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Hassin Bin Sober

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10. Good luck to all those rural Trump voters with rural farms or acreage.
Wed May 24, 2017, 11:10 AM
May 2017

Nobody wants to finance your oversized lots and farms.

My father in-law and I used to get a kick out of all the Romney signs around my downstate rural in-laws' home.

My father in law was a retired commercial pilot but drove a school bus for a while after he retired. The bus co-op was 100% paid for by grant money. Most of it federal.

The people who bought their acreage used a USDA/RDA mortgage loan.

All those rural areas can't pay for their own bridges, roads, and schools without gubmint money. But they sure like to brag about how they are independent lift yourself up by your bootsrappers.

Even the trump latest talking point about how they "won most of the counties" is meaningless and inadvertently tells the story. 67% of GDP comes from the counties Hillary won. That's 2 to 1 production from blue areas. It's not even close. Seeing as though the vote was close to even (rounding off), that means there sure are a lot of moochers in those red areas.

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