Senior Kentuckians: DON'T Cut Budget

We still don't have any actual evidence that Kentuckians who are not politicians or big media give a flying fuck about budget deficits, but we have definitive proof that some Kentuckians care very much about stopping Governor Beshear from gutting state spending.

Several hundred elderly people rallied in Frankfort Monday against further state budget cuts in programs for the aging while lawmakers held a host of meetings to discuss Kentucky’s financial woes.

“No cuts, we vote” was the message AARP supporters sent to Gov. Steve Beshear and legislators at a rally in the Capitol’s House chamber.

Their event came on the heels of Beshear’s move last week to notify some state agencies to plan for 6 percent cuts to their current budgets to deal with an expected $161 million revenue shortfall this fiscal year. Exempted programs included Medicaid, higher education, the funding formula for schools, local jail support and state prison beds.

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The more time that passes without a professional poll of Kentuckians on the public option in health care reform and the budget deficit versus a new jobs program, the more I'm sure that the people who baselessly claim to already know what Kentuckians think are avoiding such a poll because they know the results will go against them.