k-town_king
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I see erroneous posts about "welfare" all the time. Discussing voting and the EC several posters have sated they don't want the city people who are all just on welfare to make decisions for the country.
Well that is just wrong. More people in rural areas receive government assistance or what yall deem "welfare". By percentage and raw numbers rural areas have more people on welfare in America than urban areas.
Personally I don't think someone living in poverty makes their vote any less valid as some of you have suggested. At least know who is on "welfare" when you bring it up.
People on "welfare" most likely are a from a rural area that votes conservative. They probably resemble this family more than any urban welfare queen conservatives have made up.
This is about disability but SNAP (food stamps) use is the same. Pretty much every person on disability also gets SNAP.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2017/06/02/generations-disabled/?utm_term=.b321f9fd4376
How to visualize the growth in disability in the United States? One way is to think of a map. Rural communities, where on average 9.1 percent of working-age people are on disability — nearly twice the urban rate and 40 percent higher than the national average — are in a brighter shade than cities. An even brighter hue then spreads from Appalachia into the Deep South and out into Missouri, where rates are higher yet, places economists have called “disability belts.” The brightest color of all can be found in 102 counties, mostly within these belts, where a Washington Post analysis of federal statistics estimates that, at minimum, about 1 in 6 working-age residents draw disability checks.
opcorn:
Well that is just wrong. More people in rural areas receive government assistance or what yall deem "welfare". By percentage and raw numbers rural areas have more people on welfare in America than urban areas.
Personally I don't think someone living in poverty makes their vote any less valid as some of you have suggested. At least know who is on "welfare" when you bring it up.
People on "welfare" most likely are a from a rural area that votes conservative. They probably resemble this family more than any urban welfare queen conservatives have made up.
This is about disability but SNAP (food stamps) use is the same. Pretty much every person on disability also gets SNAP.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2017/06/02/generations-disabled/?utm_term=.b321f9fd4376
How to visualize the growth in disability in the United States? One way is to think of a map. Rural communities, where on average 9.1 percent of working-age people are on disability — nearly twice the urban rate and 40 percent higher than the national average — are in a brighter shade than cities. An even brighter hue then spreads from Appalachia into the Deep South and out into Missouri, where rates are higher yet, places economists have called “disability belts.” The brightest color of all can be found in 102 counties, mostly within these belts, where a Washington Post analysis of federal statistics estimates that, at minimum, about 1 in 6 working-age residents draw disability checks.
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