Really?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm??????
The village idiot appears.
Can't deal with facts so you call names.
Typical.
I doubt the idiot BullSkirtz out the source much less read the article. I thought it was interesting:
#10 Most Socialist State – Wisconsin — Expenditures as Proportion of GDP: 16.2%
SWING STATE, leaning BLUE — Though you wouldn’t know it, considering how red the mid-terms went this year.
#9 Most Socialist State – Rhode Island — Expenditures as Proportion of GDP: 16.3%
DEEP BLUE — For a long, long time now.
#8 Most Socialist State – Hawaii — Expenditures as Proportion of GDP: 16.5%
BLUE — Obama’s home state, when he’s not from Kenya. Job situations and opportunities are terrible on this far-flung Pacific Island chain. People help each other, or they starve.
#7 Most Socialist State – New Mexico — Expenditures as Proportion of GDP: 17.2%
BLUE — Expected to go blue in 2016, and has gone blue three out of the last four presidential elections.
#6 Most Socialist State – Vermont — Expenditures as Proportion of GDP: 17.9%
BLUE — Though Bernie Sanders alone probably turns the whole place slightly pinko.
#5 Most Socialist State – Arkansas — Expenditures as Proportion of GDP: 18.6%
RED — Republicans have carried Arkansas in every single presidential election since Clinton left office.
#4 Most Socialist State – Mississippi — Expenditures as Proportion of GDP: 20.0%
RED — Has been hard red since the last of the Dixiecrats died or took flight to the GOP.
#3 Most Socialist State – Wyoming — Expenditures as Proportion of GDP: 21.8%
HARD RED — If the Neo-Confederates didn’t prefer the weather in Florida, they’d live in Wyoming. This state is about as hard right as it gets.
#2 Most Socialist State – Alaska — Expenditures as Proportion of GDP: 23.6%
RED — Number two on the list of most socialist. Blame proximity to Canada and Russia, which we hear Sarah Palin can see from her house. Alaska’s had a temporary blue swing, but is expected to go full crimson next election.
#1 Most Socialist State – West Virginia — Expenditures as Proportion of GDP: 34.1%
RED — And our winner for this year’s Lenin award is…WEST VIRGINIA! This most Appalachian of states has gone red in every presidential election since 2000. But that wasn’t always the case; unions have long been a driving force in West Virginia, and its swing to the Red side has only been fairly recent. Locally, West Virginians tend to vote Blue; it’s at the Federal level where they fight back agin’ th’ gummint.
That probably has something to do with the fact that most of the state’s economy is based on coal, and Big Coal’s been buying a lot of GOP lately. It’s likely West Virginians vote federally to secure their energy and economic interests, but locally to secure their personal interests in terms of employment and government benefits.
But you know the old corporate conservative motto: “Socialism for us, capitalism for everyone else.”
