Repub welfare counties....

This will be cross-posted to the Washington state board, but I think everybody should see this kind of thing. Your state may be similar.

In Washington state, the rural, heavily Repub counties in eastern Washington are always bitching that they don't get their fair share, and that the nasty old urban, Democratic counties suck up all the welfare and services, and generally take money from the hard-working, taxpaying rural folk.

The Stranger... a Seattle alternative paper published the following. Let's just see which queen is sucking up what ... and from whom.

Read the whole article...

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/welfare-state/Content?oid=6686284

A couple of charts..

... world's biggest welfare recipients.

driven those low-info voters batshit crazy.

Blue states supporting red states.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/p/a/patmcgrowen/2010/02/red-states-receive-more-in-fed.php

In general Red States receive more from the Federal government and Blue States less.

The winners
1. New Mexico(D)---$2.03
2. Mississippi(R)---2.02
3. Alaska(R)--------1.84
4. Louisiana(R)-----1.78
5. West Virgina(R)--1.76
6. North Dakota(R)--1.68
7. Alabama(R)-------1.66
8. South Dakota(R)--1.53
9. Kentucky(R)------1.51
10.Virgina(D)-------1.51

The losers
40. Massachusets(D)-0.82
41. Colorado(D)-----0.81
42. New York(D)-----0.79
43. California(D)---0.78
44. Delaware(D)-----0.77
45. Illinois(D)-----0.75
46. Minnesota(D)----0.72
47. New Hampshire(D)-.71
48. Connecticut(D)--0.69
49. Nevada(D)-------0.65
50. New Jersay(D)---0.61

Source:tax foundation, census bureau
http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/266.html

be common knowledge by now...

States' Rights is their issue and it seems they will NEVER get it!!

:kick:

Our local police chief was recently fired for being "too bombastic." He now writes RW editorials for the paper and rails about how Clallam County receives less than we pay to the state. No - we receive .29 on the dollar more than we pay!
This info is terrific.
Thanks for posting it.