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