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Radish posted:I don't want to get into a quagmire where we are stuck occupying Kansas for decades after going in there.
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The best solution at this point is to quietly cut off all roads leading out of Kansas and to loop them around into roads leading back into Kansas. After that, they can just announce all airports have been closed to save precious tax dollars. Once that's done, all that's left is to watch.
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Oct 28, 2015 04:22
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Adventure Pigeon posted:The best solution at this point is to quietly cut off all roads leading out of Kansas and to loop them around into roads leading back into Kansas. After that, they can just announce all airports have been closed to save precious tax dollars. Once that's done, all that's left is to watch. Who do we repopulate it with?
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Oct 28, 2015 04:25
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People would just cross the border off-road and over the prairies. The best solution is a fence imo.
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Oct 28, 2015 04:25
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Can't we arm and support a Kiowa insurgency in carving out a semi-autonomous zone to give us a foothold in the region?
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Oct 28, 2015 04:40
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Crowsbeak posted:Who do we repopulate it with?
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Oct 28, 2015 05:04
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It might be interesting to track the degree to which Kansas is cited by politicians in neighboring states. I mean, they're all pushing the same poo poo, but I wonder if they've stopped mentioning Kansas by name when trying to sell it.
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Oct 28, 2015 05:18
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My dad is active in an Oklahoma Tea Party group (with the delightfully fascist name 9/12 Society or somesuch) and during Brownback's honeymoon they invited him to events in Oklahoma, my dad went on about how Sebelius left the state with no money in the treasury, Brownback is going to revitalize the economy and let the job creators get to work, etc etc. He hasn't mentioned him for quite a while now so it seems like the Oklahoma Tea Party has just quietly let Kansas fall to the wayside while continuing the push for the same civilization-wrecking policies to destroy anything good and light surviving in Oklahoma.
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Oct 28, 2015 05:42
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VitalSigns posted:anything good and light surviving in Oklahoma. Lol
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Oct 28, 2015 05:57
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 Hey.At least we're not Kansas 
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Oct 28, 2015 07:42
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I blame the DNC more than anyone else, because Brownback was a known quantity when they took Sebelius. He was angling to be governor for years, and everyone knew that it would take a special kind of centrist to get the JoCo vote.
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Oct 28, 2015 09:14
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VitalSigns posted:My dad is active in an Oklahoma Tea Party group (with the delightfully fascist name 9/12 Society or somesuch) and during Brownback's honeymoon they invited him to events in Oklahoma, my dad went on about how Sebelius left the state with no money in the treasury, Brownback is going to revitalize the economy and let the job creators get to work, etc etc. He hasn't mentioned him for quite a while now so it seems like the Oklahoma Tea Party has just quietly let Kansas fall to the wayside while continuing the push for the same civilization-wrecking policies to destroy anything good and light surviving in Oklahoma. i'm with you i wish my home state would not try to make sure it remains a shithole for all eternity
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Oct 28, 2015 09:21
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Babylon Astronaut posted:I blame the DNC more than anyone else, because Brownback was a known quantity when they took Sebelius. He was angling to be governor for years, and everyone knew that it would take a special kind of centrist to get the JoCo vote. Nah screw that. The opposing party is to blame for our success and subsequent failure is too fantastical even for the GOP. They just loving suck.
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Oct 28, 2015 11:02
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Adventure Pigeon posted:The best solution at this point is to quietly cut off all roads leading out of Kansas and to loop them around into roads leading back into Kansas. After that, they can just announce all airports have been closed to save precious tax dollars.
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Oct 28, 2015 16:01
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So... how was it the case that they were going to cut all funding to the judiciary a month ago and nothing has imploded yet? Did they just... back down?
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Oct 28, 2015 16:29
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Crows Turn Off posted:My problem with letting Kansas serve as a warning is that they don't actually seem to be learning anything from it. Despite the objective failures in Kansas, other states are still incorporating similar fiscal policies, and talking about how good these policies are. That's because the economy has not affected rich folks yet. They are enjoying their tax breaks now, but wait until the crime rate starts to rise.
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Oct 28, 2015 20:19
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kiimo posted:You're talking about funneling money to Lawrence and Johnson County, the rest of the state fears this above all else. I don't think there are enough Democrats in JoCo to make a difference. The only reason it was so close last election (49% Brownback to 47% Davis) was because there was a 3rd party Libertarian candidate that siphoned off 3% of the vote that would've gone to Brownback.
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Oct 28, 2015 20:26
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ikanreed posted:So... how was it the case that they were going to cut all funding to the judiciary a month ago and nothing has imploded yet? The court ruling which would have struck down the law containing the "dead man's switch" for judicial funding was placed on hold, pending appeal of the dead man's switch provisions. To my understanding, it's currently pending review in federal courts.
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Oct 29, 2015 05:48
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Crowsbeak posted:Who do we repopulate it with? Native Americans. Imprison the conservative population of Kansas for life. Give everyone left $250000 and tell them to git to another part of the country. Close some of the poorer and smaller Indian reservations. Tell them they need to work together to form a new tribe and they can just have Kansas.
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Oct 29, 2015 16:24
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enraged_camel posted:That's because the economy has not affected rich folks yet. They are enjoying their tax breaks now, but wait until the crime rate starts to rise. They'll just adopt measures like Ferguson where they fine the gently caress out of poor people to pay for protecting the rich from them. Or make a killing off of prison labor. There's always money for cops, even if it's less efficient than having functioning social services.
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Oct 29, 2015 16:30
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WorldsStrongestNerd posted:Native Americans. A tornado plagued land where the Earth has literally deformed from the draining of the aquifer. Always got to find a new way to screw the Natives, huh?
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Oct 29, 2015 20:42
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WorldsStrongestNerd posted:Native Americans. 
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Oct 30, 2015 00:41
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They just closed their football program after about 100 years of play. The plight of the modern reservation depresses the hell out of me.
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Oct 30, 2015 00:43
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I'm not saying I want the Republic to die, but I am saying I want to see Emperor Obama lead a triumph where he throws the severed heads of Brownback and the Kochs on the capitol steps.
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Nov 3, 2015 16:06
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Looks like Kansas is up for another vicious fight to balance the budget since new revenue projections do not look good.quote:Kansas' current fiscal forecast projects state tax collections of $6.2 billion for this fiscal year and $6.4 billion for the fiscal year that begins in July 2016. The state's total annual budget is $15.3 billion. After recent tax collections fell $67 million, or 4.7 percent, short, Kansas is expecting to have little in the way of a cushion of cash reserves at the end of June 2016.
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Nov 3, 2015 20:43
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"We've tried everything - we've cut social services, we've cut the education budget, we cut social services again, we cut education again.... I guess the only choice now is to cut social services and education again."
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Nov 3, 2015 21:32
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Crows Turn Off posted:"We've tried everything - we've cut social services, we've cut the education budget, we cut social services again, we cut education again.... I guess the only choice now is to cut social services and education again." Have you tried "kill all the poor"?
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Nov 3, 2015 21:47
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I predict that KU's going to get state assistance zeroed out this time. Except for the basketball program, of course, because some things are more important than education.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I predict that KU's going to get state assistance zeroed out this time. Except for the basketball program, of course, because some things are more important than education. Unironically.
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Nov 4, 2015 01:55
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The official report comes out tomorrow, but it looks like forcasts will be a shortfall of 150million by next July. Wonder how long before this experiment kills the ks school system. Kc will be hard up after that, lovely schools on both sides of the boarder
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Nov 6, 2015 00:27
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fishhooked posted:lovely schools on both sides of the boarder Right?
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Nov 6, 2015 00:32
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I'm sure the free market will provide. Just give it time. And remember, any solution attempted before the market can act is an action that was taken too soon.
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Nov 6, 2015 00:35
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fishhooked posted:The official report comes out tomorrow, but it looks like forcasts will be a shortfall of 150million by next July. Wonder how long before this experiment kills the ks school system. Kc will be hard up after that, lovely schools on both sides of the boarder The schools in Lee's Summit and Blue Springs are fine. If JoCo people are really that worried they can flee to those areas. They're basically the same anyway. Kansas slashes revenue estimate, announces budget adjustments So basically this again: Crows Turn Off posted:"We've tried everything - we've cut social services, we've cut the education budget, we cut social services again, we cut education again.... I guess the only choice now is to cut social services and education again."
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Nov 7, 2015 16:11
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fknlo posted:The schools in Lee's Summit and Blue Springs are fine. If JoCo people are really that worried they can flee to those areas. They're basically the same anyway. According to one of the commenters, even the "positives" are actually lies. They cite an increase in small businesses in the state, but apparently the overwhelming majority of those were already in the state and simply changed their tax status to take advantage of the zero income tax policy, and have only one employee (the owner).
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Nov 7, 2015 17:51
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Man, if the states are the laboratories of democracy then the ongoing experiment of supply-side economic theory in Kansas is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt the utter failure of the hypothesis
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Nov 7, 2015 18:22
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Does a brown back refer to being full of and covered in poo poo? This just keeps getting worse.
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Nov 7, 2015 20:41
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Does this ridiculous experiment "fail" at some point (and by that I mean like 25% unemployment or something) or is the Federal government going to keep subsidizing this madness?
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Nov 7, 2015 20:54
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I am still in disbelief that this clown was reelected.
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Nov 7, 2015 22:10
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kiimo posted:I am still in disbelief that this clown was reelected. I'm in Florida. My sister works for the State College of Florida, Rick Scott's laboratory for eradicating public education. You see, the newly appointed dude in charge has a background running a construction company, so he's moving forward with making universities work like construction projects: when a slot for a professor opens up, prospective professors make bids on it, and the best (read: cheapest) bid takes the job.
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Disagreeing with that policy is disagreeing with Capitalism stop being so unamerican.
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