“The Communist party must control the guns.”
― Mao Tse-tung
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”-Generally attributed to Uncle Joe Stalin
“Everything under heaven is in utter choas; the situation is excellent.”
― mao tse-tung
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?
Last edited by Flash; 02-01-2019 at 08:07 PM.
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.
When I die, turn me into a brick and use me to cave in the skull of a fascist
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.
Bookmarks