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The Oklahoma Editorial
Published: September 12, 2010
Liberals will find fodder in a report showing Oklahoma gets so much benefit from federal largesse. So much, in fact, that perhaps its citizens should stop opposing the federal government's rapid expansion. And stop giving U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, a deficit hawk, a virtual free pass to re-election this year.
Oklahoma ranked 26th in federal spending per person in the 2009 fiscal year. That puts us just below a national average inflated on the high end by Alaska and Virginia and offset on the low end by Utah and Nevada.
U.S. Census Bureau data has the state just about where you'd expect it to be — smack in the middle statistically, just as it's smack in the middle geographically. Yet the state is 11th in per capita wages and salaries paid to federal employees, including the military, and 12th in the amount spent for retirement and disability.
So what about that liberal plea to ease up on the deficit carping? FULL ARTICLE
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Sun, September 12, 2010
by Crystal Drwenski