Sam Brownback Preferable to Paul Davis

I'm not a fan of Governor Sam Brownback, but four more years of Brownback is preferable to four years of someone who is as out of touch with reality as Paul Davis is

Davis talks about Brownback's cuts in education spending, but seems totally unaware of the fact those cuts have been restored. He pledges to restore the cuts that have already been restored.

He and his supporters don't understand economics. They talk about Kansas job creation rate as if that was the most important measure of the state's economy.

Kansas unemployment is only 4.8% which many economists consider within the range of full employment (4-6%). There are always some workers who are between jobs such as those whose employers have downsized or closed. Some have just entered the labor force after graduation. Some have trouble holding a job because of things like poor work attitudes or drug or alcohol abuse. Some cannot relocate to find another job because a spouse would be unable to find comparable work in another location.

Job creation can be problematic when unemployment is less than 5% because creating too many jobs in an industry can cause a labor shortage which could force some companies to move to another state. A higher job creation rate could require an increase in population that would put a strain on the state's water resources.

These potential problems don't mean the state should adopt a no growth philosophy. The potential negatives merely mean that becoming obsessed with the job creation rate, as Davis and his supporters are, could make a good economy go bad.

The car ad he is talking about has Davis in a car being driven backward by a race car driver. Davis claims Brownback is going backward. Davis plans for the state are apparently so bad he is afraid to put them on his web site, I hope Brownback wins because I think he might be a future presidential candidate after 2016.

“Davis talks about Brownback’s cuts in education spending, but seems totally unaware of the fact those cuts have been restored.”

Same thing happening with Corbet(R) and Wolf. Wolf has said Corbet cut 1 billion from education... that was just money Obama had “given” the state as stimulus money.
Of course that ended and Corbet found 960 +++ million from other sources in the state budget and yet the teachers and the dems have been saying Corbet cut 1 billion dollars.
Of course the stupid PA voters are listening to Wolf and Wolf still is running the 1 billion cut ads, and only just recently Corbet has tried to correct the record... but he did like Bush did and let Wolf savage him on the issue for 2 years.
Now Corbet is badly behind Wolf. Wolf is a true liberal dem in the Obama mold... but it looks like the idiot PA voters are going to put another Rendell copy in office!
F-ing idiots. They will get more taxes and cronyism.
Corbet just blew it by letting Wolf and the Teachers union savage him for 2 years on the 1 billion LIE!!!!!!

I hope he holds on, F the democrats (including Orman).

Don’t see him being a Presidential candidate though.

I mean an unpopular Governor running for President, who the hell does he think he is, Mitt Romney?

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