There may be a large difference between dependent on handouts and receiving them.
You seriously think that those states didn't take that money willingly ?
How many do you think turned it down.
In caes you missed the point, those 'Blue States' were the ones that paid for the
'Red States' funding deficiencies.
Somehow the 'public' there, probably because of a lack of specific knowledge of facts,
let a 'hot button' morality issue - whether real, or perceived, mold thier votes.
Always in the past, the farm belt - the Heartland of America' was taken care of by the
Democrats. They passed the laws that gave the residents assess to power and energy,
paved the roads, and in general provided for the public good in those communitities.
Then slowly over a span of time the Republican party used the fear of racial diversity
as a tool to drive a wedge between those who needed assistance of any sort, and used
their bigotry and convinced them that the 'minorities' were taking all their hard earned
money to support 'Welfare Queens' (Ray-Gun Era) and they were taking their jobs away
because them 'Norities' wold work cheaper cause they're a lower class (Rush-a-Roni)
Mix in all them there 'queers eyen' their boys (Musta been Preists in them there hills),
And the Feminazi Lezzies chasin their women and farm animals - somehow they forgot
what what in the hell got them modernization, and let a mind-rinsing (less effort than a brainwashing)
erode thier knowledge into a compelsion to do what Conservative Right wanted them to do.
It was well organized, and they never saw the truck coming to run them over.
In the real world - the Haliburtons, Bechtels, RMK-BRJ's, Enrons, Silverado Savings,
Carlyle Group companies of the world were in fact, the real 'Welfare Queens' and still are.
Yep the 'My-Morities' will work for less, so the 'Welfare Queens' laid off thousands of 'Mericans'
so they could send many thousands of jobs to 'Off-Shore' & 'Outsourced' their jobs to countries
where the companies could realize much higher proffit - AND through 'Government Assisted Grants,
Programs, Etc. - they did not have as much tax to pay either, more padding to the bottom line.
If we give a couple hundred bucks to the borderline, just making it taxpayer, they won't notice that the people who do less -
and make so much more, are getting 10, 20, 100 times the tax breaks that they got. They'll run out and but a new color TV,
or a SUV to impress themselves with, and then they get to buy more - and pay more for gas.
Hell, they got a couple hundred back at tax time, and take home an extra $ 10 -15 bucks a week.
I got me a thousand dollar re-distribution of the wealth - never noticing the $ 80 K and more that the
'Real Bush Support Machine' got - they don't move in those circles, the uninvited don't know.
Smoke and Mirrors, don't let them see that the Wizard and the Emperor has no clothes.