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    GOV'S BIG DEAL & SAM DILDO

    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.

    and here.

    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.

    hahahhah

     

     


     

     

    Comments

    Well said, DD.   I just don't understand why Democrats aren't pounding away at the failures of Republican ideas... Dems just keep letting the GOP get away with their favorite lines of b.s.; that cutting taxes on the rich will create jobs and cutting benefits for the poor will fix the deficit.  Brownback was supposed to be the shining example of Conservative ideas at work that would prove Liberals wrong for a generation.  But just the opposite happened.   The ideas proved to be a disaster.  Brownback should be losing by 15 points, but he was still in a competitive race the last time I looked.  What the f*ck does it take to dislodge the stranglehold this GOP nonsense has on the minds of some voters?  I wish I knew and whatever it is, I wish Democrats would start doing it ... with a vengence.
     


    It all seems so  clear to me!

    I guess I have skewed vision or something.

    But why the dems don't hammer these issues home in TV ads is beyond me.

    HERE ARE THE DEBT NUMBERS.

    HERE ARE THE UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS.

    HERE ARE THE STATS RELATING TO LOWER WAGES.....


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    MSM does not supply the public with facts. Unless you do online searches our read select news sources offline, you will not get anything approaching truth. The easiest thing to do when you get home from work is to sit and take in the infotainment on TV news.


    I guess that graphs just do not sell.

    Economic stats don't sell.

    Before and after comparisons backed up with proper documentation do not sell.

    The best we can do involves Jon Stewart I guess.


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    Brownback needs a GOP Jesus and guns moment. Although the dildo thing is good, I'm not sure Jesus would buy in on that.

    To take focus back on things that really motivate The Base, and don't cost anything. Like talk and chest thumping about guns and poor pregnant women.

    Arming teachers, guns on campus, guns at sporting events, guns at bars (or else the gun gets stolen in the car), guns in public buildings except Guvs office or at his appearances, no limit on gun purchase, sales, no records of gun buys, no limit on magazine sizes, target practice starting in pre-school (peoples legislature can decide age, most Kansans are shooting squirrels by age 4) and fetus rights and Kansas fetal personhood.

    Kansas could mandate church, parental, grandparent, court sanctioned and extended family permission requirements for use of contraceptives. 

    NO UN TAKEOVER OF KANSAS! Banning any record keeping on guns.  ID showing, fees, forms, Fed approval or restrictions on 2nd Amendment rights of all Kansans, or anyone in Kansas, should be argued on until election day (and then dropped).

    Those are issues to base a campaign on, and campaigns are what Republicans do and live by.


    Gov Sam is now referencing some strip club incident involving his opponent decades ago.

    Irony.

    I will say this, if liberals lose on the voting rights issues, we lose every time!


    I forgot again.

    I hereby render unto NCD the Dayly Line of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, given to all of him from all of me for this gem:

    Brownback needs a GOP Jesus and guns moment. Although the dildo thing is good, I'm not sure Jesus would buy in on that.

    THAT IS PRETTY DAMN GOOD.

    HAHAHAH


    I thought Florida was weird. 


    Once again you have me laughing so hard. hahahhahah

    Yeah, Florida almost looks good compared to these states. hahahah

    God I hope you end up with Crist.

    I used to despise Christ. 

    hahahhaha

    Anything is better than Skeletor.

    hahahahah

    I like you Momoe. 

    I dunno, can your peeps stand in line long enough?

    It is an arduous task for  sure.

    I hope these folks keep on keepin on like you!


    We are going to go early to vote.  It is a short trip to vote early. They closed my voting place and I will have to drive to the county line to vote on Tues. Early vote I have to only drive a mile and a half.  So we go early.  I went to the new voting place for the primary as a test run.  They gave my grand daughter a bad time but they finally let her vote.  It is better to go stand in line for early voting because it doesn't matter where you are suppose to vote. I expect this county will make national news on election night.  There are going to be all kinds of problems and he loves the publicity that he gets as a tea bagger. 

    Many of the liberal sites are now getting worried that the republicans have this election all sewed up.  This election feels different then 2010.  There has been an awakening of certain groups of voters.  Democrats are on the ground working hard in Florida.  If the Democrat voter sinks turn out in this election then the state wide offices will be Democrat.  Crist has a big event planned for Souls to the Polls Day.  He has been going to all the churches in his campaign to visit in the minority neighborhoods.  He is running a very good campaign for Florida politics.  He has a very good running mate for Lt. Gov. 

     


    Keep up the good work and il legitimiti nil carborundum est.



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