Lawrence O'Donnell calls Red states"welfare" states; urges Blue states to secede

[MOgirl]

Hello,

You are exactly right, what we are seeing and hearing is pure hatred, unmasked. Rush has said repeatedly over time that the left is funny when out of power. I disagree. This is not funny. For God sake, a Kerry supporter drove himself to New York, went to Ground Zero and blew his head off. These people are sick and demented. Stay safe everyone...

Glad to be here, among good friends, MOgirl

[Enchante]

Little Loathsome Larry has previously proved himself a babbling nitwit -- this just re-confirms that he keeps his head in that part of the anatomy where the sun don't shine.... and he is a Haaaaahvahd graduate! Clearly he knows better than anyone else.

[Bullish]

Larry's really begging to get creamed isn't he?

[spotbust1]

I wish all the lefty liberals would just stop talking already and go.

[Enchante]

"The red states receive more in federal tax money than they pay into the treasury."

We would have to see some detailed figures and breakdowns to judge what this means (if it is true). That verb 'receive' obscures much, even if this statement might be true in terms of the dollars of federal receipts and expenditures (I don't know that it is -- do you have the numbers?). Granting for the sake of argument that it may be true, I would wager (if I were a betting man) that a very disproportionate percentage of the nation's military expenditures and also the members of our armed forces are concentrated in the 'red' states (unless CA's bases offset the south and southwest). I'd bet a disproportionate share of the nation's defense is borne by soldiers, Marines, sailors, and airmen who grew up in 'red' states (that does not in any way denigrate all who serve and came from 'blue' states, but I suspect they respresent a smaller % of their states' populations).

[Arizona Carolyn]

The only drawback to the internet -- it lets seriously demented people communicate with each other......

[puroresu]

ROTFLMAO! Yeah, I know all those hard working, thrifty, Liberal families are sick and tired of having to pay high taxes to support the Republican welfare & food stamp class.

What an idiot O'Dummell is!

[MOgirl]

Hello,

Perhaps this level of insanity has happened before, but we did not know about it. Seriously, that would make me feel better about what we have watched over the last 5 days. Of course, the net allows for communication between all, and of all different stripes. But this is really disturbing, IMHO.

Glad to be here, MOgirl

[rdcorso]

If they measured welfare handouts per square mile in blue and red states the blue states would be off the charts.Even in liberal New York the City is surrounded by a sea of red and California isn't much different.Larry O is and Ass-ho.

[MayflowerMadam]

My parents live outside of Buffalo, too -- in Olean. They are sick and tired of footing the bill for the loser welfare ne'er-do-wells in NY City. If the people in the blue cities would migrate northward into Canada that would be a start in saving America. To repear Sean Hannity's over-told joke: Q. What do you call 100 liberals moving to Canada? A. A good start.

[LenS]

Don't forget that the trend with each tax cut is that the rich end up paying a bigger percentage of the overall income tax pie each time. Since the rich (Dem and GOP) tend to be concentrated in the blue big cities, this means that the blue states end up "contributing" a lot of income tax revenue. Even conservative rich people like Mel Gibson and Rush Limbaugh live in the blue areas.

Plus, more major corporations are based in the blue cities, so corporate income tax revenue is higher from the blue states. Finally, traditional welfare spending has taken a hit with the success of the various welfare reforms while agricultural subsidies have held relatively strong. Today's welfare is Earned Income Credit -- that's something you can get while working so there's plenty of it in both red and blue areas.

[DocH]

"let them eat cake", or frickin' TWINKIES like perpetual left-wing maggot and irrelevant FAT-ASS - Michael Moore!

[Plutarch]

Lawrence O’Donnell actually stated that the Red states were “welfare” and that the Blue states paid for the Red states. He further urged the Blue states to secede from the Red states.

Great idea Lawrence, glad that you brought it up. Instead partitioning geographically, how about if everyone on "welfare" (that is receiving Government largesse)secedes from the Union. They can run their own Government however they want. Those not needing government assistance can have their government. What say you Lawrence?

[HitmanLV]

O'D has royally lost it.

[pointsal]

Let's go for the exit plan on a county-by-county basis.... Hello Canada...

[bushisdamanin04]

Literally so. His tirades are scary. Please, liberals, keep putting this guy out there as a face of your party!

[tame]

i actually agree with and support the proposition that the leftists should divorce from the red states.

i support their secession. they should all move to one or two states and then secede.

[mapdude]

[zeebee]

I wonder what the left would be saying now if they had won?

I don't think I could tolerate Moore, O'Donnell, Streisand, McAuliffe, Rather, Olbermeyer and others in my face for the next 4 years.

I'm so glad to be in theirs.

[bushisdamanin04]

Someone was on TV a few days ago and said that if Canadians could vote on matters such as sodomite marriage, Canada would be as "Red" as the U.S.