Old Rocks
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That's because Obama's put so many people out of work. And to be put out of work, you have to have had a job.By Frank Bass
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in May that hed written off votes from 47 percent of Americans who are collecting government aid. Turns out many of them are part of his political base.
Seventy percent of counties with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid during the last four years voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data compiled by Bloomberg.
More: Republican-Heavy Counties Eat Up Most Food-Stamp Growth - Bloomberg
So, naturally, new recipients are Republicans.
Nice spin. Just no truth in it at all. For the last 20 years, the Red states have been the welfare states, and the Blue states, the working states that supported the willfully ignorant in the Red states.