Sam Brownback is the dream Republican governor! I wonder why none of his policies are working?
Financial projections released late Monday paint a grim picture for Kansas’s budget in the wake of Gov. Sam Brownback’s (R) decision to sign massive income tax cuts into law.
The estimates showed that the state is on track to collect $1 billion less in revenue next year and in 2016 than had previously been projected, according to the Kansas City Star.
The estimates also said the state will use up $380 million in reserves and still have to cut another $280 million for fiscal year 2015 to balance the state’s current budget. In addition, in 2016, revenues are expected to be $436 million short of expenditures according to the forecast.
You’d almost think they live in an economic fairyland, where Republicans wave their wands, create tax cuts and the economy suddenly booms!
When can we call an election illegitimate? When only 36% of the eligible voters show up at the polls to vote? When only 20% show up? How about when only 10% show up? Voter participation in last Tuesday’s election was the lowest it has been in 72 years. Since 1942. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. So it’s understandable why voter participation was so low in November, 1942, when wartime dislocation was taking place. The only explanation for last Tuesday’s dismal voter turnout is voter dissatisfaction. Clearly two-thirds of the eligible voters have given up on the political process and concluded that the system is rigged in favor of the 1%.
Brownback’s, or should I say ALEC’s, budget was a lie from the start. The goal was to destroy government, which they’re doing. Just ask the folks who’ve had paved roads since the 40’s that’s now being turned back to gravel. Or when they call for assistance and nobody show’s up. Rethug leadership, marching us back to the 19th century.
A deep Republican State get’s shafted by republican economics. The Democrats don’t remotely have the communication skills to nationalize the catastrophe that’s coming in Kansas. The predictor for 2016 is Wisconsin. If the Democrats could not defeat Walker with the worst economy in the Midwest, swirling funding scandals, Koch contamination and a proven bribe from mining interests, the prospects of overcoming the “it’s their turn” impulse of the electorate are grim.
As far as low voter turnout, don’t forget the R’s and the courts efforts to purge the voting lists of blacks and other minorities, as well as providing not enough working voting machines in their polling places so that they have to wait in long lines or maybe not even get a chance to vote.
During the summer of 2008, when even I knew what a cynical, conservative monster Obama was, and I was telling all my libtard Obamabot associates he was nothing like what they thought he was and that he was only going to make people feel more disenfranchised when he showed his true colors, they *all* told me it didn’t matter. What mattered was how he had energized and awakened a huge movement that would carry on and change the world, with or without his inspirational leadership. What was left of that nonsense was killed when Occupy got shut down. BTW, wasn’t Occupy supposedly a big game changer at one point, before it became a footnote?