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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vercingetorix, post: 236752, member: 3374&quot;]your response made amply clear how you feel, but wasn&#039;t very cogent.&nbsp; short-sighted --&nbsp; how so?&nbsp; you may think i&#039;m in the wrong, but i don&#039;t think you meant to say short-sighted.&nbsp; that implies that i don&#039;t foresee the consequences of my actions.&nbsp; if that is what you&#039;re trying to say, you didn&#039;t explain how.</p><p><br /></p><p>also, i resent the implication that i&#039;m simple-minded, which is hardly the case.&nbsp; you can say you disagree without resorting to ad hominem attacks.&nbsp; it&#039;s not good form.</p><p><br /></p><p>DC still isn&#039;t good with its money, though if that&#039;s a point of qualification, new jersey&#039;s quarter should be recalled and destroyed, as the state went bankrupt last year.&nbsp; but since you live in the area you must know that the city&#039;s financial woes aren&#039;t solely from being run by a bunch of yahoos -- tax revenue is low due to the feds sitting on choice land and not paying taxes, the district isn&#039;t permitted to charge an occupational privilege tax, etc.&nbsp; so yes, the district gets lots of federal money every year.&nbsp; if you want a functioning capital city, that&#039;s the price you pay.&nbsp; so what?</p><p><br /></p><p>and for those of you not from the area, the reason some folks in DC want a quarter is this: the residents of the district have no representation in our congress, other than a non-voting delegate to the house.&nbsp; that may have made sense 200 years ago (the reason being that in the days before broadband and the united shuttle, the states neighboring the capital might be thought to have an unfair ability to influence goings-on in the capital), but it really no longer does, except that the city is heavily democratic, and any step to grant the district full voting rights (in the form of statehood or otherwise) is fraught with political calculations.&nbsp; so the quarter is seen as a step in the direction of full enfranchisement.&nbsp; it&#039;s decidely not just a &quot;me, too&quot; move.</p><p><br /></p><p>so there you go.&nbsp; to be frank, i don&#039;t like the state quarters.&nbsp; they&#039;re pretty ugly.&nbsp; to me, it has more to do with being treated like a full-fledged american, that&#039;s all.&nbsp; since i pay my taxes, i&#039;d like to be able to vote for a representative and a senator, but i understand that the question of DC statehood isn&#039;t simple (personally, i&#039;d rather see the city become part of maryland).&nbsp; &nbsp; the only reason i jumped in this thread was because someone lumped us in with guam and the like, and it got my irish up.&nbsp; you may think the district shouldn&#039;t get a quarter -- fair enough, you&#039;re not the only one.&nbsp; maybe you think it should.&nbsp; great.&nbsp; maybe you think we should go back to pretty coins with lady liberty wearing a phyrgian cap instead of some more ugly state birds.&nbsp; even better.</p><p><br /></p><p>V.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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