The Kansas December 2017 unemployment rate of 3.4% was the 14th lowest in the country. Kansas ranks average fiscally. Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Maryland suck hard. Kentucky basically cut back paying into their union pension programs in lieu of raising taxes and that bit them pretty hard. Illinois’ situation is hopeless. https://www.mercatus.org/statefiscalrankings
"... Back in 1927, an American socialist, Norman Thomas, made a stunning validation of the ideological link between liberalism and socialism, and inadvertently acknowledged the inherently fraudulent nature of the American liberalism when he clairvoyantly asserted that The American people would never vote for socialism,… [but] under the name of liberalism [nowadays rebranded as progressivism], the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day, America will be a socialist nation without even knowing how it happened. The Democratic Party has been slowly accomplishing the amalgamation since the 1930s, dismantling American Judeo-Christian values and fomenting the ideological transformation of this country via public education, endorsement of socialist policies, proliferation of the welfare state and polarization of racial relations. The progression gained force with Franklin Roosevelt’s Economic Bill of Rights, which had its ideological roots in Russian Bolshevism...." https://www.americanthinker.com/art...brand_the_democratic_party_as_socialists.html
%% HAVENT DONE a study on that lately; but IBD edictorial page did-they were spending way to much money....................................................................................................So if that is still true this year ,its real hard to out earn stupid[ovespending/sloppy budget]??
Oh, so you are the typical ignorant deluded evangelical religious Jeezum nut waiting for the rapture.
Jesus was anti big govt. Big govt and crooked cronies crucified him for speaking his mind. He clearly advocated personal charity and responsibility.
No doubt Stalin or Mao or just about any other socialist party leader would have killed Jesus very quickly. If you attracted a crowd you were against the state.