Senator Jim Inhofe (R, OK) had some harsh words about proposed DoD cuts:
The text version of these comments may be found here.
Senator Inhofe’s video response to DoD budget cuts.
On-scene in Afghanistan.
Kansas Gov. Sebelius (D) Responds to Pressure by Releasing Hostages, Averting Disaster
Late yesterday, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius (Democrat) succumbed to pressure and gave up on her attempt to hold state employee paychecks and taxpayer overpayment refunds hostage for $225,000,000.00 in ransom.
Sebelius’s overspending on unnecessary programs, and unwillingness to heed warnings last year from the Republican-led state legislature that a failure to trim budgetary fat would lead to a 2009 crisis, put Kansas’ state government in such a budget crunch that its only options were to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from its bloated budget or to add to the $550,000,000.00 it had already borrowed from itself in late 2008 — a total that must, by law, be repaid by the June 30 end of the 2009 fiscal year.
The Republican legislature addressed the crisis by passing a measure to cut the budget by $326,000,000.00 — around 4.25% per department, according to the Kansas City Star.
