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We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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NWA, the roads were built by the people who work and pay the taxes, and the law, and for the welfare you receive. But, as most libs do, you thank uncle Zero.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If being stupid allows me to believe in Him, I'd wish to be a retard. Eisenhower and G Washington should be good company.
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Here is something to suck on when thinking about how Texas does without federal money, just federal transportation funds boys! HOW MUCH FEDERAL HIGHWAY PROGRAM TRANSPORTATION FUNDING WILL SLC MEMBER STATES RECEIVE IN FISCAL YEAR 2012 (Estimate} Link: http://www.slcatlanta.org/QoM/qom.php?post_id=113
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Info structure is the foundation that everything else is built on. Spot on! And without the feds priming the pump...well it just would not happen!
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I don't know what else to say other than, this makes me smile like heck. 
Camp is where you make it.
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dumbass everything done by gov. Is done with OUR money! nwa thinks the gov't just chits the money and gives it away.
Proudly representing oil companies, defense contractors, and firearms manufacturers since 1980. Because merchants of death need lawyers, too.
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Here is something to suck on when thinking about how Texas does without federal money, just federal transportation funds boys! HOW MUCH FEDERAL HIGHWAY PROGRAM TRANSPORTATION FUNDING WILL SLC MEMBER STATES RECEIVE IN FISCAL YEAR 2012 (Estimate} Link: http://www.slcatlanta.org/QoM/qom.php?post_id=113. Not nearly as much as the Feds took from the taxes they got on the oil production, you mean?
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If being stupid allows me to believe in Him, I'd wish to be a retard. Eisenhower and G Washington should be good company.
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Info structure is the foundation that everything else is built on. Spot on! And without the feds priming the pump...well it just would not happen! The farm roads in Texas are better than the federal highways in Missouri. You really are a maroon.
"Be sure you're right. Then go ahead." Fess Parker as Davy Crockett
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West Texas is great, once it turns into New Mexico....... Maybe so but the entire state of NM doesn't have economic capability of Claude. (wink) Pretty sure Midland could buy the whole State of NM. And if memory serves me right...the state habitually votes the Democratic ticket!! Lots of folks there love the gov't 'handouts'!!
Even birds know not to land downwind!
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Since there is no such thing as a free lunch, it makes sense that whenever any part of the country gets a government windfall or crazy earmark, somebody somewhere else isn't getting their share.
When I was a kid I heard my dad say, "Just thank God we don't get all the government we're paying for".
Now I know what he meant.
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"If you don't know where you're going, you may wind up somewhere else".
Yogi Berra
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We lived in Midland for two years, youngest son being born there, and thoroughly enjoyed our time there. In fact we really did not want to leave when we did but work prevailed. Great people no question and while we left 14 years ago we still see friends from there and likely will see some on LBJ over the holiday weekend. Wonder if "Between the Walls" is still open?
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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West Texas is great, once it turns into New Mexico....... where you run into a bunch of dumbass democrats? Only bad thing about West Texas, unfortunately our quality votes out there don't count as often as a dead liberal from Chicago's votes. How come all the dead folks in Illinois vote Dem? It don't make no sense. 
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Last time I was there, Jim Walls was still open for business. Great little Gun Store & a super nice guy. We jokingly call the place "Between the Cheeks" He always has the really nice high end stuff.
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"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston
Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
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I have no problem with the government building roads, sewers, fresh water plants, schools, and public safety, what I do have trouble with is the 80% spent on crap that will never give any return.
Originally Posted By: P_Weed
I never met a gun I didn't like.
SEdge,
I have an AMT Hardballer I can fix you up with.
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....is the people. For the most part, you get a very un-politically correct answer out of people, and they're not afraid to speak their mind and call a spade a spade. Here's what a couple of business owners think about O'Bammy..... 
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Love the people of West Texas!!! 'Course, they are of sound mind which would rule out JO even passing through safely...
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Only one thing?
I love EVERYTHING about West Texas
Snake yep, pretty much +1000!
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Good job showing Texas pride! Did any of those businessmen take the time to ask the question " Who built the road that the truck drove on to delivered that lumber, steel or pipe"?
Gosh...I think the government did. Without that government and all that they do to guarantee services make it to those dusty Texas towns, well they would still be waiting for the railroad to come to town.
Up here in the Big State of ALaska nothing happens without state and federal money. Hell we have a road in Kotzebue called the Ted Stevens parkway that goes nowhere and costs a shi$ load to build back in 1999. Our good Republican senator provided that pork along with Trillions of dollars worth of other such projects all across this state. Thanks Uncle Ted! In Alaska we love the GOP and the Pork they dump into our laps.
Ya got to love Earmarks! Without the feds you could not flush a toilet in Alaska or get from one side of Texas to the other.
Little minds like sound bites! And where do you think the money came from to build the roads and bridges to attract more business?? TAXPAYERS.
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Infrastructure is the foundation that everything else is built on. This iPad has the craziest spell check. Who paid the taxes that built the infrastructure?
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke 1795
"Give me liberty or give me death"
Patrick Henry 1775
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