Kansas proves why conservatives should never run anything ever.

[Ryantology]

I don't know what's wrong with this country but I do highly doubt that parts of it aren't third world level.

Republicans are what is wrong with this country. They don't cause every socio-economic problem we have, but there are virtually none that they don't make far worse, on purpose.

[Dystopia]

Republicans are the reason europeans bash americans on the internet and label all USA citizens as being fat, stupid, dumb, and greedy. B sides invasions and lack of free healthcare.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

When I applied for Kansas Medicaid this year, like I sometimes have to do out of necessity for increased medical bills-- I literally had a Medicaid Rep call me and try to talk me out of getting it "because Medicare takes care of most all of my medical expenses". When I declined his non offer, he cited a $2500 spend down every six months that I must meet in order to get simple Medicaid benefits like rides to my appointments (I have seizures off and on) and the grocery store. He said its that way for even the elderly and others. I could hardly believe it. Now, I've reached that spend down and still they refuse to acknowledge it. I'm behind on my treatments and was hospitalized recently, having spent my last ten bucks on a taxi so as to not incur an ambulance bill on top of it all. When I asked the Medicaid Rep why no one at Medicaid answered the phone, he said that there were changes two years ago that pretty much made their processing time faster, but no one answers the phone--you just have to come in. Then I asked why they had an address for an office on their website that was no longer existant.
I.. still don't have transportation. In tears, when I asked the Rep what I should do for transportation he asked me if I go to church to ask them for help. Or red cross, who I do not qualify for. Or a disabled bus service that has literally am inch of paperwork for you to fill out and a medical evaluation you must attend.
I'm too ill to fight or play 'find the SRS office in a taxi'. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

My sister, who has just graduated nursing school and pays back more money than was spent supporting her and her children during school, ended up living off of ramen noodles all of last year because the only food benefits she could get for her and two kids is $35. My food benefit is a whopping $15. That's a month.

Not to mention the inhumane electric company spike in January that came out of nOwhere for all of Wichita. All's told my friend with a house had a double bill, and mine was quadrupled in the apartment. Therefore my sister and I bundled up Feb-April and went without A/C all summer. We aren't the only ones.

After being released from the hospital barely able to make the trip home (I was released still anemic), I was notified that there's a 2-3 yr long waiting list for home health aid. So pretty much, to sum it up, the hospitals here laid off some 20k health workers and no one is getting the care they need. But Kansas was one of those states that refused Obama's federal aid program and calls other states moochers.

I fully expect that there will be at the very least, elderly deaths and child starvation (WIC was completely cut altogether) as a consequence of the lack of care in this state.

Kansas is fucked.

That's utterly disgusting. I know that healthcare and medical assistance in the US is a touchy subject, but seriously, in the UK and most of Europe, the only thing we have to worry about when we get sick is getting better.

Worrying about ambulance costs on top of the other issues you deal with when being hospitalised is just sick, and I mean that in a literal sense.

[Ryantology]

It's only touchy because we have so many numb fucks who are willing to let people die if it means that corporations and millionaires actually pay their taxes and their employees fairly they don't have their taxes go up by a hundred bucks or whatever.

[Minimalist]

And remember the republicunt "debates..."

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/13/...e-20110913

Still, that some in the audience were willing to let people die became a symptom of the conservatives’ disregard for people, at least as far as progressives are concerned.

“Last night we got a disturbing view into the tea party’s extreme right-wing position on healthcare when members of the audience clapped and cheered the idea of letting someone without health insurance die,” Eddie Vale, communications director for the group Protect Your Care said in an e-mail. “Even worse, none of the Republican candidates on stage expressed a word of disapproval as the tea party audience literally clapped for blood. This was a spectacle one would have expected back in the gladiatorial combat of ancient Rome, not at a presidential debate.”

[Amalynne0]

Kansas sounds like a shit fest. It's more than about blaming parties however. In my home state both democrats and republicans have run California $355 billion in debt, however, I will admit that it is liberal policy that's actually starting to produce results albeit shaky ones:

http://www.economist.com/news/united-sta...t-deficits

[Minimalist]

Um...it's amazing what California has been able to accomplish now that they have that foreign shitburger, Schwarzenegger, out of office. It's even more amazing when you consider that California is yoked to the rest of the country that includes shitholes like Kansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma!

Give credit where it is due.

[Jaysyn]

To add insult to injury, now the Heritage Foundation is basically making up statistics to try to pull Brownback's ass out of the fire.

[Mystical]

The sad thing is that there are a Ton of immigrants here in Wichita and the Republicans have them thinking everything that sucks right now is Obama's fault. I'll give credit where its due. Kansas is Brownbacks baby, and its a monster.

[Mystical]

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5634096?n...mg00000013

Someone please tell me what this news means for Wichita, should the bank not receive a renewal? Seeing as how Boeing is the main financer of our economy and Wichita is the"Airplane capitol"of the USA.