Not defending MS but brings me to Texas the most selfish state in the country. Texas is in the middle of the states in income per capita, but is always down in the bottom five out of 50 with MS in aid to the mentally ill, aid to children of single mothers, food stamps etc. Of course any state which would serially reelect that bozo Perry should probably think of trying something different, too.
Are you factoring in Texans who give their money to these causes by choice instead of by force? Texas ranks very high in the Generosity Index
Yesh that guy is a real upstanding American from Think Progress: Gov. Phil Bryant (R) warned yesterday that if the personhood amendment fails, “Satan wins.” “This is a battle of good and evil of Biblical proportions,” The devil went down to MIssissippi!
You do know that the OWS folks are more educated than the TEA Party folks by a pretty wide margin, right?
A recap from Mr Marshall -- The Dems’ Big Big Night The results were not entirely unexpected. But the margins and the uniformity of last night’s election results tell an important story going into 2012. Across the country, Republican overreach coming out of the 2010 election was decisively rejected by voters in multiple states. In Ohio, Gov. John Kasich’s signature anti-union legislation was rejected by an almost 2-1 margin. That’s a big win for the labor movement and will put in place a deep anti-Republican undercurrent next November. Kasich will be an albatross around the neck of the Republican nominee and there’s organization on the ground that will be an important force too. But it wasn’t just Ohio. An anti-choice, anti-birth control “personhood” initiative was rejected in Mississippi. Maine voters rejected limits on voter registration — part of the larger Republican push to limit voting rights in 2012. And the author of Arizona’s controversial and trend-setting anti-immigration law looks to have lost a recall election. What is telling about these numbers was not simply the consistency by which right-wing initiatives and candidates went down but in many cases the margins. The larger political context remains one in which virtually every political movement and party is unpopular, in the climate of seemingly immovable crisis-level unemployment. But 2012 is looking to be quite different from 2010.
You do realize that one need not be occupying a downtown landscape surreptitiously filmed by tallanvor's video brigades to be a supporter of OWS, right?
Very happy with my local elections. Alcohol sales on Sunday have been legalized throughout my region. We voted out a corrupt member of City Council by a very wide margin. The education SPLOST(1% sales tax) was renewed in my county, to continue to build and improve our public schools and the city I work in finally passed their own SPLOST after years of rejection, and the city suffering as a result.
It was a good election day for liberals, certainly, namely for these reasons from the list linked: - Ohio voters overturn anti-union bill - Recall of Russell Pearce, President of the Arizona Senate, author of SB1070 - Courts uphold Obama healthcare reform - Kentucky Democratic Governor cruises to a win in today’s elections - Mississippi defeats life at conception bill - Maine defeats GOP’s attempt to eliminate same day voter registration - In Iowa republicans were one seat away from winning the state senate, which would've allowed them to begin the process towards an anti- gay marriage constitutional amendment. But they lost, and the Democrats will still hold the state senate next year - Georgians can now buy alcohol on Sundays (I think conservatives can celebrate this, too)
I wonder how long it will be before you can buy a sack a weed on a Saturday night in Georgia(without getting tased).
lol. Are you seriously saying Texans are more generous by choice That reminds me of Texan Ron Paul and the libertarians who let his chief aid die because he was unisured and they failed to be genrous out of the charity of their libertarian hearts.
I don't understand your sentence. In order for a person to be generous (not selfish) it HAS to be by choice. If I forcibly take your money and give it to someone else that doesn't make you generous, it makes you my b****. You claimed Texans were selfish because they don't vote to forcibly take money from each other for some causes. That's illogical since that is not a matter of generosity.
