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On 11 Jul 2025, Rudy Canoza <rc.@hendrie.con> posted some
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The San Francisco Department of Public Health has issued a warning to all
residents after thousands could be infected from drinking at a
contaminated water fountain.
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Thousands of San Francisco residents could have been infected after
drinking from a water fountain that a homeless man contaminated with
COVID-19, said health authorities yesterday.
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The homeless man apparently used the drinking fountain as a bidet to wash
himself off after defecating in the street.
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“He always washes himself in the fountain after taking a dump. It’s
really disgusting, but the worst part is seeing people drink from it all
day afterward,” one local resident told reporters.
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“I once gave him a roll of toilet paper and asked him to stop using the
Red states are shithole states dependent on Federal money to survive and
have the lowest average life spans in the USA, rivaling African dumps.
Democrat states produce over 70% of the USA's GDP and most welfare states
are red states, so how does that work again?
The impoverished southern red welfare states depend on immigrant labor in
agriculture and manufacturing because American born rightists are afraid of
hard work and think they should get special treatment because they're
white.
What Republicans Don�t Want To Say: Blue States Are the Ones Bailing Out
Red States
5 minute read
By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques
February 14, 2025 6:30 AM EST
Sonnenfeld, who has informally advised five U.S. presidents, is a Lester
Crown Professor of Leadership Practice and President of the Yale Chief
Executive Leadership Institute. Henriques is a senior fellow at the Yale
Chief Executive Leadership Institute.
The red state denial of fiscal responsibility is manifest today as
misguided voices champion the economic virtues of red states. For instance,
President Donald Trump and the GOP have threatened to block disaster relief
for Californian wildfires, to obstruct the return of federal relief for
state and local tax payments, and to roll back the massive industrial
investments from Biden-era legislation. Now, as GOP leaders in both
chambers advance their budget proposals, Republicans are pursuing other
politically punitive budget measures before the March 14 debt funding
deadline.
However, blue states would do well to remember that it is they who are
picking up the bill for red states. Before Republicans start criticizing
Democrats about their dependence on federal dollars, a quick review of the
facts may be warranted. For instance, while federal dollars to New York
represented 38% of its state budget in 2022, Texas received the same
proportion, and Florida received even more (40%). Similarly, much attention
from the GOP is given to Medicaid funding in blue states such as Illinois,
but they conveniently ignore the fact that Texas, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, and West Virginia, among other red states, see a greater share
of the cost of their traditional Medicaid programs covered by the federal
government.
A recent Wall Street Journal editorial called blue states the �wards of
Washington� by questionably only looking at federal spending to blue
states, ignoring the flow of federal funds to red states and oddly
forgetting to analyze the other half the national income statement,
matching expenses with revenues�that is tax revenues collected.
We have compiled a first-of-its-kind comprehensive five-year assessment of
state-by-state inflows and outflows of federal funds and found the balance
of contributions and receipts is not even close, red states are still
propped up by blue states. After our researchers analyzed federal
expenditures, including the Biden era infrastructure initiatives,
Medicare/Medicaid, military spending, government contracts, standard
grants, etc., against federal revenues across all 50 states, it is clear
that blue states are funding red states.
From 2018 to 2022, individuals and organizations from blue states
contributed nearly 60% of all federal tax receipts but only received 53% of
all federal contributions to states in the form of either direct payments,
grants, contracts, or wages. Meanwhile, red states were only responsible
for 40% of federal tax receipts but received 47% of all federal
contributions to states. A 7% differential that in effect equates to a more
than $1 trillion transfer payment from blue states to red states, amounting
to $4,300 per capita, compared to the instance where their respective fair
shares were paid.
In dollar terms, while federal contributions to blue states amounted to
$11.6 trillion compared to $10.3 trillion across red states�or $71,500 and
$67,000 per capita, respectively�federal receipts from blue states amounted
to $10.7 trillion compared to $7.3 trillion from red states�or $58,500 and
$45,000 per capita, respectively. Among the top 20 states realizing the
greatest net flow of funds, calculated as federal contributions to states
(inflows) less federal tax receipts from states (outflows), 14 were red
states, while 13 of the bottom 20 states are blue states. Headliners of the
top 20 include West Virginia, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Alabama. Leading
the bottom 20 are states such as California, Washington, Massachusetts, and
New York, all critical hubs of business, investment, and innovation.
Digging deeper into the component parts of federal contribution, red and
blue states received similar dollar amounts in direct payments on a nominal
($6.9 trillion) and per capita ($42,900) basis, much of which come in the
form of payments from Social Security, Medicare, and public assistance
programs, such as the earned income and child tax credits. The red and blue
states also receive similar amounts for military and non-military wages
(excluding the U.S. Post Office, which is self-funded) on a nominal ($650
billion) and per capita ($4,900) basis.
Another major geographic injustice favoring red states is the transfer of
military muscle south. Despite Department of Defense investments into key
military contractors in many blue states, such as Virginia, Maryland, and
Connecticut, red states, such as Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina, have
overwhelmingly benefited from military base expansion and relocations
because of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process established by
Congress.
Since the BRAC Commission first began their reviews in 1988, the proportion
of bases located in red-state-dominate regions (i.e., Southeast, Southwest)
increased by 6 percentage points compared to a decrease of 7 percentage
points in blue-state-dominate regions (i.e., Northeast, Mid-Atlantic)
The negative economic impact of such shifts has cast a shadow over many
cities and regions for decades. For example, the closure of the
Philadelphia Naval Station resulted in an estimated loss of 35,000 jobs; a
+25% increase to regional unemployment; a $1.2B in loss of wage and non-
wage income; a $2.1B loss in gross regional product; and a loss of $37M in
state tax revenues
Finally, blue states did receive more in COVID-19 relief funds, but red
states have disproportionately benefited from Biden�s signature
legislation�IRA, CHIPS, IIJA�by as much as fivefold.
It should be acknowledged that blue states do come out ahead on a few
fronts. For instance, blue states receive more funding from grants on a
nominal ($2.3 trillion in blue states vs. $1.7 trillion in red) and per
capita ($13,200 vs. 12,300) basis, much of which fund Medicaid; Special
Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; Child Care
and Development Block Grants. They also receive more financial assistance
for the construction, maintenance and operations of state highways and
ground transportation.
Plus, blue states receive more in federal contracts on a nominal ($1.6
trillion in blue states vs. $1.1 trillion in red) and per capita ($10,500
and $6,650) basis, the majority of which support the procurement of
critical materials, supplies, and equipment for the Department of Defense;
the medical and scientific research coordinated by the Department of Health
and Human Services; and the well-being and health of America�s veterans
through the Department of Veterans Affairs. However, these blue state
advantages are overshadowed by the total picture above.
As Congress prepares for the budget and debt debate showdown next month,
they must deal with the current facts and not historic fantasies.
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