The Three Biggest Moocher Counties in the Country

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Let's set a limit. Starting more than two threads a day in P&R should be considered spam.
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This would be a good idea if there were more centrists and left leaning posters in this section, I went through 10 pages and there is hardly anything that's not straight from right wing sources.
 
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You are trying to pretend that these counties take in more public assistance than counties like the Bronx. Who are you kidding?

Let's look at the truth about Blue and Red states...

The concept that 'red' states are the 'takers' is absurd. Let's eliminate military base spending, farm subsidies, and other non-welfare federal spending from the accounting.

The red states do not really want the military bases that were forced on them. These bases take up large tracts of land that are useful for other economic purposes and require local money spent on policing & other services because they tend to be high crime / low income areas. Let's put a large military base in NYC or Boston - and bulldoze all the existing homes. The displaced residents can survive on the 80%+ of large farm subsidies that are sent to the owners of corporate farms who reside in blue states (but is seen as red state money for some reason).

Let's focus on federal welfare spending--defined here as childhood nutrition programs, food stamp programs, WIC benefits TANF benefits, and other similar benefits.

This article from USA Today "New Yorkers lead pack in government benefits" compiled data showing which states had the highest per capita expenditures for every type of government-provided benefit and blue states top the list and red states made up most of the bottom 10.

Top 10 - Most dependent on government aid
1 New York
2 West Virginia
3 Rhode Island
4 Maine
5 Pennsylvania
6 Massachusetts
7 Vermont
8 Kentucky
9 Michigan
10 Connecticut

Bottom 10 - Least dependent on government aid
41 South Dakota
42 Nebraska
43 Wyoming
44 Idaho
45 Georgia
46 Texas
47 Nevada
48 Virginia
49 Colorado
50 Utah
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Can you tell us what counts as public assistance and whether the lists are in order of total nominal dollars, or per capita dollars. Even if we had that information, it isn't clear that any information of value can come from these lists, because you have a state like Idaho in one list and a state like New York in the other. If you drew the boundary lines of those sates differently you might end up with their positions switched. So is their any point at all here.
 
Quote from Lucrum:

No, and you?
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I am pissed off rather.

The only places that rely on government programs for more than half of income overwhelmingly vote Republican.

Shameless mooching hypocrites.
 
Quote from exGOPer:

I am pissed off rather.

The only places that rely on government programs for more than half of income overwhelmingly vote Republican.

Shameless mooching hypocrites.
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A liberal meme. Hence the reason us conservative tax payers are pissed off.



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Deflection noted.
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Posting an irrefutable retort is "deflection"? LOL

You'd be a lot better informed for the future if you'd stop inventing non existent deflections and take note of the facts instead.




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Quote from Lucrum:

Ignored facts, again. Noted.
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Yea, 'we know some paradox' cut paste WITHOUT any source but actual numbers are not to be believed ofcourse.
 
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