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	<title>Comments on: Actually, People DO Prefer Mississippi To New York, Congressman Rangel</title>
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		<title>By: glynn king</title>
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		<dc:creator>glynn king</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Lincon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lincon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s good blog for commenting,and a happy transplant to Oxford, Mississippi I was dismayed by Rangel’s recent comment. In fact, I’m tempted to take it as a direct personal affront.

Lincon
Mississippi Treatment Centers</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s good blog for commenting,and a happy transplant to Oxford, Mississippi I was dismayed by Rangel’s recent comment. In fact, I’m tempted to take it as a direct personal affront.</p>
<p>Lincon<br />
Mississippi Treatment Centers</p>
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		<title>By: watchdog</title>
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		<dc:creator>watchdog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In psychology, there&#039;s an idea that every family has a black sheep. The black sheep doesn&#039;t necessarily exist because the person is bad. The black sheep exists because the other members of the family need a target to deflect attention away from their own issues and problems. Unfortunately, I think Mississippi, my home state, has become the black sheep of the United States.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In psychology, there&#8217;s an idea that every family has a black sheep. The black sheep doesn&#8217;t necessarily exist because the person is bad. The black sheep exists because the other members of the family need a target to deflect attention away from their own issues and problems. Unfortunately, I think Mississippi, my home state, has become the black sheep of the United States.</p>
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		<title>By: InkBlots &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Where are your manners, Rep. Rangel?</title>
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		<dc:creator>InkBlots &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Where are your manners, Rep. Rangel?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] â€śThe other question Rangel might have asked is why people from Mississippi arenâ€™t flooding into his politically corrupt, crime-ridden city,â€ť James W. Bailey wrote in  The Clarion-Ledger, a Mississippi newspaper (though Bailey himself apparently lives in Reston, Virginia). [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] â€śThe other question Rangel might have asked is why people from Mississippi arenâ€™t flooding into his politically corrupt, crime-ridden city,â€ť James W. Bailey wrote in  The Clarion-Ledger, a Mississippi newspaper (though Bailey himself apparently lives in Reston, Virginia). [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Adam Gussow</title>
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		<dc:creator>Adam Gussow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As a Rockland County (NY) native, a longtime Manhattan resident (1980-2002) who knows Rangel&#039;s Harlem well and admires it greatly, and a happy transplant to Oxford, Mississippi (2002-present), I was dismayed by Rangel&#039;s recent comment.  In fact, I&#039;m tempted to take it as a direct personal affront.  Who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?  Well, some of us DO, actually--including those like me who know the delights of both places.  One of the things you learn when you relocate to Mississippi is that many people who have strong negative feelings about the place have absolutely no idea what life here is actually like in the year 2006.  Instead, they&#039;ve formed their judgments on the basis of the usual handful of pop cultural icons--MISSISSIPPI BURNING, GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI--and memories (often mediated by the media) of the Civil Rights years.

This isn&#039;t much different from the way in which non-New Yorkers prejudge New York--or did until 9/11--as a place filled with drugs, crime, and unfriendly locals.  Harlem, as we know, had even worse press--a result of what happened there during the 1960s.

That wasn&#039;t the Harlem I knew and loved as a street musician there in the late 1980s (part of a duo called &quot;Satan and Adam&quot;), and Congressman Rangel&#039;s Mississippi, likewise, isn&#039;t the Mississippi that I&#039;ve come to know and love.

The Mississippi that I live in--a small college town about 75 miles south of Memphis--is a place in which the sun shines more often than not.  It&#039;s hot in the summer, but no hotter than Manhattan; it&#039;s just hotter for more months of the year.  It has crisp autumn nights, cold but snow-free winters, and gorgeous green springs.

The Mississippi that I live in with my African American wife and 8-month old son is a place that hasn&#039;t once spoken a harsh word or leveled a harsh glance against my &quot;mixed&quot; family.  It&#039;s a place that has embraced us our diversity in every respect.

The Mississippi in which I live is a place in which people really know how to cook.  All the spiciness of New Orleans cuisine seems to have wafted north.  The dining hall here at Ole Miss has the best food--from deep-fried catfish and turnip greens to deep-dish peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream--of any cafeteria I&#039;ve ever visited, except perhaps for that place on the corner of 135th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem.

The Mississippi I know is a great place to be the long distance runner I am.  It has fresh air and country roads.  The dogs aren&#039;t too bad.  

The pace of life is relaxed.  People are friendly.  There&#039;s almost no crime.  

And yes:  race relations are excellent.  

You need to get out more, Congressman Rangel.  I&#039;d love to host you down here, next time you&#039;re in town.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a Rockland County (NY) native, a longtime Manhattan resident (1980-2002) who knows Rangel&#8217;s Harlem well and admires it greatly, and a happy transplant to Oxford, Mississippi (2002-present), I was dismayed by Rangel&#8217;s recent comment.  In fact, I&#8217;m tempted to take it as a direct personal affront.  Who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?  Well, some of us DO, actually&#8211;including those like me who know the delights of both places.  One of the things you learn when you relocate to Mississippi is that many people who have strong negative feelings about the place have absolutely no idea what life here is actually like in the year 2006.  Instead, they&#8217;ve formed their judgments on the basis of the usual handful of pop cultural icons&#8211;MISSISSIPPI BURNING, GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI&#8211;and memories (often mediated by the media) of the Civil Rights years.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t much different from the way in which non-New Yorkers prejudge New York&#8211;or did until 9/11&#8211;as a place filled with drugs, crime, and unfriendly locals.  Harlem, as we know, had even worse press&#8211;a result of what happened there during the 1960s.</p>
<p>That wasn&#8217;t the Harlem I knew and loved as a street musician there in the late 1980s (part of a duo called &#8220;Satan and Adam&#8221;), and Congressman Rangel&#8217;s Mississippi, likewise, isn&#8217;t the Mississippi that I&#8217;ve come to know and love.</p>
<p>The Mississippi that I live in&#8211;a small college town about 75 miles south of Memphis&#8211;is a place in which the sun shines more often than not.  It&#8217;s hot in the summer, but no hotter than Manhattan; it&#8217;s just hotter for more months of the year.  It has crisp autumn nights, cold but snow-free winters, and gorgeous green springs.</p>
<p>The Mississippi that I live in with my African American wife and 8-month old son is a place that hasn&#8217;t once spoken a harsh word or leveled a harsh glance against my &#8220;mixed&#8221; family.  It&#8217;s a place that has embraced us our diversity in every respect.</p>
<p>The Mississippi in which I live is a place in which people really know how to cook.  All the spiciness of New Orleans cuisine seems to have wafted north.  The dining hall here at Ole Miss has the best food&#8211;from deep-fried catfish and turnip greens to deep-dish peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream&#8211;of any cafeteria I&#8217;ve ever visited, except perhaps for that place on the corner of 135th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem.</p>
<p>The Mississippi I know is a great place to be the long distance runner I am.  It has fresh air and country roads.  The dogs aren&#8217;t too bad.  </p>
<p>The pace of life is relaxed.  People are friendly.  There&#8217;s almost no crime.  </p>
<p>And yes:  race relations are excellent.  </p>
<p>You need to get out more, Congressman Rangel.  I&#8217;d love to host you down here, next time you&#8217;re in town.</p>
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		<title>By: Collective sigh</title>
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		<dc:creator>Collective sigh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We (the rest of the country) are simply relieved to know that Charlie is &quot;your buffoon.&quot;  

I guess everyone has their brother/uncle/cousin who succeeds in spite of himself, but is still a silent embarrassment to the family.  We have ours, of course.  At least he&#039;s smart enough to keep his mouth shut and squander public funds quietly, most of the time.

As head of Ways and Means, however, the jokes on all of us.  Word of advice, place one hand over your wallet and with the other, hold your nose.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We (the rest of the country) are simply relieved to know that Charlie is &#8220;your buffoon.&#8221;  </p>
<p>I guess everyone has their brother/uncle/cousin who succeeds in spite of himself, but is still a silent embarrassment to the family.  We have ours, of course.  At least he&#8217;s smart enough to keep his mouth shut and squander public funds quietly, most of the time.</p>
<p>As head of Ways and Means, however, the jokes on all of us.  Word of advice, place one hand over your wallet and with the other, hold your nose.</p>
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		<title>By: Matthew</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s statistically falacious to state that Mississippi had  2.7 percent population growth compared to 1.5 percent for New York, and infer that Mississippi is more &quot;popular&quot;. New York had an incomparably larger growth in population than Mississippi. The reason why Mississippi&#039;s percentage growth is higher is that it is population growth relative to the states existing population, and Mississippi has a much smaller population. If anything, a state allready having a small population should count against its popularity, not for it. What Rangle said is just the same kind of nonsense said by all politicians around the country. Everyone thinks that their City, County, State or Country is &quot;the best&quot;. Politicians in particular have to say so; those in Mississippi and other places outside of New York are no different - just look at the preceding comments.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s statistically falacious to state that Mississippi had  2.7 percent population growth compared to 1.5 percent for New York, and infer that Mississippi is more &#8220;popular&#8221;. New York had an incomparably larger growth in population than Mississippi. The reason why Mississippi&#8217;s percentage growth is higher is that it is population growth relative to the states existing population, and Mississippi has a much smaller population. If anything, a state allready having a small population should count against its popularity, not for it. What Rangle said is just the same kind of nonsense said by all politicians around the country. Everyone thinks that their City, County, State or Country is &#8220;the best&#8221;. Politicians in particular have to say so; those in Mississippi and other places outside of New York are no different &#8211; just look at the preceding comments.</p>
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		<title>By: Walt (a former Yankee)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Walt (a former Yankee)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mr Rangle, Thank God My Dad left New York to live in the South.

Your state&#039;s individual income is roughly twice that of a Mississippian. Do you think the poor in the South should pay for the problems of a northern rich city?

Mississippi recently received a surge in federal dollars to help us recover from the devastation of Katrina. I&#039;m sure this pushed our numbers further above what you would consider the &quot;fair share&quot; line.

Your comments were hateful, demeaning and targeted against a State that is struggling to overcome not only Katrina but also a nasty storm of liberal mean-spiritedness.

You are a &quot;black leader&quot; yet you choose to hate the blackest State in this country.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr Rangle, Thank God My Dad left New York to live in the South.</p>
<p>Your state&#8217;s individual income is roughly twice that of a Mississippian. Do you think the poor in the South should pay for the problems of a northern rich city?</p>
<p>Mississippi recently received a surge in federal dollars to help us recover from the devastation of Katrina. I&#8217;m sure this pushed our numbers further above what you would consider the &#8220;fair share&#8221; line.</p>
<p>Your comments were hateful, demeaning and targeted against a State that is struggling to overcome not only Katrina but also a nasty storm of liberal mean-spiritedness.</p>
<p>You are a &#8220;black leader&#8221; yet you choose to hate the blackest State in this country.</p>
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		<title>By: Lance</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I live at the same residence as Congressman Charles Rangel here in the 15th District, Harlem, New York City. Rangel has no shortage of failures within his own district where Black male unemployment is 55+% and children suffer from the disease of asthma at an epidemic rate and crisis level.   These people and a lot more citizens now living in Rangel&#039;s problem plagued district would love to live in Mississippi.   
 
My family originates from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.  My mother, Cheryl Philips,  lived at 418 Sears Ave. Waveland, MS until Katrina destroyed everything she owned leaving her nothing more than a concrete slab.   She now has a FEMA trailer but her spirits are bright, she&#039;s looking forward, and she LOVES living in Mississippi.   
 
My mother can live here in the 15th District, New York City,  right at the very  same residence of Charles Rangel, here with me.    She likes visiting however chooses to live in Mississippi, in a FEMA trailer, volunteering and helping to rebuild the community.   That&#039;s character Charles Rangel knows nothing of.
 
Note Charles Rangel had no problem with Mississippi when it came to accepting $27,000 in Mississippi Band Choctaw Indian Tribal Money, funneled to him courtesy of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff (this is well documented).   Then with all the arrogance that can only come from Charles Rangel he refused to return one penny once the scandal broke.   
 
This is but one example of the shame and embarrassment Charles Rangel is as a Congressman.   Locally Rangel represents 35 years of unfulfilled promise and functions basically as a &quot;political crime boss&quot;.  I&#039;ve addressed a small example of Rangel&#039;s failures at a website I created called &quot;www.CharlesRangel.com&quot; where I spare no punches.  
 
If it counts for anything, Mississippians, please accept my apology for my repugnant Congressman.  Do know the enlightened and educated of Harlem simply refer to Rangel as our village idiot as he&#039;s so well demonstrated (once again).   When you line your  pockets with $27,000 of Mississippi Choctaw Indian Payments orchestrated by Jack Abramoff, refuse to return it, then insult anyone who wants to live in Mississippi....is that not an idiot in a nutshell?   
 
Lance A Smith
10 West 135th St. #14P
New York City, NY 10037
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I live at the same residence as Congressman Charles Rangel here in the 15th District, Harlem, New York City. Rangel has no shortage of failures within his own district where Black male unemployment is 55+% and children suffer from the disease of asthma at an epidemic rate and crisis level.   These people and a lot more citizens now living in Rangel&#8217;s problem plagued district would love to live in Mississippi.   </p>
<p>My family originates from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.  My mother, Cheryl Philips,  lived at 418 Sears Ave. Waveland, MS until Katrina destroyed everything she owned leaving her nothing more than a concrete slab.   She now has a FEMA trailer but her spirits are bright, she&#8217;s looking forward, and she LOVES living in Mississippi.   </p>
<p>My mother can live here in the 15th District, New York City,  right at the very  same residence of Charles Rangel, here with me.    She likes visiting however chooses to live in Mississippi, in a FEMA trailer, volunteering and helping to rebuild the community.   That&#8217;s character Charles Rangel knows nothing of.</p>
<p>Note Charles Rangel had no problem with Mississippi when it came to accepting $27,000 in Mississippi Band Choctaw Indian Tribal Money, funneled to him courtesy of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff (this is well documented).   Then with all the arrogance that can only come from Charles Rangel he refused to return one penny once the scandal broke.   </p>
<p>This is but one example of the shame and embarrassment Charles Rangel is as a Congressman.   Locally Rangel represents 35 years of unfulfilled promise and functions basically as a &#8220;political crime boss&#8221;.  I&#8217;ve addressed a small example of Rangel&#8217;s failures at a website I created called &#8220;www.CharlesRangel.com&#8221; where I spare no punches.  </p>
<p>If it counts for anything, Mississippians, please accept my apology for my repugnant Congressman.  Do know the enlightened and educated of Harlem simply refer to Rangel as our village idiot as he&#8217;s so well demonstrated (once again).   When you line your  pockets with $27,000 of Mississippi Choctaw Indian Payments orchestrated by Jack Abramoff, refuse to return it, then insult anyone who wants to live in Mississippi&#8230;.is that not an idiot in a nutshell?   </p>
<p>Lance A Smith<br />
10 West 135th St. #14P<br />
New York City, NY 10037<br />
<a href="mailto:lanceandrew@aol.com">lanceandrew@aol.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Rusty(a Mississippi son)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rusty(a Mississippi son)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As an individual born and living in Mississippi.  If Cngressman Rangel is any indication lf the people that don&#039;t want to live in Mississippi - I&#039;m good with that!  Mississippi is the best kept secret in the 48 contiguious staes.  It is a great place to live, work, and raise a family.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As an individual born and living in Mississippi.  If Cngressman Rangel is any indication lf the people that don&#8217;t want to live in Mississippi &#8211; I&#8217;m good with that!  Mississippi is the best kept secret in the 48 contiguious staes.  It is a great place to live, work, and raise a family.</p>
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		<title>By: Larry Littlefield</title>
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		<dc:creator>Larry Littlefield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>(By voting against tax cuts, for example, Malanga says the delegation undermines the interests of their constituents, “whose incomes are on average higher than those of taxpayers in most other states, [and who therefore] pay disproportionately more in federal taxes.”)

Malanga fails to give the Republicans enough credit.  Early in the Bush Administration, the Giuliani Administration asked the place where I worked to come up with data showing that the tax cuts would be good for New York.  I assumed this would be true.  But it wasn&#039;t -- NY&#039;s percent decline in taxes due to the cuts was near the bottom nationally, because of how they were constructed.

Moreover, Republicans, while cutting spending in places like NYC, have not been slackers in increasing spending elsewhere, and by greater amounts?

Do I expect New York to benefit now?  No.  Because the only way to do so would be to call the Red State&#039;s bluff by cutting THEIR spending, and the Dems aren&#039;t willing to do that.

I interpreted Rangel&#039;s remarks as a pre-excuse for NYC continuing to get a bad deal fiscally, not a prediction it would do better.  We should be lucky to live here anyway, he said.

Otherwise, he wouldn&#039;t have used poorer-than-us Mississippi as an example. He&#039;d have used the example of a state that is in many ways better off than we are but is nonetheless profiting at our expense fiscally.  North Carolina or Tennessee, for example.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(By voting against tax cuts, for example, Malanga says the delegation undermines the interests of their constituents, “whose incomes are on average higher than those of taxpayers in most other states, [and who therefore] pay disproportionately more in federal taxes.”)</p>
<p>Malanga fails to give the Republicans enough credit.  Early in the Bush Administration, the Giuliani Administration asked the place where I worked to come up with data showing that the tax cuts would be good for New York.  I assumed this would be true.  But it wasn&#8217;t &#8212; NY&#8217;s percent decline in taxes due to the cuts was near the bottom nationally, because of how they were constructed.</p>
<p>Moreover, Republicans, while cutting spending in places like NYC, have not been slackers in increasing spending elsewhere, and by greater amounts?</p>
<p>Do I expect New York to benefit now?  No.  Because the only way to do so would be to call the Red State&#8217;s bluff by cutting THEIR spending, and the Dems aren&#8217;t willing to do that.</p>
<p>I interpreted Rangel&#8217;s remarks as a pre-excuse for NYC continuing to get a bad deal fiscally, not a prediction it would do better.  We should be lucky to live here anyway, he said.</p>
<p>Otherwise, he wouldn&#8217;t have used poorer-than-us Mississippi as an example. He&#8217;d have used the example of a state that is in many ways better off than we are but is nonetheless profiting at our expense fiscally.  North Carolina or Tennessee, for example.</p>
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		<title>By: A lowly Mississippian</title>
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		<dc:creator>A lowly Mississippian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you Congressman Rangle:

Thank you for your insight and opinion regarding Mississippi.  

Thank you for your concern and compassion for your fellow Americans (outside your district).

Thank you for so quickly cutting through the facod and getting down to the brass tacks of dividing the pork so your district can gain a larger share.

Thank you for helping to make it clear that the republican(s), collectively, let this country down, and now we get the government we deserve.

And may God help us survive your reign.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you Congressman Rangle:</p>
<p>Thank you for your insight and opinion regarding Mississippi.  </p>
<p>Thank you for your concern and compassion for your fellow Americans (outside your district).</p>
<p>Thank you for so quickly cutting through the facod and getting down to the brass tacks of dividing the pork so your district can gain a larger share.</p>
<p>Thank you for helping to make it clear that the republican(s), collectively, let this country down, and now we get the government we deserve.</p>
<p>And may God help us survive your reign.</p>
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