Just as I suspected, he’s pi$$ed away the money elsewhere! Someone should tell the good people of Kansas just where this money went.
“Bob Totten, executive vice president of the Kansas Contractors Association, says while he welcomes any effort to bring additional federal construction dollars to the state, what Brownback is requesting wouldn’t make up for “all the money he’s taken from the highway program over the last six years.”
Brownback and lawmakers, Totten says, have swept $2.7 billion from KDOT, crippling the agency’s ability to complete T-Works, a 10-year, $8 billion transportation program approved in 2010.
Brownback is proposing to take another $600 million from the agency over the next two budget years to help cover a projected shortfall of nearly $1 billion.”
The know where it went. It went to cover the budget deficits of the last six years, and is going to cover the projected deficits for this year and next. There is only so much you can cut from education and public safety and Medicare. Money for the rest has to come from somewhere.