Dick Cheney's Wyoming: number of escalators = number of US Senators

[LVZ]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/18/wyoming-has-only-2-escalators_n_3616861.html

http://daily.sightline.org/2010/03/16/un-democracy-and-the-us-senate/

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[Bay Boy]

1. Shocking...

...is this a new development?

[RudynJack]

2. They don't like them there.

One of them broke down once and hundreds of people were stranded for hours.

[longship]

3. DUzy!!!!

Perfect!

[LVZ]

4. Oh, the horror ... :-o

One of them broke down once and hundreds of people were stranded for hours.[/quote]

[LVZ]

5. Alaska+Wyoming = 1 million with 4 US Senators ... vs ... California = 38 million and only 2 Senators

... and we call ours a "democracy"? Really?

[GlashFordan]

6. No, no, no...

People in California (and I am one) have no right to politically strong arm people in smaller states. I know and understand nothing about repairing fences and driving a tractor on public roads.

We hate to admit it... But we're really like 50 separate states but with a common currency, elected potus and constitution.

The problem is... As Democrats, we derive our power from the populations of 10 major cities. Without them, we'd lose 45+ states.

Remove LA, SF, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Nyc, Philadelphia, D.C and Baltimore from the map and you're looking at a very red map.

Thats the beauty of the Constitution, fairness extends to all people, not just big city dwellers.

Oh and btw the framers never intended this to be a Democracy.

[jmowreader]

7. Maybe you don't, but many Californians do

Last year at the fair, a gentleman named Jim Van Sky told me that people in the states that voted for Obama don't know anything about the needs of the farmer. I reminded him that Washington voted for Obama and then helped him pull his foot out of his mouth. For Mr. Van Sky is in the very specialized business of cherry drying. Cherries can't be rained on while they're ripening or they'll be ruined, so the cherry farmers hire helicopter pilots to hover low over the trees after rainstorms and blow-dry the cherries with rotor wash.(And now you know why cherries are so expensive.) This guy spends four months a year drying cherries and makes a full year's pay...in the middle of blue Washington.