Let me give you A BIG CONGRATS on your 90 Cons Days and your speedy racing stripes!! Keep up the good work. Your Buddy, David.......QQ

Sorry buddy, been on a 10 day road trip. But A BIG CONGRATS on your breaking the 1 mil. milestone!!!!!!! David.........QQ

no education; but pushin' a million

when your their take their advice, they're there to help? Did I get it right or write? Do you think I care about their? I am sure I will screw it up. But I never use the wrong grammar when stating a number.

I forgot to include a buddy request until just now.

No danger of anyone calling Philo's grammar perfect, is there. ;-) I sent you a buddy request, as we both use the Trapster app.

Thank you they're nru, but I know that I am winning an argument on the numbers when people go after my grammar. If my grammar offended you, to bad, but if it was perfect I am sure I would not be so good with numbers.

Today is SHEP20715 birthday....wish him a H.B.

Most of the money going to states is non-discretionary anyway. Part of that is social security and Medicare, which are socialist type programs, but they aren't distributed according to which state is poorer. They are distributed directly to people who live in whatever state. Both programs were created by DemocRATs. If you want to discuss who is socialist, you should talk about Obama, Congressional DemocRATs, the 99-Percenters, etc. They are the ones who pushed for redistributing the wealth from the top wage earners to the rest of the country. Obama even pushed the food stamp program to Mexican citizens which is only one reason why he will be known as the food stamp president.

(cont. from below) From the references that you provided, Calif in 2009 paid $264.9 billion in tax and received $346 billion from the feds. That means Calif got $1.31 for every dollar they gave in taxes. In fact, even NY got back $195 billion for $193.4 billion paid in tax. You also have not explained how you can possibly define any of your Red States as being either Republican or TEA Party, both of which are very anti-socialism. Many of what you called Red states are really Blue states since many of those who voted for Bush (Red) in 2004 then voted for Obama (Blue) in 2008 and 2012. Also, the Congress determines what discretionary money goes to what states. It is not determined by individual states. So besides your data being very wrong, your whole premise of your post is false as well. You need to think this stuff through before you make these claims.