Lies and more lies. "Some people simply don’t care" and Kansas governor Brownback is one of them.

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It’s As Nutty As a Sack Full of Peanuts!
By Lucinda, September 7, 2014

What happens when you drastically cut taxes on the wealthy and when you cut taxes to zero on every sole proprietorship in the state?

It’s like what happens when you quit your second job. Your income goes down. Your bills get harder to pay. Forget increasing your savings. The dental work will need to be cut from your to-do list. Maybe if you’re lucky the braces for your son will go down in price if you wait.

I’m not fond of comparing an individual’s financial situation with that of a government entity. They’re really not the same. But in this case, it works.

What about borrowing? Yes, you can do that… whether you’re a government entity or an individual, but perhaps you’ll need to go back to that second job to pay the notes on that debt. Or if you’re a government, you’ll either have to raise taxes to pay for it, or you’ll have to forgo raises to employees who have not had a raise in years and who may jump ship if that keeps up. Or you could just cut services to the most vulnerable citizens. They’re not important. After all, they have no money to support your political campaigns.

What happens when every state around you, who didn’t cut taxes so drastically, are recovering better than you are?

If you’re the governor and the legislature who made the decisions to do those things, you’re looking pretty bad to most of the citizens.

Lying your way out of it might be your only hope.

LIE #1:

“Brownback said that when he came into office, the state had $876 cash in the bank. That figure, however, is from six months before he took office at the end of June 2010.

When Brownback took office, the state had more than $200 million cash on hand. Davis told the governor to stop using the other figure.”

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/election/article1698379.html#storylink=cpy

Since he couldn’t blame this one on Obama, he decided to blame it on Parkinson (who actually is a Republican who switched just to run as Lt. Governor with Sebelius). The only problem is that it’s a lie—proven over and over. If there is a single voter in Kansas who has not yet heard that this is a lie, then FOX must not be talking about it.

LIE #2:

Record amounts have been spent on public schools.

This is what is called a lie by omission. You omit the fact that there were cuts to base state aid per pupil.  When you’re reminded of this fact you have to fall back on the old “IT’S OBAMA’S FAULT” lie.

One way we can know there were cuts in state aid to schools is to ask the schools what they’ve had to cut since Governor Brownback came into office and he and the legislature used Koch money to oust the moderate Republicans from office.  I’ve heard a lot of stories on that. The one I’m most familiar with came to me from someone I know in Topeka. She told me that her child with ADHD was turned down for summer school because fund cuts meant they couldn’t hire enough teachers for all the students who needed it.

LIE #3:

Expanding Medicaid will cost the citizens more in that big “someday” in the sky.

And why will it cost citizens more?

Because “IT’S OBAMA’S FAULT,” again.

One big way Medicaid expansion would benefit Kansans financially is that the hospitals would not be charging insured Kansans for medical needs of non-insured Kansans. Hospitals would not be going out of business or struggling all over the state because of the refusal to expand Medicaid.

And YOU WILL and already ARE paying the taxes to the feds to pay for this expansion, and you will continue to be taxed by the feds to pay for it... but your governor said, no, let that money go to blue state citizens.

YOU are at fault for that if you back Brownback in doing this.

If not for him that money would be coming BACK to you in the form of cheaper medical costs because you wouldn’t have to pay for the uninsured.

That is not to mention the fact that many of your relatives, friends, neighbors, and fellow church-goers who are not as lucky as you are will not be able to have medical care before they show up at the emergency room… dead or dying. But that’s not what I wanted to talk about. It has been talked about and talked about. Some people simply don’t care.

I'm truly at a loss to understand why the hatred of Obama can be so strong that you're willing to pay for expanded Medicaid in taxes that you then turn around and refuse to get back. And all you can say is (a) it’s Obama’s fault, and (b) it will bring Armageddon in that nebulous someday if we opt into expanded Medicaid today.

It's about as nutty as a sack full of peanuts.
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