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projected surpluses was Less than 2 days
Wake up Ed - it has been years since I move back home to Texas.
Martin Ed Huntress wrote: "Martin H. Eastburn" wrote in message ... The fish were not trout. They were two species of Salmon. Oh, excuse me. That changes everything. d8-) Now few swim to the river any more. Part of the issue is no new brood that can smell this river. The older ones returning for the first time might not smell the same river due to various changes. The number of redwoods saved could be counted on a hand. They were not threatened. No saving. Just land grab and 'look at what I did' Mr. ECO himself...not. The vacation trips and other junk was the shameful part. The grabbing a home from a retired couple that just got there and set themselves up over three years for the rest of their life by pouring money into the property. Their 'fair value' was almost zero. No one could buy so the land was prices out as western grass land. It went to court and wasn't heard of since. That was shameful. Laying off trained firefighters except when they wanted them was shameful. Our tax on sport and hunting..... is by law sent to parks and wildlife. The anti-gun types thought it was just fine to take. It isn't your money or mine. We all do it. How big is your tank range ? Bombing Range ? missile Range ? Mountain Range ? etc... These were federal fisheries. The state ones were trashed by a governor - Davis. Martin Look, Martin, I like trout and salmon, too. Although we don't get the benefit from federal land that you do (ours are mostly fenced-in naval ammunition dumps and no-trespass artillery ranges from WWII), I favor preserving land out west, even if I never get to set foot on it, or fish for trout or salmon there. I am not anti-tax, as long as it goes for things that I think are good for all of us. And your salmon are good for the country, even if I never see one. I have mixed feelings about the way you handle forest fire hazards out there, but I won't quibble. The point is, you made some complaints that amounted to budget cuts you don't like. If we had a federal project to restore our beaches (we pay for those with state money, not federal), I'll bet you'd be one of the first in line to complain about how the tax-and-spend liberals were taking *your* tax money for *our* benefit. Well, Martin, they're taking *my* tax money to pay for *your* benefit. You get to fish for those salmon, and to enjoy those preserved outdoors, and I don't. So I could go off about you being a tax-and-spend liberal spending MY money. But I won't, because, as I said, I think those are good uses of money. If taxes have to be cut, I think those are reasonable things to cut, but if they don't, then let those budgets be. That's why I'm getting on your case -- because you're blaming someone else for a budget policy when the complaint is based on cutting a budget you don't like. As long as it's not in your backyard, I'll bet (and we've seen comments from you to this effect) that you're all in favor of budget cuts. As I said, your favorite ox got gored, and the result is that you turn out not to be against spending tax money on domestic projects at all...only on the ones you don't benefit from. I could go off about how westerners and midwesterners are the most hypocritical people on Earth about taxation, but I won't, even though I've sat in a farmhouse owned by one of my wife's rock-ribbed-Republican family friends who bitched about liberals in Washington while ending the conversation talking about how much corn to plant, based on the federal subsidies versus market prices. He got it both ways: price supports and soil-bank payments. Unbelievable hypocricy. And westerners, who complain about all that federal land that they can't use as they see fit, ignore the fact that it's MY tax money that's paying for THEIR federal recreation areas, and fire protection, and grazing subsidies, and so on. Western states get MUCH more money back in federal taxes than they pay out. And we get the opposite. So you're on the dole, and it's paid for by us. If you doubt it, several people here can point you to the tax facts. I don't mind this so much until I hear one of you guys start to bitch that you're entitled to more. That gets my hackles up. And it makes me wonder, sometimes, if it was smart to grant you full statehood, and to just give you all of that federal land, in the first place. And I'm only half-joking about that. d8-) -- Ed Huntress |
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"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote in message ... Wake up Ed - it has been years since I move back home to Texas. Martin You mean those weren't Texas salmon you were complaining about? g I'm wide awake, Martin. You just don't like to see budgets cut for your favorite projects. Nobody does, but it puts you in a pretty awkward position when you're complaining about government spending and then, when they cut a budget to reduce spending, you cry foul. You can't have it both ways. But I'll bet you'll keep trying. -- Ed Huntress Ed Huntress wrote: "Martin H. Eastburn" wrote in message ... The fish were not trout. They were two species of Salmon. Oh, excuse me. That changes everything. d8-) Now few swim to the river any more. Part of the issue is no new brood that can smell this river. The older ones returning for the first time might not smell the same river due to various changes. The number of redwoods saved could be counted on a hand. They were not threatened. No saving. Just land grab and 'look at what I did' Mr. ECO himself...not. The vacation trips and other junk was the shameful part. The grabbing a home from a retired couple that just got there and set themselves up over three years for the rest of their life by pouring money into the property. Their 'fair value' was almost zero. No one could buy so the land was prices out as western grass land. It went to court and wasn't heard of since. That was shameful. Laying off trained firefighters except when they wanted them was shameful. Our tax on sport and hunting..... is by law sent to parks and wildlife. The anti-gun types thought it was just fine to take. It isn't your money or mine. We all do it. How big is your tank range ? Bombing Range ? missile Range ? Mountain Range ? etc... These were federal fisheries. The state ones were trashed by a governor - Davis. Martin Look, Martin, I like trout and salmon, too. Although we don't get the benefit from federal land that you do (ours are mostly fenced-in naval ammunition dumps and no-trespass artillery ranges from WWII), I favor preserving land out west, even if I never get to set foot on it, or fish for trout or salmon there. I am not anti-tax, as long as it goes for things that I think are good for all of us. And your salmon are good for the country, even if I never see one. I have mixed feelings about the way you handle forest fire hazards out there, but I won't quibble. The point is, you made some complaints that amounted to budget cuts you don't like. If we had a federal project to restore our beaches (we pay for those with state money, not federal), I'll bet you'd be one of the first in line to complain about how the tax-and-spend liberals were taking *your* tax money for *our* benefit. Well, Martin, they're taking *my* tax money to pay for *your* benefit. You get to fish for those salmon, and to enjoy those preserved outdoors, and I don't. So I could go off about you being a tax-and-spend liberal spending MY money. But I won't, because, as I said, I think those are good uses of money. If taxes have to be cut, I think those are reasonable things to cut, but if they don't, then let those budgets be. That's why I'm getting on your case -- because you're blaming someone else for a budget policy when the complaint is based on cutting a budget you don't like. As long as it's not in your backyard, I'll bet (and we've seen comments from you to this effect) that you're all in favor of budget cuts. As I said, your favorite ox got gored, and the result is that you turn out not to be against spending tax money on domestic projects at all...only on the ones you don't benefit from. I could go off about how westerners and midwesterners are the most hypocritical people on Earth about taxation, but I won't, even though I've sat in a farmhouse owned by one of my wife's rock-ribbed-Republican family friends who bitched about liberals in Washington while ending the conversation talking about how much corn to plant, based on the federal subsidies versus market prices. He got it both ways: price supports and soil-bank payments. Unbelievable hypocricy. And westerners, who complain about all that federal land that they can't use as they see fit, ignore the fact that it's MY tax money that's paying for THEIR federal recreation areas, and fire protection, and grazing subsidies, and so on. Western states get MUCH more money back in federal taxes than they pay out. And we get the opposite. So you're on the dole, and it's paid for by us. If you doubt it, several people here can point you to the tax facts. I don't mind this so much until I hear one of you guys start to bitch that you're entitled to more. That gets my hackles up. And it makes me wonder, sometimes, if it was smart to grant you full statehood, and to just give you all of that federal land, in the first place. And I'm only half-joking about that. d8-) -- Ed Huntress |
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