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• 1 Thunder Storm // Nov 23, 2009 at 12:01 pm

  Bull fuckin’ Shit on you Steve Beshear. All you do is talk, talk , and more talk. Do you ever, I mean EVER , do anything to improve the job economy of Kentucky?

  You failed on the ZAP car (if you did a cursory search of the web, you would have found that guy was a fraud)

  You failed on NATTBATT. You guaranteed it was coming to Kentucky. Jake posted video with you saying exactly that. Again a cursory search found they were already going to Michigan.

  You failed on Harley Davidson (You were used again just like the ZAP car deal)

  So that you don’t see I’m all about complaining, I’ll offer some ideas to get you started.

  States all over America are getting green industries started with federal dollars helping. We have ethanol and biodiesel facilities but you never talk about them or promote them. Why not encourage more?

  Since you refuse to work with Richie Farmers Agriculture department, have your Ag policy group encourage farmers to grow produce and fruit so our poor and needy will be overflowing with healthy foods. We don’t need to import our fruits and vegtables from California and Brazil. Our climate and vast water supplies are great for an agricultural boom.

  We are #15 in Natural gas production, but you never talk about it. Does Coal have your tongue?

  Plant orchards all over the strip mined and MTR sites in eastern Kentucky, that is if you required them to reclaim it properly.

  Lets start a timber industry of fast growing trees (those than can be harvested in 4-5 years) to create ethanol.

  In South Dakota, POET industries is using excess corn cobs to create ethanol. Give them tax incentives to locate a plant in eastern Kentucky. They will be making 1.2B gallons annually of gasoline competitive ethanol in 2011

  Put windmills on the tallest mountains in Pike County to create green electricity and green jobs, if the coal industry will let you. And yes Pike County does fall into the group of 3 Eastern Kentucky counties the DOE says are viable for windmills.

  Please stop talking and start doing. Thats what is wrong with Kentucky and its ever entrenched politicians. Hell, let the politicians own these companies and they’ll get built faster than you can say “Kentucky is a poor state and I want to do something about it”

• 2 E // Nov 23, 2009 at 12:16 pm

  Nice rant TS!
  Don’t forget industrial hemp for biofuels and textiles.

• 3 Thunder Storm // Nov 23, 2009 at 12:36 pm

  Thanks E. Definitely a rant. I’m so sick and tired of our politicians talking and never doing.

  Industrial hemp in Kentucky would be the holy grail of plants.

  First, even with all the eradication efforts, Kentucky is #2 or #3 in marijuana production every year (behind Hawaii) There is hardly a textile industry in the US any more. Try buying a piece of clothing that isn’t made is South Korea, Taiwan or China, impossible. Our climate is extremely well suited for hemp production. It is an extremely low intensity crop, is almost insect and disease free. like you said a good producer of bio-fuel stock too.

  But like everything else, Kentucky will study and study and study hemp but nothing will come of it. Yet every day more and more states are passing laws allowing hemp production.

  Did you know we can import hemp from Canada and Europe to make products, but we can’t grow it. Thats just plain stupid.

  South Carolina is building 2 houses with what they call “hemp-crete” it is made with hemp, lime and water. The walls have tested out as strong as concrete, life span of 700 years. And the cool thing is if you want to tear it down, scatter the Hemp-crete in your fields for fertilizer or recycle it. No landfilling required.

  I can rant all day about this do nothing governor and his do nothing no merits. But don’t forget about our do nothing legislative members we keep re-electing decade after decade. They are no better.

• 4 Conservative // Nov 23, 2009 at 12:40 pm

  Since you refuse to work with Richie Farmers Agriculture department, have your Ag policy group encourage farmers to grow produce and fruit so our poor and needy will be overflowing with healthy foods

  Another good argument for eliminating the elected position of agriculture commissioner and making the ag commissioner an appointed commissioner just like the commissioner of corrections or commissioner of highways or commissioner of property taxation.

  That way you wouldn’t need a Governor’s Office of Agricultural Policy since the appointed ag commissioner would be carrying out the governor’s ag policy.

  As of now we have two agriculture agencies, often at loggerheads with one another, spending twice as much money as necessary to promote agriculture in the state.

• 5 truth // Nov 23, 2009 at 1:34 pm

  in this case, the Gov Office of Ag Policy has done a number of things on issues involving ag in Kentucky. On the other hand, Richie Farmer has been in office 6 years and done nothing! That’s right nothing unless you count hiring his little friends to jobs and them doing nothing too. He’s a joke! One thing is for sure, in order to tackle issues you actually have to show up and not just have your little friend(s) drive you around in a Ford Expedition and using them to pick up your kids at school, drive to ball games, etc. oh wait, the ball games are the only reason you were elected in the first place.

• 6 Thunder Storm // Nov 23, 2009 at 1:52 pm

  Conservative,
  You say “As of now we have two agriculture agencies, often at loggerheads with one another, spending twice as much money as necessary to promote agriculture in the state.”You are right in one aspect and wrong in the other :)

  Beshear is spending twice as much money as needed to promote agriculture except he nor Richie Farmer are promoting agriculture.

  Jane Beshear is carrying the banner of promoting agriculture but only on local gardens. We need these two agencies to talk about statewide green programs. A photo op or two at Berry Hill mansion is not enough.

  Question first, then idea. Is it more environmentlly conscious of us to import our fruits and veggies from across the country and world or to subsidize farmers to grow them and sell them locally.

  With a little infusion of capital from Beshear, farmers could start these crops, economic development could identify buyers for these products, put them together, create jobs locally and create food products we could market locally and to surrounding states.

  Kentucly has 51 parks, with 7 being resort parks with dining facilities, Office buildings in Frankfort, Louisville and Lexington with cafeteria’s. Frankfort seems to have more restaurants than churches. Market these fresh products to them.

  More cool facts. Kentucky is the #1 (yes we are #1 in something good) cattle producing state east of the Mississippi. I wonder if the steaks,and burgers sold in Kentucky’s restaurants are from Kentucky or imported frozen beef via tractor trailers?

  We need leaders in Economic Development, Dept. Of Agriculture, and the Governor’s Office to work together to “green Kentucky”

  We have a living legend in Richie Farmer in this basketball crazed state, Beshears biggest mistake is not using him to help Kentucky’s Agriculture industry.

  But in the end, anything Beshear does to promote Richie will be his ultimate demise as Governor. Either way Richie will kick his ass in the upcoming election.

  And Kentucky will still be 47th in everything and poor and jobless as hell. By the way our current unemployment is now 11.2% not the month old 10.9% Beshear reports in his video.

• 7 Thunder Storm // Nov 23, 2009 at 1:52 pm

  Damn, I’m wordy today!

• 8 truth // Nov 23, 2009 at 2:24 pm

  wordy and apparently not interested in electing someone with some level of intelligence (hence, your support for Farmer). sadly, you may represent the electorate in this state-the same electorate that voted for beshear and many of his predecessors. of all the things you complain about not happening, you believe that after 6 years of drawing a fat paycheck from the state that Farmer will suddenly do something now? Farmer has been there 6 years and done nothing other than drain state resources for nothing in return. He’s now part of the problem.

• 9 Conservative // Nov 23, 2009 at 2:37 pm

  Farmer has at least one degree from UK. Isn’t that at least the same education that Collins had and more than Wilkinson had?

  The GOAP was originally set up to handle the tobacco settlement. It’s outlived its usefulness.

• 10 le gardien de but // Nov 23, 2009 at 2:48 pm

  Hempcrete–what a concept!!!!!
  Hempcrete is made from hemp and lime & is quite a good construction material…..
  As has been pointed out KY is a great place to grow hemp & we’ve got plenty of limestone…
  Of all the government & stimulus subsidies out there, why does some savvy entrepreneur not take this & run?????

• 11 Thunder Storm // Nov 23, 2009 at 3:07 pm

  Truth, Didn’t say I was supporting Farmer, but stating the fact.

  If Farmer runs he will destroy Beshear no matter how much money Beshear selfishly drains from donors so the local officials cannot collect any.

• 12 Thunder Storm // Nov 23, 2009 at 3:28 pm

  Article titled “Green Building to Support Nearly 8 Million U.S. Jobs Through 2013″

  Wonder how many are coming to Kentucky? Zero or is it Zero?

  http://www.ecohomemagazine.com/news/2009/11/green-building-to-support-nearly-8-million-us-jobs-through-2013.aspx?rssLink=Green+Building+to+Support+Nearly+8+Million+U.S.+Jobs+Through+2013

  “Despite a challenging economic outlook, green building will support 7.9 million U.S. jobs and pump $554 billion into the American economy–including $396 billion in wages–over the next four years, according to a new report.”

  Good article

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