Just to keep everybody on focus, let's review the facts here:

- The State of KS is experiencing a shortfall of $200 million in the 2009 state tax revenue

- The KS Legislature passed a bill that would eliminate $300 million from the 2009 budget, while preparing for more budget cuts in 2010

- KS Gov. Sibelius disagrees with some of the budget cuts, including education cuts, and refuses to sign the bill

- KS Gov. Sibelius was attempting to borrow $225 million to transfer into the state's main account to pay the bills, but can only do so with Legislative approval

- KS Republicans have blocked this request

- Not much money exists which results in state income tax refund suspension, threat of not paying state employees this upcoming Friday, and indefinite suspension of state-allocated funding to various state agencies including school districts

This just sounds irresponsible on both ends. I'm sick of this Democratic-Republican thing.

The American citizens are being disenfranchised darn it!

This stimulus will maybe buy three weeks at the most 4 weeks.

March and April it will really start to unravel.

Well, my mom got her state refund back last week. We both live in Kansas. Is this something different then that?

Originally posted by projectvxn
I made a post about this in another thread...I heard about it on Fox News of all places...Which by the way, I have a strategy for. But I will get to that in a minute.

Like California, this is going to push the state of Kansas into default. This is the first step of insolvency. More and more states will follow and President Barack Obama will then introduce a bill to congress(Or congress will introduce it's own bill) that will appropriate3 trillion dollars to the states to cover their expenses...Since this won't stop here and this new bailout bill won't do anything about this problem. The Bonds will collapse. Not just Treasuries, but munis and other localized bond markets. Then we'll be left holding alot of green toilet paper.

This is only the beginning. States will be doing this left and right throughout the rest of the year until the Federal Government economically nukes the entire country.

Wow....A prediction come true within minutes of this post...Whodda thunk it?

So whats really needed here is some bi-partisan cooperation. If Sebelius signs that one bill, the GOP will write off for the budget transfers and whatnot, and everyone else will get their income taxes back.

So when do you think these two parties will come to agreements? I mean its pretty crazy to believe they will just stay in this perpetual standoff while millions of Kansans don't get their money.

So are we saying, they can actually afford to pay the bills?
But its a political squabble that's stopping it?