Idaho GOP Approves Far-Right Platform: Repeal 17th Amendment, Buy Gold And Silver

So everyone born via c-section can't get married?

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***** Get out of 1812! *****

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It borders Washington

Whatever pollutant, fungus or bacterium that caused the brain mutations in Washington native Glenn Beck must've attacked the brains of nearby residents.

A cousin of mine moved to Iduhho several years ago and he's gone so far right that he probably thinks Beck is too progressive.

Using gold an silver is quite workable. Using different amounts could get tricky since it's not always convenient to measure. Perhaps the state could divide the gold and silver into pieces of standardized sizes, and mark the pieces so people know it was divided by the state and what value the piece has. The pieces should be round for easy handling, and the marking could be decorative, like images of important places or people.

Though I do think the GOP should bend a bit and recognize lots of pieces could get heavy. There should be places to store the pieces, and people could carry maybe slips of paper stating the value in metal, and just to speed up commercial transactions, allow people to exchange the slips instead of running back and forth to get metal pieces for each exchange.

With those small changes, this renewal of the use of precious metals should be quite practical.

Please, please, let's just let them go and see how long they last on their own. They don't even have to pay back the subsidies.

If, as Brandeis had it, the states are the laboratories of democracy, then don't we owe it to our fellow Americans to grant full sovereignty and independence to the United State of Idaho -- just to see what happens?
As long as they don't invade Washington or Oregon in order to gain access to the sea, we should be happy to set them free. If they want, Montana and Wyoming can join up too, and they can set up the Republic of God's Country and create a new capital called Liberty City. They'd be a beacon of hope to the Teabaggers, who'd emigrate from secular, ethnically diverse, progressive hellholes like Massachusetts and New York.

Sounds like win-win-win to me.

Progressives are strong, working hard, and thriving in Idaho.

And all three of us live in Boise.

No marriage for people who were born by cesarean section? WTF?

Idaho Republicans, Leading the Way.....

Right off a cliff

You know the problem is Idaho is to close to my state. Eastern Washington is already right leaning, I think the nuts of idaho are gonna try to get more of the decent Washington folks to follow their stupidity. Though if thats the case, the repukes will leave even more in Washington, as 90% of the population lives in western Washington and we are liberal/socialist bastards.

These guys are only interested in getting back in power any way they can, vague references to armed insurrection, change the election laws. They got thrown out by a majority of the people. That is how democracy works.
All they want is power. The republican party doeswn't giove a crap about tghe American people or the future of America. All they care about is thier own power and future.

Go ahead and secede, I don't think the other 49 will notice.

Idaho is just another parasitic welfare state (such as Arizona) where federal law is supposedly going to be overruled by state regulation. The taxpayers in Idaho naturally feel sorry for themselves for having to pay federal taxes at all, since they have been told that every dollar they pay in federal taxes goes to welfare recipients in other states. In fact Idaho has a pretty good racket going- it nets a 20% return on its investment in federal taxes. And the more they leech off taxpayers in other states, the more they whine about their having to pamper them.

I think the federal response to an unappreciative welfare state like Idaho should be to throttle all federal services to the point where it receives the actual amount that it pays for. That means:

1. MILITARY: It's really not a good idea to be stationing military facilities in a region where federal laws will not be properly enforced. Posse comitatus prevents the military from carrying out law enforcement anyway. (Despite the dangerous belief among locals that P.C. is a myth and that the military should be involved in law enforcement.) Stationing a significant military presence in Idaho is unfair to taxpayers in other states which don't reap any of the economic advantages. Extricate it out of the state, until Idaho retains only as many National Guard troops as are necessary to deal with the homicidal conservative militias there.

2. LAW ENFORCEMENT: It will be necessary to retain a presence of federal law enforcement so that FBI agents and U.S. Marshals can actually enforce federal law in the state of Idaho, to a certain extent. They would also be needed just because criminals who have violated federal laws in other states will naturally gravitate to Idaho as a sanctuary for criminals.

3. FEDERAL HIGHWAY FUNDS: Idaho has already gotten more than it needs. This shouldn't be an issue.

4. FARMING SUBSIDIES: Eliminate the federal farm subsidies we pay to the ungrateful welfare-recipient millionaires in Idaho.

5. BORDER: Guard the border with Idaho, and ensure that all traffic in and out of the state is controlled just outside its borders by INS, TSA etc.

6. CURRENCY: If Idaho actually goes through with this boneheaded plan to base its currency on a gold standard, then these are no longer U.S. dollars but Idaho gold certificates. That would be truly awesome- seriously more of a disaster for Idaho than e.g. a potato-backed currency.
A fixed money supply of gold-backed currency will steadily accumulate in bank vaults, people's mattresses, and currency speculator accounts around the world, since an excellent investment during a currency's deflationary spiral is cash in that currency. People will buy them up like they're ordinary gold ETFs, knowing that (unlike an ETF, which cannot be used to buy potatoes) the rapidly vanishing currency will appreciate even with respect to gold (which is more fungible). Although inside Idaho, the cost of gold in their currency remains fixed. Then Idaho will be forced to keep purchasing gold with U.S. dollars at the same rate as before, simply so it can print money, and its losses get pocketed by currency and gold speculators everywhere.

Even if they weren't moving to a goofy gold standard currency, but a normal currency, any "Idaho" currency will still experience inflation or deflation of with respect to the U.S. dollar, but since Idaho is so small, that's their problem.

Further proof that in Idaho, there's so little to do that it makes you crazy.

"Naturally born"? so no C-section babies can get married?

"McDuff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped...so we can just shack up"