tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4468664660833170893.post7865302368383585205..comments2024-01-08T14:53:19.838-05:00Comments on Bluegrass Policy Blog: Big government still Frankfort's problemKelly Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17249335217299732224noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4468664660833170893.post-71678738167679808412008-12-12T16:08:00.000-05:002008-12-12T16:08:00.000-05:00Maybe the Acting state Budget Director needs to re...Maybe the Acting state Budget Director needs to remember a simple practice that most folks go by--you cannot spend what you do not have. This director needs to step back and take a good look at how the funds are being spent. Are they all necessary? Are the bids the lowest or are the officials helping to line pockets of their friends?Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11928040980436714926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4468664660833170893.post-9851857124360818822008-12-11T10:10:00.000-05:002008-12-11T10:10:00.000-05:00Prevailing wage is not a wasteful policy. For an e...Prevailing wage is not a wasteful policy. For an economy to be prosperous, money has to circulate. It's wage earners who have the money to spend that fuels an economy. <BR/><BR/>A living family wage should be the order of the day.<BR/><BR/>The most wasteful government spending that's not addressed by government or by BPB, is the $270 million a year spent incarcerating non-violent marijuana users. There was no 4% cut in incarceration dollars.<BR/><BR/>Kentucky needs to scrap its punitive, marijuana and hemp laws. <BR/><BR/>When government of "We the people" decides to legalize and regulate a substance, federal law has no business telling states that they can't regulate and tax a substance.<BR/><BR/>Other than inalienable rights and the enumerated items in the US Constitution, federal law has no supremacy over state law. Neither do state and local law enforcement have any business enforcing such federal laws.Hempyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02813467704115452311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4468664660833170893.post-85894261893199309742008-12-10T07:57:00.000-05:002008-12-10T07:57:00.000-05:00Maybe get rid of stu silberan? Under investigatio...Maybe get rid of stu silberan? Under investigation and superintendent of the year? Spends 2.6 million on 26 buses after raisng taxes 5 million in fayette county because they are broke? Could have got a grant to retrofit all 250 busses at a cost of 0 to the district and 500k to the EPA who gives out the grants. Great work stuAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com