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Yes, Perkins and his ilk were a disaster for eastern Kentucky and all federal aid for students has done is to send the cost of tuition, fees, and housing soaring at a rate far above inflation while creating a nation of under educated college graduates who leave campus with a heavy burden of debt. As federal funding for education increases, so do tuition and professional educators' salaries, as students continue to go deeper in debt.

The pipeline of federal funding for so-called war on poverty programs has continued unabated on McConnell's watch, which should have a liberal like yourself singing his praises.

What liberals do well is to redefine luxuries such as cars, telephones, TVs, and high income jobs as necessities and entitlements. The result is a sizable minority of the population who choose to become wards of the state when times get tough instead of migrating to where jobs await them, as our ancestors had done since migrating to this country.

People like Perkins rob American citizens of their self respect and work ethic. They are a blight on a democratic society and a threat to its long tem existence. This nation is far beyond broke and history will judge powerful politicians like Carl Perkins and Mitch McConnell harshly for the role that they have played to bring about the collapse of our civil society.

You realize you’re saying KY is worse off today than it would be if half the population were in poverty? In EKY it was worse.

I don’t like some of the culture that social welfare has created, but it’s obtuse to not recognize the fact that our population is exponentially more educated and healthier than prior to those benefits.

Colleges haven’t cut any breaks. Federal assistance has been around for 55 years, but this century has seen tuition skyrocket. I’ve seen it first hand; paid my last tuition bill in 2002 and paid my son’s first in 2018. I paid about 25% of what he is paying. I am suspect of KEES money, wage stagnation, and public education cuts.

Where are people going to migrate to?
Where’s that huge industrial center that can take about a 1 million Kentuckians?

I’d much rather see improvements made to my state than Kentuckians have to pick up and leave.