Funny And True

4 Responses to “Funny And True”

1. TNVolunteer73 writes
   July 31st, 2009 5:18 pm

   Funny if you look at the Generosity index Red States give more to charity than Blue states.

   the highest ranked Blue state is not even in the top 50% New York is the 26th most genious State and is the top ranked Blue state.

   State Generosity
   index1 “Having”
   rank2 “Giving”
   rank3 Rank
   relation4
   Mississippi 1 50 5 45
   Arkansas 2 47 6 41
   Oklahoma 3 43 8 35
   Louisiana 4 42 10 32
   Alabama 5 38 7 31
   Tennessee 6 34 3 31
   South Dakota 7 44 14 30
   Utah 8 31 2 29
   South Carolina 9 40 12 28
   Idaho 10 41 20 21
   Wyoming 11 21 1 20
   Texas 12 23 4 19
   West Virginia 13 48 31 17
   Nebraska 14 35 19 16
   North Dakota 15 46 30 16
   North Carolina 16 27 15 12
   Kansas 17 25 18 7
   Florida 18 20 13 7
   Georgia 19 17 11 6
   Kentucky 20 39 33 6
   Montana 21 49 43 6
   Missouri 22 29 24 5
   New Mexico 23 45 40 5
   Alaska 24 24 21 3
   Indiana 25 28 29 –1
   New York 26 5 9 –4
   Iowa 27 36 44 –8
   Ohio 28 32 42 –10
   California 29 6 17 –11
   Maryland 30 4 16 –12
   Illinois 31 10 22 –12
   Maine 32 37 50 –13
   Delaware 33 13 27 –14
   Washington 34 11 25 –14
   Vermont 35 33 47 –14
   Oregon 36 26 41 –15
   Hawaii 37 30 45 –15
   Virginia 38 7 23 –16
   Arizona 39 22 38 –16
   Nevada 40 14 32 –18
   Pennsylvania 41 18 36 –18
   Michigan 42 16 35 –19
   Colorado 43 8 28 –20
   Connecticut 44 1 26 –25
   Minnesota 45 12 37 –25
   Wisconsin 46 19 46 –27
   New Jersey 47 2 34 –32
   Rhode Island 48 15 49 –34
   Massachusetts 49 3 39 –36
   New Hampshire 50 9 48 –39

   Average Adjusted Gross Income figures are from 2002.
   1. Generosity Index: The index is created by comparing the rank of each state’s average adjusted gross income to the rank of each state’s average itemized charitable deductions (AICD). The arithmetical differences between these two rankings are then themselves ranked, resulting in the Generosity Index rank.
   2. “Having” Rank: a ranking of the Average Adjusted Gross Income by state.
   3. “Giving” Rank: a ranking of the average donations by state.
   4. Rank Relation: Having Rank minus the Giving Rank.

2. Tom Paine writes
   July 31st, 2009 6:10 pm

   This proves nothing other than Republicans are more likely than Democrats to reduce complex issues to dry, shop-worn political gags.

   I think conservatives respond to old cliches like this because it makes them feel good about themselves and its easier than relating to people as individuals.

3. Stu writes
   July 31st, 2009 7:17 pm

   Tom Paine,

   Or this proves that partisian democrats like yourself have to change the subject to avoid looking bad and just attack your opponent.

4. TNVolunteer73 writes
   August 2nd, 2009 4:38 am

   no conservitives are more generious than Liberals, that is why Conservitives trust people more.

   Liberals are stingey, dont give their monies to charity, thus since they are stingey they think everyone else thus think Government is the do all end all for helping people.