You're fired

[matt819]

If you haven't seen the Daily Show piece with Jon Oliver and Jason Jones at the RNC, go take a look. It's a riot.

Basically, they call the RWers on their "run government like a business" attitude. Of course, they didn't get the humor. When it was pointed out to some delegates that their states received more from the federal government that they gave, they were speechless. Speechless in terms of not knowing what Jones and Oliver were talking about. Nice people, but stupid.

And wrong. The guy from Minnesota said that they were still a great state, with 10,000 lakes. That may or may not be true, but to respond with a slogan should have been embarrassing. The woman from Mississippi said that they were lovely people, the most hospitable in the country, and produced more cotton than any other state. Whoops! Texas produces more cotton, and MS's cotton production is falling.

Granted, these tools are not necessarily representative of all RWers, and they did seem like lovely people (except the guy from Wisconsin, who looked as if he was wanted by the police and terrified that his image was on tv), but they are living in an alternate universe.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Minnesota gives more than they get back

and Minnesota has 15,000 lakes and it is a nice state, just like any other state.
Every state has good and bad points.

[unblock]

2. apparently minnesota has MORE than 10,000 lakes:

This is a list of lakes in Minnesota. Minnesota is known as The Land of 10,000 Lakes, but the official count of lakes more than ten acres (40,000 m²) in size is approximately 11,842.[1] All but four Minnesota counties (Mower, Olmsted, Pipestone and Rock) contain at least one natural lake. Minnesota's shoreline from its lakes and rivers provide more shoreline than California, Florida and Hawaii combined.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_in_Minnesota



Lakes, rivers, and wetlands facts
General
Minnesota's waters flow outward in three directions:
North to Hudson Bay in Canada
East to the Atlantic Ocean
South to the Gulf of Mexico

Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota is the largest water-based park in the National Park System.



By the numbers
Counties with no natural lakes:
Mower, Olmsted, Pipestone, Rock

Number of lakes:
11,842 (10+ acres)

Number of natural rivers and streams:
6,564 (69,200 miles)

Wetlands acreage present in 1850:
18.6 million acres

Wetlands acreage present in 2003:
9.3 million acres


http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/faq/mnfacts/water.html