Comments on: Some recruiters don’t learn http://rhinocrisy.org/2005/11/some-recruiters-dont-learn/ Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:07:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://rhinocrisy.org/2005/11/some-recruiters-dont-learn/comment-page-1/#comment-382 Anonymous Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:36:19 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/?p=510#comment-382 it's not that simple to say republican votes are based on ignorance of stats. larry bartels wrote "what's the matter with 'what's the matter with kansas'?" (<a HREF="http://polysigh.blogspot.com/2005/10/larry-bartels-on-whats-matter-with.html" REL="nofollow">blog summary</a> ) to demonstrate this.<br/><br/>additionally, there's the tax payments/receipts issue - that "red" states generally give the feds less than they get back in cash, and blue states give more. one explanation of this that i've seen is just flat out bribery. another, to which i'm partial, is that people living outside of cities rarely understand how much of money that cities pay for things like services and welfare and such <i>comes from the cities' own pockets</i>  and is not pulled from the pool of federal or even state taxes. people see cities spending like crazy and figure it must be welfare queen theft because it's so much <i>more</i> than spent in exurbs and hinterlands. not realizing that cities largely exist because they (and the cost reduction models they represent/depend on) are EXTREMELY PROFITABLE.<br/><br/>on the other hand i often worry about losing an arm or a leg when i pass through cincinnati. the local political scene is brutal. <br/><br/><a></a><a></a>Posted by<a><b> </b></a>chromo it’s not that simple to say republican votes are based on ignorance of stats. larry bartels wrote “what’s the matter with ‘what’s the matter with kansas’?” (blog summary ) to demonstrate this.

additionally, there’s the tax payments/receipts issue – that “red” states generally give the feds less than they get back in cash, and blue states give more. one explanation of this that i’ve seen is just flat out bribery. another, to which i’m partial, is that people living outside of cities rarely understand how much of money that cities pay for things like services and welfare and such comes from the cities’ own pockets  and is not pulled from the pool of federal or even state taxes. people see cities spending like crazy and figure it must be welfare queen theft because it’s so much more than spent in exurbs and hinterlands. not realizing that cities largely exist because they (and the cost reduction models they represent/depend on) are EXTREMELY PROFITABLE.

on the other hand i often worry about losing an arm or a leg when i pass through cincinnati. the local political scene is brutal. 

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]]> By: Saheli http://rhinocrisy.org/2005/11/some-recruiters-dont-learn/comment-page-1/#comment-381 Saheli Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:15:58 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/?p=510#comment-381 For some reason I didn't see your footnote before. I just assumed you were taking it for granted like I was that the TV Station was being willfully parochial in its focused concern about only American life, and playing along with those ground rules. :-) I mean, duh. It's local TV news. OF COURSE only American life matters. Local American life, even better. Unless, of course, it's cute foreign babies being adopted by locals. <br/><br/>Snark aside, I'm glad it's on the TV stations. I just wish more parents made their kids at least watch the news with them. . .<br/><br/> <br/><br/><a></a><a></a>Posted by<a><b> </b></a><a HREF="http://ssrdatta.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow" TITLE="sahelidatta at hotmail dot com">Saheli</a> For some reason I didn’t see your footnote before. I just assumed you were taking it for granted like I was that the TV Station was being willfully parochial in its focused concern about only American life, and playing along with those ground rules. :-) I mean, duh. It’s local TV news. OF COURSE only American life matters. Local American life, even better. Unless, of course, it’s cute foreign babies being adopted by locals.

Snark aside, I’m glad it’s on the TV stations. I just wish more parents made their kids at least watch the news with them. . .

 

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]]> By: Anonymous http://rhinocrisy.org/2005/11/some-recruiters-dont-learn/comment-page-1/#comment-380 Anonymous Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:30:47 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/?p=510#comment-380 I don't know about cannon fodder for endless wars, but definitely cannon fodder for terrible, terrible voting ideas and not so wonderful corporations. You've seen the statistics on how hideously bad Republican policies are for most voters in red states. And yet--they just get more and more popular. I grew up reading The Little House on the Prairie, which at one point spelled out the basic math education of the time in excruciating detail. I can't help but feel that Pa Ingalls would have had a mathematical leg up on most of today's voters in Kansas and South Dakota. <br/><br/>And of course, if you make the mistake of silently telling people that the recruiters lie, <a HREF="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/002361.html" REL="nofollow">you get arrested at your own public university campus</a> .  <br/><br/><a></a><a></a>Posted by<a><b> </b></a><a HREF="http://ssrdatta.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow" TITLE="sahelidatta at hotmail dot com">Saheli</a> I don’t know about cannon fodder for endless wars, but definitely cannon fodder for terrible, terrible voting ideas and not so wonderful corporations. You’ve seen the statistics on how hideously bad Republican policies are for most voters in red states. And yet–they just get more and more popular. I grew up reading The Little House on the Prairie, which at one point spelled out the basic math education of the time in excruciating detail. I can’t help but feel that Pa Ingalls would have had a mathematical leg up on most of today’s voters in Kansas and South Dakota.

And of course, if you make the mistake of silently telling people that the recruiters lie, you get arrested at your own public university campus .  

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