It’s almost Labor day weekend so it’s time to stock up on your favorite adult beverages and grill supplies. For those among you whose self-control isn’t what it could be you may want to remember the morning-after pain relievers as well. Anyway, today we are going to look at some maps, so lots of pictures (yea), and see what story they might tell.
I’ve always loved maps as they provide tons of information in a static and objective fashion. So, earlier this week, my friend Mike sent me a couple maps without comment. I found them very informative, enough so that I was compelled to visit Google, which Sam frequently reminds me is my friend, to satisfy my curiosity on a few things. After a quick trip through the Google wormhole here is what I found.
*click on the pictures for clarity*
A snapshot of the demographics of political control across the nation. I know it’s kind of dry but stay with me.
Up next we have a map illustrating which states have “Right to be poor work” laws, and one must admit it looks very similar to our first map. That prompted a couple of questions to which my friend Google quickly provided the graphic answers.
So, here we have a map of the states which saw fit to decline free federal money to help ensure the residents therein wouldn’t need to die because they lacked health care coverage.
The thinking behind this bit of political calculus was — ah — well. OK, I have no fucking idea. Maybe compassionate conservatism, as in, we have no compassion for the victims of our policies. You figure that one out leave a comment.
Finally, we step back in time and see that, curiously enough, quite a few of the states that object to higher wages for middle income earners, and see no need to provide free federal assistance to the most vulnerable of their citizens. Had a taste for ownership of fellow human beings. So much so, that in defense of their inhumanity heritage over 500,000 people perished.
Taken individually these maps are merely informative. However, when one steps back and views them together, well, the matter speaks for itself.
Very well written. People forget FOX News is entertainment TV. It is not news. They will say or do anything, and I mean anything, to get people to watch their show and buy the product they are selling. They are very good at what they do, which is being the pitch men and women for the top 2% by useing any means necessary.
The poor vote against their own best interest of getting the federal aid that the south desperately needs. This idea of the company store prevails in the coal country. You don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Republicans. They own the south with their chants of god, guns and country that rally rednecks in droves. They keep people uneducated, under fed, under paid. Stock markets at record highs while I starve on SS. People dying in cars working 4 jobs. We gave our country over to the wealthy for stewardship, we are still waiting for the trickle down. I don’t understand republicans. I don’t understand people.