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1. #1
   On April 20th, 2009 at 3:08 pm, tre said:

   Well, hey, it works for California.

2. #2
   On April 20th, 2009 at 3:08 pm, Schweggie said:

   Northern who? Wha?

3. #3
   On April 20th, 2009 at 3:09 pm, PBoilermaker said:

   You can’t make this stuff up.

4. #4
   On April 20th, 2009 at 3:12 pm, FilmLadd said:

   Just come over to my house and take everything at gun point. Be honest about it.

5. #5
   On April 20th, 2009 at 3:13 pm, letget said:

   Just dandy, send them all over here so they can get even more! GADS, I am tired of supporting the world. Not a handful of countries we help even bother to thanks us.
   L

6. #6
   On April 20th, 2009 at 3:13 pm, hawkeye54 said:

   And this should surprise you because?

   Hey, the Dems are happy to givetake the shirt off your back to give to someone else just becuase it them feel good – and powerful!

7. #7
   On April 20th, 2009 at 3:15 pm, Hangfire said:

   Sounds like a good incentive to either move or become a citizen. OVER.

8. #8
   On April 20th, 2009 at 3:23 pm, Jenn of the Jungle said:

   “Just come over to my house and take everything at gun point. Be honest about it.” -Filmladd

   Well said.

9. #9
   On April 20th, 2009 at 3:26 pm, RedDog said:

   Guam is probably working the same scam. They are government dependents also.

10. #10
    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:34 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    They need an additional 3 million for 200 people who are lacking? The is $15,000 per by my calculations. I am going to guess that the 200 persons will receive $2000 and the rest – $2.6 million – will go to the relative of the politician who is pushing this through.

11. #11
    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:40 pm, ClassicFilm said:

    *banging head on desk*

    I need to watch that wild Glenn Beck video again… “Why don’t you just set us ON FIRE?”

12. #12
    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:42 pm, scituate_tgr said:

    Food stamps today, 200 absentee ballots tomorrow.

13. #13
    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:45 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

    No govt assistee should be allowed to vote.

14. #14
    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:48 pm, John Deaux said:

    How does a group of islands in the middle of freakin nowhere end up with 200 foreigners on public assistance?

15. #15
    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:49 pm, walterc said:

    As a U.S. Territory, don’t they get kabillions of taxpayer dollars already? When I was stationed on Guam, seemed like the only people not on the public dole already were the Korean singers and the Vietnamese strippers in the local pubs. (Not that I spent any time in those places.)

16. #16
    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:52 pm, rfjjulie said:

    Reason 501,741 to get out of the UN.

    From the Northern Marianas tourist website:

    After the Japanese surrender in 1945, the American Navy administered the islands until they were turned over to the United Nations as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

    Under the principles of the Trusteeship Agreement and American administration, the islands gradually regained their rights to self-government and the Northern Marianas chose to become a part of the American political family by popular vote in 1975. The rest of the Trust Territory, administered as a single unit since 1947 divided into the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau.

    How can we make this STOP. I want to live in America, not the USSA. Seems like BHO and gang want to take over the whole world.

    And then we have freaks prostrating themselves on the Colorado Capitol steps against anyone owning a gun.

    I am living in an upside down world.

17. #17
    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:53 pm, Regulus said:

    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:42 pm, scituate_tgr said:

    Food stamps today, 200 absentee ballots tomorrow.

    Bingo!
    
    “Citizens of the World, unite! You have nothing to lose except the quaint distinction over who’s an American and who’s not!”

18. #18
    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:53 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:48 pm, John Deaux said:
    How does a group of islands in the middle of freakin nowhere end up with 200 foreigners on public assistance?

    You are a conservative. You will be reeducated at one of these.

19. #19
    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:57 pm, John Deaux said:

    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:53 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:48 pm, John Deaux said:
    How does a group of islands in the middle of freakin nowhere end up with 200 foreigners on public assistance?

    You are a conservative. You will be reeducated at one of these.

    It’s going to be my fault, isn’t it?

20. #20
    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:59 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:57 pm, John Deaux said:

    It’s going to be my fault, isn’t it?

    Welcome Michelle’s blog George W. Bush.

21. #21
    On April 20th, 2009 at 4:06 pm, LOBOMAN said:

    If you are a citizen of the USA, and pay income tax, then fine —– Otherwise apply to Mexico or China for aid.

22. #22
    On April 20th, 2009 at 4:08 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Hey, the Dems are happy to givetake the shirt off your back to give to someone else just becuase it them feel good – and powerful!

    Well, unless they’re family…

    As far as Guam – it’s going to end up a giganto military base…

23. #23
    On April 20th, 2009 at 4:09 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Once you give to the Northern Marianas, will the Southern Marianas be far behind?

24. #24
    On April 20th, 2009 at 4:13 pm, tarpon said:

    And what jobs might they be training for? Last time I looked we had a shortage and all the training in the world is not going to fix that.

25. #25
    On April 20th, 2009 at 4:20 pm, localmalcontent said:

    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:34 pm, On-my-soap-box said:
    They need an additional 3 million for 200 people who are lacking? The is $15,000 per by my calculations.

    Yeah, that’s what my Liberal calculator estimates, too.
    Well, I can’t afford that.

26. #26
    On April 20th, 2009 at 4:20 pm, scituate_tgr said:

    tarpon said: And what jobs might they be training for? Last time I looked we had a shortage and all the training in the world is not going to fix that.

    It’s going to take at least 200 to administer the program locally. Problem solved.

27. #27
    On April 20th, 2009 at 4:21 pm, Lan Astaslem said:

    Just a little background on the immigration policies of the CNMI. (It’s an older article, and a little long, but worth the read.) The CNMI essentially has a small-scale version of the same situation we have here — unchecked illegals, who ultimately either take advantage, or are taken advantage of.

    The guestworker system has also reinforced in the locals a culture of pervasive dependence on government. Fully 70 percent of the labor force is non-citizens, and at least 85 percent of all private-sector jobs are held by Asians. U.S. citizens have an unemployment rate triple that of non-citizens; of the indigenous Chamorros who do have jobs, 56 percent work for the government, fueling a doubling in the size of the bureaucracy since 1980.

    The 2000 census found a poverty rate on the islands of 46 percent, up significantly from just two years earlier, and nearly quadruple the U.S. rate. A recent survey found that two-thirds of children in the Commonwealth received food assistance from the local or federal government. The number of people receiving federal Food Stamps specifically has increased more than sevenfold in less than a decade.

    The corrosive effect on the work ethic and morals of the American citizens is so bad that, in 1995, the government actually had to issue a directive prohibiting welfare recipients from hiring foreign maids. “Free-market success,” indeed.

    Read that last part again. “…prohibiting welfare recipients from hiring foreign maids.” What planet do we live on?!

    So what’s to stop the entire US from following the same path? Certainly not the idiots currently “representing” us in DC.

28. #28
    On April 20th, 2009 at 4:21 pm, walterc said:

    AlohaGuy said:

    As far as Guam – it’s going to end up a giganto military base…

    When Pres BO gets done depleting the military, Guam’s bases will just be a bunch of empty buildings and grown over runways.

29. #29
    On April 20th, 2009 at 4:23 pm, tre said:

    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:40 pm, ClassicFilm said:
    *banging head on desk*

    You’re wasting your time there. Might I suggest some other people whose heads you should bang on your desk, instead?
    And it will be a lot more fun, too.

30. #30
    On April 20th, 2009 at 4:28 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    Let’s see…$3,000,000 divided by 150,000,000 or so taxpayers…

    Well, there goes the $0.02 worth I wanted to put in to the discussion.

31. #31
    On April 20th, 2009 at 4:29 pm, babbledabble said:

    But WE have to “sacrifice” so we can give to the rest of the world.

32. #32
    On April 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm, Hangfire said:

    As an ex-bubblehead, I won’t tell you what “GUAM” stands for……..

33. #33
    On April 20th, 2009 at 4:48 pm, PhredE said:

    Just FYI…
    Here is an article from Jan 2007 which describes convergence of Northern Marianas, Pelosi, and Minimum Wage rates:
    Washington Times article

34. #34
    On April 20th, 2009 at 5:21 pm, spaceycakes said:

    On April 20th, 2009 at 3:12 pm, FilmLadd said:
    Just come over to my house and take everything at gun point. Be honest about it.

    That’s not enough, FilmLadd; they also want to bend you over the arm of the couch, take it, and moan ‘I loooove you’

35. #35
    On April 20th, 2009 at 5:23 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Once you give to the Northern Marianas, will the Southern Marianas be far behind?

    LOL, AlohaGuy—only South Central Marianas…

36. #36
    On April 20th, 2009 at 5:37 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Didn’t you guys get the memo? the Great O has declared all citizens of the world to be eligible for the “spreading of OUR wealth!

    (Too bad he’s not eligible to be Pres__ent.) No ID

37. #37
    On April 20th, 2009 at 5:49 pm, FilmLadd said:

    On April 20th, 2009 at 5:23 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Once you give to the Northern Marianas, will the Southern Marianas be far behind?

    LOL, AlohaGuy—only South Central Marianas…

    Don’t forget the Marianas Trench!

38. #38
    On April 20th, 2009 at 6:28 pm, tampadave said:

    Is Hugo Chavez getting “stimulated” by the Obama administration too?

39. #39
    On April 20th, 2009 at 7:06 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    Ahhhh, so thats how they are backdooring us.

    They are increasing our taxes higher and higher, sending more and more of our money overseas without our approval.

    In the end, they will just say, “Well you are already paying for them anyway, so we might as well all be ONE government.

40. #40
    On April 20th, 2009 at 9:05 pm, Laree said:

    Hey Mama Were All Crazy Now

41. #41
    On April 20th, 2009 at 9:52 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Northern Mariana Islands? Cut them loose-unless they are already one of the 57 states–hell, cut them loose anyway-make them part of the Free and Independent Hawaiian Nation.

    That way we don’t have to hear Hawaii’s crying and dump two Democratic Senators while we are at it

    Then we can look at dumping New England–first pulling out both Americans. New England can become part of the EU and the Senate should be just about right by then.

    FREEDOM for the Northern Mariana Islands NOW! As opposed to the Southern Mariana Islands if there be such a thing.

42. #42
    On April 21st, 2009 at 10:10 am, dan708 said:

    Wonder how much food stamp moolah is going to Obama’s illegal auntie? This government just finds more and more ways to earn my disrespect and disgust. I CANNOT WAIT for the 2010 midterms!

43. #43
    On April 24th, 2009 at 9:53 am, Politicalguano said:

    How about our brave HSS Janet making a little guarantee that all her make America vulnerable efforts will keep us safe. If she is unable to prevent all attacks on US territory for as long as BO is president,, and a single American is killed, then she will commit suicide like the good samurai she is. These hate & rage filled liberals are much more believable when their lives are on the line. They love photos of US soldiers in coffins, but are only too glad to endanger our soldiers lives (John Murtha recruiting for terrorism) and ours. Woe to Holder et al if they release some Gitmo killers in the US and they kill Americans again. Holder and his crowd will have to flee to Cuba.