KRUGMAN: "California"

[Politicub]

96. I want to move back to Calif.

And the gay marriage verdicts from the Supremes may be the tipping point to get my husband and I out of the Georgia teabagger cesspool.

We moved to Atlanta for my familial obligations, but the security and welfare of my husband are equally important as taking care of my aging parents.

You see, in Georgia people in poverty don't have enough misery for Georgia lawmakers' tastes. So they must be punished for their sins. And kicked while they're down. And kicked in the gut again. And again.

An example of this is the state rejecting the federal dollars for Medicaid expansion. Access to healthcare literally can mean life or death to those in poverty.

But the legislators decided to pull back the boot and kick the working poor in the teeth. No healthcare for them when it would cost the state nothing.

The most tragic thing is the number of people who would benefit from a robust public sector outnumber the wealthy by a wide margin. But opposing choice and gays while clutching their guns take precedence in their lives instead of using their vote to make life a little but better for their families.

Atlanta is a liberal oasis blah blah blah. That doesn't matter, though, since the state is controlled by a massive number of rural counties. We will never have the kind of infrastructure in the city that will make it a better place to live.

On second thought, we will probsbly leave regardless of what the SCOTUS says. Life is too short to prop up the conservative establishment with my tax dollars.