DEMOCRACY is two wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for lunch... LIBERTY is a well armed sheep contesting the outcome of the vote...
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Democrats and Thugs in Michigan.
Bullcrap!! In Michigan they are not!! And in Minnesota all they do is tax the heck out of us for their pet pork projects and dreamed up needs!!
Skateboards
Tonight I came up behind a kid on a skateboard, listening to his IPod, in the middle of the lane!! He did not hear me until I was right behind him he jumped out of the way and promptly swore at me! Sorry, wrong answer buddy. I stopped and had a little chat, now I have nothing against kids, have a couple of my own, nor anything against skateboarders, except when they bring their attitude and foul mouth at me.
Then we have a problem and I can guarantee you I can be a helluva big problem when pissed off. But this whiny punk and I mean whiny, whimpered about the "cops" "give us a ticket if we are on the sidewalk". Like the cops make the rules? No adults, responsible adults, like his parents are supposed to be, make the rules!
I told him that the middle of the road was not for him and he persisted in WHINING "about the cops and tickets and sidewalks!!" I told him I did not care about that, just get out of the road so you don't get run over!! He finally picked his board up and walked away.
Sorry kid, streets are for cars, trucks, motorcycles and other LICENSED vehicles. Not punks on skateboards, not idiots running down the middle of the street, not bicyclists blatantly disobeying every rule of the road and don't get me started on the college idjits on the wheeled X Country skies!!
You know it takes parents to raise children, teach them responsibility, accountability, not the "village", it appears we are failing. Of course with so many broken, single parent families out there, it is not a wonder we are failing.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Healthiest State in the Union!!
Now will the State Legislators in their frenzy, to "fix" our "broken" Health Care screw it all up and screw us, by creating "Universal" Health Care?
Probably.
True North has the rest.
Someone has to!
Since the Federal Government is to busy pointing fingers and blaming anyone they can, but themselves, the true culprits, local governments are beginning to step forward. It's about time.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Mn Health Care cont.
Some comments made by Senators:
"DFL Senator Sharon Erickson Ropes said the bill “puts Minnesota health care at risk,” and suggests that many legislators don’t even understand huge sections of the bill. “This is all very confusing,” she said."
"Senator Ray Vanderveer (R – Forest Lake) summed up the bill saying, “We want to encourage people to get health insurance by putting a tax on it and making it cost more.”
Read it here.
Here in the Red Star and the Rochester Post Bulletin
Here is a sensible plan. But again you need sensible elected officials, which the Democrats are proving we do not have.
Conservative Wisdom.
More here.
Heroes or ???
Powerline has a good write up on him and his article.
"Nick Coleman is a third-rate columnist for a second-rate newspaper."
It seems nobody really wants to hear what are Vets have to say, as they may point out the good that has been done in Iraq. Granted the "conflict in Iraq" may or may not be right according to your point of view. But its there and needs to be dealt with. How we deal with it will go a long way in how the world views us and with all the discourse, cut and run politicians, anti war movements and other shrill voices, it probably appears that we are a bunch of dysfunctional children, which we are.
Standing behind our troops and supporting them, not pulling a "Code Pink" or a "Berkley" on them would be a good start. Granted this country is all about free speech, but it seems treasonous to attack those whom have joined the military and are willing to protect that right and all the other rights, for the rest of us. I would like to know what this crowd of whining anti war, code pinks, cut and run politicians have done to protect or serve? Other then exercising the "right" to say and demonstrate in such offensive, divisive ways as to drive a deeper wedge into this country. Alienating many and angering the same.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Here are your tax dollars!!
Being WASTED!!
You might think that state legislators would take a break after passing the record $6.6 billion tax increase earlier this session. But now they are debating a bonding bill that includes nearly a billion dollars in new spending. In light of Minnesota's current billion dollar budget deficit and our declining economy, the governor wants to follow the state guideline of keeping new debt at 3 percent of expected state revenues.
But some legislators, ever eager to bring home the pork, want to see how high they can raise the ante. Many of the proposed projects beg for a serious evaluation of their necessity. Here are just a few examples of the questionable projects currently included in the bonding bill:
- $70 million for the Central Corridor light rail line
- $38 million to expand the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center
- $20 million for hiking and bike trails
- $18 million for state park improvements
- $13 million for local parks to acquire more land
- $11 million for gorilla cages at the Como zoo
- $11 million for Minnesota zoo improvements
- $5 million to buy tracts of "prairie bank" land
- $4 million for a Rochester volleyball court
- $4 million for transit studies
- $3 million for "predesign" work on renovations at Minneapolis' Orchestra Hall
- $3 million to buy land to convert into wetlands
- $2 million for Minneapolis to purchase lights that "preserve the natural night environment"
- $2 million to improve the Big Bog State Recreation Area
- $1 million to landscape the Bell Museum
Looking at this list, you would never guess that Minnesota is in a recession. These projects just begin to scratch the surface in revealing the stockpiles of pork-barrel spending lurking inside the bonding (see HF0380 for more details).
TAKE ACTION
1. Click on the following link to send a message to your elected officials asking them to cut the pork spending out of the bonding bill: http://capwiz.com/mnmajority
The Cure is Free.
How to Rescue Our Economy.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Call your Minnesota Representative or Senator.
I know how mine are voting and I do not agree with them!!! But being the Democrat, Unionists they are, of course they want a big nanny government(socialism at work!)
How can they tell us we will have free choice when the only way for them to control costs is to control where we go and who we see? They will dictate what, who and how much gets paid and how many MDs do you think are going to stay here or how many future MDs will we see?
Look at how the State manages Nursing Homes!! Pay is lousy and from what I have seen, care is lousy because of inadequate staffing (see lousy pay). How do I know this? My job has taken me into many nursing homes and I have yet to see one I would put my parents in or want myself or wife put into.
Call your Senator and tell him, no do not ask, TELL! Remember he or she was elected and can be "un"elected. Remember "We the People"
"This bill will create new layers of government bureaucracy, seize control of private patient medical information and set the stage for a government takeover of health care in Minnesota."
"Government is not the solution, it is the problem. Health insurance is expensive in Minnesota today because we have the highest number of government-mandated insurance provisions in the country. Government has closed the door to out-of-state competition that would reduce the cost of insurance."
"Real health care reform can only occur by getting government out of health care and putting people back in-charge of making their own health care decisions."
"People need the freedom to choose the health care options that are best for them. And they need to be assured that their private medical information is secure and free from government intrusion."
Democrats and Unionists..
In a move that will further destroy jobs and deepen Minnesota’s economic slump, DFLers in the Minnesota House and Senate are moving a bill that will decrease the take home pay of hard working independent contractors in Minnesota’s trucking industry. Despite the good faith efforts to “fix” the bill, the final product proves the old adage “there’s no right way to do the wrong thing.”
By saddling MN employers with burdensome new regulations and subjecting them to litigation and government harassment while removing the certainty that employers rely on, HF 3296 will all but eliminate the ability of many Minnesotans to work as independent contractors in important parts of the trucking industry.
How the Feds Will Fix the Budget(or we are screwed again!)
And you know the Democrats in Minnesota will follow suit!!
Monday, March 24, 2008
"Good Faith" Insurance Practices
Socialized Medicine.
Look how well it works in Canada.
The heavy hand of government at work.
Unhealthy Mandated Sex Education!
Hearing Set for March 18 at 2:15 p.m. to Mandate Unhealthy Sex Education for Children Grades 7-12
Contact committee members and your legislators now and urge them to oppose H.F. 0615 or similar legislation
| Responsible Family Life and Sexuality Education Programs, (H.F. 0615) imposes a statewide mandate to teach comprehensive sex education, every year, to children grades 7 thruogh 12. This is the same unhealthy agenda you helped us stop last year. We recently alerted you to on the senate version of the bill. Now it's up for committee action in the house.
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Attack on Families!
From http://www.mfc.org/
Gov’t employee benefits bill to balkanize family at taxpayers expense
A deceptive bill “relating to local government; modifying the definition of 'dependent' for purposes of group benefits for local government officers and employees;” deviously attacks your pocketbook and undermines marriage and family in ways that only a Balkan dictator could love:
SF 960 increases the cost of government employee benefits, at taxpayers’ expense, by making thousands of unmarried adult children of employees eligible for dependent coverage – even if they aren’t actually dependent! Balkanizes the definition of the family by allowing government units (counties, cities, school districts, etc.) to decide for themselves who qualifies as a “dependent”. Forces taxpayer funding of benefits for same-sex partners, which many government units have already promised to adopt as soon as they are authorized by this bill.Irresponsible legislation like this creates a gut reaction. You know the feeling - the helplessness caused by sex education classes designed to encourage and reward your child or grandchild to reject what you teach them at home. The disgust for legislation that authorizes the selling of babies for profit.
And, the relentless squeeze on your family budget to pay for domestic partnerships for same-sex couples.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Supporting Sanctuary Cities.
“How can I be out of money, I still have checks left?”
So far we have:
- 6.6 billion dollar Transportation boondoggle, with tax increases.
- 935 million shortfall, (what happened to the 2.2 billion dollar surplus we had last year?)
- 1.1 billion dollar bonding bill which includes 40 million for the Duluth Convention Center, (now why the hell would I want my tax dollars going there?) Plus millions more on parks and trails, environmental preservations and mitigations and, of course, new homes for polar bears in St. Paul and Duluth.
- Now we have Universal Health Care in the works which is going to cost us??
Here is your score card, see how your elected representative (sic) voted.
“giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
So the politicians think they are smarter then you!
What we really have.
“Common delusions notwithstanding, the United States, I submit, is not a democracy—by which is meant a system in which the will of the people prevails. Rather it is a curious mechanism artfully designed to circumvent the will of the people while appearing to be democratic. Several mechanisms accomplish this. First, we have two identical parties which, when elected, do very much the same things. Thus the election determines not policy but only the division of spoils. Nothing really changes... Second, the two parties determine on which questions we are allowed to vote. They simply refuse to engage the questions that matter most to many people. If you are against affirmative action, for whom do you vote? If you regard the schools as abominations?... It is fraud. In a sense, the candidates do not even exist. A presidential candidate consists of two speechwriters, a makeup man, a gestures coach, ad agency, two pollsters and an interpreter of focus groups. Depending on his numbers, the handlers may suggest a more fixed stare to crank up his decisiveness quotient for male or Republican voters, or dial in a bit of compassion for a Democratic or female audience. The newspapers will report this calculated transformation. Yet it works. You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.” —Fred Reed
NO!!
Why is the Government?
"Baby Selling" and "designer babies"
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Democrats are pushing..
Its going to cost us in many ways, including the pocketbook, in spite of their rhetoric.
Since when has the Government done anything that has not cost the taxpayer?
It also increases the size of government and will take jobs away from those working for health care companies. So it needs to be stopped.
Here are the two bills House. Senate.
Do not believe it when they say it will not cost us more. Look at what has happened to Massachusetts Health Care in one year!!
Here is an analysis from the Cato Institute.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Mn Health Care
Work, get ahead, get screwed by the Democrats!!
Read it all here..
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Bly Supports Sanctuary Cities!
On March 13th, your state legislator, Rep. David Bly, helped defeat a motion that would have allowed an up-or-down vote on HF 3010, a bill prohibiting sanctuary cities from harboring illegal aliens. Cities like Minneapolis and St. Paul have sanctuary policies that prevent police officers from inquiring about immigration status or enforcing immigration laws. These policies are allowing illegal aliens to openly enjoy the benefits of citizenship without the fear of deportation.
Legislators who support sanctuary cities are trying to stall HF 3010, hoping to simply allow the bill to die in committee. The recent vote was an attempt to pull HF 3010 from committee to the House floor for an up-or-down vote. But Rep. David Bly helped to defeat this motion.
Sanctuary policies cause a host of financial, legal and criminal problems that negatively affect the quality of life for legitimate Minnesota citizens. The recent bus crash in Cottonwood is a tragic reminder of this fact and should have been a wake-up call to our state legislators to get tough on illegal immigration. But some legislators like Rep. David Bly don't seem to be getting the message.
TAKE ACTION
Click on the link below to contact Rep. David Bly:
Please forward this message to your friends and neighbors and ask them to do the same.
Thank you for doing your part to help combat illegal immigration in Minnesota.
Regards,
Jeff Davis
President, Minnesota Majority
Friday, March 14, 2008
How did your Senator Vote?
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| Dear Defender of English, A victory! Yesterday the Senate passed the Alexander amendment, No. 4222, to the Senate budget resolution by a vote of 54-44. The budget resolution amendment recommends removing $670,000 from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) budget – money the agency plans to spend filing lawsuits against other employers like the Salvation Army that have English-on-the-job rules, and using the money to teach English instead. Although budget resolutions are for guidance and not strictly binding on future appropriations, the vote is an important victory nevertheless. It shows that a majority of the Senate think the EEOC is abusing its authority by filing these lawsuits and prepares the way for binding budget votes in the future. Thank you to everyone who called their senators to support the amendment! Below is the roll call vote. If your senator voted yes, please call them and thank them for their vote in favor of Senator Lamar Alexander’s budget resolution amendment on the EEOC (No. 4222). Thank you! Alphabetical by Senator Name
Also, please consider a [tax-deductible] contribution to ProEnglish. We receive no government funds and depend entirely on voluntary contributions from the public for our support. Click here to make a secure donation online. Thank you! | ||||
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Here comes the next
Universal Health Care!!
Read and Watch it here!!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Angry..
Why? Because I am tired of all the pandering to special interests and the "all must be equal" crowd. Fine if you work hard, pay your dues and your fair share of the tax burden I will consider you an equal. If you do not work hard, do not pay taxes, if you expect to be handed whatever you want on a platter, if you cannot speak English and are making no effort to learn, if you are in this country illegally, go away. Don't talk, just walk, fast, faster! I have no time for you and I'll be damned if I will listen to whatever you have to say.
Press one for English!! BULLCRAP!!
I don't care if your gay, transgender, bisexual, metro sexual, lesbian. All I care is that you keep out of my face!! Do I march because I happen to believe a Man and Woman constitute a marriage? No! I do not want to hear about you or see your ideology in our schools!!
I want the schools to teach, not preach, not indoctrinate, teach. I am tired of teachers and professors trying to push their views on our children, let our kids make up their own minds. I also want teachers held accountable for what they are doing!! I have to be, most employees do and since you work for me, as I pay your wages I should have the right to expect results!
It seems the angry white man has been forgotten for all the special interest groups out there, well we shouldn't be. We're the ones paying a bulk of the taxes. The ones putting in 40, 50, 60 hour work weeks, working two jobs, the small business owner whom employs more and pays a heavy tax burden, to pay for these special interest groups and Democrats earmarks and save the world plans. I do not want Universal/National Health Care!! I do not want some bureaucrat telling me where and when and who to see for my medical needs, while making me pay for the governments health plan. Which we know from experience will be one big cluster!!
I want the chance to be as successful as I can be, without government interference or over regulation, over taxation. Remember a "Free" economy? Lets try it again!!
We're the ones watching all these kids, some of them are probably our own, fawning over some rookie legislator like he is some damn hero!! Well he is not, he is a very liberal politician whom is going to drive us further into bankruptcy and cause me to have to spend more on a bloated, underachieving, Government. Then we have a candidate whom sheds a tear whenever she gets crossed and probably has more history then Bugsy Malone!!
What do I want? I want fairness! I want less, more efficient government that stays out of my life! I want accountability and responsibility, amongst individuals and the government. I want to be able to go to church, and pray wherever and whenever I want. I want my money to work for me! Not the government, which as shown us oh so well how well they can mismanage our money.
and I want our rights back!! The Constitution and The Bill of Rights!! I want to carry a gun and a Bible when and where I want, as is my right!!
I want a government that governs, Judges that judge and do not make their own laws as they go!! A government that responds and knows damn well what happens if they don't. I want the murders of unborn children stopped!!
Maybe the Angry White Man should get out and protest!! But we're to busy working and paying taxes. We also have a sense of responsibility and pride in the Greatest Nation on the earth! The United States of America!! We want our country back!!
Politicians! Remember The Angry White Man come November, when the Angry White Men are lined up at the polls voting for their favorite characters, remember us, those who pissed us off!
Update: Castle Doctrine.
I have yet to hear a peep out of them, but I really did not expect to. But go here Committee members.
And contact them. Urge them to support HF 498.
True North
You notice the 60 hour weeks needed by the tax payer to pay for those sucking on the Governments teat? Yeah, I would be one of them with two jobs.
Being Taxed Into Bondage!
Karl Marx said “from each according to his ability; to each according to his need.”
Hillary Clinton said “We are going to take some things away from you, for the greater common good.” And Barack Obama and almost every modern Democrat agrees with this thought pattern. That’s because there is great political power to be had in the central control of individual economic equality.
But Thomas Jefferson said this, “A government big enough to give you anything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”
Read the whole story here.
What we can do to you!
Then we have Barack Hussein Obama and his Global Poverty Act,
Now thats going to cost us!!! Barack Hussein Obama thinks we should take care of the whole damn world?? We can't even take care of ourselves!! He'll be promoting the One World Government, Religion etc. before you know it if we elect him!!
If we elect anymore tax and spend Democrats we may as well kiss our paychecks good bye. Makes you wonder why you work so hard!!!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Our Economy and Change
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) the cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6)1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
Castle Doctrine in Minnesota
This Thursday the Minnesota House Public Safety and Civil Justice Committee will voting on HF 498.
Contact the Committee members and ask that they support HF 498 and contact your House Representative and ask that they support it.
I can think of no reason why I should not be able to defend myself and my family.
More here.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Transportation Boondoggle
Now Mr. Bly and Mr Dahle explain how this is part of a "transportation bill"?
The panel included more than $300 million for college building projects, $70 million to help build a Minneapolis-to-St. Paul light rail line and $80 million for hockey arenas in Bemidji, Crookston, Duluth and St. Cloud.There's also nearly $100 million for state parks, trails, flood-control projects and other natural resources improvements and tens of millions more for sewer and water systems, landfill cleanups and other pollution control projects.Look at this and see who wanted this bill passed. Who will benefit from it? And remember what it will cost you. Remember who was elected and what they cost you this November.
Read it here.
Defeat New Wireless Regulations in Minnesota
Mr Dahle supports this piece of legislation. Remember he is a school teacher, unionist. Business experience? None I know of.
Businesses don’t come to Minnesota for the winters, but they do come, and thrive in states where there aren’t burdensome regulations. States that let customers determine how they want businesses to be run are the places where real growth and innovation occur – something that Minnesota could use more of.
But not if the Minnesota Senate Commerce Committee has a say-so. The Commerce Committee thinks that as politicians, they know best how run business, and are proposing a bill, HF 635, that would place undo burdens on wireless companies operating in Minnesota.
Called a “Consumer Protection Bill,” the bill is more about piling on unnecessary and redundant hoops for businesses to jump through that will add more dollars to your wireless phone bill than “protecting” anyone. If the bill should pass, fall-out includes impeding innovation, limiting customer choice, and increased costs.
TAKE ACTION and tell the Commerce Committee that Minnesota needs to be on the pioneering side of wireless technology, bringing greater access and more information to residents.
I like to think that the customer knows best and that Minnesotans want to be able to choose for themselves what kind of service they want. TAKE ACTION and keep your choices up and costs down.
Sincerely,
Dick Armey
Chairman
FreedomWorks.org
Friday, March 7, 2008
House committee passes deadly Kahn-Cohen bill to legalize cloning, killing of human embryos
MCCL, ST. PAUL — Deadly legislation passed by a Minnesota House committee February 28th on a 11-8 vote would approve and fund human cloning and the killing of human embryos at the University of Minnesota. The Kahn–Cohen Cloning Bill forces taxpayers to pay for the destruction of human life on a scale never before seen in Minnesota, and also requires the U of M to kill all cloned human beings or face felony charges.
“This is the most shocking and dangerous threat to human life in years,” said Jenny Hoelscher, MCCL legislative associate. “It is difficult for taxpayers to believe that their elected officials are even considering legislation which would require such massive destruction of human life.”
The deadly Kahn–Cohen Cloning Bill, S.F. 100, would allow millions of dollars in taxpayer funds to be used to kill living human embryos. Taxpayer funds would also be available to finance the cloning of human embryos for the sole purpose of destroying them for experimentation.
“The vast majority of Americans are opposed to research that requires human cloning and the killing of human embryos,” Hoelscher explained. “The killing of innocent human life at any stage is unethical, regardless of any supposed benefits, and taxpayers must not be forced to fund it.”
Proponents of the bill, realizing the strong public opposition to human cloning, have used an alternative scientific term when referring to cloning. They even go so far as to claim that this term—somatic cell nuclear transplantation—is not cloning at all. In reality, the term itself actually describes the process of cloning.
“Do not be deceived by embryonic stem cell research or cloning by somatic cell nuclear transplantation,” Hoelscher said. “It is full of empty promises and deadly consequences.”
In testimony submitted to the House Public Safety and Civil Justice Committee, MCCL emphasized that adult stem cells offer real hope for people suffering from diseases and conditions such as cancer, lupus, Crohn’s, Parkinson’s, cardiovascular diseases, immune disorders and many more. More than 70 cures and treatments have already been developed from adult stem cell research; in stark contrast, no embryonic stem cell cures or even human clinical trials exist.
Hoelscher emphasized that embryonic stem cell research and human cloning are a waste of taxpayer dollars.
“If these horrors they call ‘research’ were at all promising, biotech firms would pour billions of dollars into them,” she noted. “The biotech industry is seeking to force taxpayers to fund this research precisely because it is illusory, highly speculative and deadly.”
MFC is following developments on this legislation, along with our friends at MCCL, and we’re ready to issue a call to action should that become necessary. At the moment, no hearings are scheduled in either the House or Senate. However, be prepared to take action on short notice if needed to stop this dangerous legislation.
Mn Health Care!!
Is this what we want? Well I do not. I feel capable and knowledgeable enough to make my own decisions about my health. I certainly do not think the State can or should!! If you want the State making your choices on this what next?
Eliminate the mandates and open up insurance options. It's called a Free Market and it works!! Of course it removes the State and all their needless regulations and bureaucracy. Which could show we can get by on a smaller more efficient government. Imagine that!!
Track Record
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Bly's idea of free enterpise.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
The Feeding Trough
Our Tax Happy Legislators
Which States Are Best for Business? The 2008 State Business Tax Climate Index
Democrats Only!!
Top Secret!!
Liberal Democratic Eyes only!!
TOP SECRET DFL LEGISLATIVE PRORITIES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SESSION:
- Make tobacco a controlled substance, legalize marijuana, and repeal all statewide smoking bans
- Declare Minnesota a "sanctuary state," and grant state funding for free liability insurance to illegal aliens Illegal-Immigration-Ruling Dec-07

- Repeal the constitutional amendment requiring a balanced biennial budget (too much of a restraint on spending)
- Replace the I-494/694 beltway with a light rail line and bike trail
- "The State of Minnesota Bans Guns Within Its Borders Act"
- Reinstate an autonomous state school board, with the president of the teachers union as its chair; require homeschooling parents to join the union
- Replace the current House and Senate with a unicameral legislature based on Senate districts (the House just gets in the way); convert the House chamber and offices into a new Minnesota Department of Peace
- Get Jason Lewis and the Northern Alliance Radio Network off the air by enacting the Fairness Doctrine for talk radio stations in the state
- Increase the minimum wage and provide free health insurance for all, funded by a "maximum gross income" tax on the "rich"
- Enact "steps and lanes" and grant tenure for legislators (think of all the money we won't be spending on campaigns and elections); index the legislative per diem to inflation
- Lobby Congress for a state government bail-out bill in the hypothetical event that some unnamed state goes bankrupt due to private industry and most citizens not receiving welfare or a government paycheck leaving the state







