I don’t want to subsidize poor Trump states. Who does?
Exactly. If we wanted to reduce the number of poor people in the country that the rest of us have to subsidize, we would kick most of the red states out of the union.
Top 5 Poorest States (Based on Poverty Rates & Income)
Mississippi: Frequently ranked the poorest, with a median household income just over $54,000 and a poverty rate approaching 19-20%.
Louisiana: Features a high poverty rate (approx. 17.4%–19.6%) and low median household income.
New Mexico: Consistently ranks high in poverty (approx. 18.4%–18.5% of the population).
West Virginia: Faces significant challenges with low income (approx. $55,948 median) and high poverty (around 16.8%–17.1%).
Arkansas: Shows low median household income (approx. $58,700) and high poverty rates.
New Mexico is blue, chief.
It's pretty rich for liberals to cry about subsidizing 'poor Trump states' while pretending they're the compassionate ones, at the same time cherry picking states that fit the narrative of "Trump's an idiot." Want me to point you to the problems of liberal places run by people like Newsom and Mamdani? Why do you think people are moving from California and New York to places like Texas? Did you want to cherry pick successful "red states"? Pretty amateur.
If you actually cared about reducing poverty instead of punishing people who vote the wrong way, you'd focus on what really works — strong families, good jobs, and less government dependency — rather than fantasizing about kicking half the country out of the union.
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I don’t want to subsidize poor Trump states. Who does?
Exactly. If we wanted to reduce the number of poor people in the country that the rest of us have to subsidize, we would kick most of the red states out of the union.
Top 5 Poorest States (Based on Poverty Rates & Income)
Mississippi: Frequently ranked the poorest, with a median household income just over $54,000 and a poverty rate approaching 19-20%.
Louisiana: Features a high poverty rate (approx. 17.4%–19.6%) and low median household income.
New Mexico: Consistently ranks high in poverty (approx. 18.4%–18.5% of the population).
West Virginia: Faces significant challenges with low income (approx. $55,948 median) and high poverty (around 16.8%–17.1%).
Arkansas: Shows low median household income (approx. $58,700) and high poverty rates.
Exactly. If we wanted to reduce the number of poor people in the country that the rest of us have to subsidize, we would kick most of the red states out of the union.
Top 5 Poorest States (Based on Poverty Rates & Income)
Mississippi: Frequently ranked the poorest, with a median household income just over $54,000 and a poverty rate approaching 19-20%.
Louisiana: Features a high poverty rate (approx. 17.4%–19.6%) and low median household income.
New Mexico: Consistently ranks high in poverty (approx. 18.4%–18.5% of the population).
West Virginia: Faces significant challenges with low income (approx. $55,948 median) and high poverty (around 16.8%–17.1%).
Arkansas: Shows low median household income (approx. $58,700) and high poverty rates.
Exactly. If we wanted to reduce the number of poor people in the country that the rest of us have to subsidize, we would kick most of the red states out of the union.
Top 5 Poorest States (Based on Poverty Rates & Income)
Mississippi: Frequently ranked the poorest, with a median household income just over $54,000 and a poverty rate approaching 19-20%.
Louisiana: Features a high poverty rate (approx. 17.4%–19.6%) and low median household income.
New Mexico: Consistently ranks high in poverty (approx. 18.4%–18.5% of the population).
West Virginia: Faces significant challenges with low income (approx. $55,948 median) and high poverty (around 16.8%–17.1%).
Arkansas: Shows low median household income (approx. $58,700) and high poverty rates.
New Mexico is blue, chief.
It's pretty rich for liberals to cry about subsidizing 'poor Trump states' while pretending they're the compassionate ones, at the same time cherry picking states that fit the narrative of "Trump's an idiot." Want me to point you to the problems of liberal places run by people like Newsom and Mamdani? Why do you think people are moving from California and New York to places like Texas? Did you want to cherry pick successful "red states"? Pretty amateur.
If you actually cared about reducing poverty instead of punishing people who vote the wrong way, you'd focus on what really works — strong families, good jobs, and less government dependency — rather than fantasizing about kicking half the country out of the union.
say whatever you want, red states are subsidized by blue states so trumpies can pretend they deserve to have their high standard of living while not going to college or not being obese.
Can you imagine what trumplandia would be like without big blue cities? freaking nightmares of trailer parks and unkept lawns.
Yes. I don't want poor immigrants. What country does?
It would be unthinkable for me to link someone’s worth as a person to their financial status.
Unfortunately for you, here in AMERICA, that is the proven way to determine someone's value as a human being. Money talks, bullsh!t walks. The Founders didn't create some Russian style sh!thole where the mediocre can pursue eponiminity. They created a free enterprise system in which the best prosper, and the average languish in swill. See, e.g., Psalm 112:1-3 ("Wealth and riches are in their houses, and their righteousness endures forever").
Jobs: born in the US anyway, to one American and one legal immigrant parent
Brin: legal
Bezos: born in the US, to 2 American parents
Grove: legal
Lauren: born in the US, to 2 legal immigrants (can't quickly find if they were citizens or not)
Other examples of exemplary (and legal) immigrants: Elon, Jensen Huang, Chamath, etc. Do you know what they were all not? The child of destitute illegals.
the right wing blogosphere is landing on a strategy to preserve the trump cult in the face of disaster in Iran:
They will say that Trump was misled into the war in Iran, and all he needs to do in order to save his presidency and the Senate is to eliminate the bad actors in his admin and resume the immigrant beatings and budget busting spending.
This is bad for Hegseth and anyone jewish in the admin.
The problem here is that trump is clearly a big believer in the iran war as are his evangelical backers. Trump will not want to stop warring without a big shiny war prize from Iran.
Trump now wants $152 million to refurbish Alcatraz into an active federal prison again. IMHO, this is a huge waste of money and, if we needed to expand federal max security space, wouldn't that be better spent on expanding ADX Florence or Leavenworth?
Trump must know construction people / donors in SFO.
🚨 STEPHEN MILLER EXPOSES THE BETRAYAL: "Democrats let in untold millions of illegal alien who have since had children. All of those children are decreed citizens, future voters and made instantly eligible for lifetime welfare." "That welfare in turn is sent in the form of remittances to their home countries. Those remittances then provide enough cash for future migrants to pay cartel smugglers to come to the United States." "These cartel smugglers use their profits to export drugs, gangs and death to American communities." He's spot on. Stephen Miller also previously confirmed that our NATIONAL DEBT is largely exploded by illegal migrants: "And what do those illegal aliens bring with them? Well, we know most of them are in welfare, so it massively explodes the national debt." We need a Stephen Miller in every White House from this point forward!
the right wing blogosphere is landing on a strategy to preserve the trump cult in the face of disaster in Iran:
They will say that Trump was misled into the war in Iran, and all he needs to do in order to save his presidency and the Senate is to eliminate the bad actors in his admin and resume the immigrant beatings and budget busting spending.
This is bad for Hegseth and anyone jewish in the admin.
The problem here is that trump is clearly a big believer in the iran war as are his evangelical backers. Trump will not want to stop warring without a big shiny war prize from Iran.
Ah Yes! This is the Trump is an infant and can easily be swayed by fellow imbeciles to do catastrophic regional wars gaslighting strategy.
Interesting strategy Cotton. Let’s see if it works out for them.
Exactly. If we wanted to reduce the number of poor people in the country that the rest of us have to subsidize, we would kick most of the red states out of the union.
Top 5 Poorest States (Based on Poverty Rates & Income)
Mississippi: Frequently ranked the poorest, with a median household income just over $54,000 and a poverty rate approaching 19-20%.
Louisiana: Features a high poverty rate (approx. 17.4%–19.6%) and low median household income.
New Mexico: Consistently ranks high in poverty (approx. 18.4%–18.5% of the population).
West Virginia: Faces significant challenges with low income (approx. $55,948 median) and high poverty (around 16.8%–17.1%).
Arkansas: Shows low median household income (approx. $58,700) and high poverty rates.
How about Somalis in Minnesota?
You struck a nerve with that one. Well done. Liberals are lying hypocrites, just whiny babies.
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