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Subscribe to RSSCHEYENNE – Wyoming lawmakers have voted down legislation to deal with a doomsday scenario, including plans to buy an aircraft carrier and create a state currency.
According to the Star-Tribune in Casper, House Bill 85 was rejected 30-27 by the Wyoming House of Representatives on Tuesday.
The bill was originally created to form a state-run “government continuity task force,” to prepare Wyoming for potential disruptions in food and energy supplies after a complete breakdown of the federal government.
The bill gained national attention after its sponsor, Rep. David Miller, a Republican from Fremont County, pushed for plans for the state to implement its own military draft, standing army and purchase of an aircraft carrier.
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Must be something in the water
Or maybe the CDC needs to add some antipsychotics to their water supply!)
No, its not the water....they're just teabaggers. Not the brightest to begin with.
The Republicans in Wyoming, especially Rep. David Miller, don't appear to be the sharpest pencils in the box. Nothing quite like an aircraft carrier that would have cost $4.5 billion in 2000 for a land locked state with Yellowstone Lake being the largest lake at 20 miles by 15 miles.
An aircraft carrier..................
What the hell are they smoking.
@Red Sailor - I don't know but I wish I had some!
Wyoming needs to buy a map first . where they plan on putting a ship ? majestic Wyoming harbor ?
Alcova resevoir.
Alcova would be good, and the fishing in the Miracle Mile would be great
Why don'y they stick it where the sun don't Cheyenne?
The scary thing is it only lost by 3 votes.
You're right! 30-27. That means almost half of Wyoming's population is daffy. But then Cheney the Invader is from Wyoming. Enough said!
I agree with Get a Clue -- the scariest thing is that it only lost by three (3) votes. Has America lost its mind? We used to laugh at stuff like this. Now, we're putting people in office who take these things seriously and see nothing wrong with spending tax dollars on these outrageous issues.
All I can say is, that the 1% must be looking down on the little people and laughing their azzes off at this insanity!
A national emergency, like in the event that the Yellowstone super volcano exploded? I think Wyoming need not concern itself. Allow these worries to be the responsibility of the living.
Wyoming better buy a map . still trying to figure out where Wyoming harbor is .
National emergencys , like Obama winning again and the democrats controlling the congress. Yeah, I see the logic
Obama will win again, because there isn't anyone in the republican party than can hold a candle to him.
Cheney's home state.. Enough said....
you think the Democrates are wasting money? This republican is on his way to the next presidential election...how much do aircraft carriers go for now a days? 22 billion without all the aircraft and crew to man it? And where will they put it? a dry dock?
Wonder how much it would cost to ship and aircraft carrier 1000 miles over land? That package alone would fix all of the US Postal Services money issues for 100s of years.
The poor guy that has to lick all the stamps is going to have cotton mouth for weeks....
The REAL National Emergency D McMillian would be if Santorum won the presidency! Then we'd have the popes henchman sitting in our highest office!
WHY would a land bound state need an aircraft carrier????????!!!!!!!
Not to mention wouldn't this in a way be considered seceding from the Union and have some anti-Constitutional issues here???
They also wanted a BOOMER submarine too.
Maybe they have DEEP lakes starbuck.
Wyoming, Arizona, Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi, Idaho, Utah....all birds of a feather that deserve to form their own nation. That way they can define their own form of government, NONE!
Nah, they just would honor the constitution! This is something that Obama and his ilk don't seem to be too keen on doing.
Id move there, sounds like the America the founding fathers started.
And let's not forget the Deep South. They seceded before, maybe we can get them to do it again.
They'd love to, Karen; they still don't understand how our government works. Comments like Dan's make it all too clear how much these neo-secessionists dishonor the Constitution!
Yes Dan in their constitution there would still be slavery and women wouldn't be able to vote.
I'm absolutely amazed at how these people scream about the Constitution, yet, they have NO IDEA what the document says. Oh, but wait -- for forgot, dope-head Rush will interpret it for them! Even if they did secede, I'll bet you my whole paycheck his fat azz wouldn't live there!
in reference to the south succeeding, the North wanted to take the South's revenue due to the fact that they produced nothing and had no source of income. as far as slavery goes there has not been a civilization in history that has not had a form of it. read up dip sh*t. your standing military is mostly southerners. You up north types have no clue. as far as an aircraft carrier, yeah that is way off track. the democracts and nonconservative republicans are running us into the ground.
Nora-616050 - check your history book would ya?! Wyoming was one of the first states to allow women to vote - ignorant comments
An aircraft carrier....seriously? What are they gonna do with it? Put it in a pond?
i have just a few questions for them:
1. where are you going to put it- or is this just a theoretical thing like trickle down economics?
2. who are you going to buy it from- the russians, the chinese, or are you going to buy a do it yourself kit?
3. who are you going to get to run it? cheney?
They can put it in a pond and treat it like an airforce base lol. The currency that a whole another story.
The currency issue is easy, MB/Hasbro - Monopoly
still scratching the head about the Aircraft carrier, things that make you go hmmmm
World ending episodes, What makes Wyoming think they are going to come through it unscathed.... Hmmm
A few years back I DID see an old Russian carrier on Ebay. lol That would be a heck of a UPS bill getting it to Wyoming though!
Nora they could start a public works project and dig a canal from the upper Missouri River. Problem is they don't have enough unemployed folks to volunteer.
Load it up with two of evey form of anti-government life and wait for the flood.
Sorry to hear guys it sounded like a good idea! BUT the government is a bunch of pricks we voted into office... Just vote them out when they make decisions THEY want to make... Anyways the point here is that something is about to go down with our government if you look at everything they are preparing to take full control over the people... They added that the military can shoot and kill you if they feel the need.... Prices of things keeps going up there is no stop... OBAMA = HITLER REBORN....... Always remember this though.... The idiots we put into office can also be taken out of office by the people. They have no power without us..... Bear Arms and get prepared for what is about to come!
You obviously need to brush up on your history. If Obama was Hitler, then the country would be in a lot worse condition. Now granted, he has made some mistakes, but he doesn't go around with a Secret Police force at his disposal to kill people who break the law. Sounds like you're a very fascist Republican; a Neo-Nazi if you think that. So go back to Wyoming or wherever you're from and vote for Paul- I heard he had a great 8% of votes in Arizona last night!
Go America!
@ Bdogg421980
Last time I checked it was Wyoming legislatures that wanted this ship not Obama and I don't want a useless ship in Wyoming paid by our tax dollars so I think the legislatures made the right decision. If there is a war comming, it would be of nuke, fighter jets are not going help in any way. If Obama= Hitler Reborn, we would all not be complaing about finding work becasue we would be slaving in a camp. Arm yourself to fight the government? Even if the government was turing against us in a Hitler like maner (It is against us economically, favor few over the whole), use our guns? If the government was truly against us I want to see how good your gun is against snipers, tanks, and predator missiles falling at you from the sky.
At least if Wyoming wanted to buy an aircraft carrier they wouldn't have to borrow from China!
Really now, y'all quit they even appointed an Admaral and everything, Admaral Tuna-Chicken of The Sea! Pulling into port with Wyomings biggest international maratime partner Mongolia, where the expansive Yurt trade hapens.
Have you actually read the full House Bill 85 or just random bits from what is printed in these crap articles? Have you been to any of the meetings for MY state about this subject? As for me, I have. It's too bad that this didn't get passed because at least my state is willing to stand up for itself against the federal government and take care of its own people. Instead of making stupid childish remarks about something you don't have full knowledge of, why don't you start asking your state what they are going to do to take care of its residents if/when SHTF?
Your state cant take care of itself now and depends on Fed. Govt. programs to help you middle of nowhere backwards trailer @!$%#s.
I still want to know where they will be putting the aircraft carrier???
Besides I live out on my farm, in a very rural area, on a peninsula. My family has been here and the house was built before electricity and running water. I can take care of myself.
Gil, nowhere in my comment did I state that Wyoming didn't rely on Federal government programs. No state in America runs without some form of help from Uncle Sam. I said that Wyoming was willing to stand up against the Federal government and take care of its own people. Meaning, that if or when SHTF the state would take care of its own people. Every state, in theory, should be doing more to take care of their own residents...at all times. And the backwards trailer comment, really? I left grade school a long time ago, name calling is just pathetic. I do have to agree with the air craft carrier being ridiculous. We do have some nice sized lakes her, but not for that.
summerwind2 - Grade School? Don't they have High Schools in Wyoming? And god forbid Colleges or Universities
Barbara
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We presume reading comprehension was NOT part of your education. That or you feel name calling is an art form taught as part of higher education.
I liked the idea of thinking more about state self reliance, and preparedness, for times of natural (or man-made) disasters, contagion outbreak.. Heck even something like a radioactive cloud from a reactor mishap (Japan type thing) isnt unthinkable. At 1st I thought the carrier thing was stupid... but werent carriers called "floating cities" (something like that) .... a old cheap one that would have been scrapped might be a cool thing to keep emergency stocked.. waterproof shelter w/ self contained hospital, communications, storage, mess hall etc... could be a good bug-out destination.
*my state is willing to stand up for itself against the federal government and take care of its own people*
This is funny. Anyone else find this a little incongruous?? Not Summers comments so much but the whole bill??
Why does Wyoming need to wait for when the SHTF to get take care of its own? You can start ANY TIME by getting off the Federal Teat...(yes Wyoming gets more from the feds than it gives) and maybe by doing so you could PREVENT the SFHTF!
What does WY know that we don't?
What does Wyoming know? How about the true meaning of white-bread, homophobic, racist, ultramilitant anarchy?
Shows what you know...very little if nothing about this place. You do talk like you've been here, though I am pretty sure you haven't.
If SHTF an aircraft carrier in Wyoming really lol. And what makes u think they will protect citizens or take care of you. damn carriers probably only hold 5k in people. get ready to draw straws. if the ocean ever invades Wyoming Noahs ark wont include its residents
HaHawaa - That's okay - population Wyoming 563,626
Then again it could be used against the Somali pirates - what does one of these aircraft carriers cost?
Lay odds they probably wanted the Federal Government to pay for it
They do know an air craft carrier goes in water don't they?
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A state cannot do these things. That's insurrection and probably treason. Just another example of how the Republicans like to govern by fear. The nuts who voted for this and the guy who wrote it should be recalled.
karen
Actually they CAN. The slant here was based on the aircraft carrier part but a state making CONTINGENCY plans for WORST case events is part of what ALL government agencies should be doing. Someone went a bit off the deep end with the aircraft carrier but having a PLAN is better than say what happened on Katrina. Both the STATE and the FED had NO plan in that event.
I for one would like to know the reasoning on an aircraft carrier. Perhaps the idea being a portable nuclear reactor to generate power?
Agreed. Totally. Remember the Ant and the Grasshopper.
Too bad, would have loved to stop at Port WYoming to fuel up the yacht instead of having to cruise all the way down to Panama just to go from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Well maybe on next years vote this will pass when gas is at $5 or higher. LOL
I want to know who the 27 turdbuckets are who voted FOR this idiocy!
Americans refuse to accept the fact that we are headed straight for bankruptcy and the collapse of the federal govt. The refusal to see what is there to be seen has become a way of life. Even basic has been rendered politically incorrect. America is a house divided into dem and rep herd intellects with a resultant impotent federal govt. America is the largest debtor nation in the wordl ai 15.3 trillion dollars. Our annual budget deficits are 1 trillion dollars per yr. Impending financial bankruptcy and austerity programs are not even a mayor campaign issue. Americans are fixated on their libido(gay marriage, abortion and contraception). If we stated that our reckless spending and borrowing involved the lidido, we would take bankruptcy seriously.
I'd hardly call equal rights for all, gays included, a fixation. Nor would I say we are fixated on women's reproductive rights. Some may be, but they are mostly men. Probably the same ones fixated on not granting equality to gays.
Most of your statements make no sense. Perhaps it 's your libido that's not taken seriously?
realistically- bankruptcy??? seems like our assets (land, mineral rights, buildings, equipment including aircraft carriers) far, far, far, far (repeat 20 or 30 times) exceed all projected debt, entitlements... regardless of what anybody says, we still have a lot more in the bank (so to speak) than we have bill due.
You are worried about bankruptcy but you support someone who wants to spend 22billion or more on an aircraft carrier for a landlocked state? Really? oh, you just wanted to bash those who are different, i see, continue on, I will just ignore you.
So you're claiming we have 15 trillion dollars in assets sitting around? Probable...if we sold them all. I don't buy that we have an aditional $105 trillion in assets to cover unfunded liabilities.
Republicans get wackier and wackier. I can't believe 27 idiots voted for the bill. They want to cut everything and foot a bill for an army.
LOL, Republicans are full of funny ideas....
Thanks for the laugh...
I was just wondering. Someone said they might use the carrier for emergency nuclear power. When someone buys a carrier from the Navy, do they deliver?
Carrier for free.. FOB Shipping.
Instead of wasting money on a airplane carrier, why not spend that money educating the low informed?
if they did that, who would they have to vote for them?