Rep. Kasha Kelley and Senator Steve Abrams will host a town hall meeting Saturday, sponsored by the Kansas Chamber. Kelley will speak about the budget and Abrams will focus on vocational education, but all topics are game based on audience questions.
Town halls this summer became a place for frustrated citizens to vent at lawmakers, especially democrats. Things at the state level are a bit more civilized — the partisanship and political divide isn't as bitter.
But certainly Kelley and Abrams represent the budget hawks, less government the better wing of American politics, which has some wind under its wings with the growth in government at the federal level.
But at the state level, a good debate is taking place about whether the state should make further cuts and/or raise some revenue (tax increases) to prevent further cuts, especially in education, corrections and medicaid.
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Listed below are very obvious issues that have sprung up in the past two decades. It is an attack on life in America .
If you ever wondered what side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!
If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn`t buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a vegetarian , he doesn't eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host , he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
(Unless it's a foreign religion, of course!)
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.
This says it all for me Dave:
Jesus and the Democrat
A Republican in a wheelchair entered a restaurant one afternoon and
asked the waitress for a cup of coffee. The Republican looked across
the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus sitting over there?"
The waitress nodded "yes," so the Republican requested that she give Jesus a cup of coffee, on him.
The next patron to come in was a Libertarian with a hunched back... He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down, and asked the waitress for a cup of hot tea. He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus over there?"
The waitress nodded, so the Libertarian asked her to give Jesus a cup
of hot tea, "My treat."
The third patron to come into the restaurant was a Democrat on crutches. He hobbled over to a booth, sat down and hollered, "Hey there, honey! How's about getting' me a cold glass of Miller Light?"
He, too, looked across the restaurant and asked, "Is that God's boy
over there?"
The waitress once more nodded, so the Democrat directed her to give
Jesus a cold glass of beer. "On my tab," he said.
As Jesus got up to leave, he passed by the Republican, touched him and said, "For your kindness, you are healed." The Republican felt the strength come back into his legs, got up, and danced a jig out the door.
Jesus also passed by the Libertarian, touched him and said, "For your
kindness, you are healed." The Libertarian felt his back
straightening up, and he raised his hands, praised the Lord and did a
series of back flips out the door.
Then Jesus walked towards the Democrat. The Democrat jumped to his feet and yelled,
"Don't touch me, I'm collecting disability!"
Leave it to the "conservatives" to use fictitious stories to try to make a point. Is there a pattern being developed? I think so...
Any room or interest in truth here?
Who would use a phrase like "foreign religion"?
Clearly someone who doesn't read the Bible thinks that "religion" has something specific to do with the United States.
Lets at least ponder what did humanity use for a guide while tehy were waiting for pioneers to discover this continent so that we could give the foreign religion something to live by.
Every in America knows Jesus was born in the Carolinas. Right? 1804, I believe.
Them thar's some good parables !
@ February 24, 2010 6:55 AM
I could not agree more. You notice none of the lefties on here disputed anything in that, they just chose a part to make fun of.
Typical liberal defense strategy.
Thanks to our legislative delegation for coming to us with an update and relevant information.
Hopefully, many of the blog contributors will show up and hear first hand (except of course the city staffers as they have a different and self-serving agenda in their blog comments).
With the advanced notice, it would be a terrific opportunity to hear their answers to some of the questions that persist in AC and area.
Maybe trade in some of the blog pot-shot time on here for planning your schedule to attend the Town Hall.
Listed below are very obvious issues that have sprung up in the past two decades. It is an attack on life in America.
If you ever wondered what side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!
If “someone that is afraid of progress” doesn't like guns, he doesn’t join the NRA or a militia. If a liberal doesn't like guns, he doesn’t buy one and hopes his family isn’t shot in the street by a stupid drunk gun carrying yokel that thinks the world we live in is the same world as it was 200+ years ago, when guns were major tools needed for survival.
If “someone that is afraid of progress” is a vegetarian, he is made fun of by his peers and perhaps recycles even though he’s taught that the science behind it is faulty. If a liberal is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat and voices his concern about how draining from dairy farms, hog farms, etc. are negatively affecting our environment.
If “someone that is afraid of progress” is homosexual, he lies about it and bangs men in restroom stalls and then tries to cover up his gayness by voting against anything that would give him the same rights as others. If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect while not disrespecting anybody in the process.
If “someone that is afraid of progress” is down-and-out, he applies for the very same unemployment benefits he just voted against and gets the COBRA health plan that he is so very much against. A liberal is glad that there is something in place that keeps our country out of the 3rd world status.
If “someone that is afraid of progress” doesn't like a talk show host, he makes stuff up to make them look bad and then complain when he gets caught lying. Liberals make fun of them and point out the flaws in their comments.
If “someone that is afraid of progress” is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church but still claims that American was founded by Christians dispite all the evidence to the contrary. A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced where it doesn’t belong, which is in government (just like our founders) and PUBLIC schools. The same goes for “foreign” ones too.
If “someone that is afraid of progress” decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it, and then complains about the constant 20% increase each year but still thinks it’s OK. A liberal demands an option to reduce premiums and thinks affordable health care should be a “right” in the greatest country in the world, just like in all the other “great” nations.
Conservatives believe in working hard for what you want in life, and not expecting anyone to help you.
Liberals want something for nothing. They think they have a "right" to live the same as the conservatives who worked hard, even though they don't want to do the "working hard" part.
Where does the idea of getting something for nothing come from? I will never understand it.
A constitutionalist realizes that health care was never mentioned in the constitution!! Neither was welfare, neither was stealing from the working people to fund the less motivated.
I like apples!
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