Hmm, . . . well lookie here:
It turns out that the States receiving more Personal Government Benefits [Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, Income Assistance, SNAP, Unemployment Insurance, Veterans Benefits, Education Assistance, Payments to Native Populations, etc.] correlate pretty well inversely with State Median Household Income. Mississippi
is lowest in household income; Alabama is
not second, but sixth; and West Virginia
is second lowest.
So, . . . forkushV is pretty close in his assessment, . . . although he
does seem to have something personal against West Virginians.
In any case, forkushV and DonDiego agree. It would be better if poorer States did not mooch off wealthier States. And that would be very, very easy to fix.
In fact it is just the ways things used to be, . . . back when poor old DonDiego was Little DonDiego, . . . back when the individual States each provided welfare to its own citizens, . . . before Medicaid and
Federal Income Assistance, and
Federal SNAP, and lots of big federal programs existed.
The whole idea behind federalizing all those programs was
because folks in different States were getting different benefits based on State incomes/Revenues.
The whole idea was to have everyone in every State share the responsibility for caring for the poor among us. Apparently forkushV doesn't believe in sharing.
DonDiego would also prefer if this all these Federal programs were abolished and the responsibility for taking care of the poor returned to the State-level, . . . or even the individual-person-level where one could decide one's propensity for charity on one's own.
It is good to see forkushV figuring these things out. The more that power is centralized, in this case that Government redistribution of income is centralized, the less fair it is going to be; the bigger the Government gets, the more expensive it is.
Where forkushV and DonDiego do disagree is on his "solution" to the problems of West Virginia, . . . to "get rid of most of the West Virginians". Or should DonDiego have said the "Final Solution" ?
DonDiego does not approve of getting rid of US citizens.
