Special Session: A Blessing in Disguise?

Well Glory! I’m trying really hard not to lose my religion these days. Here we go again. Another stupid--and I mean stupid-- Special Session of the Kentucky State legislature on the horizon. Last year’s Special Session cost Kentucky taxpayers roughly $60,000 per day if I recall correctly. Governor Steve Beshear was on the radio blaming Senate President David Williams for holding things up and I suppose Williams will return the favor, both hoping to score political points for the 2011 Governors election. Both with a score of zero in my opinion.
Well, I tell ya, I’ve had enough. I don’t care what the excuses are, these clowns in Frankfort are not funny anymore. Kentucky’s debt was at $42billion last I checked at http://www.usdebtclock.org/ and we were recently ranked by Forbes magazine as the “worst ran state”.
What do you suggest we do about it? Glad you asked. During this Special Session Governor Beshear may as well add one more item onto his “agenda“. We need a law ensuring that future Special Sessions are called only in times of true crisis (such as natural disasters or for military purposes) and not to take care of unfinished legislative business or to implement anybody’s political agenda. I figure the less time they spend up there the less damage they can do. What do you all think? If we can get this one simple law passed, it may be well worth the money. But let me tell you what else is worth the money. If this Special Session finally convinces Kentucky voters that David Williams and Steve Beshear both need to be fired, it may well be a blessing in disguise. The Lord sure does work in mysterious ways. God bless Kentucky!

Michael Maggard -- Concerned Kentuckian

Should Spending Cuts Begin With Lawmakers?

Phil Moffett’s Gubernatorial campaign manager David Adams was on TV a couple of days ago defending the taxpayers of Kentucky against some rallying public union supporters organized by out of towners. Adams told wkyt, “We now have government employees making significantly more than the taxpayers who are paying their salaries”. I find it significant that wkyt would be interested in the perspective of Phil Moffett on this issue. Of course, I have my own view of public unions, but first I have a couple of questions for the reader. How many of you approve of the authority of members of Congress to set their own pay? I would like to see a poll on this sometime. My guess is the results would be as low as whatever the job approval of Congress has been lately. Pretty low I suppose. Okay, here’s my next question. Assuming you don’t approve of Congress voting themselves raises, then why would you ever approve of public unions? It is the same deal, only worse because you cannot vote the public employees out if you dislike their job performance. Now to my opinion. We should find a way to cut both the compensation of our legislators and our public employees. It should be politically wise to do so, if we accept the “shared sacrifice” concept, plus it would do more to get Kentucky out of our $42billion dollar debt hole. Now I could vote for that. Maybe I should contact the Phil Moffett campaign and see what they think.

-Michael Maggard --Concerned Citizen