Showing posts with label Southern poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Southern poverty. Show all posts

Monday, June 27, 2016

The Bible Belt aka The Buy Bull Belt


The most sinful part of America is the Bible Belt. The Bible Belt is infested with to most hypocritical false Christians on earth and that is not just me Fat Bastardo saying it, the facts prove it. The Bible, being the most contradictory collection of books ever written is both for and against gluttony. In my article, Gluttony IS a Christian Value    I explain why and how Bible banging Southerners revel in their sinful/not sinful sloth and gluttony.

Gluttony, while epidemic in the Bible Belt, other sins of these Bible thumping, gay hating, cousin marrying, ignorant Trump supporting hypocritical savages are nearly as prevalent.



When it comes to the 7 deadly sins, the Buy Bull Belt leads the nation and the world. These fuckers are more decadent than the French! At least the French invented the blow job!


It would appear that God is punishing the Bible Belt for its sinful ways.

Pride is the worst of the 7 deadly sins.



















Gluttony is one of the 7 deadly sins.

Is sloth the reason the poverty rates are so high in the Bible 








Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Republican Voters Really Are Stupid

It's a bit more complicated. There's genetics and culture involved as well.  

Getting a PhD takes brains, work and dedication. Certainly red state dwellers have poor work ethics which may be a throwback to slavery when everything was done for them by the slaves. 

Red State dwellers pray to Jesus for the stuff they want instead of making it happen by working for it. It seems they forget to old adage, the Lord helps those who help themselves.


Ignorance is bliss to a red state rightie. Finding out that the earth is round, and not 5000 years old is something they don't want to know. 

Give your average Republican voter a large gun collection, a gas guzzling truck, a carton of Marlboro cigarettes, Oxycontin, crystal meth, moonshine, pulled pork, right wing radio, a white robe and a dunce cap and a confederate battle flag and they're happier than a pig in shit.

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Richest States vs Poorest States

It comes as no surprise that the poorest states in the union are Republican dominated and wealthiest states are dominated by liberal Democrats.  There is an old saying.... "If you want to live like a Republican vote for a Democrat.

To any degenerate Bible thumpin cousin humpin tea bagging Obama hating chicken hawk traitor reading this... ENJOY YOUR FACT ENEMA! 
9. Minnesota
> Median household income: $60,702
> Population: 5,420,380 (21st largest)
> Unemployment rate: 5.1% (9th lowest)
> Pct. Below poverty line: 11.2% (7th lowest)
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D- MN)   Senator Al Franken (D- MN) The current governor of Minnesota is Mark Dayton of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL).
While Minnesota is the ninth-richest state in the U.S., just 4.9% of households earned more than $200,000 annually, roughly in line with the percentage nationally. Minnesota’s income distristribution was less skewed towards the wealthy than that of most states. Its Gini coefficient was lower than that of 39 other states last year. The percentage of residents without health care was 8.2% last year and also among the lowest. However, the state’s insurance exchange, set up under the Affordable Care Act, has been rife with problems, including software glitches during the exchange’s rollout and the recent withdrawal of its most popular, and lowest-cost, insurers.

8. Virginia
> Median household income: $62,666
> Population: 8,260,405 (12th largest)
> Unemployment rate: 5.5% (13 lowest)
> Pct. Below poverty line: 11.7% (9th lowest)
The current holder of the office is Terry McAuliffe, who was sworn in on January 11, 2014. His term will expire on January 13, 2018. McAuliffe is a member of the Democratic Party
Nearly 8% of Virginia households earned more than $200,000 last year, more than in all but a handful of states. Like many wealthy states, Virginia residents’ incomes remained effectively unchanged last year compared to 2012. Like a number of wealthy states, Virginia’s unemployment rate of just 5.5% last year was much lower than the national rate of 7.4%. Vermont was also home to a large number of particularly wealthy households. Last year, 7.8% of all households in the state earned $200,000 or more, the fifth-highest rate in the nation.


7. New Hampshire
> Median household income: $64,230
> Population: 1,323,459 (9th smallest)
> Unemployment rate: 5.3% (10th lowest)
> Pct. Below poverty line: 8.7% (the lowest)
New Hampshire’s household median income in 2013 remained unchanged from 2012, reflecting little improvement in the residents’ standard of living. In other areas, however, New Hampshire’s economy showed improvement. Only 8.7% of the state’s roughly 1.3 million people lived below the poverty line in 2013, the lowest proportion in the country and down from 10% in 2012. High median incomes and a low poverty rate demonstrate how New Hampshire has one of the most equitable income distributions in the country. High median incomes likely also drove up home values. The median home value of $233,300 last year was among the higher levels nationwide. Just 10.7% of residents did not have health insurance in 2013, one of the lower rates in the country.
Democrat Maggie Hassan from Exeter is New Hampshire's Governor
6. Massachusetts
> Median household income: $66,768
> Population: 6,692,824 (14th largest)
> Unemployment rate: 7.1% (21st highest)
> Pct. Below poverty line: 11.9% (11th lowest)
Massachusetts is one of the wealthiest states in the U.S. and also among the nation’s most unequal. While 8.3% of state households had an income of $200,000 or more in 2013, the fourth highest percentage in the nation, 6.5% of households earned less than $10,000 last year, higher than in most of the other wealthiest states. Additionally, 12.9% of households relied on food stamp benefits last year, also higher than in most of the richest states. This figure is up considerably from 2009, when 9.4% of households relied on food stamps. On the other hand, perhaps no state, no state has a stronger track record of providing health coverage to residents than Massachusetts. Just 3.7% of the population was uninsured last year, the lowest rate nationwide.
The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the Commonwealth of MassachusettsUnited States. The current Governor is Democrat Deval Patrick. The next election will be in 2014, which will select a new governor as the incumbent Deval Patrick has stated that he will not seek re-election after his current term.
. Connecticut
> Median household income: $67,098
> Population: 3,596,080 (22nd smallest)
> Unemployment rate: 7.8% (38)
> Pct. Below poverty line: 10.7% (4th lowest)







4. Hawaii
> Median household income: $68,020
> Population: 1,404,054 (11th smallest)
> Unemployment rate: 4.8% (8th lowest)
> Pct. Below poverty line: 10.8% (5th lowest)
In addition to paradisal scenery and tropical weather, Hawaii residents are also among the nation’s wealthiest. A typical household earned more than $68,000 last year, considerably higher than the national household median income of $52,250. High incomes, as well as Hawaii’s own requirements for employers to provide workers with health coverage, have made health insurance more accessible in the state. Only 6.7% of residents did not have health insurance in 2013, less than half the national proportion of 14.5%. The cost of living in Hawaii, however, was higher than in every other state last year, most because many goods need to be shipped from the mainland.
The current Governor of Hawaii is Democrat Neil Abercrombie
3. New Jersey
> Median household income: $70,165
> Population: 8,899,339 (11th largest)
> Unemployment rate: 8.2% (10th highest)
> Pct. Below poverty line: 11.4% (8th lowest)
Offering easy commuting access to New York from the northern part of the state and to Philadelphia from the south, New Jersey households had the third highest median income in the country last year at $70,165. Additionally, nearly 10% of households had incomes of $200,000 or more , the highest rate in the country. In the midst of high incomes, however, there is also poverty. More than 11% of New Jersey residents lived in poverty in 2013, an increase from the year before. The portion of residents without health insurance also rose 0.5 percentage points between 2012 and 2013, one of the larger increases in the nation.
The Governor of New Jersey is Republican Chris Christie and we all know that he is a criminal
2. Alaska (Alaska is really and outlier because it has less than a million people and have more natural resources than any state)
> Median household income: $72,237
> Population: 735,132 (4th smallest)
> Unemployment rate: 6.5% (18th lowest)
> Pct. Below poverty line: 9.3% (2nd lowest)
While Alaskans were among the nation’s wealthiest as of last year, 18.5% of state residents didn’t have health insurance last year, one of the highest rates in the nation. Every other wealthy state, by contrast, had exceptionally low proportions of residents without health insurance. It remains to be seen whether the Affordable Care Act will improve health coverage in the state. Otherwise, Alaskans seem to be very well off. Fewer than one in 10 residents lived below the poverty line last year, lower than in every state except for New Hampshire. Income is also distributed relatively evenly across the state’s 735,132 residents. The state’s Gini coefficient was the lowest in the country last year.
The current governor is Republican Sean Parnell, who took office on July 26, 2009, following the resignation of QUITTER Sarah Palin. Parnell was elected to a full term in 2010.
1. Maryland
> Median household income: $72,483
> Population: 5,928,814 (19th largest)
> Unemployment rate: 6.6% (22nd lowest)
> Pct. Below poverty line: 10.1% (3rd lowest)
Maryland is the wealthiest state in the nation. The median household income was $72,483 in 2013, more than $20,000 higher than the national median income of $52,250. Additionally, few states had a higher proportion of high income households than Maryland, where 8.9% earned $200,000 or more in 2013. The state also had among the lowest poverty rates in the nation last year at just over 10% of the population. But despite their relative affluence, Maryland households have not been immune to the struggles most Americans have faced in recent years. From 2009 to 2013, the state’s poverty rate and the percentage of households on foodstamps rose, while the inflation-adjusted median household income fell.
The current Governor is Martin O'Malley, a Democrat and a former mayor of Baltimore 

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Friday, March 7, 2014

9 Distrurbing Facts About the South

Look, there are lots of things to love about the South.  There's delicious food, fat & gluttonous people and often amazing weather. But that's exactly why it makes us at Bigger Fatter Politics so sad to think about all the ways in which the region is struggling today.

First off, poverty rates are a lot higher in the South.
poverty map

Source: USDA
In fact, as many as one in four Southern kids lives in poverty, compared to the national average of one in five.

In the map above, red shading indicates a poverty rates between 17.9 and 22.8 percent. Orange indicates 15.9 to 17.8 percent; light orange, 12.2-15.8 percent; pale yellow, 9 to 12.1 percent. As you can see, there's a lot of high-poverty red in the South.
And minimum wages are much lower.
minimum wage
key

Source: Department Of Labor
Virtually no Southern states, with the exception of Florida, have a minimum wage higher than the federal floor of $7.25 an hour. Many Southern states do have relatively low living costs. But they are not dramatically lower than costs of living in other states, such as Ohio and Missouri, that have set minimum wages at least slightly higher than the national limit. The Southern states are doing the absolute minimum for their poorest citizens by keeping the minimum wage at the lowest levels possible.

And people living in the South are a lot less likely to move up the economic ladder.
mobility

Source: Equality Of Opportunity Project
If you want to achieve the American Dream, don't move to the South. That's because states in the South have extremely low levels of economic mobility. In the map above, pale yellow represents places with higher mobility, while red indicates low mobility.

Many living in poverty in the South are being denied access to affordable health care.
map 2

Source: Urban Institute

States that didn't choose to expand Medicaid under Obamacare are highlighted in lighter gray.
...which is costing these states a ton of money.
medicaid

Source: The Huffington Post

This map shows how much money the 19 states that rejected Medicaid expansion will lose by 2022 as a result of doing so (assuming all other states participate).

This is particularly troubling because the South has several health crises on its hands. Like obesity.
obesity

Source: CDC
Obesity rates are wonderfully high across the U.S. But they're particularly high in the South.
Southern states also have a higher percentage of cigarette smokers.
smokers

Source: The Huffington Post
Most Southern states have a higher percentage of smokers than anywhere else in the country. Incidentally, most Southern states have relatively low taxes on cigarettes.

And a much higher rate of teen births because fat girls are sluts.
teen births

Source: Zara Matheson + Atlantic Cities
The map plots birth rates among women ages 15 to 19. In states shaded dark blue, there are more than 50 births per 1,000 teenage women.

Perhaps all this is why some Southern states are among the least happy states in the country.
happy map

Source: Gallup
That's according to Gallup's recent "State of American Well-Being" report, which surveyed thousands of Americans and ranked states based on an average of six measures: "life evaluation," emotional health, physical health, healthy behaviors, work environment and basic access to things like food, water and shelter.