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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (818850)	11/23/2014 9:53:32 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Respond to of 1579897

BACHMANN, KING IN TEXAS BORDER TOWN DEVASTATED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: LOOKS LIKE 'WORLD WAR II AFTER A BOMBING' ROMA, Texas — Standing on a cliff looking over the Rio Grande river in this border town, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) notes the buildings behind us on the American side—largely abandoned, run-down houses and a seemingly abandoned local chamber of commerce outpost—look like they’ve been ravaged by war. “This looks like it’s post-World War II, like after a bombing,” Bachmann said while Breitbart News and CNN accompanied her and Rep. Steve King (R-IA) to an outpost on the border where illegal immigration and drug cartel crime runs rampant. “We don’t see people living here, but they told us these are stash houses for the drug cartels. You wouldn’t want to be here after dark.”...

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (818850)	11/24/2014 9:28:32 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1579897

In western Maryland, people talk about moving to Pennsylvania where one can find work on the Fracking Jobs website. Or take the Washington suburbs, where businesses such as defense contractor Northrop Grumman opt to set up new headquarters in Virginia, not Maryland. Retirees go to Delaware, where there is no sales tax, or to Florida, where there is no income tax. The bottom line was stunning. Maryland lost $1.7 billion in taxable income to other states in just three years under O’Malley and Brown. Maryland joins high-tax states in the Northeast, Midwest and California among those with the largest exodus between 2007 and 2010. Maryland saw the seventh-highest negative net migration in the nation, hardly a beacon of prosperity.