jack Daniel's bubbakew sauce on it!!!!1!!11!!
PS, Any of the other traitorous fucks that want to join up with them, GO FOR IT!!!!!
Somebody owes me 22 cents!
Maybe I didn't read that right.
"…the freedom from federal government institutions like the IRS and Federal Reserve that Perry is in favor of would likely impoverish many of the annoying Teatards always complaining about the government since most of them live in red states that receive more federal assistance than they pay in taxes."
End thread! KBJ WINS!!!!!!!! Now if'n you can get a photo of you and Andrew Breitbart when he's shit faced like Reily I'll marry you and tell people you the greatest wonkette writer I've read. And Baconz's read Wonkette for almost 5 months….Wait your a lady and he looks like a groper.
Edit "GROAPER". Is that still spelled right? Baconz can't spell worth kaka-poo-poo.
Mis-spelling, as I've pointed out before, becomes you. Many have probably noticed I abuse hyphens unnecessarily; we all have our vices.
Anyway, what else were we gonna heckle you for since you lost that kick-ass avatar?
I can't find that avatar again. Aparently "White Jew Disco Afro" isn't at the top of the list on Google images anymore. But maybe that Halloween is around the corner it will show up again. At least I scanned this image in (from a manual on "How to slaughter and cook a pig") from something I picked up at the $.10 bin at the Goodwill. It took effort.
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http://www.strayshoppingcart.com/shopping_cart/1_…
I only share this with "cool kids" so feel honored!
Haha — "Don't forget to buy a copy of this book for everyone you know"! Well you're doing your part just sharing this.
I don't remember which thrift store I found it in, but my favorite find has got to be my Dark Shadows Cookbook.
I haven't yet tried the recipes — includes "Julia's Just Desserts" and "Elizabeth's Chicken (But A Very Good Cook!)" etc. — it's one of those layabout things I forget where I put it, then find it, then misplace it again.
that is too awesome. even more elaborate than the Dune coloring/activity books.
No way, dude! I just bought that book for Mrs Dewey about a month ago. We have become "carters" in our funky small town that apparently has a rich diversity of carts. Who knew?
Am I "cool" enough to be allowed on? Because I went and looked.
Is that your site? It;s pretty damn cool.
He definitely looks like a grouper.
Is Baconz drunk? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Uh, Michigan needs their money back.
yeah WTF? MI is giving money to fucking NEBRASKA?
Corn subsidies I'm guessing.
But do blue staters get a discount on Fritos? Noooooo.
I'm still trying to get past the fact that Rick Perry's father-in-law did his vasectomy. I hope the guy is a doctor.
There are two people in Rick Perry's wife's family who have seen his penis. Generally, you want to keep that number down to one.
Are we talking a medical doctor, or a Dr. Phil "doctor"?
WIN!
So, I take it don't watch much Jerry Springer?
You're only talking family. Two is pretty low for the South. Now, based upon his high-larious hi-jinx in "college" fraternities, I'm guessing the number of staff underlings who have both seen it and been snapped with a wet towel, is much higher.
Prolly did it with his teeth, like a real cowboy.
'Seen' is one thing. 'Had prolonged physical contact with' is the problematic angle.
Don't forget the male nurse who had to shave him and scrub him down with Betadine!
Generally, you want to keep that number down to one.
Doesn't that depend on how attractive your wife's younger sister is?
The citizens of California – harder hit by the recession than most – receive from Washington only 78 cents for every tax dollar we send to Washington
Hey, Kansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Kentucky…you're fucking welcome.
You're more polite than I.
Don't forget us in the real Washington. We (by "we" I mean us in King/Pierce/Snohomish counties) not only subsidize the Red States, we subsidize most of our own damn state, too.
RICK PERRY LIBEL!!! Wait, I'm okay with that.
A big chunk of Rick's Texas miracle is construction on military bases like Forts Hood and Bliss and Sam Houston, each of which is experiencing a multi-billion-dollar building boom. The construction is done by private-sector contractors and so does indeed generate jobs, but in truth those jobs wouldn't exist if the Feds weren't showering all this money on Texas.
Take a look at Bliss. All this stuff is new, and is only part of the picture:
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=fort+bliss,+tx&ll=31.865166,-106.329632&spn=0.062617,0.132093&gl=us&t=h&z=14&vpsrc=6" target="_blank"> <a href="http://;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=fort+bliss,+tx&…” target=”_blank”>;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=fort+bliss,+tx&…
Fort Hood is the largest employer in Texas, according to Robert Gibbs. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44207023/ns/meet_the_…
For the moment…
Ah Fort Sam.
Did timeServed our country there back in the day. Fort Bliss on the other hand is horribly misnamed. There is absolutely nothing blissful about it.Fort Ecstasy, really, but they don’t let anyone know that. Moody AFB is really Bipolar Air Force Base.
Nicely done.
So I'm guessing there ain't no sheep at Sheppard no way neither.
And one of their oft repeated talking points is "government doesn't create jobs." The whole military-industriai-socialist complex is a fucking job.
And the 15 employees of V572625694 & Associates say, “Thank you, American taxpayers!”
Get it while you can. I did.
weejee and the weejets too, also.
War spending does create jobs, but any number of studies has shown that spending on infrastructure creates many more jobs.
Bridges not bombs.
Yes, the thing that was made doesn't blow up immediately after. And the person who delivers it doesn't die.
Notice how the "Government Doesn't Create Jobs" bunch squeals whenever it's proposed we close a military base in their district or state.
Same thing is true in Arizona. I've been here fewer than five years and I swear the city of Yuma has doubled in size since I've been here. Apparently armies going to war in a desert need a desert to practice in. The military doesn't, however, employ architects, designers, and landscapers to make things look good. And every spurt of military expansion brings at least a dozen stripper bars with it. Lap dances for the troops, y'all (McCain's idea of job growth).
Yuma. Wow. YPG. Been there. My sympathy
I don't live there, but I have to drive through (really, stop to get gas) on my way to San Diego. —
From the ridiculous to the sublime. Say hello sometime in SD.
Uh I beg your pardon: we are the architects, engineers, landscape architects they hire to make things look good. How do you like it?
Arrrrrggggghhhhhh so frustrating! It would be so awesome to just say, "YES. Please. Go do your own thing." to all the "red" states and watch them circle the motherfucking bowl.
Somebody, please, make this happen.
Hey we're fat and happy in the Soviet of Warshington. We get 88 centavos back for every Amero collected and that includes a very hefty boost from all the military bases we have. Heck elmmelemm, without that pork we'd be 50th.
But… but… that's still a deficit. We're subsidizing 12 cents worth of rednecked Teatarded pigfuckery. Give me my 12 cents, you assholes!!
Build the danged wall!
Too bad the point is so obvious and clear.
This will make the teabaggers dismiss it as a sciencey thingy.
Rick Perry is the Texchurian Candidate?
Just another stupid ignorant comment by a stupid ignorant man. Dumb fuck, he shouldn't benefit from national medical research, or armed forces. Typical, say it cause it sounds good but hope nobody with a brain is really listening. Dumb fuck
Rick Perry for President of Gay Wiki Secession? Is there a Myspace page for this somewhere? I'd like to receive further updates on this fascinating topic.
Blue states say "sure, you can have some of my money to help rebuild your home that was destroyed in the latest meth lab drought tornado explosion, but maybe you'd like some ideas about how better to build your state?" and the Red states are all, "Sure, I'll take your money and use it to build a monument to baby Jeebus and General Lee, and I'll take your ideas and use them for the terlet paper in my outhouse." Much like the current relationship between Congress and the White House.
One of these days I will have to figure out how to make a hyperlink. My forum has it built into the toolbar and I am spoiled.
Rick Perry's dikipedia page is hilarious! http://tinyurl.com/qmdrmq
Nice to see we libs are paying to create more retards in dixieland & internal wastelands. Hopefully these states are dropping so called science, and getting back to the fundamentals, like intelligent design & creationism. This also proves that Einstein, Newton, Gallilao and many, many other "respected" scientist were a bunch of goof balls. I, personally, am starting to belive that the earth is indeed flat, was created 6000 years ago, and god really was a conservative asshat, while his dis-obedient son was a pot smoking, acid taking hippie, who really did deserve to be hammered to a cross. Gravity really is over-rated.
But think of it this way, it might just turn out like the movie Idiotocracy. Your competent and reasonably well educated grandchildren and great-grandchildren will appear as geniuses to them. They'll dance circles around them, and go on to be CEOs, senators, and presidents. And our liberal revenge will be complete.
We'd better watch out. Those Texas edjumacated kids are gunna overtake us blue staters, becuz there learnin' their "three R's": Racin, Rasslin, and Rodeo, while our kids are learning math and chemistry. They're going to own the future.
Well, they'll share it with the Alaskans, who are learnin' their "three R's" as well: Roofies, Rape, and Rickets. And meth cooking, don't forget the meth.
I think you're missing the 4th "R", racism.
Lando Calrissian must have been a blue stater, because an image of him saying "This deal is getting worse all the time!" pops into my head whenever I read stats like this.
Here's a hot bit of political wisdom: Never ever elect any person who wears cowboy boots to a federal office. It has nothing to do with the fashion statement. It has everything to do with the mind set.
Also, be wary of the man or woman who drops the letter "g" for show.
Would LBJ be an exception?
No
OK. I know he was an asshole and a crook, but he accomplished a lot of good during his tenure. Just checking.
I like his civil rights laws but invading Vietnam was a HUGE mistake. All because he was afraid Repubs. would call him "soft on Communism" too. Even Macarthur told him ahead of time "don't do it; you can't win." And of course, all the Viets killed had civil rights, too.
He could have been if he had quit Vietnam. **sigh** I really mean that. The guy is both one of my favorite presidents and one of the most disappointing presidents.
Couldn't kill the Cash Cow.
But, unfortunately, he and the other presidents before him didn't much mind allowing our men to be killed to do little more than make a point to China and Russia.
Stalinist sex torture gulag in his brain
BENINCASA LIBEL!
WTF…Oil is at historically high prices and Alaska passes out FREE money (APF) yet STILL sucks on the gubbermint teet for an 84 percent bonus…
Nice.
Um. Yes.
And people wonder how Sarah Palin was elected governor.
It's not Rick Perry's fault he is from an impoverished State. Here in Texas we are all eating boiled tubers and grass-roots. We love America, and NO ONE in my State is worried. I recently sent the entirety of my weekly paycheck to Perry's campaign. All $47.06 of it. If you don't think Perry creates jobs, just ask my beneficient employer: KFC.
"the citizens of Texas receive only 94 cents from the federal government for every tax dollar they send to Washington."
Their return is too damn high!
States Rights for Left States!
No Left State Behind.
Behind Every Right Man Stands a Woman Left Behind.
Oh poor Texas, cry me a river, New Jersey, now half under water, gets only $0.61 on the dollar. By the way, wanna buy some nice clean water? We've got lots of it.
Shhh don't tell them. They'll never know the difference, they don't teach numbers in Texas anymore.
Well, of course not, them's Arabic numbers…
Rithmatic?
So the south and mid west takes money off the north and west coast then complains that they are taxed too much and that these "welfare queens" (AKA brown people) are sucking out the $$$$ from the system…..
(In my Comic voice) Didja ever notice that the illiteracy is most prevalent where the Tea Party scores the highest….
http://www.fuckthesouth.com
Beautiful Rant, also, very true.
damn this fucking thing gave me so much comfort on nov 3 2004.
This completely misses the point. numbers ar a leftist plot to destroy Amerca. Everytime someone uses numbers, good Americans (in the Teapublican Party), are made to look foolish. So, stop adding and stuff…or just admit you're a commie!
Apparently, Rick Perry's mom didn't tell him not to talk with his mouth full (of Santorum). BTW, I saw ole Rick Santoryum on "Pierce Morgan" last night (where Pierce was lobbing softballs to Rick) in that Rick said the only instance that abortion should be allowed, is if the life of the Mother is in Jeopardy? Hello!, Pierce, why not follow that up with "What about in the case of rape or incest?, but nooooo Pierce just lobbes another softball. So I think I know what Rick's answer would be "Well, god intended for that woman to be raped". "It's gods will". Which brought me to another interesting point. Was god's sex with Mary consentual ?
Don't we call that " rape?"
Well I see no inconsistancy.
When the inevitable happens and I am named omnipotent most glorious Dictator for life over this land it will be one of the first things I fix. That and proportional representation in the US Senate. Of course I will ignore everything the Senate says anyway but low populous States will get less of them.
If by "leanings" you mean he leans into ballsacks when he's sucking vein lathened meat packed gay cock in the Austin alleys behind dumpsters, then yes, he leans.
So the south and mid west takes money off the north then complains that they are taxed too much and that these "welfare queens" (AKA brown people) are sucking out the $$$$ from the system…..
Oh, go fuck a cow, Texas.
It's almost the weekend…
Rick Perry seems to be the Fred Thompson of 2012; he seemed good to the pundits on paper and polled well before he actually started campaigning, but seems to be flaming out now that he's actually campaigning. And while the insane religiosity won't hurt him with the Republican base, the flip-flopping past will if they learn about it.
Plus, there's the whole gay thing. Although the wingnuts don't seem to mind as long as their heroes stay in the closet.
do you think?? i so hope you are right.
Right now it looks that way; although I don't know if that's positive, since it helps Bachmann if she can become the one candidate of the far right, now that Romney's become the candidate of the (by GOP standards) moderates. And I'd rather have the cynical, flip-flopping panderer than a true believer lunatic in charge; but then, Romney would have an easier chance of winning in the general election.
Seeing as Cali, Washington, and Washington's Mexico would be better off on our own, I say we secede. Whose with me?
Do we take BC with us? And, really, isn't Alto California really Washington and Oregon's Mexico? I like to think of Oregon as our slightly retarded Holland.
The crazy Canucks can come too, sure, why not. And we'll take the hippy parts of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming since they're basically Seattle's exburbs.
I'm game. I dunno about the hippy parts of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, though. I think the people there might just have to emigrate west.
This argument, of course, assumes that Perry cares about people to begin with. You really care if despots care if they rule over an impoverished nation? So long as they are their own are getting their's they couldn't possibly care less what the rest of the state is like.
BTW, just gotta' say, fuck "states' rights". Give me civil rights. Give me human rights.
Jesus. If half the sates in the union could really do what they want… well, you could forget about human and civil rights altogether.
Washington DC is oppressing them by not letting them oppress their populations! Oh Fed-roh, set my racist-fascist oppressors free!
Oh, you mean "special" rights for those perverted homos, obvs.
Wow, Robert Reich is reading Wonkette comments.
Red states remind me of a bunch of ticks feeding from a bowl of blood and complaining about the blood type of the donor.
You know, at least people during the depression had some appreciation for all the federal help they get. Now they simply yell and scream about how terrible DC and the federal government is, while sucking as much out of it as possible.
Sort of like Rick Perry at a highway rest stop. <drum sting>
I seriously doubt anyone in the Republican party gets it that the only thing that saved the Deep Thud of 2008 from being as bad or worse than the Great Depression were New Deal innovations like the FDIC and Unemployment Compensation. Did a significant part of the population spend WWII bitching that their taxes were too high? Assholes would be useless in a foxhole (or an improvised street fight with roving gangs menacing the few working ATMs, dispensing a max of $40 to any account per day). Hate to get caught in a natural disaster or any immediate crisis with them, suggest they help and they'd cross their arms and pout.
The plutocrats in the Great Depression didn't just whine about FDR; a bunch of them planned to launch a coup against him and set up a fascist government:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
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i remember George Carlin saying something about walling off the square states…
unharsh that mellow, the golden days are still thick among us: "rick perry gay" has advanced to the #2 spot
Time to kick-start your campaign, Perry: announce Palin as your Running Mate. The Media will immediately shit a wildcat and go into a state of prolonged Priapism.
Then Rumpney can announce Bachmann as his running mate! for more of the same.
“Let the Crazy Commence!” Talk about a Horse and Pony Show! The sale of anti-depressants would skyrocket in Europe.
Mother Nature has declared war on mankind's stupidity.
And Texas is Ground Zero, never forget!
States rights? States in charge of it all?
I bet that will go over peachy-keen in all those communities, like mine, that remain much as they were 10 years ago only because there's a military base nearby, and thousands continue to eke out near-middle class existences because they are still busy enabling the slaughter of Muslims, calling themselves heroes all the while.
WOOHOO! Mississippi #1 again! Suck it, other 49.
Sorry, Arizona's #1. Better luck next year. lol
Mississippi, you gonna' take that sitting down? Let me rephrase that…
Man, as a Wonketter I am hurting from the last 2 posts. Don't blame all of Texas for the fucknut retards our spawn generates. We liberals in Austin are pretty cool and I know for a fact my wife thinks I am kinda sexy. We really do apologize for Rick e Douche Governor.
Are we forgiven? We're sorry for our domestic terrorism callled Rick.
I echo that from the bluish-purple bastion of Dallas (Hey, we elected a Hispanic lesbian sheriff!).
The only Teatards I know have been on welfare more than once. They stop talking to you if you bring this up, so I try to bring it up a lot.
Is he going to refer to Michele Bachmann as "Mam," when responding to anything that she says at the debate?
I know one true hardcore Teapartier. She has one household income and seven children. I like to interrupt her diatribes by saying "Sweetie, I PROMISE I pay more taxes than you. Now shush."
What this *really* means is that all the teabaggers in the other Red states will either move to Tejas or attack it in search of those sweet, sweet welfare dollars that they all love so much.
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