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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (56950)1/22/2009 6:35:17 PM
From: SmoothSail1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 57110
 
This is pretty interesting.

Interesting Statistics
Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law,
St. Paul, Minnesota, points out facts of 2008 Presidential election:
Number of States won by:
Democrats: 19
Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Democrats: 580,000
Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Democrats: 127 million
Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Democrats: 13.2
Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds:
"In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won by Republicans
was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.
Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
government-owned tenements and living off various forms of
government welfare.

Professor Olson believes the United States is now somewhere
between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's
definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's
population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal
invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to
the USA in fewer than five years



To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (56950)1/22/2009 6:48:53 PM
From: SmoothSail  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 57110
 
Do you think one of the reasons they aren't pursuing Madoff with the vigor they would a common thief is that he has information that could be even more damaging than the damage he's already caused? After all, he was on a first name basis with a lot of heads of state and people in powerful positions around the world.