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Republican socialism. (Insider Report).(hundreds of millions of dollars in federal spending shifted to Republican districts)(Brief Article)

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"The 1994 revolution that gave Republicans control of the House of Representatives produced a seismic shift in federal spending, moving tens of billions of dollars from Democratic to GOP districts," reported the Associated Press on August 6th. Where the Democrat Party prefers to redistribute wealth to poor rural and urban areas, the Republicans favor lavishing government largesse on "more affluent suburbs and GOP-leaning farm country.... The result was an average of $612 million more in federal spending last year for congressional districts represented by Republicans than for those represented by Democrats," according to the AP.

Republican House districts "that received an average of $3.9 billion in 1995 ballooned to $5.8 billion in 2001, a 52 percent increase," noted the story. ...

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