There is some interesting research and dialog going on in the US regarding the welfare habits of conservative voters. Paul Krugman has a teaser here.
Interesting in the sense that these "so called conservatives" are often gung ho about "small Government and reducing Government services and making people fend for themselves and being self sufficient and getting rid of that socialist Obamacare" and other faux blah blah.
Apparently, they want to get Government out of everyone's lives except their own.
And they want to downsize all Government services except the *war service* - which they want to increase. Dickheads.
Turns out that the places where these *conservatives* live are actually more reliant on Government services than the average.
It looks to me like these *conservatives* have managed to find a nice secure little lifestyle courtesy of their Government welfare systems and now they want to stop anyone else from gaining access to them. They are agitating to close them down - for everyone but themselves.
In other words they are gaming the system. And they don't want you to know about it.
My guess is that we have a similar situation here in Australia. Lots of weirdo wingnuts on welfare sitting at home watching TV, tweeting and responding to blog posts all day and pontificating about wasteful Government spending etc. While they throw down another VB.
Actually that last para was a bit "tongue in cheek" - in reality it will be the folks who were targeted by little Johnny and his "vote buying middle class welfare" project. Of course by now that largesse has become an *entitlement*.
Many of the recipients probably don't even remember what it was for - they just remember to vote for the Liberals - because they are the party of handouts.
It may even take another electoral cycle before these folks realise that the vote buying *handouts* have disappeared - probably forever.
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