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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: tejek who wrote (113887)5/18/2012 9:31:19 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water  Read Replies (2) of 149317
 
You kept repeating that blue states funded red states without qualifying how or what you meant by that. I took the statement at face value. At least we are in agreement now by what you meant by that--which I still think is an inaccurate way of describing what is happening with revenue flows. I think it was a rhetorical deception on your part to make it seem that blue states were more economically functional then red states. Which we know is a mixed bag in terms of having a balanced state budget.

Additionally, it doesn't speak to the fact that blue state California can't or won't, apparently, fund itself.

OK--point for you. The stimulus did fund state budgets but that was a one time shot. Normally that's not part of a state's budget make up.

What you say is true about how California got to where it is at, but this doesn't explain its inability to resolve the problem. It seems like the American version of the Greek tragedy about to happen unless a revenue raising agreement is reached between the Dems and Pubs.

But my main point here is that I don't think one can generalize about the economic functionality of blue or red states based on whether they are red or blue. It has be looked at on a state by state basis.
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