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    Default you from Tuscaloosa?

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    And not one was a Democrat!
    or Titusville?

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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    Democrats gained 40 seats and won by 10,000,000 votes in the House aggregate (and 20,000,000 in the Senate).
    Who gives a flying fuck? Let see what happens in 2020 you idiots were so positive Hillary had it sewed up in 2016.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy View Post
    ....were so positive Hillary had it sewed up in 2016.
    so did everyone else, dark horse Putin pulled it off unfortunately

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy View Post
    Who gives a flying fuck? Let see what happens in 2020 you idiots were so positive Hillary had it sewed up in 2016.
    Yes, let's see. If 2018 was any indication, 2020 will be even worse for you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy View Post
    Who gives a flying fuck? Let see what happens in 2020 you idiots were so positive Hillary had it sewed up in 2016.
    You don't give a flying fuck about election results?

    Then why are you boasting about one that happened 3 years ago?
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    Quote Originally Posted by katzgar View Post
    nothing has changed in the last 6 decades, people from flyover are going to the coasts.
    So the blue states stay blue and the red states get redder? Works for me. What am I supposed to be afraid of as long as those collage boys keep paying for all that red state welfare?
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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    So military welfare is the argument you're going with.

    Cool. Cool cool cool.
    Military spending has nothing to do with the number of people in Georgia getting means tested benefits. So, that military spending is not going to Georgia because it has a lot of poor people or a low tax structure. It is going to Georgia because the state kept electing Democrats who gained seniority on defense committees and used that influence to get military spending for their state.

    Should we stop giving those poor people in Georgia federal social benefits so the blue states no longer have to subsidize them?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    Military spending has nothing to do with the number of people in Georgia getting means tested benefits.
    But it's a welfare program, though. Taxpayers paying for jobs.

    Also, this has nothing to do with the state of GA (and many other red states) raiding the welfare block grant to close budget gaps.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    So, that military spending is not going to Georgia because it has a lot of poor people or a low tax structure.
    I never said it did!

    What I said was that GA raids the welfare block grant to close its budget gaps from low taxes.

    This is a non-sequitur.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    Should we stop giving those poor people in Georgia federal social benefits so the blue states no longer have to subsidize them?
    No, Georgia should raise its taxes so it doesn't have to rely on the welfare block grant to close its budget gaps.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    I never said it did!

    What I said was that GA raids the welfare block grant to close its budget gaps from low taxes.

    This is a non-sequitur.
    You missed the point. Military spending in Georgia ($12 billion) is far more than its welfare benefits but it has nothing to do with being a poor state or a red state. It got all those military based when it was a blue state. The point is that a lot of that federal money is not going to "poor people in red states" like several posters suggested but to military spending that has nothing to do with the poor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    You missed the point. Military spending in Georgia ($12 billion) is far more than its welfare benefits but it has nothing to do with being a poor state or a red state. It got all those military based when it was a blue state. The point is that a lot of that federal money is not going to "poor people in red states" like several posters suggested but to military spending that has nothing to do with the poor.
    Flash, bubbulah, the state budget of Georgia doesn't include military spending, but it does include welfare spending from the welfare block grant. It's that block grant, handed to the state to incorporate into its budget, from where the legislators are pulling funds to close budget gaps caused by low taxes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    But it's a welfare program, though. Taxpayers paying for jobs.

    Also, this has nothing to do with the state of GA (and many other red states) raiding the welfare block grant to close budget gaps.
    Look at States like SC, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. In each one of them, the blue districts are the one where food stamps are used on, by far, the greatest basis. What's interesting is that each one of them is a gerrymandered majority minority district with well over a 50% black majority. Coincidence? Not hardly. Typical? Absolutely.

    It's about time those blue districts and their enormous use of social welfare get the blame not the red state as a whole. The red districts aren't anywhere close to using the percentages the blue ones use and they're majority white. Coincidence? No. What is expected? Absolutely.

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