Posted on 06/16/2016 3:52:27 AM PDT by lowbridge
In the end, I believe the goals of the Brownback administration are going exactly to plan – starve the state of resources to the point where it just makes sense to turn over critical government functions to for-profit entities.
I can’t, in good conscience, continue to give our tax money to a government that actively works against the needs of its citizens; a state that is systematically targeting the citizens in most need, denying them critical care and reducing their cost of life as if they’re simply a tax burden that should be ignored.
It’s because of these moves that I have decided to deny Kansas revenue from Pathfinder’s taxes by moving our company to Missouri. Sure, our company taxes are a drop in the bucket, but I do not, in any way, support the Brownback administration’s actions.
I believe that it is the responsibility of business owners and people with some voice in society should speak up against these destructive policies. And I believe it is far past the time that Sam Brownback and his cronies admit the damage they’ve caused to the people of Kansas and resign in the shame they deserve.
(Excerpt) Read more at pathfinderhi.com ...
Good riddance.
The welfare/healthcare industrial complex is squealing as the Governor brings and an end to the welfare state in Kansas.
Governor Brownback is pushing people out of welfare and into jobs.....what a crime against humanity.
Missouri is about as Conservative as Kansas. I found this rant to be full of leftist conspiracy theories.
I hope the writer is better at science than at politics. He has a hard time discerning reality.
This is a surprise; I didn’t know ingrained is the welfare state with Jayhawkers.
Hmmmmmm. What do they do? From their website http://pathfinderhi.com/
"What We Do: Paperwork"
They seem to be a direct beneficiary of the labyrinthine Charlie Foxtrot that health care has become.
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“Governor Brownback is pushing people out of welfare and into jobs.....”
I wrote several papers on Walmart for my MBA. Walmart publishes all of its data, one of the few companies that does. At the time, the average new employee was forty and had never had a full time job. Many, if not most, were coming off welfare. Presumably, they were pushed off welfare. They spent, on average, 18 months as a Walmart employee and then, went on to other jobs. But what Walmart taught them was how to show up on time, how to act and how to handle customers.
I worked for two companies that made deals with the city to hire people off the welfare roles. Mostly, all they had to do to qualify was their breath would fog a mirror. They made mediocre employees, but over time, they accepted their role and apparently liked the cash and benefits. We had these horrid blue smocks for ESD and they would wear them out shopping even on days they didn’t go to work.
The unemployment office is also the welfare office. I was able to overhear numerous phone conversations while taking computer classes there. The welfare people would lean against the mirrored front window and talk. My impression is that welfare is supplemented by all kinds of crime. One guy agreed to steal a second flat screen TV for a client as he’d just been in a house that had a nice one.
Having had several renters on welfare I can tell you they milk the system for all its worth. It enables them to spend their time drunk and stoned rather than working.
Too much charity corrupts and welfare corrupts absolutely.
Great post.
A few years after Newt Gingrich FORCED Bill Clinton to sign welfare reform, I remember watching a documentary about welfare queens forced to get their first jobs. Most of these “ladies” were in their thirties.
With only a few exceptions, they integrated POORLY. They refused to show up on time. They refused to follow orders and remain on the job. A few of them said the work (fast food, retail, etc.) was “beneath them”. They would frequently storm off the job and had to be coaxed back to work by the film’s producer (which is a direct violation of any wildlife documentary).
It was clear that the American welfare system had “institutionalized” them and releasing them “back into the wild” was a iffy prospect.
Kansas has Constitutional Carry: No ‘license’ needed to carry a concealed weapon.
P.S. St. Francis has an awesome motorcycle museum.
HOORAY Sam Brownback
DEFUND socialist collectives.
10th - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
How To Identify Legal Plunder
See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case — is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.
The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights. He will claim that the state is obligated to protect and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state because the protected industry is thus able to spend more and to pay higher wages to the poor workingmen.
Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder
/Bastiat
I like Gen.Blather's comments and your analogy to a wildlife documentary.
I personally think that’s an insult to wildlife. Most mammals will provide for and ferociously defend their mate and children from outside threats - especially other males going after their mate. Not to mention that they don’t murder their unborn simply because they’re inconvenient...a mother wolf has a one-night stand, she gives birth without complaint and raises four cubs to adulthood. A female in that ‘documentary’ does the same, she’s statistically more likely than not to say “maaan, I din’ WANT dis!” and catch the bus to Klanned Barrenhood.
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