40 More Days of Blunt Trauma

Governor Matt Blunt is on his way out. But before he can leave, he wanted to distribute a little more misinformation.

We’ve suffered through his healthcare cuts in the name of “eliminating fraud”. Funny, because Medicaid fraud hasn’t decreased, the lines at the emergency rooms are growing, and children and seniors are dying.

Now he’s continuing the lie that Missouri has some magical surplus hiding just below the surface somewhere. Well, the good people at the Missouri Budget Project have been good enough to point out that there has been one – that’s right, ONE – surplus during this abysmal failure of a Governor’s single term. This lone surplus, made on the backs of the working poor, children, and the disabled, quickly turned to a deficit because of the terrible toll it had on our state’s economy.

Our Governor Elect, however, after having some very smart people look over the actual numbers found that we’re deficit spending this very year (something Missouri isn’t allowed to do by the way).

So now, after taking from the poor and giving to the rich, our economy is in worse shape than ever, and Lil’ Blunt gets to pass the buck onto the new Governor.