Brownback cuts $50 million for Kansas schools

[proud2BlibKansan]

TOPEKA | Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is cutting $50 million from schools and will ask the Legislature to transfer nearly that much to cover increased costs in health and human services caseloads.

The school funding reduction makes up the lion’s share of $56.5 million in total cuts announced late Friday.

Brownback, a Republican, said the reductions are necessary to meet the constitutional requirement that the state budget be in balance when the fiscal year ends in June.

“I wish we didn’t have to do this,” he said. “It’s been difficult, but it’s something we need to do.”



Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/03/12/110270/brownback-cuts-50-million-for.html?storylink=MI_emailed#ixzz1GRGjW3Be

[VoteProgressive]

1. I live in lawrence, I am waiting for the tax cuts for the rich shortly also. nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Oh they're coming

No doubt about that.

[Angry Dragon]

2. How come they hate the children so much??

[Ken Burch]

5. The ones they REALLY hate are OTHER people's children

They'll always make sure their own kids are kept in material privelege(and emotional poverty).

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. So true. You should see some of their comments on our local paper's article

Unbelievable. They're a bunch of selfish assholes. I started telling them to move to Somalia, they deserve to live in a libertarian paradise.

[Ken Burch]

4. He does NOT "wish we didn't have to do this".

Brownback, and ALL conservatives, have never accepted the idea of public education...or of anyone who isn't at least upper middle-class being taught how to read.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Amen

They CHOOSE to balance the books on the backs of the children.

[greymattermom]

6. every child left behind

Maybe they should stop all the testing and spend the available time just teaching. Disclosure: KS state employee.

[underpants]

7. So Greg Brady as Governor isn't working out?

who could have seen THIS coming?

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Greg Brady

LOL!

I call him Snowflake Baby sam.

[MoonRiver]

8. Bastard.

Why do Kansans want to dumb down their children?

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. They don't.

Brownback does.

[Hannah Bell]

11. i'm sorry p2bl.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. We'll get 'em Hannah

They're so freakin stupid it's comical.

Check this out: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x626972

[LWolf]

12. It is certainly not something "we" need to do. nt

[demtenjeep]

16. fucking rat turd bastard I hate this man

and his dumbshit attitude.


How soon can we recall his ass?

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. We need to have grounds

So far everything he's doing is perfectly legal here in red state hell Kansass.

[Shallah Kali]

18. Remember Brownback is a member of The Family

Elite Fundamentism - The Fellowship's gospel of Capitalist Power

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2008/2353921.htm


Stephen Crittenden: Just going back to Uganda, one public policy outcome of this connection with President Museveni is that through him, they were able to export a Christian fundamentalist abstinence program into Uganda's policy about how to deal with AIDS. In the 1990s Uganda was being held up for its ABC policy, Abstinence, Be faithful, use a Condom. Ten years later, the results are very poor.

Jeff Sharlet: It's one of the most dismaying tragedies in the fight against AIDS. Uganda was a country that had really turned around. It had a high AIDS rate, and through using this program had turned it around, had actually successfully rolled back the AIDS rate. But because it became so enmeshed with the American Christian Right, and the American Christian Right is part of President Bush's AIDS program, was able to put pressure on these countries to drop the 'C' from the ABC. So they still want Abstinence, they believe in abstinence, but they don't want Condoms. And indeed Uganda backed very sharply away from condoms, and as predictably as any scientist could have told you, the AIDS rate skyrocketed, and people are dying again. And the most horrifying part about that, for some of these people, that's not a problem. I spoke to Senator Sam Brownback about this, who has worked actually with Senator Clinton to change the laws governing US foreign aid to make it so that we can't give money to any organisation that works with prostitutes. The example Brownback's Chief Legislative Director gave me, he said he would rather a Thai prostitute die of AIDS than have her soul imperilled by using a condom. And it's just an absolutely horrifying vision of what the Gospel says.

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. We went by that house on C Street last time we were in DC

Nothing special about it.

Of course, what goes on inside is rather special. :)