>>Dave Barry once wrote a column about persons who are 'humour impaired'. By that he meant, not those persons who did not get the joke, but rather those who didn't know it was a joke.
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>>He gave the example of an article he wrote talking about how the U.S. could help itself to get out of debt by selling off mostly unused states like Wyoming, or Idaho. He received a slew of letters telling him that was a terrible idea. Those are the humour impaireds he was talking about.
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>Alan;
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>Now that is funny! At the same time I think it is a good idea! :)
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>Some states receive from the federal government almost twice what they pay in federal taxes. California receives 73% of what we pay. Thus we subsidize other states. We should receive 100% of what we are entitled to and for any state that cannot survive on that amount something should be done! They can become a part of Mexico! :)
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>Tom

Tom

You could sell off the under-utilised Silicon Valley to breast implant manufacturers. The silicon is already there to be mined

Terry