Sunday, October 22, 2017

We're Not In Kansas Anymore

"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." is an oft quoted line from the Wizard of Oz.
"The Wizard of Oz" was made in 1939 and has proved to be one of the most famous cinema fantasies of all time. It was based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"; a children's fantasy book by L. Frank Baum.
Baum's original story was published in 1900. It was made into a Broadway musical in 1902. Since then, millions of copies of the book have been sold all over the world. The Library of Congress has declared the book "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale."
In 2011, Sam Brownback became the Governor of Kansas. The Koch brothers were his biggest financial backers. With the help of Stephen Moore and Arthur Laffer, Sam launched his "red-state experiment".
Moore is a distinguished visiting fellow in Heritage’s Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity.
Laffer is a former Reagan economist.
The Koch brothers inherited a fortune from their super wealthy daddy. They have their own theories about government. They have put hundreds of millions of dollars into getting the people they want elected to political offices all over the country.
They were the major funders behind the Tea Party. The Tea Party is against "big" government, Obamacare, and corporate taxes. Some of its better known spokespeople were Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann.
Anyway, the Koch Brothers' main corporate headquarters is in Kansas. It made sense that the "red-state experiment" would take place in Kansas. The same Kansas where Dorothy and Toto were swept away by a tornado that landed them in Oz.
Well, let's jump ahead a few years and look at how the "red-state experiment" turned out in Kansas. The "red-state experiment" has pretty much ruined the entire economy of Kansas.
Yep, the whole State of Kansas was caught up in that "red state experiment" tax cutting tornado. Kansas ended up in the toilet.
People are working hard in Kansas to undo the ruinous damage Brownback and the Koch's and the Tea Party and Stephen Moore have done.
In June, 2017, the Republican majority in the Kansas Legislature put an end to the "red state experiment". Check it out for yourself. Click on "The Death of Kansas's Conservative Experiment" link below.


So you don't live in Kansas. So why should you be concerned about all this? I don't know. Maybe it's because some boys in Washington are planning to cut our taxes just like Brownback did in poor ole Kansas.
Yep, this is what these boys have in mind for us. We're not going to Oz. We're all headed for the crapper.
Holy Moly!
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