It's good for the Blue states that they have the type of income to handle failures of the federal government.

Take for example this article titled, "The States Step In As Medicare Falters
Seniors Being Turned Away, Overcharged Under New Prescription Drug Program"

This is confirmation of two aspects of the Give Up theory.

1. This administration is determined to disable the federal government not by cutting funding, but my rendering it defective.
   
2. In the face of an ineffective federal government, red states will suffer more than the blue states because they rely more extensively on federal subsidization of their defective economies.
   

From the article:

Computer glitches, overloaded telephone lines and poorly trained pharmacists are being blamed for mix-ups that have resulted in the worst of unintended consequences: As many as 6.4 million low-income seniors, who until Dec. 31 received their medications free, suddenly find themselves navigating an insurance maze of large deductibles, co-payments and outright denial of coverage.

Yesterday, Ohio and Wisconsin announced that they will cover the drug costs of low-income seniors who would otherwise go without, joining every state in New England as well as California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Dakota and New Jersey.

"This new prescription drug plan was supposed to be a voluntary program to help people who didn't have coverage," said Jeanne Finberg, a lawyer for the National Senior Citizens Law Center. "All this is doing is harming the people who had coverage -- America's most vulnerable citizens."

This is a perfect example of what this blog is dedicated to proving. Republican sabotage of the federal government makes peoples lives harder and certain states are better at making up the slack than others. Go look at the map in our banner and think "all of new england, Cali, Illinois, Pennsyvania, NJ, +4 red states." That means roughly 55% of blue states are already stepping in to help their citizens while only 4 red states or about 12% have done anything.

Keep voting Republican Red staters, at least our states can handle the fallout.