UE rate 4.3%, down from 7%+.
State of the Economy - Growing as opposed to shrinking
State of the Budget - Balanced with surplus as opposed to "I'm bailing for the HHS"
WTF are you talking about?
So congrats on riding the Obama wave of reduced unemployment, yet still flagging significantly behind national trends.
You claim that the economy is a plus for Brownback when we are no where near the recovery levels almost everywhere else is experiencing, but blame Sebelius for a down turn during the worst global crisis in 3 generations. The issue there is that one is directly caused by the governor and one is caused by outside circumstances.
What balanced budget are you looking at? Sebelius left the state in decent shape with the budget considering the circumstances. Right now we just left the longest session, which created the largest tax hike in KS history, and we still need to find $50 million to cut to make it "balanced." All of that is assuming we don't have any more "hiccups" with revenue projections (which this admin has shown they are total failures at projecting properly because of their policy's damaging effects on the economy) and we have to hope no one decides to stop smoking or their grandma doesn't die (nursing home tax!) because that would cause the state to lose revenue and unbalance the budget even further.