OT: Re: Need help combining 2 sequences
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Aug 30, 2012
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BTW: Who decided that Republicans are Red?
It's hard to pinpoint a specific person or organization, AFAICT, but...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states
It does make a lot of sense to paint the democrats red (the traditional liberal colour) and republicans blue (the tradiational conservative colour), but this is only slightly more likely to happen than getting the US to adopt metric over imperial.
It seems to me that the Democrats motto of take from those that have
That's not a motto, that's taxation!
Seriously, I can't find an official motto or slogan of the democratic party. The closest thing I can find to that are the various campaign slogans used in the presidential elections.
Slightly offhand, see how well a goverment without taxation worked for the US under the Articles of Confederation.
and give to those that don't have is a lot like "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" which I learned as the Communist motto way back when. 
Thanks for the help,
Lonny
If only I could invoke Godwin's law here. So close...
