tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4468664660833170893.post4242397975268627069..comments2024-01-08T14:53:19.838-05:00Comments on Bluegrass Policy Blog: Beshear still wants to race through our moneyKelly Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17249335217299732224noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4468664660833170893.post-34989549465623520882009-02-18T17:36:00.000-05:002009-02-18T17:36:00.000-05:00We don't seem to mind spending millions on college...We don't seem to mind spending millions on college athletic programs including lucrative coaching salaries. Those coaches don't even have a class to teach. <BR/><BR/>At least they could teach a class on the fundamentals of a given sport and have their athletes serve as mentors to other class members who aren't a part of the team.<BR/><BR/>If Coach Kragthorpe were to teach a class, I'm sure that he would want to use the book, <I>The Purpose Driven Life</I>, by Rick Warren.<BR/><BR/>So why not have NASCAR? I'm not a NASCAR fan, but then I'm not a fan of other sports supported by Kentucky's taxpayers. What's wrong with government spending their money on something that gives them pleasure? <BR/><BR/>"The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government." Thomas Jefferson. <BR/><BR/>If a NASCAR speedway in Kentucky gives happiness to NASCAR fans, then government is doing what it's supposed to do.<BR/><BR/>Besides, spending money is good for the economy. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist Paper 30, <BR/><BR/>"Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions."<BR/><BR/>The people's happiness is an essential function of good government.<BR/><BR/>I realize that Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian economics don't fit in the the feudalist philosophy of BPB. Hamilton and Jefferson's economics don't fit in with your feudalist ideology--the same ideology that drives conservatism and Republicanism.Hempyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02813467704115452311noreply@blogger.com