Posted on 03/02/2010 9:05:41 AM PST by Starman417
Dem states less fiscally responsible? Duh!
No, this is not a story about red states turning blue and then back again as the voters in those states realized the mistake they made in voting for Obama.
This is a story about blue states being among the worst managed when it comes to finances. That won't surprise many readers who recall that the cities which have been controlled by Democrat machines are nearly all fiscal nightmares. The reason is easy: profligate spending, poor fiscal accountability and corruption.
Political Litmus Test: Bluest States Spilling The Most Red Ink
By Neil Weinberg
Forbes
Feb. 25 2010Powerful unions, big spending put Democratic states in deepest fiscal holes.
Want to know which states are in the worst financial condition? One telling indicator that might not immediately come to mind is whether most of its citizens identify themselves as Democrats.
Read more at floppingaces.net...
And if fiscally responsible RED states are forced to bail them out, the result should be secession, or civil war.
Don’t worry, they are toooo big to fail as well, bend over for new taxes..soon the taxes will extend to the generation after Christ returns..
Study: States must fill $1 trillion pension gap
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454186/posts
thank the goonyans.
Some blue states are important. California for instance. If California goes down (eighth largest economy of the World) we are all in trouble...yes now it does not look good for California but they are still doing well (at least the private sector).
I thought it was “incontheivable!”
That’s already happening.
I agree that states’ economies should be separated,
as well as their social(ist) policies,
and let people vote with their feet,
but I don’t see any huge outrage of tax money (from red staters) being used to bail out the socialist states.
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