Heh heh heh- the shameful truth comes out about Delaware. For shame, denizens of the new 11th ring of hell, for shame. Time to annex this goofy little spec of a state (Rhode Island too)- maybe the Congress needs one of those plywood cutouts used by the amusement park people to ensure that kids don’t ride the roller coasters. However, this one would state that “You must be THIS big to be admitted to the Union.”
Here is my cite which proves the evil which is Delaware:
Times have changed, traffic’s getting worse,
I have to pay these tolls for which I don’t get reimbursed!
Should I blame the drivers?
Should I blame the cars?
Or the people at the evil DOT?
Blame Delaware! Blame Delaware!
They keep their crappy state alive
By overtolling 95!
Blame Delaware! Blame Delaware!
Next time I’ll just drive all the way up through PA.
Not MBNA-ville, but Bank-ville, or just $ville. There are plenty of other banks, lenders, and such here. Applied Card Systems has an enourmous amount of money running through here, and one of the four largest Pharmas is here. Musn’t forget the DuPonts, nor the Purdue family, either…
I will be leniant towards MBNA on account of them giving an awful lot of money to people to pay for in-state colleges. And quietgirl has a summer job with them, albeit a much-despised one.
Oh, and someone should tell that new republic halfwit that he can’t even fathom what it’s like to live in Dealware 'less he grew up here. Rat bastard.
(I can’t believe I’m standing up for my state. Dear lord, next thing you know I’ll be getting a Sussex County pride shirt…)
Well, I dunno. I live in Oregon right now (Which I am leaving forever Sept. 7 - yay!) which has no sales tax. It’s cool because what a price tag says is exactly what you pay. It’s NOT cool because income taxes are jacked way up to compensate.
With a sales tax people with more money (who presumably buy more expensive things) end up paying more taxes. Since I am not a person with money, this seems perfectly fair to me; i.e., if you want a gudy Beamer to display your wealth, why not enrich the public in the process?
On the bright side, the fishing at Indian River inlet is great, and you can hunt with a crossbow during gun season.
Breaking up the peninsula into three separate states - DE, MD, and VA - is silly, a hangover from the colonial era. All Delmarva should be one state. The residents would probably prefer it that way. It’d still be Mississippi on the Atlantic, but at least the boundaries would make geographic sense.
http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020819&s=chait081902
Maybe I’m being whooshed, but in reading the linked article, the article’s thesis is compelling and the tone is quite serious (possibly overly serious) about Delaware being something of a national parasite. I’m not really seeing the ;). I live in MD 10 miles from the Delaware border and I can tell you that Delaware is a different kettle of fish from most other states.
Yes, the article came on seriously, and contained factual errors and ommisions that render it essentially valuless. A senior editor wrote that? He should be sacked for crappy research, if nothing else.
