Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Get America Out of Debt - Dump the Welfare States

In any business, you have to trim off the excess every so often to ensure the business stays viable in the marketplace.  America has failed to do that as the states which take more federal money than they give are retained long past any point of utility to the country as a whole.  The worst ones are Florida and New Mexico as they are taking over three Federal dollars for every dollar their citizens contribute in Federal taxes.  (Huffington Post:  GOP States Are The Most Dependent On Government)

In plain English, we call that being a welfare queen.

(The article is not recent but Ukraine gives a different perspective.  Instead of continually sending money to these financial trashpits like Florida, etc just bomb them.  Hit the right sinkhole and the whole state will go underwater.  Make another Disney World in Atlanta and who would even know Florida is gone.)

In Florida and New Mexico, the governors can assail the Affordable Care Act and then choose not to implement extensions mandated by it.  Instead that medical care is paid through state programs ... which are funded by Federal dollars.  Thus, these governors are combatting the spending of Federal dollars ... by spending more Federal dollars.  This is the kind of logic that makes Presidents.  (Jeb Bush of Florida thinks he will be one of them and that's based precisely on the logic above.)

After elimination of the welfare states, the only state in the South that will survive is Georgia.  Good-bye to the others with their Duck Dynasty, pick-up trucks, and people who still believe storks deliver babies.

Just as the state as a Republic within the Union has its state's rights, the Union has its own right to excise the state if exercise of those rights by that state is counterproductive to the needs of the Union.

Therefore, in the interests of a stronger Union and a stronger Republic, excise the welfare states and let them suck Tea Party dogma for food and medicine.

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