[TheRealThing]

^^ I got Bevin plantman.

As stated above, the lion's share of whatever controversy continues to swirl around the governorship of MR Bevin is manufactured blame for the situation he inherited at the hand of foregoing administrations. Other than two four year terms for Republicans Nunn and Fletcher, since Dec of 1947 Kentucky has been led entirely by Democrats. I don't know how sensible people could blame the incoming Republican Governor for the sins of the past, but that is exactly what has happened.

Saying that, the problem with the teachers pension fund is no less real and nobody wants to see a group of people or even one individual suffer loss where his/her pension is concerned. That fact stands on it's face. But the problem Kentucky teachers have is twofold. First, reports have it that their pension funds were mishandled, possibly even squandered for rather ignoble cause. And second, on an ongoing basis they were lied to or misled if you prefer, as to the health of their fund. Put it like this-- The man whom has made the lifelong mistake of stringing along his creditors, and, owing if nothing else to the encroachment of the laws of mathematics, though continually promising faithfully to pay his debt, will nonetheless eventually default to those creditors. It's math folks. One can only rob Peter to pay Paul for so long. The teachers were promised-- faithfully. But then there is that nasty problem with the math.

So, where the teachers are concerned. It strikes me as the ultimate in irony to think the teachers of Kentucky refuse to admit the truth. After being misled for decades at long last a man of conscience comes along, and under his administration state audits reveal the sad state of affairs as to the entirety of Kentucky's unfunded liabilities. So, what did the educators of our state do? Did they become incensed with those who actually squandered their pension funds and not admit the fact to them? Nope, they got mad at the only guy (Matt Bevin) with sufficient integrity to be honest with them as to what happened to the pension fund.

So I don't know how this will all turn out, but it is beyond logical to me to think that Kentucky's best examples of lucid thought, those in fact entrusted in no small degree to shape the minds of our own precious children, would insist on cozying right back up to the very devil that defrauded them in the first place. :yikes: