GOVERNOR SAM DILDO

Brownback promised that the efforts would drive economic growth, create jobs and stabilize the Kansas budget. But the state is now reporting a more than $300 million revenue shortfall. The poverty rate increased. The state’s economy expanded a total of 2.3 percent in inflation-adjusted terms over the past two years, half the rate of its four neighbors. And Kansas’s credit rating has been downgraded.

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Look, you promise that through tax credits/deductions given to the rich that your state will increase revenues and through budget cuts, State debt will be abated.

Of course you cut state give-outs to the poor and the middle class, you increase the give-outs to the rich and....guess what? Unemployment goes up and the State debt goes up and....

So how can we 'fix' this problem?

WE SELL SEX TOYS!

Kansas governor Sam Brownback has been criticized in recent months for the apparent failure of his red-state “experiment,” a series of massive tax and spending cuts that has resulted in an estimated $300 million revenue shortfall. As the state attempts to cope with economic decline — and as Brownback fights to win reelection — Kansas officials have authorized a creative (and poorly timed) event to raise money: a sex toy auction.

The auction is intended to recoup unpaid tax revenue from adult entertainment purveyor Larry Minkoff, who allegedly resisted requests from the Kansas Department of Revenue for $163,986, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal. Minkoff’s assets were seized by state officials in a five-business raid in July, and he eventually agreed to sell the holdings at public auction and apply the profits to his tax debt. The Capital-Journal reports that customers can preview the “1000s of items” in Kansas City, Missouri on Monday, or purchase online.

hsee also.

Laffer told me that "what Sam Brownback has done is and will be extraordinarily beneficial for the state of Kansas," but many Kansans beg to differ. Brownback had said that his tax cut plan would provide "a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy." Instead, the state has gone into cardiac arrest. "The revenue projections were just horrendous once the tax cuts were put into place," Loomis says. The state's $700 million budget surplus is projected to dwindle into a $238 million deficit. Standard & Poor's and Moody's downgraded the state's bond rating earlier this year as a result. "The state's on a crisis course," says H. Edward Flentje, a professor emeritus of political science at Wichita State University who served alongside Brownback in the cabinet of Kansas Gov. Mike Hayden in the 1980s. "He has literally put us in a ditch."

BIG NATHAN DEAL

Georgia leads the nation with great progressive states like Mississippi and Louisiana in unemployment, low wages, lack of health care and just plain logic.

Georgia lowered taxes, just like its sister states, and it cut benefits for the poor and the middle class and its debt increased and its unemployment increased and....

“It’s ironic that in a year in which Republican governors are leading some of the states that are making the most progress, that they almost, without exception, are classified as having a bump in their unemployment rates,” he said in a clip circulated by the Democratic Governors Association. “Whereas states that are under Democrat governors’ control, they are all showing that their unemployment rate has dropped. And I don’t know how you account for that. Maybe there is some influence here that we don’t know about."

Strange to say, this outbreak of anti-compassionate conservatism hasn’t produced a job surge. In fact, the whole proposition that cruelty is the key to prosperity hasn’t been faring too well lately. Last week Nathan Deal, the Republican governor of Georgia, complained that many states with Republican governors have seen a rise in unemployment and suggested that the feds were cooking the books. But maybe the right’s preferred policies don't work?

WELL LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS.

If employment had gone up and debt gone down, well there are the same sources for stats!

I you create 45,000 jobs in the 'private sphere' (whatever the hell that means) and you fire 45,000 state employees (teachers and accountants and police and...) well...

YOU HAVE CREATED NO JOBS YOU ROTTEN PRICK.

HAHAHAH
 

So if the facts fail, blame it all on  stats.

WALKER

Wisconsin gained 28,141 private-sector jobs in 2013, a 1.2% increase, and the state ranked 37th in the pace of job creation. In 2012, Wisconsin was 36th; it was 35th in 2011.

Nationally, private-sector jobs were created at a rate of 2.1% during 2013, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Those statistics, known as the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, are considered the most credible and comprehensive gauge of job growth. The data are based on a canvas of 96% of the nation's employers in the public and private sectors.

You get it?

He fires tens of thousands of state workers, strips the remaining employees of pay and pension benefits, gives all the fat to the rich and ends up far behind in debt and in unemployment rates. Just compare its sister State Minnesota with all these stats.

Voting rights are most probably my prime issue.

And the abuse of women by the repubs to somehow destroy a young woman's ability to find health support from agencies like Planned Parenthood and access to proper contraception and to get some diagnosis for their ailments. Hell, that has to be a close second.

But it is the repubs who keep screaming:

JOBS JOBS JOBS

DEBT DEBT DEBT

and they aint helpin anyone but the rich and powerful.

AND THERE IS MORE DEBT AND MORE UNEMPLOYMENT AND LOWER WAGES.

I know this sounds like a communism....

But damn, communism is starting to look real good to this old codger.

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