[TheRealThing]

Please provide the proper statistics with correct references. I'm curious to see what you can come up with. Likewise, I'm sure teachers don't give a hoot about your taxes if it mattered that their pension would be fully funded.

I don't think you're understanding my point of view. I don't care who caused the mess. Kentucky has plenty of ways to alleviate the cost of this problem. If you think it won't impact education, then you're just plain silly. That is my focus. We can go on a witch hunt about why democrats are idiots and republicans (especially that barely functioning moron Matt Bevin) are evil, but that isn't my issue. Y'all up north are hard to find the key points.

LOL, so much for curiosity huh?

No I got your point of view just fine. Hoot spoke to the issue perhaps a bit more eloquently than I, but in the end the result is always the same. Anybody, and I mean ANYBODY, that hitches their pension fund wagon to government will rue the day. In fact, the KY teacher pension fund shortfall is but a microcosm of the much bigger problem all Americans face. Total unfunded liabilities for this country, (pensions and such) total a staggering 211 Trillion dollars according to HUD Director Ben Carson. The total GDP for the US is only 20 Trillion. So if we took every dime we could muster for the next decade, we'd still be significantly behind the power curve. The point is this; no there aren't "plenty of ways to alleviate this problem,' not in Kentucky or anywhere else in this land. In fact many economists believe we are staring at a thousand foot high economic tsunami, it just hasn't gotten here yet. And though the Kentucky economy is but a speck on America's financial picture, that tsunami will prove to be just as devastating.

Frankly, education is just one of the many symptoms attributable to the financial woes headed our way. Even while every aspect of our way of life is under similar threat, owing to lack of money, you still got the Bernie Sanders wing of the Party out there promising free everything. People like Trump and Bevin are trying to belt tighten enough to spare us complete devastation, but Dems would evidently see us on history's ash heap before they'd give up on their quest to rule.

Or put another way... As Margaret Thatcher said, we have come to the end of 'other peoples' money.