Red State Of Denial

Steve M. makes a great catch here:

Some data accompanying an article in the business section of The New York Times:

Note what's measured here: government payments as share of personal income. As the article notes,

Close to $2 of every $10 that went into Americans' wallets last year were payments like jobless benefits, food stamps, Social Security and disability, according to an analysis by Moody’s Analytics.

So the national average is nearly 20%, and in many states the portion is well over 20%, as shown. And note that of the 12 states listed, 8 voted Republican in the 2008 presidential election and 10 voted Republican in 2004.

In other words, should Republicans destroy the economy and trigger a collapse with the debt ceiling to cut off those evil parasitic "welfare states" it's those "coastal liberal bastions" of West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and Mississippi who are going to suffer the most, because surprise, those are the states where people are taking the most government aid.

And as it is with Republicans refusing to expand unemployment benefits and insisting on trillions of dollars in immediate cuts in social programs, these states are going to be the ones hurting the most anyway.  And they'll blame Obama and all those "liberal welfare queens" while red states continue on the government dole.

Gotta love it.