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Blue States Spill the Most Red Ink
Neil Weinberg, Forbes. This is not a surprise to anyone who lives in a blue state. You can add to that the urban areas that dominate them are run by Dems as well. A familiar litany of excess:
Forbes’ metrics for each state included unfunded pension liabilities, changes in tax revenue, credit ratings, debt as a percentage of Gross State Product, debt per capita, growth expectations for employment and the state economy, net migrations and a “moocher ratio” that compares government employees, pension burdens and Medicaid enrollees to private-sector employment.
One of the abuses is the nexus between union construction and Democrat politicians–you might say they donate to each other with our money. This is one notorious example in Illinois–building tollway sound barrier walls brick by brick. A real work of art.
Too bad we can’t auction them off. But maybe this time we can finally vote a lot of them out.
P.S. And as we know to our cost, this is precisely the approach our President Barack Obama, blue state Dem product, took with the stimulus program–the public sector union boondoggle that hogged close to half the money, and is starving the private sector.
Potluck 
rubyslipperblog 1:51 PM on 03/01/2010 Permalink |
Having grown up in Philadelphia, I don’t find any of this surprising. I recall, when fleeing the city and its outrageous wage tax, it was common knowledge that trash collectors earned close to six figure salaries. Still, the city would never elect a Republican. Very liberal editors at the newspapers were forced to endorse a Republican recognizing Einstein’s definition of insanity was hard at work in Philadelphia.
backyardconservative 2:10 PM on 03/01/2010 Permalink |
It’s pretty depressing. But that’s why the Scott Brown insurgency was so heartening. I just hope it can translate to more places, in more elective offices.
rubyslipperblog 3:28 PM on 03/01/2010 Permalink |
It bothers me more knowing ObamaCare got a bit of a bump in the latest Rasmussen poll They will take any slight shift in the wind and run with it.
rubyslipperblog 4:22 PM on 03/01/2010 Permalink |
Oops that comment was intended in response to the CNN post below.
I agree the Brown election gave some hope that others may break from their long history of voting Democrat at all costs. I suspect if we are to see it at all, this will be the year.
vegas art guy 10:41 PM on 03/01/2010 Permalink |
I was shocked that California was not #1. Hell that state could not get any bluer if you doused everyone in ultramarine blue paint. Hard to believe that when Pete Wilson left office they had a $20 Billion surplus.
backyardconservative 11:27 PM on 03/01/2010 Permalink |
Well, it’s probably a close thing on which is the bluest or the worst state.
It’s so sad because states like California and Illinois have such abundant natural advantages. I read somewhere if California opened up offshore drilling they could earn $9 or $10 billion just like that.