The People Have Spoken!
Monday, November 10, 2008
As I feared, poor people have made themselves clear, and they don't want my help. The deal was, if 9 of the 10 poorest states (by median HH income) voted against Obama -- whose desire to spread the wealth was made abundantly clear by McCain -- I was going to take this as an indication that they didn't want my money, and stop insulting them by making donations to American poverty causes.
Well, thanks to SC, TN, OK, LA, AL, KY, AZ, WV, and Mississippi, the American poor person's dignified rejection of my desire to give them some of my money has succeeded! The only one of the bottom 10 states to go blue was New Mexico, and if you want to find a second state that went for Obama, you have to add the next 5 poorest states until you get to South Carolina.
So, I no longer care about the poor in America. When you think about it, they've got it better than relative rich people almost anywhere in the world, and they overwhelmingly rejected the candidate who wanted to take money from people like me forcibly, and give it to people like them. I respect that. If I were poor, I'd want help, but apparently I don't know what I'm talking about.
Anyway, best of luck with the poverty. Laura and I finally got notification of our $1,200 tax refund over the weekend, and we're sitting down to make our final 08 giving decisions over thanksgiving. Nothing But Nets and National Endowment for the Arts, you're in luck: Kentucky didn't want my money.
posted by henry |
11/10/2008 12:56:00 PM|
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