Young Turks: GOP Senate Candidate = Hypocrite

[CherylK]

Run time: 06:32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejGMn7vM6Is   Posted on YouTube: September 14, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 7494   Posted on DU: September 15, 2010 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 762

 
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/26/ron-johnson-subsidies/

[bulloney]

1. People who cry to get government out of our lives the loudest tend to benefit most from it.

I know a lot of Republican, Farm Bureau-type farmers who get with their circles of friends and talk big about why we don't need no stinkin' government. Then, a few years ago, the Environmental Working Group launched a website that showed how many dollars in farm subsidies each farmer received from the federal government during the previous five years. They had the research divided by each county of the U.S. Guess what? The big-talking, we-don't-need-no-stinkin'-government farmers were the biggest recipients of federal farm support payments in their counties.

I have a neighbor who's one of the biggest anti-government talking people I've known. In addition to farming and getting his share of farm subsidies, he has an off-farm job...as a U.S. Postal Service carrier.

We have a bunch of state and federal legislators in the area who all give their anti-government talk whenever they're in their districts. These same people have lived off the taxpayers as government employees for nearly their entire adult lives.

[MikeMc]

3. 'True Blue Americans'

Paul Krugman has an article with that title, May 7, '02, on P. 177 in his book 'The Great Unraveling'. It says this:

The red states pay considerably less in taxes than the federal government spends within their borders, blue states pay considerably more than they get back. Blue America subsidizes red America to the tune of $90 billion a year. Within the red states, the metropolitan areas (the blue areas) pay the taxes, the rural regions get the subsidies.

New York's population is twice as large as the total farm population in the US. Montana received $9 per capita for firefighters from the Bush budget after 9/11, New York received 9 cents per capita.

When you do the math for red states without major cities, they got $1.75 in federal spending per every dollar they paid in federal taxes. The numbers are exactly the opposite for blue states. Add in hidden subsidies, like below-cost provision of water for irrigation, nearly free use of federal land for grazing...



Another link on this site showed some Palin gibberish where she talked about how she was raised independant and self reliant in the most American state. I remember hearing how Alaska was one of the most heavily subsidized states, a 'welfare queen' of a state, in terms of per capita funding by the feds.

[boomerbust]

2. This race right here

Should define the direction of this country. I just can't see Wisconsin sending this Teabag scum to Washington. But we will see.