those of us in Red States need to inform your neighbors of these...

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparecat.jsp?cat=3
health coverage and uninsured per state

http://www.kff.org/statepolicy/index.cfm
state health facts


We are consistently on the bottom of the list...that's how much they support their constituents

[gateley]

1. That's sad. I'm truly sorry. And again, at a loss as to why people vote

against their best interests. It's the fear, and the Republicans have made it an art form. :hug:

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Simple - I live in NC as a blue dot in a sea of red. It is this - $$$$.

As in "I've got mine, screw anyone else...it they worked hard enough, they have it too". We try to reach out, discuss, have dialog, but it is facts vs steel plated, teflon belief system....very frustrating, that's for sure.

[w8liftinglady]

3. isn't that the truth...I tried to explain this to a co-worker who fretted about husband's

need for dental care...no money..severe infection and decay...when universal healthcare was still on the table...but.."That's Communist"

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. It truly is like banging you head against a table trying to get through to them.

I have to admit defeat in our neighborhood - we are ignored (maybe it all the progressive bumper stickers on my truck!)

:hi:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. these people need educating before voting

[w8liftinglady]

5. they need a lot more education than I've been giving over the last 6 years

it'll take more than one voice,I'm afraid

[Dappleganger]

6. The best I could do...

is give birth to four staunch liberals.

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. We gave birth to 2 staunch liberals...but our two dogs and two cats are liberal!

One of our girls is in Madagascar - Peace Corps - and wonders if she wants to come home to such a mess.

:hi:

[auburngrad82]

9. Unfortunately they won't listen

It's a lost cause. We've dumbed down the country to the point where most people no longer think for themselves. If Rush or Beck says it then it must be true.

I hope the idiots who voted for the GOP like what they end up with.

[Cosmocat]

10. The will blame the crape on ... the liberal ...

it is a endless rat hole ...

No getting out of it ...

The will be told some tertiary reason that it was the liberals fault - these people actually believe the mortgage crisis happened because of Barny Frank - all those loans that government made banks take for people buying $60,000 houses ... THAT makes sense to them, not that it was caused by completely horrific ARMS, people buying $400,000 houses when they only should have been buying $200,000 houses, people getting into to many investment properties or second houses ...

THAT makes sense to these people - it all came apart because of low income loans that the poor bankers were forced to make ...

Either they get sold on some BS like that, or they simply get led by their noses into the weeds over gay marriage, guns ... whatever ...

The voices on the AM radio program them or sheppard them where they want them to go - and it ALWAYS ends with the evil liberal ...

[Jamastiene]

11. Off to the greatest page...

Did you see the numbers for Alabama? They have to be dirt dirt dirt poor to even qualify for anything. It's awful.