Roberts is on the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Children are still getting left behind and testing has not been well directed in schools. Healthcare costs for the many people who are underemployed or underpaid in Kansas are still way out of control.

http://www.khi.org/

http://www.healthcare4kc.org/uploadedFiles/Publications/GKCB-Aug-07-Special-7-13-07-pps-1-8.pdf

He is also supported by big drug companies to a great degree.

http://www.ksdp.org/node/3414

Roberts has also recently voted against bills to improve the energy efficiency of automobiles in the U.S. The energy costs effect Kansas more than those peoples in most other states due to the huge distances Kansans off need to travel. Energy costs especially hurt the elderly, who are on fixed incomes.

WHAT DOES ROBERTS SUPPORT?

Looking at Senator Roberts’ home page, one of his big interests is to promote businesses becoming dependence on the federal government or federal spending. Here is one of his links that explains the wheres and hows of doing business with the federal government:

http://roberts.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ConstituentServices.DoingBusinessWithFederalGovernment

The only good investment opportunity with great backwash that could help Kansas businesses would be Roberts’ verbal support of “wind energy”, i.e. energy which Kansas already exports as far away as Florida. However, Roberts doesn’t discuss the creation of gasohol in the USA that is not made from corn. How neglectful when Kansas can grow alternative fuel producing crops, such as sugar beets and a variety of grasses, much more cheaply and while using less water and fertilizer!

In short, Roberts is not a forward thinker.

He is a “yes” man and he covers up for bad policy and bad politicians:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/08/roberts-coverup/

Roberts supported a war in Iraq in 2003—not because Saddam Hussein was a real direct threat nor because Saddam Hussein was promoting global terrorism—but simply because he liked the idea of the U.S. taking over Iraq.

Roberts, like his mentors (George W. Bush and Dick Cheney), thought taking over Iraq would be cheap. He thought a short war would be good for the economy and Kansans always needs jobs in the army reserve, etc. This kind of thinking should not be in charge or our nation’s finance plans in the Senate or anywhere.

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