Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in ’08
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-07-08-redblue_N.htm

“The imbalance didn’t start with the stimulus. From 2005 through 2007, the counties that later voted for Obama collected about 50% more government aid than those that supported McCain”

All of us honest, hard-working folks in Middle America are paying for the excesses and irresponsibility of the socialist states.

Wow, pretty narrow viewpoint, Anne. Let me guess, you don’t like Republicans.

I would first object, even though I’m not a Republican, to “current,” as if California’s “budget” crisis just sprang up outta nowhere. California has had a budget crisis for at least a decade.

The relevant facts are that budget crises only occur when you spend more than you make, not when you don’t make as much as you spend – that’s called “the logical result of irresponsibility,” and, if you let that proceed until it predictably becomes a “crisis,” then it’s called “stupidity.”

Just as it is Congress, and not the President, that sets tax laws and authorizes funding (i.e. “Bush Tax Cuts,” and “Obama Stimulus”), the California Legislature is completely responsible for their budget crisis. And I guess one could make some case for the minority party (Republicans) somehow controlling the Legislature through stalling tactics or whatever, but it would sound silly.

No, except for one year, the California legislature has been controlled by liberal Democrats since 1970, and they are directly responsible for their budget crisis.

Not to say the Republicans would have done any better, who knows? But, to point at the minority party in a state where they hardly exist is silly.

What you are seeing now, in the form of the Obama stimulus, is a massive transfer of wealth from states that did not vote for Democrats to states that did. All of the states and their citizens who have exercised restraint and personal responsibility are going to be funding the failures that are the socialist empires of California, New York, Chicago, et al.

And they wonder why we Texans talk about seceding.