Wasting money with our pinkies extended

Gov. Steve Beshear has a lunch meeting with some philanthropists Wednesday in Frankfort to discuss fund-raising our way to prosperity.

The key to this is simple: if the money raised by the Commission on Philanthropy is used to retire debt or pay old bills, that's one thing. But if the plan is to use this to avoid the hard work of making government in Kentucky affordable or to start new programs based on projections of ever-increasing philanthropy, we should politely decline.