frustratedearthmother
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Awful, just awful...
Alaskan's Journal
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Awful, just awful...
Bruce
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Clever. The Vermont Constitution requires a balanced budget every year. Yeah we have our own problems, like the underfunded state employees' retirement fund but they can't spend more than they take in.
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Alaskan
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That there is wonderful
Sadly... way dumber and less conservative people have been running Alaska
Mike CHS
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Tennessee has the same type of requirements in our Constitution and our new Governor just added another percentage point to make it bigger.
Baymule
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Texas has a state approved gold depository. No taxpayer money has been spent, a company, Lone Star Tangible Assets, was chosen. The company started using it's existing vaults.
Texas Bullion Depository is operated with oversight by the state of Texas, they are building a new one in Leander.
I guess I need to go buy a bunch of gold so I can squirrel it away in the state depository. LOL LOL
https://www.texasbulliondepository....MIyZ31vfDu4AIVBBx9Ch0OWAKyEAAYAiAAEgKHb_D_BwE
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/economy/2017/06/15/texas-just-first-state-start-gold-depository
Texas Bullion Depository is operated with oversight by the state of Texas, they are building a new one in Leander.
I guess I need to go buy a bunch of gold so I can squirrel it away in the state depository. LOL LOL
https://www.texasbulliondepository....MIyZ31vfDu4AIVBBx9Ch0OWAKyEAAYAiAAEgKHb_D_BwE
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/economy/2017/06/15/texas-just-first-state-start-gold-depository
greybeard
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But, as the article points out, the State of Texas has virtually no gold bullion and doesn't intend to purchase any any time soon either. If they did, I'd raise Cain about it, with the price today @ 1287.35/oz.....they should have bought it years ago when it was way under $1k/oz.
State has plenty of black gold tho....if ya don't think so, drive out to Odessa/Permian/Wolfcamp or down South to the Eagle Ford. (The Barnett in N. Tx is about played out and is expensive and difficult to drill and produce from)
USGS estimates the Wolfcamp contains 20 billion barrels of crude, 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 1.6 billion barrels of LNG.
Then there's this, but the price is so low not much is being actively produced..
not bad for a bunch of trigger happy cowboys...
Did you know.................., that South Padre Island was on the short list of 3 places the US was considering to test it's 1st atomic bomb?
1. A desert bombing range near Blythe, Riverside County Calif. (It topped the list fo a long time but not chosen simply because the Army General in charge of the atomic project (Leslie Groves) didn't want to have to deal with that base's commanding officer George Patton) (there was no USAF until after ww2. Up till then, all air assets except Marine and Naval air fell under US Army Air Corp and were commanded by US Army officers)
2. Alamagordo N.M. It "won".
3. Padre Island, seriously considered since it was nearly 120 miles long, had good rail service and a deep water port at Corpus Christi, was already being used as a bombing range and was already off limits to civilians since right after the start of the war.
State has plenty of black gold tho....if ya don't think so, drive out to Odessa/Permian/Wolfcamp or down South to the Eagle Ford. (The Barnett in N. Tx is about played out and is expensive and difficult to drill and produce from)
USGS estimates the Wolfcamp contains 20 billion barrels of crude, 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 1.6 billion barrels of LNG.
Then there's this, but the price is so low not much is being actively produced..
not bad for a bunch of trigger happy cowboys...
Did you know.................., that South Padre Island was on the short list of 3 places the US was considering to test it's 1st atomic bomb?
1. A desert bombing range near Blythe, Riverside County Calif. (It topped the list fo a long time but not chosen simply because the Army General in charge of the atomic project (Leslie Groves) didn't want to have to deal with that base's commanding officer George Patton) (there was no USAF until after ww2. Up till then, all air assets except Marine and Naval air fell under US Army Air Corp and were commanded by US Army officers)
2. Alamagordo N.M. It "won".
3. Padre Island, seriously considered since it was nearly 120 miles long, had good rail service and a deep water port at Corpus Christi, was already being used as a bombing range and was already off limits to civilians since right after the start of the war.
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Alaskan
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Nice to make a bunch of money.... and be smart enough to save it.
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Alaskan
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Blast all..
Slid about, fishtailing, driving down the hill today where the road is stupid narrow... decided to hit the one bit of shoulder (the rest is deep ditch or guard rails) to get myself straightened back out...... it was a BUMP! I was so worried that I had smashed the frame or axel.
Looks ok ..
Slid about, fishtailing, driving down the hill today where the road is stupid narrow... decided to hit the one bit of shoulder (the rest is deep ditch or guard rails) to get myself straightened back out...... it was a BUMP! I was so worried that I had smashed the frame or axel.
Looks ok ..
Bruce
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Come on spring!!!!
CntryBoy777
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I thought that, was what they call Experience....it sounds like ya handled it as best ya could....a bump is much better than a ditch or gaurdrail.....glad that ya are okay!!.....
