Sam Brownback..(this is why I'm embarrassed of Kansas) (Wichita: unemployment rate, taxi)

[prairiestate]

Originally Posted by denverian

Well, aren't most 18 year olds twits? Maybe she'll learn to state her opinion like an adult next time.

Really? If I was watching Gov. Quinn speak here in Illinois, I would almost certainly tell my companions what an idiot the guy is, and I'm twice her age. That wouldn't preclude me from later writing up a detailed analysis on his policies. Sometimes you just need to express yourself and let off steam. That's immature?

[pvlman]

I'm not really sure going from ~60 to > 1K twitter followers is a good thing thing because their are butt-holes in every group . Social media can be downright unsociable at times. Most likely at least one provocateur laying in wait in the new followers

[pvlman]

I'm thinking Brownback needs to find staff that has skin thick enough to work for a governor. Hell it's twitter, opinions are have to be concise. When one says he sucks, they aren't inferring he actually sucks some body part. Although no doubt some in the immorally ambiguous moral majority would like to spin it that way.

[pvlman]

Brownbacks's office was reaching out to a young person his in his State, only in your fiction. The only thing that the reference article says about the staff is that they monitor social media for mention of Brownback, no mention of the staff contacting Emma or her school. I suppose as the school became involved, it would be safe the staff did contact the school, but that sounds more like vindictive action, not reaching out, particularly there was no threat with the tweet.In the event Emma was immature it appears one or more of the staff was as well Unless you forgotten twitter posts are limited to 140 characters, not allowing for long commentary.
News to me that the Republican territory of Kansas is doing well economically. Cap and trade isn't likely reduce emissions, but it is a capitalist free market approach, and evidently has been in place for some pollutants for some time. Cap and trade allows a producer to possibly reduce the cost of production, lower production costs should mean more and/or better paying jobs. Cap and trade isn't likely to do that because of the insane idea that the profits of speculators(erroneously refereed to a business owners) trading piece of paper or the digital equivalent are the most important part of the business model. Many, if not most successful business person will tell you that the owner is third in importance, customer being one, good employees second.

I'd guess you would tell us those young persons that mindlessly jump on the conservative bandwagon aren't succumbing to peer pressure. Then again you really don't have problem with peer pressure do you? You characterized Emma as an embarrassment to her school. Peer pressure is required for anyone to become an embarrassment to anyone or anything over something as trivial as saying one of the governing elite sucks.

[pvlman]

Brownbacks's office was reaching out to a young person his in his State, only in your fiction. The only thing that the reference article says about the staff is that they monitor social media for mention of Brownback, no mention of the staff contacting Emma or her school. I suppose as the school became involved, it would be safe the staff did contact the school, but that sounds more like vindictive action, not reaching out, particularly there was no threat with the tweet.In the event Emma was immature it appears one or more of the staff was as well Unless you forgotten twitter posts are limited to 140 characters, not allowing for long commentary.
News to me that the Republican territory of Kansas is doing well economically. Cap and trade isn't likely reduce emissions, but it is a capitalist free market approach, and evidently has been in place for some pollutants for some time. Cap and trade allows a producer to possibly reduce the cost of production, lower production costs should mean more and/or better paying jobs. Cap and trade isn't likely to do that because of the insane idea that the profits of speculators(erroneously refereed to a business owners) trading piece of paper or the digital equivalent are the most important part of the business model. Many, if not most successful business person will tell you that the owner is third in importance, customer being one, good employees second.

I'd guess you would tell us those young persons that mindlessly jump on the conservative bandwagon aren't succumbing to peer pressure. Then again you really don't have problem with peer pressure do you? You characterized Emma as an embarrassment to her school. Peer pressure is required for anyone to become an embarrassment to anyone or anything over something as trivial as saying one of the governing elite sucks.

[pvlman]

As best as I can tell cap and trade isn't a new idea, and has been used with other polluting emissions, although I'm unsure how well it does in reducing emissions, but it doesn't look to be an economic disaster either . Hard to wrap one's mind around cap and trade, so it good for making political hay. I have seen one explanation that explained it well but I can no longer locate it

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by pvlman

As best as I can tell cap and trade isn't a new idea, and has been used with other polluting emissions, although I'm unsure how well it does in reducing emissions, but it doesn't look to be an economic disaster either . Hard to wrap one's mind around cap and trade, so it good for making political hay. I have seen one explanation that explained it well but I can no longer locate it

The RGGI system which is cap and trade has worked well in the Northeast and has created lots of jobs. The biggest problem is that all the nasty pollutants from the Midwest blow over to the east via the jet stream. The Midwest has old coal plants grandfathered into the system and doesn't want to change how they do things at all. It was only because of the CLEAN AIR ACT that acid rain was brought under control in areas of the Midwest and New England- whch receives much of the downwind pollution due to the position of the jet stream.

[GregW]

Looks from here that Brownback is creating his personally loyal Brownshirts monitoring critical citizens for eventual punishment. Not surprising.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by GregW

Looks from here that Brownback is creating his personally loyal Brownshirts monitoring critical citizens for eventual punishment. Not surprising.

Command and control. He wants to take the state back to the early 20th century with Koch (big buisness interests) controlling everything with little noise from the middle class. It's no wonder why everyone who can leave Kansas does...

[MOKAN]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

Command and control. He wants to take the state back to the early 20th century with Koch (big buisness interests) controlling everything with little noise from the middle class. It's no wonder why everyone who can leave Kansas does...

What does this mean? What would having Koch (and big-business interests) "controlling everything" entail in regard to state government and Kansas? What "noise" from the middle class might be supressed? What middle-class interests might be squandared?