MB Civic

“The best states to do business. The top ten, we find, are all red states, with the exception of Delaware, which at least has a Republican majority in its State House.

While some of the states, like Virginia, which is number 1, have a Democrat governor and a Republican legislature, may not be purely a red state, the top ten states are all generally conservative states that value individual entrepreneurship over the nanny state style governments of many lower on the list.

States like California and Michigan, which you’d think would be higher on the list, are numbers 36 and 45. The top ten states are Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, Delaware, Florida, and Georgia.”

They talk about running the country like a business
Keep big government out of our business. States should have their own autonomy. Keep the Feds out!

More nonsense, more right wing rhetoric-here’s the real story on the red states:

The Top 10 Poorest States in the US : all of them RED
(indicating a lack of educational resources thus a high potential lack of intelligence)
10. North Carolina
9 Alabama
8 Kentucky
7 South Carolina
6 Montana
5 Louisiana
4 West Virginia
3 Tennessee
2 Arkansas
1 Mississippi

States receiving more in federal spending than they pay in federal taxes — 76% are Red States

States receiving the most federal spending per dollar of federal taxes paid are Red States.

“There are times when we’re fifty states and there are times when we’re one country, and have national needs. And the way I know this is that Florida didn’t fight Germany in World War II or establish civil rights.

You think states should do the governing wall-to-wall. That’s a perfectly valid opinion. But the state of Florida got $12.6 billion in federal money last year – from Nebraskans, and Virginians, and New Yorkers, and Alaskans, with their Eskimo poetry.

$12.6B out of a state budget of $50 billion.

If you want the Feds out, then here is my question: Can we have it back, please?”