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Originally Posted by chumdawg
No, we're not Norway. Our GDP is like FIFTY TIMES the size of Norway! Hell, I think Texas alone is about three times the size of Norway. And what is Texas trying to do? Talk to your congressman. I listened to Dan Branch a couple months ago. Good Republican, he is. His stump speech was about how much Texas needs to shake off its no-spending habit and get with the rest of the world economy. He wants roads built to renew our aging infrastructure, which will facilitate commerce. He wants investments in upper-tier colleges, to spur innovation--which we are presently lagging far behind in compared to other parts of the US and particularly other parts of the world. He wants our water supply systems to be addressed, so that we don't face crippling problems ten and twenty years down the road.
Who's gonna pay for that? Rhylan, who wants to keep everything that's "his"? Apparently not. Dude? Apparently not.
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First, you're comparing state government to federal government, which isn't apples to apples. Second, you're putting words in Rhylan's mouth. He never said that we should ELIMINATE government and not have ANY spending.
But surely you know this, right? At one time you professed to have some conservative principles (fiscally at least) in you, so surely you know that conservatives don't look anything like the straw man that you constructed.
Right?