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To: tejek who wrote (857266)	5/15/2015 12:46:07 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1576474

Was it recovering faster before Brownback? Not that I can see. Slower before, slower afterwards, not much meaningful data to pull from that. Long term, depending on what specific cuts where made, they should be positive, but such changes often don't last for the long term, too many special interests behind every greater spending.

To: tejek who wrote (857266)	5/15/2015 2:36:48 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1576474

As graft and corruption become legal political systems. “The use of such means (lobbying contracts) and such agents (lobbyists) will have the effect to subject the state governments to the combined capital of wealthy corporations, and produce universal corruption, commencing with the representative and ending with the elector. Speculators in legislation, public and private, a compact corps of venal solicitors, vending their secret influences, will infest the capital of the Union and of every state, till corruption shall become the normal condition of the body politic, and it will be said of us as of Rome — omne Romae venale.”