red states suck, blue states don't

[boutons_deux]

"You need to know this.

By almost every measure, Americans are better off living in a Blue state.

On Friday, Politico Magazine released a list of state rankings,

www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/states-of-our-union-are-not-all-strong-102547.html?ml=lb_9#.Uue1XPvnar8

using respected sources like the Census Bureau, the FBI, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. What they found was stunning.

On average, Americans living in Red states had lower wealth per capita, were more likely to be living in poverty, had shorter life expectancy, higher rates of infant mortality, and lower overall well-being.

Republicans love to say that lower taxes, less regulation, and pro-business policies benefit Americans, but this report proves that people are suffering in states that adopt those principles.

Americans who live in Blue states tend to have lower rates of obesity, higher scores in reading and math, and higher per capita income.

Progressive policies like stronger social safety nets, higher corporate taxes, and larger investments in education and infrastructure actually benefit people living in democratically-controlled states.

This report provides an incredible snapshot of how Republican policies effect Americans.

Yet, in the face of these overwhelming statistics, Republicans want to enact these extreme policies nationwide.

They want to slash our national safety net, eliminate corporate taxes, create a national right-to-work-for-LESS law, and privatize education and our commons.

These policies don't work for the people in Republican-controlled states, and they won't improve life for Americans if they were ins uted on a national scale.

This is why elections matter, and this is why we must enact progressive policies that actually benefit all Americans, regardless of the state in which they reside."

http://truth-out.org/news/item/21479...state-and-more

red states = (p)Ayn-Randian, VRWC/ALEC dystopias

iow, vote Repug and screw yourself.

btw, VA Senate now 20 Repug - 20 Dem, tiebraker is Lieut. Gov = Dem.

[angrydude]

Minnesota #2?

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

What a ty list.

"The approach isn’t scientific or comprehensive (hey, neither was Mencken’s), and not all states are created equal—California’s economy is the world’s eighth largest, for instance, and Texas’s population outranks that of most countries. We also hold no grudges against the State of Mississippi, which came in last not just overall but on four of the individual lists, and certainly don’t attribute its woes to “hordes of barbaric peasants,” as Mencken did. But given that eight of the lowest-ranking states on our list overlap with the bottom 10 on his, maybe less has changed in the past 83 years than you’d think."

[AntiChrist]

The top ten states in that list aren't blue -- they're lilly white. Those are some of the least diverse states in the US.

[Winehole23]

ladies and gentlemen, DarrinS, champion of racial diversity and all around PC scold

[AntiChrist]

ladies and gentlemen, DarrinS, champion of racial diversity and all around PC scold

Ladies and gentlemen, Winehole, resident ankle biter and pretentious blowhard.

[Winehole23]

lol

[Jacob1983]

Why is it cheaper to live in red states than blue states?

[monosylab1k]

Why is it cheaper to live in red states than blue states?

The fact that Jacob1983 is a jeebo conservative should say everything about the intelligence level of the right.

[The Reckoning]

except Texas.


best place to live in the US, imo.

[Jacob1983]

I voted for Gary Johnson. Thank you. I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as an apathetic but informed independent.

[monosylab1k]

I voted for Gary Johnson. Thank you. I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as an apathetic but informed independent.

"informed"

[SnakeBoy]

except Texas.


best place to live in the US, imo.

True but would be better if we stopped funding school districts with property taxes.

[Jacob1983]

I stand by what I said. And you can keep on laughing you ass . Do you think I honestly give a what you think of me?

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Why is it cheaper to live in red states than blue states?

Because wages are significantly lower.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

The fact that Jacob1983 is a jeebo conservative should say everything about the intelligence level of the right.

He's a "libertarian" who constantly es about how the government doesn't help him enough

the public transportation sucks

[Rogue]

per capita income as a stat might be even more misleading and biased than Hollinger's PER imho, when 99% of the society's wealth is condensed in the hands of only 1% of population. So in the states where the richest people live, the per-capita income is irreversibly higher than others, even when those states are also home to the nation's poorest.

I remember an old Chinese TV series (the theme song of which was sung by a famous alumni of the highschool I went to, who was also the singer of 08' Olympics theme song), in which the city of NY was described as both heaven and . At the start of each episode a narrator read "if you like him, send him to NY because that's the heaven; if you hate him, also send him to NY because that's the ). I think that series pretty much displays the true reality of NY, and most other major US cities as well.

[Rogue]

Whereas, the quality of basic education may be a more unbiased and more credible meter to measure the intelligence of people in each state. Just take NY and California as examples, both of which are blue states...

Rank	State	% H.S. Graduate
	United States	85.3%
1	Wyoming	91.8%
2	Minnesota	91.5%
3	Alaska	75.4%
4	New Hampshire	91.3%
5	Vermont	91.0%
6	Montana	90.8%
7	Iowa	90.5%
8	Hawaii	90.4%
9	Utah	90.4%
10	Maine	90.2%
11	North Dakota	90.1%
12	South Dakota	89.9%
13	Kansas	89.8%
14	Wisconsin	89.8%
15	Nebraska	89.7%
16	Washington	89.7%
17	Colorado	89.3%
18	Oregon	89.1%
19	Massachusetts	89.0%
20	Connecticut	88.6%
21	Idaho	88.4%
22	Maryland	88.2%
23	Michigan	87.9%
24	Pennsylvania	87.9%
25	Ohio	87.6%
26	Delaware	87.4%
27	New Jersey	87.4%
	District of Columbia	87.1%
28	Missouri	86.8%
29	Indiana	86.6%
30	Virginia	86.6%
31	Illinois	86.4%
32	Oklahoma	85.6%
33	Florida	85.3%
34	New York	84.7%
35	Rhode Island	84.7%
36	North Carolina	84.3%
37	Arizona	84.2%
38	Georgia	83.9%
39	Nevada	83.9%
40	South Carolina	83.6%
41	Tennessee	83.1%
42	New Mexico	82.8%
43	West Virginia	82.8%
44	Arkansas	82.4%
45	Louisiana	82.2%
46	Alabama	82.1%
47	Kentucky	81.7%
48	California	80.6%
49	Mississippi	80.4%
50	Texas	79.9%

both states are below the national average in highschool graduation rate (especially California, LOL California). Meanwhile, the percentage of bachelor's and advanced degrees of those two states are well above the national average, but don't throw your hats off too fast, because that's due mainly to the large numbers of "legal" immigrants in those state, and international students who don't have the right to vote. So the fact is people in blue states seem to have lower IQs and that's they reason why they tend to be easier fooled by the orating artist that Obama is, and to make things worse, those blue states are also the most populated states in the US.

Your blind hatred against Bush might still be having negative impacts on you guys' minds, preventing you from seeing clearly what a "great" job the in bent president has done. Only time will allow you guys to realize that imho, hope the time it's going to take won't turn out to be too costly.

[pgardn]

Why is it cheaper to live in red states than blue states?

Possibly because there is abundant less desirable property therefore cheaper.
You could also read it as poor people live in cheap places, their dollar goes further.

[pgardn]

True but would be better if we stopped funding school districts with property taxes.

So you want all private schools? No public?

[Clipper Nation]

He's a "libertarian" who constantly es about how the government doesn't help him enough

the public transportation sucks

He also is proud of voting for a fake libertarian who supports interventionist foreign policy, the death penalty, and slurps the Federal Reserve.... Gary Johnson is just another fraud, like Bob Barr, who the LP nominated to try to grab for public money by getting a certain percentage of the vote instead of trying to appeal to actual libertarians....

[Winehole23]

where's an "actual libertarian" to turn?

[Spurminator]

Why is it cheaper to live in red states than blue states?

Pretty cheap to live in Nigeria too.

[Jacob1983]

DOK, I don't give a what you think of me too. Bring it on. Show me your wrath.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

DOK, I don't give a what you think of me too. Bring it on. Show me your wrath.

You probably don't give a what your manager at target thinks of you either , how's that working out?

[Jacob1983]

Keep bringing it. I'm ready.