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global1

(25,241 posts)
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 03:23 PM Sep 2017

Will Repug Voters In Florida & Texas Now Have A Different Perspective On Big Government?.....

Do you think that they realize that if government services were cut back - because big government is bad - how they would be able to cope with the destruction and rebuilding of their respective areas.

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Will Repug Voters In Florida & Texas Now Have A Different Perspective On Big Government?..... (Original Post) global1 Sep 2017 OP
No. KPN Sep 2017 #1
Correct underpants Sep 2017 #5
Hypocrisy is part of the human condition... Thomas Hurt Sep 2017 #2
No..they only see the welfare going to a Black woman in Detroit carrying a designer purse. redstatebluegirl Sep 2017 #3
No nycbos Sep 2017 #4
Nope hurl Sep 2017 #6
Not at all. DFW Sep 2017 #7
No because their objections have nothing to do with them receiving government help. LonePirate Sep 2017 #8
+1000. SaschaHM Sep 2017 #11
No, because Liberals know how to control the weather. Iliyah Sep 2017 #9
No. Their perspective will be whatever Fox News tells them. nt blaze Sep 2017 #10
This is what they believe... SHRED Sep 2017 #12

KPN

(15,642 posts)
1. No.
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 03:26 PM
Sep 2017

That would require thinking. They will likely learn that were it not for the huge deficits caused by Dems, State and Fed government w/b better able to respond to these emergencies ... from their usual sources of course. Oh, and that it's all irrelevant anyway because these hurricanes are God's will.

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
3. No..they only see the welfare going to a Black woman in Detroit carrying a designer purse.
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 03:28 PM
Sep 2017

Sarcasm... They see government help for them as reasonable. At least that is how it is here in Oklahoma when a tornado hits.

hurl

(938 posts)
6. Nope
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 03:34 PM
Sep 2017

They are a lost cause. I have some hope that independents and non-voters may be motivated. Texas has pathetic turnout, giving dedicated Republicans disproportionate influence. That's where we should focus, IMO.

DFW

(54,349 posts)
7. Not at all.
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 03:36 PM
Sep 2017

They will say, "help me out, I paid taxes, and when the water is gone, you should be, too. Feel free to leave us your guns."

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
9. No, because Liberals know how to control the weather.
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 04:06 PM
Sep 2017

Government is still bad and too big. Since GOPer's suffered the "most" (in their minds), they deserve the majority of the cha ching, but still hate taxes.

 

SHRED

(28,136 posts)
12. This is what they believe...
Wed Sep 13, 2017, 10:07 AM
Sep 2017

Republicans believe that the size of the Federal government is a problem and that problem is due to people of color "laying around collecting welfare checks".

That is how they separate this out as crazy as it is.
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