Glen Contrarian
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Amazing isn't it that people in this country can easily go from state to state, move with total freedom yet according to you they live in poverty, violent crime, and no healthcare? Does personal responsibility exist in your world?
You have no idea what our Founders created when they put the power in the states not the central govt. Think it is easier to change state or national policies? Does logic and common sense exist with you
Only a true liberal accepts the 18.2 trillion dollar debt, ignores it and just piles on more by creating more entitlement programs that only give the bureaucrats more money to spend.
"Personal responsibility"? WHY is it that poverty is generally significantly higher in RED states? WHY? If "personal responsibility" is what is truly part and parcel of what makes a conservatives, then why is it that majority-conservative states tend to have the highest degree of poverty? And of violent crime? And the lower levels of educational attainment? And the higher levels of teenage pregnancy?
Y'know, almost all my friends are conservatives - I'm the oddball out of the bunch. And y'all are great on the individual level...but y'all simply suck when it comes to the big picture. Y'all have a REAL hard time seeing the forest for the trees - you look at a few trees and assume the whole forest must be like those few trees because "personal responsibility".
And that's why, sir, y'all are so good when it comes to talking about "personal responsibility", but on almost every single metric red states are generally worse off than blue states. The only metric I've yet found where blue states are worse off than red states is on drug use...but every other single metric - violent crime, homicide, teenage pregnancy, educational attainment, life expectancy, you name it - the red states are generally worse off than blue states.
WHY?
I would be willing to bet money that you're thinking that the answer in my mind is conservative governance...but it's not. The real answer would surprise you...and not necessarily in a bad way. Intrigued yet?