The USS Repug: Holed and Sinking!

[phrodeau]

There's a real chance that the House will see the backside of Darrell Issa next year.

 

[JackLuis]

Trickle down in Kansas: The tea party ruination of Kansas — Republican policies created an economic disaster

The latest evidence to the contrary comes from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, which has just released its monthly survey of economic indices for the 50 states. The survey compiles state-level statistics on nonfarm payroll employment, average hours worked in manufacturing by production workers, the unemployment rate, and inflation-adjusted wages and salaries.

Kansas ranked rock bottom in the three-month change in these metrics from July through September, with a decline of 1.18 percent. Indeed, it was one of only eight states that showed any decline. The U.S. average gained 0.64 percent. Most of the other states with negative changes were oil-and-gas producers. Kansas is too, but that industry has been a tiny factor in its economy for years.

How bad is the situation in Kansas? So bad that in August 2015, the Brownback administration stopped publishing a semi-annual report of the state's economy online; henceforth, members of the public have to make a special request for the document.

A spokesman for the governor said the step was taken because the reports had become the "the subject of careless scrutiny" and were "confusing." That's like saying that people might be confused by the setting sun into thinking that night is coming.

And I thought Kansas had a militia movement, they don't appear to have gotten the message about the Tea Party Repuglican agenda. If anywhere would have torches and pitchforks revolt Kansas should be the place!