By SJ Otto
It’s not often that I agree with articles written for The
Wichita Eagle, but this Sunday they really spelled it out with “Under
Brownback, Kansas
government kept shrinking.” Governor Sam Browback created the kind of
government that the far-far-far far wing of the Republican Party has dreamed of
for the last several decades. Brownback made their dreams a reality and in
doing so they created a night-mare for the rest of us.
In order to pay for corporation’s generous tax breaks the rest of us
had to foot the bill. Some one has to pay taxes and for us lower income workers
that means us. Shrinking out government meant defunding our
schools, cutting back on the quality of education, that this present
generation is getting. It meant so much defunding
of our prisons and we had prison riots.
The Wichita Eagle’s KELSEY RYAN did
a good job of explaining the damage that Brownback has made and how it will
take years to fix. The only thing the article doesn’t do is explain how the
Republican Party is responsible for this mess. The Republicans have developed
several dirty tricks to make sure they win even when they don’t really have the
votes it normally takes to win. One thing they use is gerrymandering. Another,
which they used a lot here in Kansas was the use of restricting voter rules,
brought to us by Kris
Kobach, in order to keep a lot of young and minority voters off the voting
roll.
Pix by The Atlantic.
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