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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (763763)	7/23/2007 4:22:17 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 769670

If that wasn't in the constitution were would just have 13 very large states in the US

To: longnshort who wrote (763763)	7/23/2007 5:08:34 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Our populations, State-to-State, are skewed WAY DIFFERENTLY now then when the original 13 colonies 'incorporated' their federal union. No way in Hell did we originally have a 50-to-1 disparity (between the smallest and the largest states... like, say between a Delaware or a South Dakota, and a California or a Texas or a New York or Florida) that we are beginning to see now. In the beginning the differences were much less extreme. You 'like' that disparity in voting strength so much? OK, then be HAPPY when you see the continuation of massive subsidies voted to enrich the denizens of the smaller political domains --- coming out of the tax pockets of everyone. ============================= Just goes to show that even the most brilliant political compromise and governmental design in history must grow old and calcified in time... absent effective reform. TIME changes everything.