Country Folk vs City Slickers

[LJK Raubvogel]

 

Originally posted by Snoopi:
How about the idea that the university educated and business people in the cities voted for Gore and the Red-necks who married their cousin and watch Jerry Springer voted for Bush ?      

How about the idea that all the welfare-dependent people live in the cities, and they want more government support at the expense of the rest of the country? Thats a more plausible explanation.



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LJK_Raubvogel
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[F4UDOA]

Regurge,

I don't have any problem with anyone from anywhere. Except the people who make comments on this board about the people in cities voting for Gore who are "less American" or are to "stupid". I am pointing out that there are wacko's in all area's and that all American's have a right for their vote to be counted regardless of their ethnic background or where they live.

If you need evidence of my statement just check the long list of topics on this board. Karnak and I are to of the most vocal Democrats on the boards. So it is a full time job just replying to some of the stuff on them. I apologize if I seem offensive, but it is hard not to be when being attacked by a group of people who's opinions go from conservative to right wing.

Later
F4UDOA

Fatty, I agree.

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[funked]

I like Bob Evans.  If you don't like it, that's cool.  But don't kid yourself, it doesn't make you superior.

If you're saying the Midwest has an absence of culture, I'd say you have an absence of grey matter.  There is a lot more to culture than fancy restaurants.

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[Snoopi]

Fatty:
In regards to infrastucture needs causing different points of view...I think that is part of the story.

In Regards to "idiots being everywhere"
I agree wholeheartedly.

Trying to pin this to 1 specific cause is nuts. MANY factors are probably involved.
Education level,political upbringing (the main factor ?),exposure to other groups,need for government assistance, country of birth, etc. etc. etc.

Rural vs Urban points of view  are different and for anyone to say that one is better than the other is ludicrous.

Raubvogel:
Nice Generalization !      
(Please realize that I don't believe that. As I said, I just posted it to create discussion)

Hmmm... All welfare dependent people live in the cities ?
Ever hard of Farm Aid ?
They've spent $14.5 million dollars in aid to farmers. (sounds like welfare to me)

As for the U.S. government.....
$5.5 billion for supplemental payments to commodities producers;
$125 million for additional payments to dairy producers;
$1.2 billion for crop loss assistance, under a program similar to the single year crop loss disaster assistance program of 1998;
$328 million in payments to tobacco producers;
A doubling of the payment limitation for loan deficiency payments and marketing loan
gains from $75,000 to $150,000, applicable only to the 1999 crop year;
$475 million in payments to oilseed producers, based on 1997 or 1998 production, except for new producers and;
$200 million for livestock producers for losses resulting from natural disasters.

Hmm.. yeah the farmers who keep rural towns alive don't get ANY help from the government.
The above stats, from the U.S. Farm Service Agency, sound like welfare to me.

Who is paying for that ???  well...

"According to preliminary data released by the Internal Revenue Service, the top-earning one percent of U.S. taxpayers (annual income over $250,736) made 17.4 percent of the income earned in 1997 and paid 33.2 percent of the total federal individual income taxes collected that year."

Those numbers have no doubt changed since 1997, but....
Where do Bill Gates, Ted Turner etc. live ??
In the city.
Where do the yuppies who make the high income and pay the high taxes live ? In the city.




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