Brownback wants Federal Aid for KS to help with Tornado damage

It's stunning that a Governor who is so "anti-government" suddenly is begging for Federal aid.  What happened to "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps"?  When it comes to other social safety nets, they continually cry that they don't want goverment interference.

I guess "big government" is appropriate when it benefits only you & your state specifically - to hell with everyone else, or the greater good.

Take this for instance:

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/17/3376262/brownback-tax-plan-hits-poor-hardest.html

Brownback finds aid appropriate only when it suits HIM.  Not even for the benefit of the needy or the poor  - that is not his objective. His objective always seems to be a private agenda or a political one . .  . I don't get it.  What is it you really stand for???

This is a guy who refused the federal money to set up their own state health exchange.  Now, in return for his belligerance, he'll get the opposite of what he wanted- when the exchanges are being formed, the Federal Government will come in & give them exchanges (that they may not find desireable) and then they will have to find KS money to pay for them, instead of receiveing readily available aid.  All this to 'MAKE A POINT'.

Sometimes, I really wonder where we 've gone politically in this country - are these guys really representing the people or just their own private agendas?  Shame on you Brownback for not taking care of the people of KS. . . . . .