States that have most government workers
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http://www.businessinsider.com/10-state ... sam-2010-6
Wow, these look like Tea-Party states if you ask me.
Wow, these look like Tea-Party states if you ask me.
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
I live there now, and I agree. Albany is a mix, because of the number of state workers/union employees, but the further out you get, the redder it gets.
Similar to NY, I grew up in western PA. James Carville summed PA up best with saying PA was “Philadelphia on one end, Pittsburgh on the other, with Alabama in the middle”. Some parts of central PA are as Appalachia as West Virginia.
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Says the yankee who's never been....
many of these states are in the bottom of the population spectrum with the exception of new york
50 Wyoming
47 Alaska
36 New Mexico
31 Mississippi
48 North Dakota
37 West Virginia
33 Kansas
39 Idaho
3 New York
38 Nebraska
so wouldn't you think that if a state with a small population has a high percentage of public workers
(you know, these kinds of people as the article points out)
1. Local gov. elementary & secondary teachers
2. Local gov. secondary school teachers
3. State gov. postsecondary teachers
4. Local gov. teachers assistants
5. Local gov. police & sheriff's patrol officers
6. State gov. elementary & secondary teachers
7. Local gov. janitors & building cleaners
8. Local gov. secretaries, administrative assistants
9. Local gov. bus drivers
10. Local gov. fire fighters
those states "might" have a segment of the population that thinks the government is too large and spends too much money?...doesn't seem outlandish to me to feel that way if you lived in a low population / high percentage state...I don't know what this is supposed to expose...
oh wait...sorry...I got this thread off topic...republicans, tea partiers, neo-cons, and the religious zealots are all the exactly the same, all of them are hypocrites for wanting lower spending by the federal government...oh, don't forget all of the tea partiers and their sympathizers are racist too...glad I could get this back down the path I am sure it will go
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
Finally... somebody said it.
Thank you.
"Just sayin" a whole lot of nothin.
Guess your only point is what Mike Pegg described above...
It is an interesting set of statistics, not what one would expect.
You two don't see the hypocrisy? They "might" have a segment of the population that thinks the government is too large and spends too much money? They clearly do have a large chunk of population that buys into the whole 'government needs to get out the way and people need to get off handouts' agenda. Sarah Palin is a clear example of this hypocrisy. Alaska loves their handouts, don't they.
However, I agree with Mike's theory on overall population. State infrastructures are similar. The base minimum for an infrastructure will skew things if the overall population is low.
what about it didn't you understand? it was more statistical analysis than simply saying the tea party is a bunch of hypocrites...
it isn't irony...my point was that it would make sense that the states that would have the most problem with government spending would be states where the government is a large employer.
and this isn't as simple as saying all those state workers are against themselves and hate their boss. that is a surface level analysis at best.
I also didn't see any analysis by anyone of why they support the republican party...remember that the republican philosophy is a form of GOVERNMENT not a form of anarchy...it isn't illegal to be a teacher, a policemen, a firemen and be a republican...it isn't hypocritical either.
I wrote this in another reply but it seems to apply here as well:
"tea party" has morphed into basically just a short hand way for the media to express a larger government philosophy that a lot of folks on the right share. It probably is supported by most fiscal conservatives...that doesn't mean that those fiscal conservatives aren't also social conservatives or neo-conservative war mongers or libertarians...for many, their tea party support doesn't define what is the most important issue to them...even though they "support" it...
this article shows me nothing about what it is like to live in those states or why the people of those states would consider themselves "red"...
that is the problem...people want to convince themselves that all republicans are hypocrites...well everyone is if you look hard enough...it isn't a monopoly on the right...so another article posted to prove that point just pushes my buttons...
but again I will ask, what about my analysis doesn't make sense?
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
Gotcha. I really don't know much north or west of lake george, which actually seems almost hippied out the last time I went there.