Nationally, the day after the last presidential election, the former Republicans instituted a corrupt philosophy of trying to out-do the Democrats, apparently not understanding that the Democrats have a 70 year jump on them headlong into Cultural Marxism. How foolish they have been, those former Republicans, flushing long held principles to vie for vote-buying (Hispanics & OTM’s, welfare bums of all stripes), direct attacks on constitutional principles (tort reform) but not limited to, engineered by the likes of Stephens, Tyson’s, Insurance companies, etc.  and most of the former Republicans took the bait.

The former Republican Party now rebranded as the (POI) Party of Irrelevance, has given up all claims of representing their constituents.  So who do they represent?  Clearly, the 89th session demonstrated that they are in bed with the welfare crowd and the corporate/government nexus.

Who represents middleclass Arkansans—NO ONE.  Anyone who tries gets politically destroyed, i.e. Jon Hubbard. 

A brief critique of the legislative activities of the 89th assembly the rebranded majority party was engaged in will stamp them as traitors to the American way by increasing the size of government and attacking citizen held involvements in Ark. State government.

1.    The POI’s increased the state budget by $197 million.
2.    The Joint Budget Committee set aside hundreds of millions of surplus tax dollars “for various projects & purposes” (the amount is breathtaking). This demonstrates nothing but corruption. How many hundreds of millions of surplus tax dollars does the Ark. state government have? This vividly demonstrates that Arkansans are criminally overtaxed and why aren’t these millions given back to the taxpayers?  Then there is the matter of “various projects & purposes”.  Why are they not specifically revealed?
3.    Gave State employees a 2% cost of living raise.  When is the last time citizen subsidizers of government got a raise of any kind and then factor in that all government employees’ net incomes on average is 30% higher than private sector taxpayers!  More vote-buying by shameless legislators.
4.    Gave the government school system an increase of $47 million to an already existing budget of $2.046 BILLION.   FUNDING FOLLOWS FAILURE.
5.    The POI’s bequeath Gov. Beebe with $100 million and the House & Senate each received $35 million on their “favorite projects”. Each of the 35 Senators received $1 million apiece.  What’s the chance of this stolen money being used for vote-buying and fund raising schemes? Ask your legislators!
6.    The POI’s pushed through in the largest welfare program history of Arkansas (remember this is the former Republicans conducting this dollar onslaught) which will place ANOTHER 300+ THOUSAND ARKANSAS DEADBEATS & ILLEGALS ON WELFARE FOR LIFE.  This is one of Obama’s deals that no one & I mean no one understands what is in it. To further inflame the wound, these former Republicans dumped in another $107 million in the state’s Medicaid program.  The federal government (that’s me) is alleged to be paying for the above thievery while the fed now has a $17 Trillion debt and a president who is dedicated to destroying our former preeminent republic.  And these legislators have gleefully joined the Obama attack on Western Civilization.
7.    Passage of a Bill that makes it extremely difficult for citizens to petition the government through the use of initiatives for redress of grievances, i.e. training for signature gathering, increase in the percent of voter signatures needed to meet state mandates, etc.

In time it will be pointed out the relationships these representatives & senators have with whom and what for and further demonstrate that their first goal is to absolutely and totally destroy middleclass Arkansans’ influence in state government.
Be aware that this bunch wants to extend Term Limits to 16 years.

The question becomes, is this bunch who languishes in the Capitol most of the year traveling at taxpayers’ expense to meetings far & wide, “public servants” or “self-servants”? (Think Jeffress brothers).  As stated above, in due course the devil in the details will emerge.

Joe McCutchen

P.S. Gov. Beebe will tout the addition of 300,000+ per year on Medicaid as a program that is virtuous, pure, and his legacy.  Oh yes, I believe he cut the grocery tax a ¼th of a cent, or something like that, which he boasts about.
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