(02-14-2012 04:31 PM)BlazerFan11 Wrote:  

(02-14-2012 04:25 PM)Rebel Wrote:  

(02-14-2012 04:12 PM)BlazerFan11 Wrote:  Now go look specifically at the racial makeup (and how they vote) of the counties in AL/MS with the highest dependence on gov't benefits, and report back to me.

Not racial makeup, look at the political makeup.

The political makeup is what's important, yes, but it's fun to mess with the white guilt/PC libs.

I have no guilt for anything I didn't do, but you seem to be one of those 'oppressed white male' types that is just so laughable though.

(02-14-2012 10:25 PM)UCF08 Wrote:  

(02-14-2012 04:31 PM)BlazerFan11 Wrote:  

(02-14-2012 04:25 PM)Rebel Wrote:  

(02-14-2012 04:12 PM)BlazerFan11 Wrote:  Now go look specifically at the racial makeup (and how they vote) of the counties in AL/MS with the highest dependence on gov't benefits, and report back to me.

Not racial makeup, look at the political makeup.

The political makeup is what's important, yes, but it's fun to mess with the white guilt/PC libs.

I have no guilt for anything I didn't do, but you seem to be one of those 'oppressed white male' types that is just so laughable though.

Really? Based on what? Or are you just making another baseless stereotype like you did in your first post in this thread?

(02-14-2012 02:44 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  This is deceptive in four ways .... one ... the map is not adjusted for population. With that representation, I could make the case Obama lost in 2008:





Second ... government benefits are handed out irrespective of cost of living. If you live in NYC and make $40K ... you are dirt poor and need food stamps. And you don't qualify for food stamps. If you make $40K in the South ... you are middle class, and don't need food stamps. The high cost of living places tend to be those we most associate with liberalism (NYC, Boston, LA, SF, etc, etc).



Third ... medicare/SS is a huge portion of the government handout. It goes to old people. Where do old people move when they retire? Right ... the south. And they take their medicare/SS with them.




Lastly, and actually to your benefit, but showing how different costs of living deceive different economic realities, unemployment is tilted very very heavily towards all the liberal areas. But note the right to work states and conservative areas do far far better on this. Because the cost of existing for a business is much lower there, and ergo the threshold for packing it in or laying people off is higher.

No liberal takers huh?

(02-14-2012 10:25 PM)UCF08 Wrote:  I have no guilt for anything I didn't do, but you seem to be one of those 'oppressed white male' types that is just so laughable though.

I resemble that remark. Then again, so does everyone else. Oppressed by big government.