Embers84 said:
Red States Most Dependent On Federal Government
Repetitive, already addressed and throroughly debunked, unresponsive. You merely cutpaste the same debunked wallethub "study" again... and again... and again.
I want everyone on this forum to see through what you are doing here as well, and see what a dishonest hack you are. ALL of the first
SIX links he repeats here are based on the SAME wallethub "study." And WTF is "wallet hub" anyway? Seems he wants to ground his ENTIRE claim on this source, yet scoffs at Syracuse University as a "RW blog?" ROFL. I have already debunked wallethub's methodology entirely in my long post prior, and you of course ignore this entirely.
That's right folks, in an effort to fool you into believing there are all these "different" sources out there for his debunked claim about blue state "givers" and red state "takers," this transparent partisan hack/troll has linked the same thing SIX times in succession, all based on the same faulty, erroneous data. Just see for yourselves, right there in the links themselves. Were you fooled by his lie?
Moreover, he totally ignores the CNBC source I linked that tells you
exactly which states have the most welfare recipients, that includes all the many welfare programs out there, not just food stamps, which are a relatively small chunk of change in the welfare world.
And it appears the hack is actually ADMITTING, even BRAGGING about the explosion of food stamps in the Obama Administration. Well, troll, we already know how bad the economy is in Obamaworld, do offer us some more evidence of this please.
Then he goes on about Alabama and welfare, again from wallethub, plainly showing that source's
very partisan colors, and again in an attempt to distract from the FACT that almost all the top ten welfare states are BLUE.
Then he tries to shift the goalposts to "federal aid as a % of state revenues," which is NOT a measure of states "giving" or "taking" because state revenues themselves have little to do with either concept. Moreover, his graphs don't even make a point, as you can plainly see by looking at the maps that the %s are all over the place, and not much different between states. Finally, he again links the EXACT SAME THING TWICE here, thinking he will fool you with his "many sources." In actuality, of his first EIGHT links, there are only TWO sources reflected. Again, did he fool you with his lie?
So the upshot is he's grounded his argument on one fallacious, partisan source I have debunked entirely, and he ignored entirely, and another source that doesn't back up his claim at all.
His other referenced sources don't say ANYTHING about overall state giving and taking, just food stamps, already dealt with above. Then he dishonestly claims "all these sources" are superior when he's only really got TWO sources, one debunked and one that clearly doesn't back his argument.
So dismiss this complete hack/troll/liar and everything he posts. I won't bother to deconstruct many more of his posts, as they are all cut from the same cloth.
But to repeat the takeaway, as stated and ignored, it's SILLY and ABSURD, pure partisan hackery, intended to instill resentment in the lowest common denominator audience, to compare whole states other than at election time on a red/blue map. 1. What makes a whole state "red" or "blue" may be only a small percentage of votes. 2. As stated, most US states are huge, diverse economies with vastly different and disparate economic conditions in various places within their borders, larger than many other WHOLE COUNTRIES. So trying to peddle "state-hate" is a massive overgeneralization that only a moron would buy.
A comparison of CITIES would be somewhat more useful in terms of giving and taking, and even more useful would be how welfare recipients VOTE, which the SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Maxwell poll, conducted over SEVERAL YEARS, clearly and reasonably DOCUMENTS, as Tits posted. Welfare recipients vote DEMOCRAT by huge margins, but did we really need a university study to know that? I didn't.