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To: Celtictrader who wrote (670247)	8/30/2012 1:45:37 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1583505

probably local increases not state. in my county they are broke as shit but are still spending like there is no tomorrow and on all kinds of bull shit

To: Celtictrader who wrote (670247)	8/30/2012 1:54:56 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1583505

No wonder Democrats are worried. Forsaking The Democrat 'Plantation' Politics: The stars of the GOP curtain-raiser in Tampa weren't top-billed Gov. Chris Christie or even Ann Romney. They were two young black conservatives the Democrats don't want you to know. They are also whom MSNBC, which cut away from their speeches, doesn't want voters to see on a stage the pro-Obama network hoped would be filled with old white men. Democrat defector Artur Davis, who seconded the official nomination of Barack Obama four years ago, stepped onto the Republican convention stage and blasted his former party for pushing rigid leftist nostrums that have failed to lift minorities out of the recession. "We don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering," said Davis, a Harvard Law grad. "Bill Clinton took on his base and made welfare a thing you had to work for," he added. "This current crowd guts the welfare requirement in the dead of the night." Davis, 44, scolded Obama and Democrats for glorifying the Occupy Wall Street movement, demonizing business success and fomenting class envy. "When they tell you America is this unequal place where the powerful trample on the powerless," he said, "do you even recognize the America they are talking about?" Then Davis explained why he was the only Congressional Black Caucus member to vote against ObamaCare: Democrats "rammed through a health care bill that took over one-sixth of our economy, without accepting a single Republican idea, without winning a single vote in either house from a party whose constituents make up about 50% of the country." He followed on the dais 36-year-old Mia Love, who's battling to take a House seat from an incumbent Democrat in Utah. The race is one of the top five national pickup opportunities for Republicans. The daughter of Haitian immigrants, Love gave a rousing speech rejecting Obama's collectivist vision of America. "The America I grew up knowing was centered on self-reliance," she asserted. If she wins, Love would be the first black Republican woman in Congress. She said in a January interview with the Deseret News that she'd join the Black Caucus, but only to "try to take that thing apart from the inside out." "They sit there and ignite racism when there isn't (any)," she explained. "They use their positions to instill fear" in minorities. Black leaders use the same fear to keep young black political hopefuls in the Democratic camp. But it's no longer working. "One thing that's happening in the Republican Party that the Democratic Party can't say," noted Davis in a June interview with The Root, is that "African-Americans who don't live in African-American communities are having a chance to serve their country at the political level." He cited Reps. Allen West and Tim Scott, who in 2010 won GOP seats in white districts in Florida and South Carolina, as well as Love, who would continue the trend if she wins her white Utah district. And Davis himself may make a run at a white district in Virginia. The trend proves that unlike Democrats, Republicans have no skin test. What matters are ideas and ability. Younger blacks are tired of Democrats taking their votes for granted. And they're tired of having to march in lockstep with an increasingly leftist ideology that has kept so many African-Americans trapped on, as West calls it, a "21st century plantation" run by big government overseers. "In the next decade, as Republicans talk more about really shaking up our schools, making the way we pay for entitlements more fair and streamlining government to make it more efficient, then more younger African-Americans are going to say, 'I hear some sound arguments over there, and I see people like me over there succeeding and thriving regardless of race,'" Davis said. "That's going to be what pulls African-Americans into the (Republican) party over the next decade," he said. No wonder Democrats are worried.

To: Celtictrader who wrote (670247)	8/30/2012 6:35:02 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1583505

My property taxes are now just under 12K up about 1.5k last 3 years P.S. Just another Bullshit artist in Trenton Someone has to pay for all pizzas he consumes.