Harrassed By Doug Jones

[Texan4Auburn 1,626]

Anyone else having issues with Doug Jones and gang blowing up their phone with calls and text multiple times a day? I have informed them multiple times, including calling his party office, that I am not the person they are asking for and that I am a registered voter in the state of Texas. I have requested that they stop contacting me for those reasons. Instead I am now being contacted by representatives of Kelvin Lawrence.

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1 hour ago, Texan4Auburn said:

Anyone else having issues with Doug Jones and gang blowing up their phone with calls and text multiple times a day? I have informed them multiple times, including calling his party office, that I am not the person they are asking for and that I am a registered voter in the state of Texas. I have requested that they stop contacting me for those reasons. Instead I am now being contacted by representatives of Kelvin Lawrence.

This is nothing. I had friends in Georgia during the house special election last year. 

[Never2Yield 1,005]

Yep, been contacted several times by Doug Jones affiliates via text. I reported each offense as spam and blocked the number.

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It's times like this I'm reminded that we aren't used to competitive races in this state. We're spoiled. Welcome to a little taste of being a swing state. 

[alexava 6,973]

Sorry tex shoot me your # and I'll see if I can remove it from our list.  

[around4ever 4,139]

I'll be so glad when this RoMo - DoJo crap is over.  I don't want either one. 

[Mid Atlantic Tiger 150]

Wow.  You Alabamians are really a weak lot.

 

Would be best if you seceded and just were left to rot on your own devices once California, New York, and Virginia no longer pay your bills.

[Elephant Tipper 430]

Only offers from the ACLU to transport me to register.  lol

 

29 minutes ago, Mid Atlantic Tiger said:

Wow.  You Alabamians are really a weak lot.

 

Would be best if you seceded and just were left to rot on your own devices once California, New York, and Virginia no longer pay your bills.

This is a great idea !  Best way to kill the Progressive ideology.

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47 minutes ago, Mid Atlantic Tiger said:

Wow.  You Alabamians are really a weak lot.

 

Would be best if you seceded and just were left to rot on your own devices once California, New York, and Virginia no longer pay your bills.

Hey now. Some of us are trying very hard to modernize. 

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19 minutes ago, Elephant Tipper said:

This is a great idea !  Best way to kill the Progressive ideology.

Those states would keep chugging along just fine without us. We are among the largest beneficiaries of their largesse. 

[Auburn85 432]

51 minutes ago, Mid Atlantic Tiger said:

Wow.  You Alabamians are really a weak lot.

 

Would be best if you seceded and just were left to rot on your own devices once California, New York, and Virginia no longer pay your bills.

War Eagle

[Elephant Tipper 430]

2 hours ago, Bigbens42 said:

Those states would keep chugging along just fine without us. We are among the largest beneficiaries of their largesse. 

I don't want Alabama dependent on Federal redistribution of any kind.

[Brad_ATX 13,654]

3 minutes ago, Elephant Tipper said:

I don't want Alabama dependent on Federal redistribution of any kind.

Yes, you do.  Alabama in it's current form could not sustain itself without federal funding help.  If that were to be cut off today, Alabama would be in really dire financial shape.

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5 minutes ago, Elephant Tipper said:

I don't want Alabama dependent on Federal redistribution of any kind.

Well, tough luck. We are and we need it. We couldn't afford a lot of things otherwise. Hell, I work in a non-profit Children's hospital. Have any idea how ****** we would be without said funding? 

[Brad_ATX 13,654]

12 minutes ago, Bigbens42 said:

Well, tough luck. We are and we need it. We couldn't afford a lot of things otherwise. Hell, I work in a non-profit Children's hospital. Have any idea how ****** we would be without said funding? 

To expound on this, here's the 2017 list of states in order by dependency on the federal government.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/

The Top 10 is below.  Notice a trend?  (Hint: it's predominantly red states)

Rank (1 = Most Dependent)	State	Total Score	‘State Residents’ Dependency’ Rank	‘State Government’s Dependency’ Rank
1	Kentucky	76.16	6	5
2	Mississippi	75.59	7	1
3	New Mexico	73.88	3	17
4	Alabama	72.45	4	14
5	West Virginia	68.97	5	15
6	South Carolina	68.17	2	31
7	Montana	65.91	14	4
8	Tennessee	61.76	20	3
9	Maine	61.02	13	9
10	Indiana	59.18	7	23

 

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32 minutes ago, Brad_ATX said:

To expound on this, here's the 2017 list of states in order by dependency on the federal government.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/

The Top 10 is below.  Notice a trend?  (Hint: it's predominantly red states)

For all of the screaming about small government they do, they'd scream bloody murder the minute the blue states stopped subsidizing them. 

[alexava 6,973]

1 hour ago, Bigbens42 said:

For all of the screaming about small government they do, they'd scream bloody murder the minute the blue states stopped subsidizing them. 

Those screams are from the insanely ignorant. They will keep coming and blaming the same non issues.

[homersapien 11,354]

Speaking of California - 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/1976-the-first-time-60-minutes-met-gov-jerry-brown/

Now, compare California to the red state experiment on GOP policy - Kansas.

 

[Proud Tiger 4,261]

On 12/9/2017 at 3:38 PM, Mid Atlantic Tiger said:

Wow.  You Alabamians are really a weak lot.

 

Would be best if you seceded and just were left to rot on your own devices once California, New York, and Virginia no longer pay your bills.

Surely you kid. California is bankrupt and NY does well to support it's welfare rolls.

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21 minutes ago, Proud Tiger said:

Surely you kid. California is bankrupt and NY does well to support it's welfare rolls.

Well that isn't true. California has the world's 6th largest economy by itself when measured against other countries. It's true their debt per capita is higher than ours, but their GDP per capita also is way higher. We also currently have a revenue shortfall while they do not.

Not to mention states can't technically go bankrupt. 

[TexasTiger 12,811]

2 hours ago, Proud Tiger said:

Surely you kid. California is bankrupt and NY does well to support it's welfare rolls.

CA taxpayers send money to freeloading AL.

[homersapien 11,354]

11 hours ago, Proud Tiger said:

Surely you kid. California is bankrupt and NY does well to support it's welfare rolls.

That's ridiculous.

You need to turn off Fox and come out of your cave.    Welfare recipients are concentrated in red states, particularly the deep south.

[homersapien 11,354]

[Proud Tiger 4,261]

11 hours ago, TexasTiger said:

CA taxpayers send money to freeloading AL.

Proof. I doubt CA sends one cent to Alabama.

[TitanTiger 20,471]

Just now, Proud Tiger said:

Proof. I doubt CA sends one cent to Alabama.

What they are talking about is that CA (among other states) sends more money to the federal government in taxes than they get back from the federal government for various programs and such.  Alabama on the other hand receives more money from the federal gov't than they send to it in federal taxes.  Thus the case can be made that states like CA, NY and so on who pay more than they receive back are subsidizing states like AL who receive back more than they pay.