Steve, nice chart. Did you catch what Lawrence O'Donnell said on The McLaughlin Group?
washingtontimes.com
"Some would say, 'Oh, poor Alabama. It's cut off from the wealth infusion that it gets from New York and California,' " said Lawrence O'Donnell, a veteran Democratic insider and now senior political analyst at MSNBC. "But the more this political condition goes on at the presidential level of the red and blue states, the more you're testing the inclination of the blue states to say, 'So what?' "
Mr. O'Donnell raised the subject of secession on "The McLaughlin Group" during the weekend. "Ninety percent of the red states are welfare-client states of the federal government," said Mr. O'Donnell, who was an aide to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, New York Democrat.
In a telephone interview, Mr. O'Donnell said the red states that went to Mr. Bush "collect more from the federal government than they send in. New York and California, Connecticut — the states that are blue are all the states that are paying for the bulk of everything this government does, from ... Social Security to everything else, and the people in those states don't like what this government is doing."
Typical liberal elitism. We have to take care of the poor and the downtrodden, but only those who live in blue states and vote Democrat. Funny how those po' folk in the "red states" voted for "tax cuts for the wealthy," while those rich "blue state" folks voted against it. And O'Donnell can't explain it in any other way. What a maroon.
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