He’s about ready to drop you. The debt burden of carrying you has become too great.

Greetings,

 

What can you do when the hand of poverty comes for you? Oh’ believe me, it’s coming! You can tell by all of the budget cuts around the nation. You can tell by the rising prices and the vanishing quantity for the money.

You will not even go out of the enemy’s house. Nor from the front of his gate to do something for yourself that he will allow you to do. My people….”You do not like doing right. You do not like doing something for self. You glorify begging the white man to do for you that which you can do for yourself.

I warn you that the day is not far distant when you will be forced to do something for yourself because the white man is bound to drop you. And that he knows, but he is not telling you. He is allowing you the chance to make a fool of yourself and be caught at that time like a grasshopper who enjoyed summer weather. But cold weather kills the grasshopper. It freezes him to death because he has no house to lodge in.”-pg.137(o.s.h.a.)

You better reassess you life. The day decision is upon us. The livelihood of you & your family depends upon you making the right decision. Remember this…The white man can no longer carry you! He is telling you this himself!

Kansas budget cuts coming; governor expands aide’s duties

Brownback to outline cuts in Kansas spending next week; governor expands budget aide’s duties

 

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback says his budget director will outline spending cuts next week to help prevent a deficit.

Brownback said Friday that budget director Shawn Sullivan’s duties also have been expanded so that he’ll examine what the governor called “back office” operations across state government to see whether savings can be found.

The Republican governor said his administration will seek to cut about $50 million. That’s the amount lawmakers counted upon when they approved increases in sales and cigarette taxes last month to help balance the state budget.

Brownback said the cuts won’t touch aid to public schools, but state law limits his power to trim education funding.

Senate Democratic Leader Anthony Hensley of Topeka said he worries that cuts to higher education and social services are coming.

Gov. Sam Brownback expects to outline spending cuts next week to help prevent Kansas from having a deficit within the next year, his top spokeswoman said Friday, as his office announced expanded duties for his top budget adviser.

Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley confirmed the Republican governor’s plans to detail adjustments to the state’s $15.4 billion budget for the fiscal year that began this month. The GOP-dominated Legislature counted on Brownback cutting $50 million, even after lawmakers raised sales and cigarette taxes last month to balance the budget.

Those tax increases came after lawmakers slashed personal income taxes in 2012 and 2013 at Brownback’s urging in an effort to boost the economy. Raising sales and cigarette taxes enabled GOP lawmakers and the governor to preserve past cuts in income tax rates and most of an exemption from income taxes for 281,000 business owners and 53,000 farmers.

Kansas collected about $16 million less in revenues than anticipated in the fiscal year that ended in June, a shortfall of 0.3 percent. Legislative researchers predict that if Brownback makes no spending cuts, the state will end its current fiscal year with only $17 million in cash reserves — assuming it hits its revenue projections.

Brownback announced that he is expanding budget director Shawn Sullivan’s duties to aid in the hunt for efficiencies across state government. Sullivan’s work already included finding ways to trim spending when necessary, but the governor said in a statement that Sullivan also will work on “business process” improvements and developing a performance management system, without providing further details.

“This is just an expansion of his role so that he can work with other agency secretaries,” Hawley said.

Brownback was expected to face questions from reporters about the budget and Sullivan’s new role during a news conference Friday. Hawley said Sullivan is not getting an increase in his $130,000 salary.

The governor’s moves came after legislators agreed to spend up to $3 million to hire an outside firm to identify potential efficiencies within state government. Legislators hope to begin soliciting proposals from potential contractors by the fall.

Asked about how Sullivan’s new duties will mesh with lawmakers’ efforts, Hawley said, “He will work with them to implement efficiency recommendations provided by the study.”

Sullivan, a former Wichita nursing home administrator, served as Brownback’s secretary for aging and disability services before becoming budget director in June 2014.

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Kansas governor: https://governor.ks.gov/

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