FL.Dem.Gov.Candidate Wants A Socialist Confederacy

To Share The Benefits of Socialism ... Misery And Insolvency

Democrat Candidate, for Governor of Florida, Andrew Gillum, is riding this lame horse, News Tagline into this important race ....

FBI probe casts shadow over Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum

Appearing on CNN, Gillum called for a “confederation of states,” or a confederacy. “Well, let me tell you,” Gillum said to Chris Cuomo about making the state have a more socialist agenda. “I think for Florida to move in that direction, we would have to do it as a confederation of states. We could not do it by ourselves solely here in the state of Florida because it would collapse the system. We would only attract the sickest of patients and it wouldn’t work.”

Cuomo cluelessly replied “I like that confederacy of states. I haven’t heard that before.”

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Gillum’s agenda includes a $15 an hour minimum wage, abolishing ICE, single-payer health care, and massively increasing taxes across the board. Like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and other socialist crazies, Gillum has had praise heaped on him from the Media.
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My Comment...

I can understand Gillum's Socialist mindset in wanting other states to help his guru fantasy of free everything for everyone (Democrat types mostly) in Florida.

To analyze just one area of his socialist agenda, Health Care, for instance. Gillum and all his prospective "Confederacy" States know that Florida has the largest percentage of old elderly people of our 50 states and he would need a bunch of states with fewer retirees in them to offset the large number in Florida. But, wake up, the low retiree states are not going to be lured into Gillium's  Socialist Shangri-la Shanghai as he, either a dreamer or a liar, "says" his plan "hopes" for. Who he will get, to join his Confederacy are the states who also have large retiree populations. The top ten, who average 17% retirees, include Florida with 19.06%  and Arizona with 15.90%. All ten of those might join his Confederacy. But the top ten largest retiree states, could not even begin to carry their Health Care costs without the lowest retiree states sharing their load. But the lowest ten retirement population states ranging from Virginia 13.78% to Alaska 10.49% just are not going to help carry Florida with 19.06%.  Plainly, Gillum's Utopian paradise of perfect bliss is the phantom in this opera of foggy mist, just like Obama Care which was forced upon all 50 states, and is rapidly failing anyway. But it shook Ameicans loose from their secure positions with their doctors, hospitals and insurance companies in the process. What a mess.

Now this kind of Mombo Jumbo, Gobbledygook is so typical of the Obamas, Clintons, Jesse Jacksons, Al Sharptons, Polosis and Gillums et al, of the Socialist (Democrat) world, and it keeps fooling half the voters of our nation. But, those same voters seemingly want to be lied to because they just cannot face facts, reality, and truth and their credit reports nearly always reflect their free pie in the sky mentality.

When will Liberal Socilists "come to themselves" as the Prodigal son did, in the pig pin, and return to sanity, logic, reason and truth, and let this country thrive on our Constitutional, Free Enterprise, American system, which it had for nearly 250 years ... until now? 

Bottom line is, let us bottom in welfare, lowest taxes, free enterprise, constitution loving states create our own Confederacy.
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The following is from the World Atlas

The US States With the Oldest Populations

In 2013, there were 44.5 million elderly persons in the United States. This constitutes about 14.1 percent of America’s total population translating to one elderly person in every seven Americans. Statistics also show that come 2060 there will be approximately 98 million elderly people in the United States. By elderly we are referring to those who are aged 65 years and above. 

Number of American Senior Citizens Will Continue to Rise 

Interestingly enough, the age group of those aged 85 years old and above have shown the fastest growth in the United States over the last ten years. In the centuries since the country’s founding, US life expectancy at birth has more than doubled. It had increased to 47 years by the early 1900s, and further rose to 68 years by the year 1950. By 1991, life expectancy for women was at 79 years while men were at 72 years. Today, experts say that when American reach the age of 65, they can, on average, be expected to live for 17 years more. What’s more, with the technological advancements brought about by the medical field as well as the populace’s heightened awareness of healthy lifestyles and the benefits of exercise, it won’t come as a surprise that, with the spike in birth rates that brought them into the world and their longer life expectancies, the ‘Baby Boom’ generation has pushed the US elderly population to record levels as well. 

California and Florida's Leading Positions 

Of all the states in the United States, Florida has the highest percentage of senior citizens, followed closely by Maine, West Virginia, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Montana, Delaware, Hawaii, Oregon and Arizona. However, as far as the absolute statistics are concerned, California still holds the record as having the largest actual number of elderly persons. 

It’s only logical that America’s most densely populated states are also those having the greatest numbers of persons who are 65 years of age and older. Back in 1993, there were nine states who had over 9 million elderly people. California, of course, topped the list then too, with Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and New Jersey behind it. 

Regional Trends in Age Group Demographics 

Intriguingly, the states with the biggest proportions of senior citizens were typically not the same as the states with the largest actual numbers of elderly. Exceptions to this were Pennsylvania, where 16 percent were 65 years and above, and Florida, where 19 percent were elderly. These two states were among the top 10 in terms of both total numbers and relative percentages of elderly, which were attributed to a net positive immigration of elderly greater than that seen among younger persons. Indeed, the younger generation’s migration patterns across the US have often been quite contrary to those seen in the older population. 

The variations in each of the states’ age profiles are identified mainly by migration and fertility, especially since mortality rates are more or less uniform across the states. Furthermore, even though the southern states are considered alluring for people who are moving on to retirement, the Midwest and the Northeast states do have the highest percentages of elderly relative to their total populations. 

Percentage Of Senior Citizens By State 

Rank	State	Percentage of population over 65 years old
1	Florida	19.06 %
2	Maine	18.24 %
3	West Virginia	17.78 %
4	Vermont	17.02 %
5	Pennsylvania	16.69 %
6	Montana	16.62 %
7	Delaware	16.43 %
8	Hawaii	16.07 %
9	Oregon	15.97 %
10	Arizona	15.90 %
11	Rhode Island	15.84 %
12	Iowa	15.79 %
13	New Hampshire	15.79 %
14	South Carolina	15.76 %
15	Arkansas	15.68 %
16	Ohio	15.50 %
17	Connecticut	15.44 %
18	Michigan	15.44 %
19	Alabama	15.39 %
20	Missouri	15.37 %
21	New Mexico	15.25 %
22	Wisconsin	15.21 %
23	South Dakota	15.16 %
24	Tennessee	15.07 %
25	Massachusetts	15.06 %
26	Kentucky	14.80 %
27	North Carolina	14.69 %
28	New Jersey	14.68 %
29	New York	14.66 %
30	Oklahoma	14.48 %
31	Nebraska	14.39 %
32	Idaho	14.38 %
33	Kansas	14.38 %
34	Indiana	14.27 %
35	Mississippi	14.27 %
36	Minnesota	14.25 %
37	North Dakota	14.16 %
38	Nevada	14.11 %
39	Washington	14.06 %
40	Illinois	13.88 %
41	Virginia	13.78 %
42	Maryland	13.76 %
43	Wyoming	13.75 %
44	Louisiana	13.57 %
45	California	12.87 %
46	Colorado	12.69 %
47	Georgia	12.37 %
48	Texas	11.49 %
49	Utah	10.02 %
50	Alaska                 9.49%