Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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POLITICS: States that give, states that get

Of the states that get more money than they give, 84% are Republican.
Of the states that give more money than they get, 78% are Democratic.
NOW who's redistributing wealth unfairly?
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Tags: economics, politics
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haikujaguar

haikujaguar

October 31 2008, 00:23:45 UTC 12 years ago

I guess it wouldn't surprise you if I said I believed it was the community's duty to take care of its members... not the government's. :)

You can probably deduce most of my philosophy just from all this. More personal choice; less government intrusion. I prefer the risks and dangers of having less government support than the ones of having too much. And I know that there are dangers either way... I know my philosophy wouldn't create a utopia. :)
wyld_dandelyon

wyld_dandelyon

November 1 2008, 00:56:18 UTC 12 years ago

Isn't the government one way we act collectively, as a community?
haikujaguar

haikujaguar

November 1 2008, 00:58:20 UTC 12 years ago

Maybe very very locally. But once it gets outside the local boundaries, I don't think it does at all, no.
ysabetwordsmith

Hmm...

ysabetwordsmith

November 1 2008, 01:05:48 UTC 12 years ago

Well, it's a collective action, but I don't think it's very communal -- or at least, not very representative of what most people really want and believe. Too much of it is run by a smallish group of richish powerful people, who often have different goals than "We The People" as a whole.
wyld_dandelyon

Re: Hmm...

wyld_dandelyon

November 1 2008, 01:49:50 UTC 12 years ago

I've been writing less on LJ in the last couple of days because I've been writing in e-mail back and forth with a conservative friend about issues like these.

I think a lot of the problem with American government right now is that the politicians have convinced us to see it as a power-prize, rather than a communal and collective activity of "We The People", who, after all, includes the rich and poor, the conservative and liberal, and everyone in between, and even the guys whose political views are nonexistent or "way out there".
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Hmm...

ysabetwordsmith

November 1 2008, 01:54:24 UTC 12 years ago

I think that's a key part of the problem, yes.