Kansas

[peggy]

http://www.salon.com/2014/10/16/kansas_really_might_re_elect_sam_brownback_how_the _wingnut_could_pull_it_off/

You know, I do feel sorry for the folks in Kansas, but something in me wants them to re-elect this clown. I kinda want to see just how bad this 'republican wet dream' can get. :0!
Tempered with my sympathies is a bit of 'you get what you vote for'. I just hope the rest of the country, particularly red states, take note, and learn. Especially my state which seems destined to follow along.

[jp1]

Can you blame them? Would YOU want a governor that had a lap dance at a strip club 15 years ago??? Just imagine what he'd almost certainly be doing with an intern in the governor's office.

But seriously, I don't live there so I don't really care what happens. I almost hope he does win reelection and has a second term to show the world once and for all that trickle down economics really isn't anything that rich people say it's cracked up to be. It really doesn't take a whole lot of thinking to realize that if you give poor and lower middle class people more money in their pockets they'll go spend every last dollar of it stimulating the economy far more than giving rich people tax cuts so that they can inflate the prices of equities.

[Alan]

It really doesn't take a whole lot of thinking to realize that if you give poor and lower middle class people more money in their pockets they'll go spend every last dollar of it stimulating the economy far more than giving rich people tax cuts so that they can inflate the prices of equities.Where do you get the money you give them? Does it first have to be taken from someone else?

[ApatheticNoMore]

Where do you get the money you give them? Does it first have to be taken from someone else?

Wherever you get the money to provide 40 billion a month QE to the banks.

[jp1]

Or some of the the trillion per year used to support the military industrial complex.

[Packy]

There is a small town just across the state line in Kansas that had a nightclub with wild wimmin that gave a pretty good lap dance. You can't get any thing like THAT here in Zurra--the Church People don't want me to end up in hades there with the other sinners. So, I see it as a one-issue election--if that Guy favors lap dancing, I support him.

[kib]

Just fyi, Brownback won.

[iris lilies]

... It really doesn't take a whole lot of thinking to realize that if you give poor and lower middle class people more money in their pockets they'll go spend every last dollar of it stimulating the economy far more than giving rich people tax cuts so that they can inflate the prices of equities.

I see no problem with equities going up, yay stock market climb! And a lap dance is far down on my list of troublesome ethical issues of politicians. I guess I'm just just one of those rich people.

If lower middle class people would throw $10 occasionally in an index fund instead of buying cheap crap from China, they'd climb out of the lower middle class given the magic of compound interest over 20 years. But perhaps keeping them down is more desirable.

[jp1]

Yes, poor people just need to save more money. That's exactly the conclusion Barbara Ehrenheich came to when she wrote the book Nickled and Dimed...

[iris lilies]

Yes, poor people just need to save more money. That's exactly the conclusion Barbara Ehrenheich came to when she wrote the book Nickled and Dimed...

That book is chock full of "stupid things to do when you are poor to keep you poor." It's embarrassing, really, and many legitimately poor people will tell you the poser Ehrenheich made choices that smart poor people would never make.

Same criticisms taking place for that new, similar book Bootstrap America only that author not only showed multiple instances of stupid decisions, she exhibted mental illness or at least an ongoing personality disorder to affect her relations with other humans. Not good.

Both books have legitimate points about the hard jobs of the working poor people and their lack of options, and both books are padded with hyperbole and examples of stupidity. Middle class people make stupid financial choices, too, but they've got some resources to fall back on.

[Teacher Terry]

I think it feels better for people to blame poor people for being poor then to look at the inequalities in the US. For example, giving huge tax breaks to rich companies, paying CEO's hugh amounts of $ for salaries & bonuses, etc. Shadow a social worker for awhile & you may start singing a different tune.!thumbsup!