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As long as free programs remain, they need to be paid for. Vermont can no more support a welfare alone than Mexico can.

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The programs would continue here in the USA unless we cut the country to ribbons to get rid of the blue states.

Maybe a little naive.

Do you really think it's only blue state representatives who support welfare and pork?

Get rid of the blue states and you'll see how quickly the red state representatives change their tune.

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"Do you really think it's only blue state representatives who support welfare and pork?"

That's more my point, cutting the country to ribbons is the only way currently to achieve getting rid of federal giveaways. We'd have to do some serious cuting and chopping to get a demographic that wouldn't support welfare programs. And you're right, it ain't just the blue states.