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| Kansas Votes to Cripple Itself | ||
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| Topic Started: Nov 5 2014, 09:53 AM (155 Views) | ||
| ♥ Rach ♥ | Nov 5 2014, 09:53 AM Post #1 | |
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If there was one election I had been following in the States that I had great interest in, it was the Kansas governorship race between Republican Sam Brownback & Democrat Paul Davis. Despite Kansas being one of the most Republican places in the U.S.A., Sam Brownback was in danger of losing his seat because of economic ineptitude. The State government had decided on massive tax breaks in order to stimulate great growth. The idea of course is that the shortfall in tax revenue would be made up for by rapid growth and the creation of new sources of taxes. However, the only thing that it has accomplished so far is a massive budgetary shortfall and a downgrade of their credit rating by Moody and Standard and Poor. These budget shortfalls were expected to increase each year and over a hundred former and current Repubicans supported Paul Davis. One can't help but wonder if Paul Davis would have won if it didn't turn out that he had gone to a strip club when he was 21. Anyway, one would think that in the face of economic decline and declining prospects that Kansas would have chosen to reverse this course. But it would seem that they have not done so and thus have voted to cripple themselves based on economics that are proven not to have worked. |
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| The Iron Rebel | Nov 5 2014, 11:37 AM Post #2 | |
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Ok what does going to a strip club have to do with voting? | |
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| Liana Soloviev | Nov 5 2014, 11:55 AM Post #3 | |
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It influences people's vote? | |
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| The Iron Rebel | Nov 5 2014, 12:02 PM Post #4 | |
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Seems a bit ridiculous, then again never been to kansas. | |
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| ♥ Rach ♥ | Nov 5 2014, 12:02 PM Post #5 | |
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Yeah, it was a major factor in him dropping in the polls because I believe he was doing better prior to that. It's unfortunate and stupid that voters made a big deal about it but what are you going to do? | |
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| grab em by the presidency | Nov 6 2014, 03:02 PM Post #6 | |
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Brownback managed to win the Latino vote in Kansas. Republicans in general did much better among the Hispanic community, but Brownback performed strongest. That's why he won. Latinos are socially conservative, and unlike the Irish or Italians, actually take their Catholicism seriously....
Edited by grab em by the presidency, Nov 6 2014, 03:03 PM.
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| mcmasterdonia | Nov 7 2014, 02:59 AM Post #7 | |
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I think a lot of people take their Catholicism seriously when it suits them to do so. Going to a strip club must have effected his vote, I assume he was married? Kevin Rudd admitted going to a strip club when he visited the USA as Opposition Leader, nobody really cared. |
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| ♥ Rach ♥ | Nov 7 2014, 07:38 AM Post #8 | |
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Yeah but Australia was founded by British criminals so it's expected. USA was founded by religious weirdos
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| reddogkeno101 | Nov 7 2014, 09:15 AM Post #9 | |
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No we weren't. That was before Australia. If anything, Australia was founded by Gold Diggers (literally) ![]() But with this whole Kansas thingy, it seems that it's a rather conservative place and that whole thing how he went to a strip club pops up. |
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| Rifty | Nov 7 2014, 09:37 AM Post #10 | |
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Don't tell me we're arguing symantics? Moderen Australia was founded by British convicts...Who found Gold and than "Gold Diggers" came about. Than you have your sovereign hill crap (I went there and panned for gold - exciting! ~(^o^~) ) I think if we really want to argue who made Australia than it was us Boongs! xD Strip clubs - eh - Boobies are nice and all but Id find it hard to look at a leader arguing for gender equality after announcing he had gone to a strip club. |
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| reddogkeno101 | Nov 7 2014, 09:42 AM Post #11 | |
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No, the convicts didn't find gold, free settlers found the Gold, then people from the revolutions of 1848 came for gold and stuff happened and Eureka Rebellion happened. By Boongs I assume you means Aboriginals? |
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| Rifty | Nov 7 2014, 09:50 AM Post #12 | |
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Which came about why - Because off the Convicts~~~~ By Boongs i mean Aboriginals - Yes. Just a little slice of internalized racism on my part ![]() This ain't the "Discuss 'Straya" topic. . . |
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| reddogkeno101 | Nov 7 2014, 09:52 AM Post #13 | |
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Indeed. No more threadjack. But I can understand why you would feel annoyed that Kansas has voted on something that isn't right. As we've found out we did that too at our last federal election. |
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| Rifty | Nov 7 2014, 10:05 AM Post #14 | |
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I absoultly hate Abbott - But i myself am a liberal supporter We needed a liberal term to get the debt in check; however we didn't need it right now. Other nations around the world's economies are in shambles and we should be spending - Taking advantage of it. They need a change in leadership~ Go make a 'Straya discussion thread xD |
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| ♥ Rach ♥ | Nov 7 2014, 10:53 AM Post #15 | |
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I was mainly trolling anyway
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| mcmasterdonia | Nov 7 2014, 11:50 AM Post #16 | |
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Someone told me you were German, I didn't realise you were aboriginal. Though I'm surprised that you would refer to yourself as a "boong". Australia is a nation founded on immigration, everyone immigrated here (or was brought here by force). But the number of British settlers far outweighed the number of convicts. Let's not forget that convicts were also sent to certain parts of North America. |
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| ♥ Rach ♥ | Nov 7 2014, 02:39 PM Post #17 | |
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Is north America a city in Australia? | |
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| The Iron Rebel | Nov 7 2014, 03:20 PM Post #18 | |
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lol, I think he means Florida or was it Georgia :/ | |
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| Rifty | Nov 7 2014, 04:52 PM Post #19 | |
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No no no - I am German; Born there and spent a fair portion of my life there. My Dad's parents are both born in Dusseldorf (Same place as me) and he was born in Schaffhausen (Switzerland). My mother on the other hand has a father born in Berlin and her Mother was full aboriginal. I'm like 1/4 Aboriginal and 3/4 German. The referring to myself as a Boong was a joke - I fucking hate the word. There is a pretty bad stereotype the Aboriginals since people take the minority (however it still is pretty damn big as far as minorities go) and judge it without looking into the Social issues that still exist. It's kinda sad~ |
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| mcmasterdonia | Nov 8 2014, 12:13 AM Post #20 | |
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Haha, good one! 10 points. I'm surprised this is taught in North American schools, I guess it is just typical historical revisionism. From wikipedia "The British used colonial North America as a penal colony through a system of indentured servitude. Merchants would transport the convicts and auctioned them off to (for example) plantation owners upon arrival in the colonies. It is estimated that some 50,000 British convicts were sent to colonial America, representing perhaps one-quarter of all British emigrants during the 18th century. The State of Georgia for example was first founded by James Edward Oglethorpe by using penal prisoners taken largely from debtors' prison, creating a "Debtor's Colony". However, as this largely failed, though the idea that the state began as a penal has stayed both in popular history, and local lore.[1] The British also would often ship Irish and Scots to the Americas whenever rebellions took place in Ireland or Scotland, and they would be treated similar to the convicts, except that this also included women and children. When that avenue closed in the 1780s after the American Revolution, Britain began using parts of what is now known as Australia as penal settlements." |
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