Blue States "Going Galt"
Posted by tragicview 10 years, 7 months ago to Philosophy
Wow; all I can say is, warped.
While we're very happy to have you in the Gulch and appreciate your wanting to fully engage, some things in the Gulch (e.g. voting, links in comments) are a privilege, not a right. To get you up to speed as quickly as possible, we've provided two options for earning these privileges.
Previous comments...
That certainly was a tragic view!
Wow, so much wrong it hurt to read...
Rubbish...
Thank's... I think. :)
Respectfully,
O.A.
Oh and one small other thing. As a vet myself, I am ENTITLED to the vet benefits and GI bill that I First paid into. I bought those benefits with 5 years and 6 months of my life. Value for value, this is not some government handout!....That part PISSED ME OFF!
I went on a gender bender when I wrote that propaganda hit piece.
Who is John Galt? A moocher!
Wait until I call him a racist. Bwahaha!
Excuse me while I slime away with the drive-by media.
If this isn't a complete lie - it may be taking into account long-term infrastructure bonds (spent in a single year but repaid over 50 years or something), and other considerations like that - which would be a very skewed representation. Small states in the midwest simply don't have much for highways and infrastructure (nor the need for them) compared to Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, New York, etc.
The thought that Virginia doesn't take in more federal dollars than it pays in is completely ludicrous... ever driven up the BWI corridor?
I agree wholeheartedly with her but not her end goal. I don't want rural places to discover how badly they need monies from liberal urban areas. I would actually prefer to keep the wealth here. Rural areas can keep their mining, farming, paper mills, etc. Liberal urban areas can keep their biotech, software development, private equity firms, etc. People can always move back and forth, work remote, make money and then retire to a rural area, etc. We don't need gov't to spread the wealth around.
Political ideologues don't want this, though. They want gov't to carry on being a huge percentage of GDP and to carry on making money by calling each other names like children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damne...