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#620083 - 09/29/06 07:10 PM
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Well, one would think that Alaska could produce its own oil, no?
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#620084 - 09/29/06 07:35 PM
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Well, one would think that Alaska could produce its own oil, no?
I guess I didn't realize that Alaska was a sovergn nation that was ruled by the Inuit's. This world you live in DQ, is it a pleasant place?
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#620085 - 09/29/06 07:31 PM
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Oh, so they can't then? I thought that Alaska was loaded with oil?
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#620086 - 09/29/06 07:42 PM
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Oh, so they can't then? I thought that Alaska was loaded with oil?
So let me get this strait. Who are you suggesting extracts, or does not extract this oil. See when I read your post it implies that the Inuit's sent the "emphatic" no to Chavez because they have their own oil.
They have oil. Unless they have some arrangement that I don't know about, then they get it from the same place I do, the pump.
DQ's world. Bush = Satan
AML = God
Inuit's = Rulers of the United States.
I just did a quick google search and it seems to suggest that the Inuit's don't get any oil. They might get some funding or other kickbacks that I am unaware of, but you don't see me in here pretending to know everything about every subject.
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#620087 - 09/29/06 07:37 PM
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Who turned Chavez down? The Inuit did? Even if they own land with oil under (and the mineral interests), unless they also have the equipment to extract and process it, I think they'd be out of luck. Of course, I think your post was a bit tongue in cheek! 
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#620088 - 09/29/06 07:48 PM
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Who turned Chavez down? The Inuit did? Even if they own land with oil under (and the mineral interests), unless they also have the equipment to extract and process it, I think they'd be out of luck. Of course, I think your post was a bit tongue in cheek!
Stop using information to formulate your BOL responses. It just confuses things. You should just make blanket, pro Chavez, statements without thinking.
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#620090 - 09/29/06 08:41 PM
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You are on to something here Marie. Don't the citizens of Alaska share in the tax payments from oil revenues? It seems like the payments are in the thousands per tax payer, or in the form of a tax rebate. It is hard to see how anyone in Alaska can be poor with all that oil tax revenue they are enjoying. I don't know if I would be as principled as these Aleut villagers are and refuse free oil. God bless 'em !
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#620092 - 09/29/06 10:11 PM
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Yep that is how I meant it, the oil is overflowing here in Texas too, but the numbers in poverty are distressing. Looking 30 years down the road is just more of the same and worse. We in Texas, measured in the aggregate, will be less educated, earning less money and controlling less wealth. It is a bleak picture. I would imagine the future will be the same for the poor of Alaska.
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#620093 - 09/29/06 10:16 PM
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Yep that is how I meant it, the oil is overflowing here in Texas too, but the numbers in poverty are distressing. Looking 30 years down the road is just more of the same and worse. We in Texas, measured in the aggregate, will be less educated, earning less money and controlling less wealth. It is a bleak picture. I would imagine the future will be the same for the poor of Alaska.
..and a good number of those in poverty were already in poverty before they crossed the border into Texas.
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#620095 - 09/30/06 12:50 PM
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Looking 30 years down the road is just more of the same and worse. We in Texas, measured in the aggregate, will be less educated...
Is that possible?
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#620096 - 10/02/06 08:12 PM
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I refer you to the Texas Demographer's website and report entitled "Population Change in Texas: Implications for Human and Socioeconomic Resources in the 21st Century". For example, projected percent of the Texas labor force in 2040 without a high school diploma will increase from 19% to 30%. The projected percent of those with a bachelor's degree will go down from 18% to 13%. The average household income in 2000 in Texas was $54,441. That compares to $47,883 in 2040 (in 2000 dollars). The percent in poverty of total households in Texas in 2000 was 14.4 percent. It is projected in 2040 to be 16.6%. Most of this is the result of immigration and the succeeding generations of the less educated. It really is a bleak picture when you consider tax revenues will be less and the costs associated with government transfer payments for the less educated will be increasing at the same time. California, New Mexico and Arizona are in similar boats.
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