tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post1481558391758006441..comments2023-10-30T09:23:42.803-05:00Comments on Some Assembly Required: SAR #12056Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-83611480216745721372012-02-28T06:15:26.000-06:002012-02-28T06:15:26.000-06:00«44% of Social Security recipients, 43% of those r...«<i>44% of Social Security recipients, 43% of those receiving unemployment benefits and 40% of those on Medicare say that they do not use government programs and do not want government involved in their lives. It is wrong to characterize America as a fundamentally conservative country. It is not. It is a fundamentally ignorant, confused, and fearful place.</i>»<br /><br />Nahh, it is the usual story instead, tribalism (which some confuse with racism): those 40-50% of government dependents reckon that they deserve their money so it is not really welfare, while they hate the exploitative minorities that don't deserve anything, so it is just free money thrown away on parasites instead.<br /><br />Consider these maps which are pretty telling:<br /><br />http://emsnews.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/maps-detailing-bizarre-anti-social-programs-ideology/Blissexnoreply@blogger.com