The Office of Kentucky Homeplace is being closed in Morgan County.
We’re wholly infuriated and can’t do much more than post a letter to the editor published in The Morehead News:
On July 1 the Morgan County Office of Kentucky Homeplace is scheduled to be closed in our region. This important program works together with Christian Social Services in Morehead and our outreach center in Elliott County by providing long-term medicine and health supplies (eye glasses, etc.) for our clients. Like CSS, they serve families on fixed incomes that rely on this long-term service to balance their monthly budgets.
I cannot stress enough what closing this office will do. Their staff has been our partner for several years. They make home visits to families in our county and professionally and compassionately care for them.
Our families and friends will suffer during this financial crisis without this valuable service.
Way to screw eastern Kentucky! Let Lee Todd and other over-paid folks on the state teat keep their bonuses while jobs are lost, services are cut and communities suffer.
Great job.
This is what’s wrong with Kentucky. Everybody reading this should be ashamed.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Yellow Dog // Jul 9, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Thank Steve Beshear for gutting state services with that cowardly excuse for a budget.
This is just the beginning.
2 Sirico // Jul 9, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Beshear is “gutting state services” because of all the federal money that state and local govt lost due to Bush’s tax breaks for the rich.
You can thank all of the right-wingers who voted this dud of a president back for a second term.
3 Sirico // Jul 9, 2008 at 2:12 pm
BTW: “This is just the beginning.”
This has been going on for a number of years. That is why Louisville had to give up it’s “Bucks for Brains” program, tried to cut teachers jobs, etc (to help balance budget).
It’s an on going saga. And your right, it is probably just the begining…
4 Sirico // Jul 9, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Oops, I just reread that. I didn’t mean that as a slam on your post. Just say’n.
5 Yellow Dog // Jul 9, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Sirico – no offense taken.
Yes, state services have been shrinking for three decades, since Reagan made gubmint the enemy.
But in the specific case of Kentucky’s FY2009-2011 budget, here’s what happened:
Fletcher created a $500 million deficit that he lied about and claimed was a $700 million surplus right up through election day.
Upon discovering this crime by Fletcher, Beshear failed to attack the previous administration, failed to blame those who caused the deficit, and failed to take advantage of the deficit by completely remaking Kentucky’s prehistoric tax structure.
Beshear “solved” a $500 million deficit by slashing state services, refusing to increase revenues by a penny.
The service cuts we’ve been seeing since Reagan are to what’s coming this year and next as a gentle breeze is to an F-5 tornado.
6 UK Alumni // Jul 9, 2008 at 3:20 pm
As a direct result of unchecked republican rule, Kentucky and the rest of the nation are now getting the full ‘Katrina Treatment’ .
Millionaire aristocrats like John McCain, George Bush and Dick Cheney will do fine for themselves no matter what; but the average American better start figuring out real quick what the real republican plan for America looks like- Iraq; New Orleans and Walter Reed Army Hospital.
7 Sirico // Jul 9, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Yellow Dog
$500 million deficit is quiet a bit of money.
However… the Feds spend $112 million in Kentucky ANNUALLY on R&D ALONE (which ranks Kentucky 43 out of 50 states).
That is about “1%” of ALL FEDERAL MONEY SPENT EACH YEAR HERE IN KENTUCKY.
Your math is all wrong. It is WAAAAY off.
The Feds help Kentucky more than you think (Billions of $$$).
I’m sure that Beshear has to clean up this Republican mess that was left behind.
However he has a bigger problem.
He also has to make up for all of the lost federal revenue ( it exceeds a great deal more than $500 mil) from past years (Bush’s tax give-away to the rich).
Not an easy chore.
Hopefully, when we throw these imbecilic Republicans out of office, we will correct this problem in Kentucky and elsewhere.
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