[Politics] Red is for Ink (and Republicans)

[digitaldiscipline]

NPR's been doing a series this week on some of the Hispanic perspectives on the whole immigration debate (and I was pleasantly surprised to hear Carlos Mencia on Monday morning); today's commentary was from Univision News anchor Jorge Ramos, and the NPR site has a chapter of his book, Untied States of America [pdf], which contains the following interesting table of data.

[fuck it, my table got hosed - see page 3 of the pdf]

In short, it looks like both Republicans and Democrats are being true to form when it comes to the derogatory financial policy stereotypes - the Republicans are supposed to be cheapskates, and the Democrats spendthrifts.... and, based on the top tax money recipients (9 of 10 are red states) and those states that get back the least bang for their tax buck (8 of 10 are blue)... the Democrats give more money to the governmnent... which is then promptly given out to Republicans.

I thought that the talking heads said that the poor, over-taxed Republicans were unhappy that their tax dollars were going to support all those Democrats on the dole...  But from here, it looks like the GOP is the biggest financial whore going.

Comments

slightly off-topic

[theonebob.livejournal.com]

Remember when you called someone a "red" you were calling them a commie?

Re: slightly off-topic

[etcet.livejournal.com]

hey, man, you're the one sleeping with her.... ;-)

[trystbat.livejournal.com]

That table is pretty "duh" to me. There was also a website making the rounds right after the last prez. election which made a point of this too -- how Demo. blue states are financially supporting Repub. red states.

Along the same lines, the author of the book What's the Matter With Kansas? talks about how the GOP targeted poor Southern & midwestern communities & suckered them in w/social conservative propaganda, which totally ignored the fact that these ppl were poor bec. of GOP sucking up w/big bsns. The ppl who are hurt most by the GOP vote for them, instead of voting for the party who help them more.