Republican Kansas Governor: Pensioners Are Freeloaders
http://reverbpress.com/uncategorized/republican-kansas-governor-pensioners-are-freeloaders-copy/Governor Sam Brownback (R-KS) took the governor’s mansion by storm and quickly became the darling of the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. Through strong arming and other politically coercive measures, Brownback ramrodded piece after piece of conservative legislation through the statehouse, cutting tax rates for the state’s uber-wealthy and providing huge tax incentives to corporations, all in the hopes that the long disproved trickle-down theory of economics would yield a modern-day conservative utopia. The state’s terminal budget shortfalls, paired with a recently downgraded credit rating are showing Brownback’s supposed utopia is actually appearing to be more of a hellscape.
Less than two years on from the implementation of Brownback’s draconian tax policies meant to punish those in the lowest economic strata, the state’s revenues have plummeted by $250,000,000. Yes, you read that right. The state is taking in over a quarter-billion less in tax revenue. Brownback has the perfect solution, though. He thinks the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System’s (KPERS) pension program looks a little bloated. He believes withholding the legally mandated $40 million the state must make to the pension program will go a long way to digging the state out of the budgetary hole that he personally dug....
Stealing money from the pockets of retirees is definitely not a popular political position to find one’s self in. To shoulder the fleecing of those previously promised the benefits commensurate with a state career, Brownback is now throwing his Republican legislature to the wolves, stating that the lawmakers need to be involved in deciding where to make actual budget cuts. Brownback’s plan to pull money from existing expenditures rather than enact actual cuts and entertain increasing state revenues will effectively kick the can down the road, with the state’s non-partisan legislative research body predicting the budget shortfall for Fiscal Year 2015 will almost double to nearly $500 billion. And now, even fellow state Republicans are starting to turn on the beleaguered Brownback.
And this meatball just got reelected?
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Is that a thing? A reference? A politician?
I've been saying this about Republican governors for a while but wasn't aware that it had a name.
"You gots to suffer if you want to sing the blues"
I'm sure fox and friends were all for Brownback. I bet from 99% of the pulpits came a ringing endorsement of this thieving puppet of the koch bros.
Americans are the most foolish and easily scammed people on the planet.
You elected a thief only interested in protecting and serving the 1% Kansas and it was no secret so..suck it up, bend over and enjoy?
You get what you asked for.
There is a new robbing hood in town and his name is Sam Brownback, of Kansas.
Hey, Kansas do you think a politician or having someone run in your state with a R in front of there name is going to really help you?
How does it really feel to go into a voting booth and vote against your own self interests.
And when you see the big old R in front of there name on the ballot you ogle and in awe of the power of being deceived and then get saddled with a debt because of your failure to see the hypocrisy in the REPRESSION / DEPRESSION by one Sam Brownback and his cronies, you can only support this facade for so long .
Has anyone with any common sense asked what your bond rating is with Standard and Poor's, I have one its called CR***P F.
Well guess what with a 250 billion short fall it would appear that some people with lots of wealth and not paying there taxes and should be paying there bill and they are called the Koch and the wealthy hypocrites in your state are the freeloaders.
But then again the logic in your state is to pay a college football coach over 2.4 million a year just to get a title, well you have one now and its called "WHAT's THE MATTER WITH KANSAS".
Just maybe when someone has a D or I in front of there name you might reconsider your blind allegiance to the big R, because apparently this buffoon thinks the retirees should pay the bill and the others down the economic food chain.
Good luck, because you are therefore going broke and you are going to have to sell the entire state to the Chinese or the Saudi Arabia or whoever has the cash to balance your books, and I don't think the rest of us are going to appreciate that if you do.
Seriously. 
