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packman

(16,296 posts) Wed May 7, 2014, 12:36 PM May 2014

The Giving States and the Mooching States

A site with interesting interactive maps and charts on which states are the givers supporting those states drawing from the federal coffers. South Carolina, North Dakota and Florida are draining the funds while Delaware, Minnesota and Illinois are supporting those bums.
Site also has chart listing states using SNAP food supplement and - not surprisingly-the states with high poverty rates draw the most monies in this category.
A lot of political hay can be made from these charts.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-states-are-givers-and-which-are-takers/361668/

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The Giving States and the Mooching States (Original Post) packman May 2014 OP

The map could be colored red and blue liberal N proud May 2014 #1

Red staters cant see the truth now or ever (unless you are blue in a red state) randys1 May 2014 #2

liberal N proud

(61,203 posts)

1. The map could be colored red and blue

Reply to packman (Original post)

Wed May 7, 2014, 12:38 PM

May 2014

Pretty similar to the political landscape of the country, the moochers are red states.

randys1

(16,286 posts)

2. Red staters cant see the truth now or ever (unless you are blue in a red state)

Reply to liberal N proud (Reply #1)

Wed May 7, 2014, 12:42 PM

May 2014

They cant be reasoned with until they are starving, then and only then will they be willing to grow and learn.

Which leaves us with the reality that while there are more of us than them, many of us are not motivated by politics.

Why? Because liberal leaning younger folks realize nothing the cons say is true and believe that half of what the dems say is also not true, so they think, WRONGLY SO, that voting has little value.

How do we fix that?

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