Journal frankie's Journal: Thanks, Daily Dirt 2
For the second time in recent months, one of my pages has been spotlighted on The Daily Dirt (warning: not work friendly, block images). It's a nice burst of a few hundred extra hits over a few days. I'm glad Mr Dirt enjoys my style of fact-based humor, even though I'm not a fan of his advertiser choices. Seriously now, "Bukkake Barn"???
Anyways, one of the other sites he talked up this week is accurately self-titled Fuck the South (in the offensive sense rather than pornographic). It's similarly over-the-top, but just an EENSY bit less subtle than my stuff. My fellow Republicans should easily agree with the site's main conclusion that the federal pork barrel needs to be eliminated. Each state should keep more of its own money rather than sending it to the DC bureaucracy. Let's make that happen, and we'll start seeing some REAL change for the better in this country.
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the block grants provided by the feds allow smaller, less-affluent states to get enough money to get shiny interstates and stuff.
Richer, more populous states like Cali and NY would have much more money, whereas Rhode Island would get very little.
I suppose it would work out in the end, as Louisiana demonstrates (How can you tell when you've crossed the border on I-10 from TX to LA? The road turns to shale.)
It would be a grand experiment. Were I to draft the law eliminating the pork and letting the stat
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It's not exactly big vs little. According to the data I cited [taxfoundation.org], Rhode Island only gains 6% more in federal grants than the taxes they put in. I think they'd survive okay.
Here's who would lose big under Small Government: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virgini