Pardon my rant on Blues' subsidizing Reds

[spooky3]

Disclaimer: I do not mean to offend any people in family units you might believe resemble the one I describe below. I'm talking about a very specific subgroup of people that you are not in unless you're a troll.

In the WaPo today was an article about a traditional Ohio wingnut couple with three kids who bragged about their self-sufficiency. We also have lots of RW well-off retirees who are receiving far more in Social Security and private pensions than they put in. Politicians often speak lovingly about these members of the electorate as though they are the pillars of society. In fact, just as many red states are feeding at the blue state trough, such families are subsidized by other members of society.

People who are single and particularly those who have no children are more likely to vote Democrat (or not vote at all) than people like my retirees and traditionalists. Those who earn a good income pay much higher income taxes and real estate taxes that go to pay for roads used by two car families, schools for their kids, playgrounds and recreational areas, libraries, etc. that 4-person households are more likely to benefit from than singles. They use fewer city services. Smart big city mayors know this and want these people to move into the city, but can't say so politically, because "everyone knows" singles/childfree couples are "not stable" and "don't have family values". And, these people are more likely to forfeit pensions if they die early and get less in Social Security, and their presence enables employers to provide more benefits (such as health care coverage) to their traditional counterparts in benefits--even though they are doing exactly the same job.

So yes, "self-sufficient" wingnuts, keep on deluding yourselves that you're the givers and not the takers.

[Democat]

1. The right wing thinks the average New Yorkers is on welfare

How else could they afford those expesive houses in New York City if they weren't on welfare? That was an actual comment posted in another DU thread that a right winger said.

They live in a world created by the right wing media - it is not a real world but a fantasy world.

Why do you think that people actually hurt by the 9/11 attacks voted for Kerry, but the people who said they were most influenced to vote by the attacks voted for Bush? Because the people in the safe red states don't even know of the attacks except for what they have been told by the right wing media.

To many Bush voters, the 9/11 attacks are nothing more than a right wing patriotic marketing device for the Republicans to sell. The real people who live in New York, who watched the towers fall, voted overwhelmingly against Bush.

Bush voters are living in a fantasy world created by the right wing media just for them. Everything is just how it needs to be to get them to vote the way the right wing wants them to vote.

If we really want to change their views, we need to get them all passports and send them around the world so that they can't be brainwashed by their TV and their church and their newspaper all day every day.

[spooky3]

2. Jon Stewart was definitely right about that.