Letter: Pressure point

It is blind faith working again. I hate agree with Merrill but this is ALEC's agenda taken straight off their playbook. Never mind, that it doesn't really apply to Kansas. Alec is headquartered in the East where the teachers may be pressured but not here. Our legislature is so inthralled with ALEC that they use the same talking points that some nutjob in New York would use.
If it wasn't so dangerous you could call it plagerism and let it go at that.

February 7, 2013 at 12:25 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Letter: Attack on teaching

rtwngr is stuck in the 70's. Jimmy Carter is not president, any more. The waste and fraud have been rung out. The reason education costs so much is that students have to learn more and have to buy more technology do it. Remember that there has been 5 presidents since Carter and a multitude of initatives (W's No Child Left Behind, O's race to the top), etc. Kansas is down 20% from what 2007? or something. There is no waste anymore.
The old expression is as true today as ever, "you get what you pay for".

February 5, 2013 at 12:47 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Letter: Hospital threat

Sorry Jenny, but Brownie is all about having kansans drive for services. Remember when he was going to close the DG CO SRS offices because there was a good road to Topeka? Well this is the same. That broken leg can wait till you get to Dodge City what is the problem? Or if you have insurance we can send out a helicopter for you and charge you $8K to take you to Wichita, we'll be happy to do that.
Don't expect ignorant people to run healthcare in KS. You get what vote for.

January 9, 2013 at 12:23 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Kansas Senate’s budget committee chairman filed for bankruptcy in 2010

"Incoming Senate President Susan Wagle of Wichita said Masterson has “tremendous credibility with his peers.” When your peers intend to bankrupt the state and give what is left over to the Brownback for President Super Pac then yeah that is credible. We are now seeing the fruits of our low information electorate.

December 12, 2012 at 12:12 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Sen. Wagle elected president of the Kansas Senate; Merrick new House speaker

I don't think you have anything to fear "faithful". Since Wagle will outlaw sex in Kansas there won't be any extra Kansans to worry your head about. The population will die off or move out and all that will be left will be the post office boxes of the LLC's and partnerships will have at the Topeka post office to claim as their headquarters so to get tax refunds from the state. Just like Delaware, you know the state you are always hearing about? The headquarters of all those corporations and they are just....wait you don't remember the last time you heard of Delaware, me neither.

December 4, 2012 at 8:20 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Letter: Contradictions

The state of Chaos er. I mean Kansas is the confluence of Fox News fearmongering and Koch brothers lies. ALEC and the Libertarians have now reaked destruction not unlike an F5 tornado. What we forget is we are a RED state. What does that mean other than we believe in fantasies that the Rightwinger tell us? It means that we can't exist without outside help. That we will take in more overall money in Medicare, SS, Medicaid, Farm subsidies, and etc. than we pay back in to the Feds in taxes. We are dependant on others, no matter what the libertarians say, and unless the dreams of lakes of oil under southern Kansas come true, we will be in a world of hurt until we change.
The siren song that Brownie sings is simply we can have everything for nothing. Low taxes, good schools, less regulation, whatever we imagine it will come true. Well we are dreaming of becoming Mississippi and that dream may soon come true.

November 13, 2012 at 10:41 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Editorial: Worst outcome

"What did people used to do before health insurance?"

They died alot.......Did any of you guys go to college? Health care costs are "inelastic" remember that? You might stay home with a heart attack to protest the high cost of health insurance but you are not going to risk the health of your children to prove a point that is at best ineffective and otherwise stupid. Get this "In_God" the government is the only entity that can stand up to insurance companies and make them act like good citizens. That is because the insurance industry crosses state and even national borders so no group of subsribers can really effect them in any large way like making them drop their prices. Corporations are people according to the SCOTUS and they are acting like spoiled children, especially insurance companies.

November 12, 2012 at 1:55 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

GOP raises specter of Medicaid expansion as campaign issue

I don't see any problem. We cut taxes to stimulate the economy, remember Laffer said so and he must be right, cuz he told Reagan about cutting taxes. So we get t the poor and disabled to work for rich people and all the Medicaiders to go away. The old people on medicaid are just magically going to go away too, cuz we only worry about job creators in Kansas. I don't see anything but blue skies and unicorns.

November 5, 2012 at 3:05 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Opinion: Medical crisis yields new respect, friends

He is a victim again of Faux Nuz thinking. If the method Dr Tate used is effective then why wouldn't the " remote bureaucratic committee may dictate “best practices.” see that as best practice so that everyone could get the treatment. It is a little known occurence in modern medicine, that if something can be proven to work it doesn't stay "out of the box for long". The task of the " remote bureaucratic committee may dictate “best practices.” is really to take what is "in" the box and throw it out if it doesn't work and put things "in" the box that do. This is why the committee is set up. In George's own text he states why we need this "committee" so that the level of care can rise and improve, not stay stagnant. If there had been this "committee" then the other doctors who theatened George with a "life not work living" might have also tried Dr Tate's remedy.

November 5, 2012 at 11:19 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Mailers on Kansas tax cuts go out ahead of election

so bd is a troll. bd's small business must be to troll online columns and say stupid stuff to make the R's feel better. I wonder if that qualifies as an LLC?

November 2, 2012 at 12:59 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )