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ORIGINAL: lovmuffin

You're insane and it doesn't matter anyway. California is going to break off the continent and fall into the ocean. [8D]

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ORIGINAL: Edwird

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ORIGINAL: tamaka
Massachusetts would be fine. We have healthcare for everyone and have since Mitt Romney i believe. We have a good variety of tech based companies too.

Well yeah, after all that financial fraud and theft, and that flood of money from working people in other states to bail out Mass. and Boston's financial fraud and theft, it's easy to be magnificent, no? But the question from the OP has inherent thereby that your state is cut off from federal funds.

Oh my.

Just imagine Mississippi workers not having to work till 3 O'clock every fucking day to pay for your and other wealth-sucking state's theft and excess?

No bail outs, no financial sector subsidies, no oil subsidies..

It wouldn't go well, there, in your state.

Absence of Mass. and CA and NY , OTOH, would be a great boon to the nation.

Seriously, I don't know why some people think in terms of secession when far greater advantage to the country would be obtained by terms of judicious eviction.

I would miss you greatly, I have to say.

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ORIGINAL: sloguy02246

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ORIGINAL: Edwird

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ORIGINAL: tamaka
Massachusetts would be fine. We have healthcare for everyone and have since Mitt Romney i believe. We have a good variety of tech based companies too.

Well yeah, after all that financial fraud and theft, and that flood of money from working people in other states to bail out Mass. and Boston's financial fraud and theft, it's easy to be magnificent, no? But the question from the OP has inherent thereby that your state is cut off from federal funds.

Oh my.

Just imagine Mississippi workers not having to work till 3 O'clock every fucking day to pay for your and other wealth-sucking state's theft and excess?

No bail outs, no financial sector subsidies, no oil subsidies..

It wouldn't go well, there, in your state.

Absence of Mass. and CA and NY , OTOH, would be a great boon to the nation.

Seriously, I don't know why some people think in terms of secession when far greater advantage to the country would be obtained by terms of judicious eviction.

I would miss you greatly, I have to say.

Interesting perspective, but then Google says...

"The highest federal aid recipients are: Mississippi (45.3%), Louisiana (44%), Tennessee (41%), South Dakota (40.8%), Missouri (39.4%), Montana (39%), and Georgia (37.9%). As you may have noticed, almost all of these are "red" states controlled by the Republican Party (Missouri is an exception)."

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im sorry, that statement is essentially meaningless. which way a particular state goes in a presidential election--or if there is some other way to determine "red" or "blue"---has absolutely nothing to do with the demographics of who actually receives government assistance in the guise of food stamps.

the question has to be answered on that level.

ive seen the data before, and if I remember rightly, there are a surprising number of republicans on food stamps, but there is a small majority of democrats.

in any event, here's the most recent raw data by states:

http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pd/29SNAPcurrPP.pdf

I haven't done all the addition, but a cursory view appears to show the blue states (as per the last election) receive most food stamps on the individual level.

California, florida, new York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, ohio and Michigan are 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 in the top ten usage. only three red states are in the top ten, texas, Georgia and north Carolina at 2, 7 and 9 respectively.

pretty much the top ten's numbers, tower over the remaining states. for instance it would take anywhere from 10-20 other states to meet California and florida combined totals.

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to make it more pertinent to his statement---3 of the top five states in food stamp usage are not southern states and 6 of the top ten are not southern states.

whats more:

there are 11 states (apparently) that have more people on welfare than people working. 5 are southern, 6 are not and the population in the 6 vastly outnumbers the population in the other 5. in fact 4 of the 6 are amongst the top 5-6 most populous states, California, new York, ohio, and Illinois).

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/10/11-states-that-have-more-people-on.html

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ORIGINAL: bounty44
and something else I posted a while ago [some of it is relevant here]:

there are many forms of "welfare" but food stamps are a large part of it and here is some data relative to them. in the guise of food stamps.

the question has to be answered on that level.

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ORIGINAL: WickedsDesire

We established a long time ago edwird you are a [image]http://collarspace.com/attachments/122516/D7783BD9-DCB1-410E-AAC9-6B961463DDE51.jpg[/image]
and if you were a woman I would show you [image]http://collarspace.com/attachments/122516/D7783BD9-DCB1-410E-AAC9-6B961463DDE52.jpg[/image]

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

and something else I posted a while ago [some of it is relevant here]:

there are many forms of "welfare" but food stamps are a large part of it and here is some data relative to them.

I just posted this recently on a thread that he was in (see my point above about learning). it was meant to answer another question (about red states and blue states) but the answer to this particular one is nevertheless there too:

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im sorry, that statement is essentially meaningless. which way a particular state goes in a presidential election--or if there is some other way to determine "red" or "blue"---has absolutely nothing to do with the demographics of who actually receives government assistance in the guise of food stamps.

the question has to be answered on that level.

ive seen the data before, and if I remember rightly, there are a surprising number of republicans on food stamps, but there is a small majority of democrats.

in any event, here's the most recent raw data by states:

http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pd/29SNAPcurrPP.pdf

I haven't done all the addition, but a cursory view appears to show the blue states (as per the last election) receive most food stamps on the individual level.

California, florida, new York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, ohio and Michigan are 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 in the top ten usage. only three red states are in the top ten, texas, Georgia and north Carolina at 2, 7 and 9 respectively.

pretty much the top ten's numbers, tower over the remaining states. for instance it would take anywhere from 10-20 other states to meet California and florida combined totals.

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to make it more pertinent to his statement---3 of the top five states in food stamp usage are not southern states and 6 of the top ten are not southern states.

whats more:

there are 11 states (apparently) that have more people on welfare than people working. 5 are southern, 6 are not and the population in the 6 vastly outnumbers the population in the other 5. in fact 4 of the 6 are amongst the top 5-6 most populous states, California, new York, ohio, and Illinois).

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/10/11-states-that-have-more-people-on.html