Comments on: Projected budget shortfall likely to grow next week

By: Soteria

Soteria — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:59:32 +0000

you all just reported that Beshears has 1 million for his campaign and the state is going broke, I don\’t like the way it is going really to tell the truth it scares me, legalized gambling, drugs, and ????? your bet is as good as mine, I really think this needs to be controlled?

By: Soteria

Soteria — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:58:04 +0000

you all just reported that Beshears has 1 million for his campaign and the state is going broke, I don’t like the way it is going really to tell the truth it scares me, legalized gambling, drugs, and ????? your bet is as good as mine, I really think this needs to be controlled?

By: SOSG

SOSG — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:50:41 +0000

They claim the state is in such sad shape financially, yet the agency I work for continues to hire. We recently got a ‘political appointee’ who has no knowledge whatsoever of the work that we do. I’m sure at a salary of close to $80,000 a year or so also. It frustrates me that for that kind of money we could have hired two or three people who actually have experience in this field. If the state is truly in the financial mess it claims it is the first step would be to eliminate unecessary hires, especially those that are unqualified for the positions they are placed in. The majority of these non-merit political positions are not even needed to start with, or could be filled from the merit staff already employed for a lot less money.

By: Time to work together

Time to work together — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:42:53 +0000

Gov Beshear has a whole lot of problems. He needs to start working with the Republican Senate to find a solution to the budget woes. The state needs more revenue and there is nowhere else to cut. Laying state employees off is not the answer – because then that compounds the problem. But at the same time, he needs to do something for state employees. The insurance next year is crap and yet employees only got a 1% raise. Meanwhile, over 3,000 employees have retired, which is okay, except that remaining employees have to try to do the work. Gov Beshear might need to check his inner circle, because state employees are not happy, and at this point he has little chance of reelection. Hopefully his staff is reading this blog.

By: Soteria

Soteria — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:45:09 +0000

I have been telling you all this for the last four years, so why is it any different now, why does it seem to be any surprise. The things they say are needed and what they are doing and how they are going about it is absolutely wrong. They don’t listen to the ones that don’t go their way and our country is going broke because of it, coercion and force, no ability to informed consent and agreement, of any kind in medical care or else where regardless of whether it is for an adult or child does away with any GOOD that any preventive efforts could have. It also increases the volume of medical bills and payments that are being made and benefitting and lining a very few key stakeholders pockets, and that is about all it is doing, really! Don’t ask me why I say it needs to change, okay. Just know that this is not the way we can make sure that all of our people can have good, free, decent, wanted, or needed, appropriate health care regardless of their ability to actually pay for it at the time or not. It is a waste of money and waste of efforts. It is not the way to do prevention either. What it is, is a way to line the pockets of the health care industry and that is about all. Those that are being trained to do this are being misled. The little folk or peons just see it as a way of making a living and they want to “help”, but there are some real others who are making a killing off of it, figuratively and literally! We all do have a need for decenta and voluntary and medically sound health care sometimes, we won’t any of us have any of it in the future if it keeps going this way and I will bet you that. Our country will go even more broke, by the time those that are pushing any of this will let any of you all see the true light on it!

By: State revenue projections to be adjusted for “worst case scenario” « At the River’s Bend

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:25:14 +0000

[...] Musgrave with the Herald-Leader is reporting that the group decided to use a more pessimistic outlook for state revenues in the coming months n [...]