The Three Biggest Moocher Counties in the Country

Three Kentucky counties — Owsley, McCreary and Wolfe — are the only places that rely on government programs such as Social Security, food stamps and Medicaid for more than half of income.

The results of the 2012 presidential elections by county, per AP:

Owsley: Mitt Romney 83%; Barack Obama 17.9%
McCreary: Mitt Romney 80.0%; Barack Obama 18.7%
Wolfe: Mitt Romney 60.3%; Barack Obama 38.1%

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/12/three-counties-in-kentucky-151076.html
 
Dear Meth Head:

You have started 5 threads in less than 10 minutes. Would it be possible for you to kindly place all of your random thoughts in one thread?

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Three Kentucky counties — Owsley, McCreary and Wolfe — are the only places that rely on government programs such as Social Security, food stamps and Medicaid for more than half of income.

The results of the 2012 presidential elections by county, per AP:

Owsley: Mitt Romney 83%; Barack Obama 17.9%
McCreary: Mitt Romney 80.0%; Barack Obama 18.7%
Wolfe: Mitt Romney 60.3%; Barack Obama 38.1%

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/12/three-counties-in-kentucky-151076.html

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
 
Quote from gwb-trading:

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

The OP is just another liberal drone repeating yet another liberal meme.





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Quote from gwb-trading:

You are trying to pretend that these counties take in more public assistance than counties like the Bronx. Who are you kidding?

Actually, the claim is: more government assistance as a percent of income.
 
Quote from Ricter:

Actually, the claim is: more government assistance as a percent of income.

So let's go to small impoverished low population counties to prove some weird political point. Even if you took the entire welfare payout away from every individual in these three counties it would not even equal 0.1% of the public assistance given out in the Bronx.
 
It's hard to believe anyone can be stupid enough to think public assistance is dominated by republicans.

I've seen the way these libtards put together their studies on this issue. If you'll notice, it's always a small, rural community they use that is normally made up of old people, so there is a very tiny amount of money involved, to make it a high percentage of total income. And they normally don't just stop in these studies to use ss, medicare, and such. They normally also include roads, schools, and any other kind of spending they can dig out of the woodwork. So when you add that kind of spending in, and divide it by the small number of people in rural counties, it gives the appearance of the county being a net taker of public funds.

They don't like the avg voter knowing that there are gargantuan amounts of money going to blue cities and counties. So they come up with these 'studies', if you can call them that, to attempt to make republican counties look like the takers. This was of course after their previous bogus studies attempting to claim that red states were taking more money than blue states. When it was pointed out that it was dem counties in those states that were the parasites, they proceeded to ratchet down the deceit to the county level.

You need 'studies' to convince people of the ridiculous, like republicans being the takers of society and not the democrats.

I just read one of these idiot studies the other day done about counties in the state of washington. They are followed by a load of comments from liberals who actually buy this baloney and go on and on about how "those right wing nuts" are the actual parasites and not the liberals.

How stupid does one have to be?
 
Quote from gwb-trading:

So let's go to small impoverished low population counties to prove some weird political point. Even if you took the entire welfare payout away from every individual in these three counties it would not even equal 0.1% of the public assistance given out in the Bronx.

You need to brush up on the concept of percentages.
 
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