blankslate
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- Jun 16, 2008
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I honestly don't understand why all you blue-staters get so bent out of shape over red-staters living off the gov't teat. I thought you people were all about selflessness and sharing - you should be happy to support Tenn. pill-poppers and the like. After all, they can't help it - they're society's victims or something like that.
"Blue-staters" aren't so much bent out of shape over the part I bolded in your post...
As they are about the tendency of many "Red-staters" to have a dim view of the U.S. Government in general compared to "Blue-staters" while being unaware of the general flow of money to and from the U.S. Government state by state.
Some when presented by the data that shows that "red" states tend to receive more money from the U.S. Government than they pay in federal taxes (then the reverse for "blue" states) will....
"...when it comes to having their thinking challenged; they shut down totally or display varying degrees of infantile responses.
But then again when many "red-staters" (in terms of attitude if not geographical location) willingly choose to mainly watch a cable news station that is questionable at best in their claim of "fair and balanced" for much of their programming schedule, you can't really expect a rational exchange of opinion.
Eventually the "blue-stater" feels like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czmb6tEwFE8&playnext=1&list=PLED74A89F4F4D1653&feature=results_video
when talking to a "red-stater" who behaves in the way the OP described.
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