Elf Sternberg

I'm pretty sure that it's a federal requirement that the states impose car insurance on the residents but the details of how the insurance works are implemented by the state.

If medical insurance were done the same way... Hey. I live in California. We're left-leaning and would probably still have good coverage whereas the yokels in red-states would just fuck themselves over.

There's a mean part of me that's kind of for this. We goddamned California liberals create the lions share of the GDP and our taxes are constantly being fed to subsidies and welfare for red staters who then whine about it.

But. I grew up in rural Oklahoma and if it weren't for a decent public education system, I'd probably STILL be living with a bunch of ignorant slack-jawed rednecks and I know there are plenty of other people there who are like me and I'd rather not abandon them just because their society is populated by a bunch of selfish dumb asses.

I just don't get the conservative position on this one. "We're going to punish children and old people for the failures of Reaganomics and the stock market collapse!" How about we focus on creating some new industry in the US and actually prosecute the greedy fuckers that plunged us all into the recession? Seems like a better set of priorities than pissing on someone's poor sick grandmother.