It Doesn't Work!!!!!

Ok, this whole idea was whoop assed stupid and crazy from the very beginning.  Any of you out there who use household budget analogies to explain governmental funding and budgets need to shut up.

That's right shut up.  Why?

Because IT DOESN'T WORK! 

The ultimate in stupidity was Kansas, a hell hole in the middle of a red state racist mid-west; decided with Brownbacks brilliant business background to follow tea party dogma and cut taxes to stimulate the economy...a great experiment.

Now this experiment is exactly the trickle down experiment that Reagan sold the nation many years ago; that backfired.....it also is the dogma that was accepted practice in 1929...cut taxes, raise taxes and embargos on imports to "Make America Great Again" and the economy would cure itself.

And the Great Depression followed by WWII killed over 60 million people worldwide.  60 MILLION PEOPLE!

And in Kansas, Bloody Kansas, they tried it again...and it blew up the state.

Why...because a government's budget, the bigger it gets, is NOT micro-economics, it is macro-economics a whole different playing field with different rules and a whole lot more complex and variable.  Even macro rules of economics don't always work.

But Republicans have taken over the country with the bullshit that Kansas just ladled into the gut of each of their citizens.

And they failed. 

Redding is doing it right now, recalling the two "liberals' on the city council because of fiscal issues and crime.  They have ignored their own contribution, by refusing to pass a small tax to add back police officers and firemen, leaving the city partially unprotected from the crime that frankly has been spawned partly by the opoid epidemic that middle aged white people are "enjoying" right now.  Life is so miserable for them in Redding they are stoned all the time...nice retirement huh?

And it is failing, and what is needed most is....more government (efficient and robust) to grow the economy.   What More Government?   Oh no..Oh no!!!!!

You see taxes come back to the community ten fold often.  Right now Redding for example, whose tea party state of Jefferson types want to be in a separate state, takes in millions of state dollars of support, with many working on the state payroll, that keeps the city alilve.  In fact, per capita, Redding citizens get more state dollars than do the citizens of Sacramento, the state capitol.

Government employment is the second largest employer, after retail/recreation. So the "suggestion" is to cut government (become the poorest state in the union) and things will be better as millions of dollars are pulled out of Redding.

That is nuts; plain and simple nuts! 

Why?  Why be so stupid!

I taught Civics in High School.  I told and taught the students about the above....and many glassed over, or I got complaints from right wing parents that I was not being "fair".  The kids were often asleep or did not even listen, because their parents were right wingers and hated public education as well as anything else public...So I got the be fair all the time.

Fair my ass...ask people in Kansas what is fair?!

IT DOESN'T WORK.  IT DOESN'T WORK.  IT DOESN'T  WORK...

"What is the Matter with Kansas"?  The Republican right wing is what is wrong with Kansas, just like it is in Redding right wing California!