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American Austerity: Why the States Cutting Spending Are Doing Worse
cyberpj
(10,794 posts)suffering from Fed budget cuts requiring state budget cuts.
Gonna go check the article to see if they list the states by name. And then, if there's any correlation between red states and blue states.
cyberpj
(10,794 posts)Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, and Washington.
Expenditure-expanding states are:
Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
And while there may be a trend to be found, it's not definitive as to red state vs blue states.
SunSeeker
(51,295 posts)The fat here in CA has long been cut. Now we're talking about cutting school year length, coverage for home health aids (and real stupidity, since it will force elderly into expensive nursing homes) and other such nonsense. I'm really disappointed with Brown on all his bullshit cuts.
SpankMe
(2,931 posts)Brown has to make ends meet. We're all "borrowed" out (in Cali), and conservatives fight and kill even modest tax increases on those who can afford it. Brown just has no $$ to spend to keep these programs going.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)And this is not coming from a Brown enthusiast.
But the reality of the matter is that this state was heavily invested in the housing bubble. And so it lost big time when that bubble burst.
Most government services from the state of California are funded locally through property tax and state income tax. When people are not working, or have had their home's value reduced by tax assessing value to a third of what the value was in 2005, the monies received are insufficient.
When I moved to Lake County in N Calif in 2005, I could not even find a house to look at that was valued under 200K. Now ninety percent of the homes on the market are valued at lower than that.
Many people have been foreclosed upon. And those who have not been foreclosed, are paying a mortgage that is underwater.
Schwartzennegger went and asked Geithner for a twenty billion dollar loan back in 2010. he was refused on the grounds that this would add to the deficit.
Of course, then over the next thirteen months, the Feds went and spent some 255 billions of dollars modernizing the weaponry and offering up weaponry to UAE states and Israel. So it shows that if our priorities as a nation were about something other than killing people and helping other nations kill people, that much could be done.
(I don't have the totals of monies spent on our two major wars, so those costs are not even included in this discussion!)
Traditionally, Californians have paid in one dollar for ever 73 cents they get back fromthe Feds.
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)Crime did go up marginally, as was predicted.
Madison Blue
(5 posts)All it really demonstrates is that the states with money to spend are doing better than those that are broke -- duh! The spending lines move in opposite direction, but the growth lines are virtual mirrors, except that the blue ones immediately start ahead and remain that way.
This does NOTHING to prove our point!
fedupintheATL
(2 posts)Why the FUCK would anyone post this as evidence in favor of government spending. It proves nothing either way.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)The Red states dont want to ask them to pony up so they cut instead.
MindMover
(5,016 posts)crim son
(27,462 posts)Laughing. I agree that the graph isn't satisfactory proof of anything, but there's more to it than what you suggest.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Those states are like 3rd world countries that dont invest in their future because they dont want to tax their top 1%. So their economies are worse off with less revenue.
On the Road
(20,783 posts)They have to do with the economic activity of cutting versus not curring that type of spending.
And partly because the mix of states is not clearly correlated with something else, it amounts to real evidence.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)chknltl
(10,558 posts)...because there be nothin but us poor folk down here, many are,homeless, starving and in need of medical help. Nope, no evil to fear here in the valley. It's them bastards on the peaks that I fear!
stanleyyelnatsdotCOM
(65 posts)16 And behold, Willard RMoney came to Him and said, "Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?"
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Brooklyn Dame
(169 posts)All of the European and South American countries that put strict austerity measures in place are battling against near depressions and bankruptcies. Unreal...we just don't learn.
http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/05/the-gop-seinfeld-woody-allen-and-the-case-against-austerity/