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Sunday humor: Bill Owens declares “I am a strong fiscal conservative.”

Like the good establishment Republican he is, former Colorado Governor Bill Owens is against lowering taxes and shrinking government.

His “Counterpoint” (See “Too good to be true? Effect is disaster“) in today’s Denver Post contains hysterical pronouncements of impending Armageddon if ballot issues 60, 61 and 101 pass in November. What pray tell will we poor serfs do if the Omnipotent State is not around to take our money and provide us with services we could not possibly provide without their benevolence?

Owens’ immediately declares “I am a strong fiscal conservative.” And Hello Kitty is the King of the Jungle. Owens campaigned long and hard for Referenda C and D while governor, two proposals to give government more money and allow it to grow.

How is this “compassionate?”

In today’s Denver Post:

Social workers across the state say that attempts to fix the long-troubled Colorado Benefits Management System — a database that processes applications for public assistance like Medicaid, food stamps and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families — are actually making the system worse.
Instituted in 2004 under then-Gov. Bill Owens, the CBMS, with an initial cost of $223 million, has a long history of communications problems, crashes and failures — including overpayments and underpayments to recipients.
- State computer “fixes” faulted, Social workers say the long-troubled benefits system has become worse.
And somehow the “progressive” statists that want to force all of America into another government run program claim to be “compassionate.”
Lewis Carroll would not dare be so absurd.