From the total asshole files

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www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rural-oregonians-who-want-to-move-border-with-idaho-say-they-no-longer-recognize-their-own-state/ar-AAKS7Qb?ocid=ientp


They believe less government regulation means more personal freedom. They say there should be greater economic opportunity and fewer handouts.


So, where is that economic opportunity gonna come from?  Could it be from things like this?


Would Idaho spend billions of dollars to buy Oregon’s state prisons and other state-owned property in eastern and southern Oregon? Would it take over bond payments for projects in those counties? Have Oregonians on the present border thought about how much business they’d lose from Idahoans who come across the state line to shop without having to pay sales tax?


Nah...they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps.

[bobathon]

It's childish is what it is. It's like they don't want to clean their room, they want a free, new room.

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Seems like there's a lot of farmland out there. Maybe get rid of farm subsidies for them too - I mean these are hard-working folks who don't need government assistance, right?


There was one sane person in that article (who of course was more liberal). He rightly pointed out that the state was quite large, and what works in the western part of the state, does not necessarily help those in the eastern part and vice versa. His ask was simply that the state legislature consider those types of things when passing laws and spending bills.

Damn man needs to be run out of town on a rail for speaking sense.

[Dave's Not Here Man]

I've lost count of how many times I've heard "we need to get rid of northern Virginia" around here.

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Hell, you hear it in Stafford all the time - 'We're becoming just like Fairfax!'
And in the next sentence 'Why don't we have a movie theatre here?'

Then again, these are the same jackasses who just re-elected Paul Milde to the BOS without any consideration for the role he played in making the county 'just like Fairfax', so maybe we just get what we deserve.