Low Wages: A Real Problem in Louisville as well as rural Kentucky

Louisville has been a low wage city compared to many other surrounding metro areas for decades and often even in more specialized trades and professional fields, the wage in Louisvlle are 15 to 20 percent lower than other neighboring cities such as Indianapolis, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Columbus, etc Even compared nationwide with the cost of living being much different in other cities versus Louisville is that Louisville ranks towards the bottom with regard to social mobility and wage increases. In other words, Louisvlle employers do everything they can to keep the wages down. Evidence of this involves all of the box flipping jobs and low wage factories in places like Jefferson Riverport, Bluegrass Industrial Park, and other well known industrial and distribution warehouses in the Louisvlle region. But that's not all and Louisville is well known for sticking it to anyone who actually works for a living. Which ends up hurting the local economy in Louisville through decreased spending power and people not being able to participate fully in the economic life of the city. Poor and impoverished people rarely are buying good housing, new cars, and new products and services rather spending it just to survive and stay afloat.

With people like Greg Fischer and the spineless and gutless Metro Council running things I can say good luck for the Jobs With Justice folks because they're going to need all the resistance and help they can get. Louisville prides itself a Compassionate City under Greg Fischer who locally coined the term from what I can best gather but he's totally full of malarkey since I decided to keep it clean and family oriented. In other words, Greg Fischer is more full of it than the cattle and livestock barns are at the Kentucky State Fair in August.

Louisville could give a care less about having decent wages and jobs for its citizens. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a city ran by a myraid of low wage jerkwater employers as well as the temp services paying employees 30 to 40 percent less than their counterparts in other cities in decent paying jobs. Louisville talks the talk but it refuses to walk the walk. Which is why countless untold hundreds if not thousands of homeless are wandering Louisville streets and sleeping under the bridges and underpasses of the city. All while the nonsensical garbage is being espoused that Louisville takes care of its own. What a total laugher from the Possiblity City and the Compassionate City. A total joke. Louisville is like a joke wrapped in a farce and that's what their two mottos of being compassionate and a Possiblity City is all about.

http://wfpl.org/kentucky-group-wants-living-wage-for-butchertown-stadium-workers/

Partial Explanation Why Public Universities and Institutions Are Morally Bankrupt

At a time when the US economy isn't exactly booming along despite the job gains along with low wages, university and college students are having difficulties paying their student loans and their other obligations to the point that many of them either have stopped paying and are in default. All the while public institutions like the University of Louisville are lavishly paying out huge salaries to athletic directors, provosts, university presidents (see former U of L honcho James Ramsey) along with their executive staffs. Meanwhile most college students are surviving on very little or nothing while the fat cats at universities like U of L are raking in the big bucks while their lower level staff gets insurance cuts and hiring freezes. All the while the athletic program masquerading as a university ranks in the 150s and 160s as a university in the US News and World Report as it has regularly ranked over the past several years. U of L despite is admission to the Atlantic Coast Conference has been regularly ranked in the 160s and 170s as recently as 176th in 2013, 161 in 2014, 161 for 2015, 168 in 2016, 171st for 2017 and the ranking for 2018 is 165th of which it tied another university.

Yet the hucksters at the Belknap campus seem to always be touting their excellent educational record as such and that we should all drink the Kool Aid along with them. At a university that despite its athletic prestige on the wane talks about its educational progress when for years its been nothing more than a laughingstock where the university board gave free rein to a coterie of crooks and criminals who were padding their pockets with their ill gotten gains. As well as padding the pockets of the accomplices in criminality that are so evident in the college hallways these days. One should start to take note of organized criminality as such when kids are graduating college with tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt and getting an average starting salary of 30 to 45k a year while the university head honchos are getting 350k, 700k, and getting money on top that from a university foundation.

It boggles the mind that such public corruption takes place but its clear that the people who are bankrupting this country are in fact clearly on the take.

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/louisville/2017/10/24/university-louisville-pay-100-000-month-interim-athletic-director-vince-tyra/775878001/

Governor Screw Job and His Sycophants

Notice how governor Beavis Butthead of Kentucky is making sure that lawmakers get their pensions while 85 percent of their system is adquately funded while thousands of teachers in Kentucky only have their pension system funded at 14 percent. Sounds like the legislators and good old boy politicians need to take a haircut. More shenanigans from the bunch of hucksters and snake oil salesmen. All the while for the past several decades Kentucky has been one of the worst ran states in America with both Democrats and Republicans contributing to the problem. Since many former conservative Democrats later became Republicans over the past few decades they are just as much of the problem as the liberal free spenders that think you can overspend constantly and still be prosperous.

Add in the fact that historically over the past several decades that Kentucky is one of the worst ran states with the 47th ranked personal income in America among the states only Arkansas, West Virginia and Mississippi are poorer. Add in the fact that Kentucky has ranked 44th or worse in personal income and family income since 1939, a period of 78 years as of 2017 which is most peoples average lifespan. Add in the fact that Kentucky is 47th in percentage of the population with college degrees and in the 40s among the 50 states in public education from K to 12. Now you can paritally see why Kentucky is backwards and economically depressed in so many of its areas that it resembles a Third World nation in the United States.

Ever wonder why the politicians are more interested in polishing their seats with their ass than actually doing something that would help people because they benefit from a corrupt system.

http://wfpl.org/gov-matt-bevins-pension-proposal-is-out-heres-how-it-will-affect-kentuckians/

http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article180809546.html

http://www.kentucky.com/latest-news/article179472821.html

Governor Screw Job

How you shouldn't question Matt Bevin or better yet he should be called Governor Beavis after the Beavis and Butthead character so prominent about 25 years ago. Perhaps even more apropo would be that he's actually Governor Butthead because he's proven that during his short time in office of just a couple of years that he's not the least bit interested in coming to common ground to figure out solutions to problems. Yet, he's just another corporatist shill voted in by the increasingly foolhardy electorate that is desperate for solutions to common problems yet vote in people that will end up torching what needs to be fixed with a flawed system. The Democratic Party of Kentucky has had decades to start to clean up the mess in Kentucky but they refused to do their constitutionally mandated job so instead the desperate electorate voted Bevin because at least he promised them solutions to all their problems. Including the inane and insane idea that government is the problem and never does anything right. However, Beavis Butthead drags down some extra cash (from government) like all these hypocrites while complaining about the government. If he was really interested he would forsake his gubernatorial salary and try to come up with common sense solutions to Kentucky and its problem. Instead, he's proven to be the hands and under the control of the multinational corporations including that of Braidy Industries of which he and his cabinet cannot name investors in that firm building a steel plant in Eastern Kentucky.

Now he's going to end up gutting the public pension program which is something that taxpayers and government employees have been participating it for many years in return for having some semblance of a secure retirement. All the while corporate employers have largely gutted the corporate pension programs in favor of employee paid in 401k retirement programs without contributing to the program and passing on giving their employees any of the money. Which saves the corporation money of course unless they give money as a matching contribution.

You can guarantee that Beavis Butthead will figure out a way to say that having a pension system is too expensive to the people of a state that is already desperately poor in so many areas and regularly ranks towards the bottom of the statistics in personal income and family income. Socialize the losses and privatize the profits which is nothing more than the Republican motto all the while telling the people that you are working for them. Not that the Democrats are any better but people seeking solutions often have desperate ideas for matters that end up making them more desperate in the long run.

http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article181374751.html

Bomb Cratered Streets Louisville Style Part II

In my first installment, I discussed the Louisville issue of bomb cratered streets and infrastructure issues including that of the public screwing tha the taxpayers of Louisvlle, Kentucky, and Southern Indiana are getting via increased tolls on the Kennedy and Lincoln bridges as well as the East End Bridge.

Now I think its time to pay attention to various Louisville streets that might as well be pockmarked like the moon with the various road issues and lack of attention that has been paid to the Louisville streets over the years.

Dixie Highway comes to mind of being the biggest clusterf--k around when it comes to Louisville roadways. Bumpy through about 20 miles of its existence from downtown all the way to the Jefferson Hardin County line. For years this road was a main thoroughfare from Louisville across the southern states. Yet after the interstate system was built in the 1960s and 1970s, it entered a rapid period of decline.

Why is it that its taken the better part of a generation of 20 years to figure out how to configure Dixie Highway to be a safe, efficient, and high traffic thoroughfare through the populated areas of Southwestern Louisville including Shively, Pleasure Ridge Park, Valley Station, and Kosmosdale, etc. All the while the road has been bumpy and uneven for years due to lack of maintenance and lack of engineering standards to keep the road as a major roadway safe and efficient. Add in the fact that the drivers of Dixie make it more dangerous with their lack of driving skills and lack of common sense. That should be strictly enforced by Louisville Metro and the Kentucky State Police but they are too busy solving other crimes and problems in the city nowadays to do much traffic enforcement.

However, they used to regularly hand out tickets on Dixie Highway back in the 90s and 2000s era on a regular basis and didn't shy away from pulling people over. The only place you might find them sitting now is south of the Gene Snyder Freeway because their traffic enforcement is lax between Valley Station and downtown at best. All the while residents are regularly in accidents because of lane switching, tailgaters, stop light running and various other bad driving practices.

Add in the fact that the road is poorly lit and poorly maintained as well as tremendously bumpy in many sections with the roadway having raised surfaces and falling apart lends to the problems as well. Too many businesses and entry ways to cause issues as well and an overbearing traffic load on the highway system.

Why Louisville can't get its public works system correct to get that road fixed properly is beyond me despite years of planning and community discussions that even though some work has been done, not much progress has been made. It shouldn't take an act of Congress or a military action to get something done to fix a roadway that carries so much of the traffic load for the Southwest Louisville area.

Why the people of Louisville continue to put up with this crap?

There are plenty of downtown surface streets in Louisville that could use some TLC as well especially in the Downtown and Old Louisville as well as Butchertown and Smoketown areas. Too numerous to mention here I would love to video all of the bombed out streets of Louisville and show the public what a mess they truly are. Maybe that might get the attention of the Metro Government that instead of polishing their nails and having a manicure could actually do some work and get roads fixed which is an essential function of government.

Also, who in the hell is the idiot in Louisville in charge of the traffic light system? They should be fired and forced to dig ditches for the rest of their days instead of trying to unsuccessfully manage traffic lights so that people aren't spending an eternity sitting at lights because of lack of synchronization.

I remember back in 2009 that there was to be total sychronization of the traffic signals in Louisville, KY since the city under Jerry Abramson was supposed to be fixing that problem. Yet its 8 years later and that still hasn't occurred under the Greg Fischer administration. They've did nothing except waste the last eight years in getting someone to do their job and fix the problems that cause people to have to sit wastefully for hours at the lights every year when there is no traffic or very little traffic running. Its mind bogglingly stupid to have such a system that could be used to save on gas costs, wear and tear on cars, and time and yet not use it efficiently.

You're telling me that Louisville Public Works can't do its job and actually commit to fix the traffic light issues. Despite the fact that in 2009, the Mayor of Louisvile, Jerry Abramson chose to take over the maintenance of the system from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet which inlcuded maintenance on all state roads and numbered roads within the jurisdiction of Louisville Metro. Of which now the city of Louisville ie Louisville Metro now is responsible for the upkeep, snow removal, and roadway improvements on all former state routes.

Yet under the incompetent and clueless Greg Fischer administration, the road network has been increasingly falling into disrepair and lack of upkeep despite the promises of a clueless and incompetent mayor that refuses to take public safety seriously by fixing roadways. Instead he's more worried about liberal agenda items such as having more bike lanes and more sustainability ideas which add very little to the city other than more waste and more inefficiency rather than fixing what needs to be fixed.

Louisville, thinks as itself as a world class city, but its a delusion with the political and business leaders in Louisville being largely ineffectual and incompetent to promoting change, progress and improvement. All the while playing the usual constiuent games to get reelected while the overglorified trailer park burns down around them. With crime and murders spiking through the roof, these political games are jeopardizing the future of the region and taxpayers. Too bad most people are too ignorant or self absorbed to actually know or care about anything that doesn't hit them in the face.

Bomb Cratered Streets Louisville Style

Louisville being a city of 750,000 people that swells to a larger city with the influx of traffic and job seekers has some of the most jacked up and horrid infrastructure of any major US city I have been to. That includes by trips to places like Indianapolis, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Nashville, Memphis, Columbus, etc. Not to mention farther more far flung locales in the Eastern United States.

I can easily understand and sympathize with the difficulty that local road crews have with continuing to upkeep roadways and surface streets in a place that has so much cold weather from November to March on a yearly basis. However, I can't understand how a city with a ridiculously high rate of taxes on its residents cannot fix its city streets and infrastructure. Not to mention to add in high sewer bills and high water bills that are run by the city government and the MSD and Water Company which regulary sticks it to the consuming public. All the while the public officials at those agencies are appointees of the Mayor of Louisville. They stink and reek of incompetence, favortism, nepotism, and good old boy corruption on a grand scale that would make Boss Tweed look like a moral and decent man.

Louisville seems to be a city always under construction but nothing really substantive gets done unless the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet takes the lead and even with their blatant stupidity gets very little done. Just enough to keep the roadways running and clear and other than that, they find a way to regularly spend more money and mismanagement is rife in their ranks. Which is partially why Louisville and Southern Indiana commuters and other passers by have to pay ridiculous tolling charges on a bridge system that could have been built in a publicly funded way with existing tax revenues and gas taxes. Instead of being screwed to death with more tolls that equate to a monthly cable TV bill just for the privilege of having to go to work to earn a living on either side of the river.

A system that cannot even get its crap straight to where people are being sent late fees via invoices for bills that they never received in the first place. A system that couldn't be ran by the Commonwealth of Kentucky or State of Indiana or local governmental agency but instead by a faceless, nameless, company based out of Texas that is doing the billings. Why is it that Kentucky and Indiana couldn't at least come up with a system where billing and collections were at least done locally instead of being farmed out to Texas where company in question continues to screw the general public and taxpayers.

Will this be like the 2006 to 2014 Indiana Toll Road debacle where Indiana got several billion dollars in money for exchange for a 75 year toll road concession? Only to find out in 2014 and 2015 that the company that was running the tolling system went bankrupt so the state had to operate it until a new consortium took over the management and fiscal operations of the Indiana Toll Road.

How many years will the taxpayers continue to be fleeced by the company that Kentucky in its infinite wisdom chose to screw the ratepayers with? How much money will be wasted on inefficient company practices and billing mistakes made by this faceless and corrupt outfit? How much will the taxpayers have to be soaked with in tolls because the Commonwealth of Kentucky cannot manage its own economy, education system, government and the like to where the drivers had to be tolled.

There were plenty of opportunities over the years to get this done if the Commonwealth of Kentucky had not been an economic and social basketcase with a socialistic government that wasted billions of dollars of a 20 to 30 year period and couldn't even manage a state pension fund. All the while racking up a 60 billion dollar deficit to said pension fund with the help of various governors and state legislators always kicking the can down the road. Why is it that the people of Kentucky continue to elect these various morons including the current governor Matt Bevin? A guy that mentally isn't fit to run a lemonade state. More on Bomb Cratered Streets Louisville Style Part II

Greg Fischer and Idiocy Kentucky Style

This seems to be Greg Fischer in action on most days running around with his underwear on his head. What I can't quite determine is whether Greg Fischer has his head firmly planted on most days where his ass is or he just runs around blindly trying to figure out how to be a mayor. Instead he seems to spend most days being politically correct and saying all the right things to make sure not to piss off his constituencies of Democratic supporters especially those in the South End of Louisville and the West End.

All the while his city is falling apart from massive infrastructure problems including aging infrastructure such as broken water mains, pipes that are corroded, and a road system that is collapsing under the weight of trucks and cars and all those semis moving things to the Worldport and other facilities in the Louisville area.

Yet, this imbecile of the king of imbeciles in the largest city in Kentucky can barely run a city despite being one of the highest taxed cities in the whole country. With a city that takes all kinds of taxes from the paychecks of the local residents and has a 850 million DOLLAR budget taken from the taxes of the 750,000 residents of course of whom maybe half them actually have a job or do something economically productive like running a business or making a buck doing something.

At a time when the nation is up to its eyeballs and in debt to the tune of 20 trillion US dollars, he spends every day chiming about how everything is puppies and rainbows and the economy is booming along with all kinds of new development and new city projects.

All the while the taxpaying public in Kentucky and Louisville contiues to get fleeced to death by the corrupt political machine foisted upon them by both political parties and all of the corrupt good old boy self serving politicians that think they are working on serving the increasingly dumb public while padding their retirement and pension programs to the max so they can retire in near luxury. While the ordinary schmuck might get a 1200 dollar Social Security check when they get ready to go to pasture or end up kicking the bucket.

Kentucky, just for you not in the know or those that choose to be willfully and pridefully ignorant is not only one of the poorest state in the United States of America ranking 47th in income but it is also a state that is in hock due to pension obligations of 60 billion. All the while the good old boy system of Democrats, Republicants and those who swing both ways have turn what could be a potentially quality state full of resources and scenic areas into an economic and educational basketcase full of poverty, want, and lack of economic opportunity.

Why the Kentucky voters and citizens put up this sort of state of affairs is something that I've never been able to comprehend despite my spending 5 years and longer traipsing across that state in business, economic opportunity, and trying to understand Kentucky culture. Which is something that I find laughably incomprehensible and I have no problem comprehending difficult subjects such as science, religion, ethics, historical events, politics, etc.

Why the people of Kentucky continue to put up with such nonsense and bullshit from not only their politicians but the clergy and religious leaders is beyond me especially when its brought them nothing but poverty, want, hunger, crime, lack of amenities and things that make like good. Or as someone once said to me the term of why we can't have nice things. Is it because for generations Kentuckians have totally disdained education, progress, and science but rather listen to the rantings and chirpings of crickets in the pulpits and the political commentators that hold such sway. Along the myriad of tribalist legislators in places such as their counties as well as the goons holding sway in Frankfort. Not to mention the two pathetic excuses of Senators from Kentucky both Republicans and both anti progress. Yet wishing to move their commonwealth back to the Fifties that is the 1850s before the Civil. War.

Do Kentuckians want to remain the scorn of the nation? A laughingstock on the Ohio River or in other places the Mississippi, Kentucky River, and Cumberland. All the while their state remains at the bottom of the United States ranking just above Mississippi, Arkansas and West Virginia in not only income and economics but also ranking 47th in education at the collegiate level. A state that ranks 47th in percentage of residents with college level skills and job skills isn't going to be a economically productive state.

All the while Kentucky stays at the bottom of state education rankings even at the primary and secondary levels of K to 12 education ranking in the low 40s amongst the states. Just above the usual suspects of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, West Virginia and by God Mississippi.

This isn't to say that all Kentucky resdients are idiots but it sure seems that Kentucky has a large percentage of idiots and morons than just about anywhere that I've traveled and I've been to large swaths of the country as well as talked to people from most states. There are and happen to be idiots just about everywhere that you can easily find but in Kentucky it seems that they are raised to places of prominence.

That being said, why is it that Louisville continues to vote in morons as leaders including mouth breathers like Greg Fishcer? Why is it that a city that could be the crown jewel of its state continue to allow it to be wrecked economically, fiscally and socially by people who act as if they are from Appalachia just in business suits and ties. You can put Bubba in a suit and tie and dress him up all nice and proper and make him look like a CEO or Harvard Graduate, but that doesn't make him one nor does it make him intelligent. Because eventually he will be found out as being a lesser character and of lesser intelligence than one that should be in that position. That's pretty much what goes for state and local politics in Kentucky that intelligent and well thought leaders are not in the system but instead the lowest common denominator are the ones running the system. Same goes for a lot of Louisville based businesses, etc. You can put Bubba in a suit, but all he has to do is open his mouth and you'll automatically know that he's still Bubba.

Louisville and Cover Ups: Kentucky Style

With all of the national angst about the issues that police are having in policing their communities one would think that all officers would heed such issues very carefully and show discretion towards law enforcement issues and not participate in scandalous behavior.

However, in Louisville, Kentucky the police of the Louisville Metro Police Department have a program called the Explorers where local youth explore a career in police work including the various jobs and tasks that a law enforcment officer must do in his daily duties.

Which all seems fine and good and should be encouraged but with one major problem.

Some of the officers in Louisville have been involved in a sexual abuse scandal and cover up with the Louisville Metro Police Department Explorer program. Not only the criminal activity of said officers who were involved in sexual abuse of minors aged 14 to 19 incuding a young woman who was coerced and forced into having sexual activity with an officer.

Meanwhile the vile scum and villany that occurs in the Louisvile Metro Police Department is not a new occurred as there have been many officers over the years who have been been terminated, fired, disciplined, and even prosecuted for such criminal behavior.

This all goes back to the corruption and dishonesty of the last two or three mayors of Louisville, Kentucky reaching back to the 1980s and 1990s when this type of criminal corrupt behavior has been tolerated by the local officials. Maybe not to the extent of such blatant violation of minors but a system of corrupt local officials who cover up said abuses and political favors.

Or as one local writer in Louisville, Kentucky called it and correctly so, a pay for play system. In that sense where local businesses and local developers in the community ended up paying the local government with favors and other inducements to allow their businesses and companies to develop land and projects, etc. Just as long as those developers and businessmen paid the proper government officials and those in the political sphere their dues and made sure that it was done off the books and therefore outside of public scrutiny.

This sort of corrupt behavior is nothing new to Kentucky going back for generations even back in the late 1800s when corrupt business interests and Confederates ran the Kentucky State Government after the Civil War. It has continued in places like Louisville in the way of machine politics and corrupt government practices. All the while Louisville, KY is the 4th highest taxed city in the United States of America. Amazing isn't it that Louisville is the 4th highest taxed city in the whole country. Right up there with cities like Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco, and others. But near the top of the food chain in a state that is known for its extensive poverty and poor educational system.

Meanwhile the LMPD and its current and previous chiefs try to cover up their misdeeds, malfeasance, and known corruption and no one does anything about it. All the while Mayor Greg Fischer continues to cover up for the same bunch of crooks and trying to talk all the same time about Transparency.

Meanwhile, in Louisville, they could care less about transparent governmental behavior and actually representing the citizens and taxpayers instead continuing their notable governmental corruption. If its not the shenanigans that occur regularly at the University of Louisville in both the university and the athletic department, its in city and or state government in Kentucky.

These occurences are not one time missteps but a pattern of systematic corruption and government malfeasance. All the while the Mayor of Louisville shouts about being a compassionate city and acting in governmental matters with transparency and uprightness.

Which is nothing more than a sordid joke to talk about such behavior but to have a police department, city works, and other governmental bodies such as city government offices proceed with corrupt practices and then act hypocritically by saying you are transparent. Laughable at best but criminal at the worst which is something that Kentucky should be number one in and that's government corruption on a scale that would rank right up there with Chicago, New York and other model big cities where public corruption scandals are daily news. In the case of Chicago with Rahm Emanuel and previously Richard Daley along with the convictions of several Illinois governors like Rod Blagojevich and George Ryan as well as the conviction of Dennis Hastert, former speaker of the US House of Representatives.

Wonder when the Louisville right to know media is going to actually start spilling the beans on the city of Louisville and its right to screw its citizens Kentucky style. All the while the Kentucky country boys and provincials don't even realize how much they are being screwed to death by the system. A system that has spent generations keeping Kentucky a backward cesspool of corruption and crime instead of capitalizing on the natural resources, scenic beauty, and possibilities.

All in a city such as Louisville which laughingly calls itself "Possibility City" despite being economically impoverished in many areas of the city and having a crime rate multiple times that of its state and being a problematic area considered a no-go area even for many locals in Indiana and Kentucky that won't go to Louisville unless they absolutely have to go do Louisville. A compassionate city as called by Mayor Greg Fischer all the while having a huge homeless population of thousands despite being the largest city in the commonwealth. Supposedly an economic beacon and engine yet having a collapsing and falling apart infrastructure that looks like it should be such as in a third world nation.

A city that is economically unsound and has to rely on government assitance and big programs to feed so many of its citizens and even to house a large percentage of these people. While the muckety mucks spend all kinds of time during March, April and early May cleaning up the city for its signature horse race. While the rest of the city by June and July looks like someone dumped the trash on the streets and emptied out their trash cans and left their garbage on city streets.

A city that has a budget nearly 1 billion dollars (903 million in 2016) and (849 billion for 2018) yet cannot properly fix its streets and infrastructure properly. Instead having to spend several million dollars from the city fund for the maintenance of the Yum Center (which was suppsed be paid by tax increment financing by the local downtown tax district). Instead the city of Louisville is raiding the general fund that should be going to maintain the streets and infrastructre which is horrid despite being the 4th highest taxed city in the United States.

Something is wrong here when you have a city with the 4th highest taxes yet cannot fix your infrastructure, roadways, and byways. Instead paying out money to settle all of the lawsuits that have been incurred by the Louisvlle Metropolitan Police Department as well as the Louisville Metro Government over the years.

All the while talking about being a "Possibility City" and a "Compassionate City" while the local law enforcement violates young people and violates the law in so many ways its plain astounding.

But remember, its Kentucky and its very provincial and thinking small is why Kentucky still ranks in the bottom 5 states in just about every category and has for decades.

The Corrupt Town of Bardstown, Kentucky

One of the purposes of this blog is to show no mercy on sacred cows and to call out things in Kentucky like I see them. I really don't get bothered with whose toes get stepped on and who gets upset over my posts. Some of my posts are based on personal opinions and observations and others are based on hard cold facts and truths that Kentuckians at large don't like to hear about. 

All because it shows their state in a bad light when it could be potentially so much more especially with the natural beauty and climate that would make it so much more.....if it really had a hard working and decent population of people with real values such as hard work, order, cleanliness and those qualities that make for a orderly and decent society. 

Instead, Kentucky has spent generations being the what I would call white trash state. Or if you like a white trash commonwealth in the United States. Its not just Kentucky that has issues with basic law, order, economics but it sure seems that Kentucky likes to bring up just about the bottom of every category at least being one of the worst five states and having been such for generations back at least to the 1930s if not much before. 

One example is that Kentucky has ranked 44th or worse in personal income since 1939, a time span of 78 years which is a lifetime to most people. The same could be said of Kentucky and its rankings versus other neighboring states which in almost every category are atrocious at best. 

Kentucky for years has been one of the worst states for elder abuse, animal abuse, and child abuse. Add in the lowly rankings it regularly receives in education, socioeconomic development, infrastructure, governance, etc. 

A microcosm of such corruption and incompetence would be the town of Bardstown, Kentucky which calls itself a city but is in reality more like a small town. 

Bardstown for those not in the local community has been wracked with public corruption in its police force and city government for many years now and despite attempts to ferret out such corruption, it has come to naught. 

Several people in that community have turned up mysteriously dead with no repercussions to those who killed them and those in the know that probably know who committed the crimes against Jason Ellis, a police officer that was killed in 2013 in an ambush just a few short miles from Bardstown as he was heading home from his nightly shift at about midnight or thereabouts. 

Despite the efforts of the Kentucky State Police, no one has ever been found or convicted for the ambush and murder of Jason Ellis and his family deserves so much better. One of many theories out there is that he had upset someone that was involved in drug dealing and therefore was ambushed on the way home one night by some of the local drug dealers and good old boys in the community. 

With various other murders including a school teacher and daughter that was killed mysteriously and the death of Crystal Rogers and her father in 2015/2016, one has to ask the question what kind of vile scum and lowlifes would cover up such heinous crimes and not allow the justice to see the light of day in the local court system and local police. All the while their families have been victimized by their deaths and the murder charges that have never came to fruition to put their murderers behind bars. 

My theory is that the reason that such crimes have not been prosecuted appropriately ties into Kentucky and the corrupt legal and justice system in that state and in the locality of Bardstown. All the while the Kentucky State police and other higher up food chain police agencies have even visited Bardstown and Nelson County and found nothing that would tell them of whom committed these heinous crimes. 

Would it happen to be that the Bardstown Police Department and the Nelson County, KY Sheriffs Department would be be assisting and aiding and abetting known murderers and criminals. All because of some vendetta because public servants know too much about the corruption and legal malfeasance that occurs in Bardstown as well as other neighboring communities. 

All the while these criminals in government assist in drugs being planted in various communities and known officers have spent years harboring drug fugitives because its extra revenue for the corrupt court and legal system in said communities. 

Meanwhile, those murdered by the thugs and their accomplices are getting away with said crimes and drugs are being a ravage on local commnities such as Bardstown. 

Though with all of the talk about the War on Drugs instituted by President Richard Nixon in the early 1970s, the War On Drugs has been a largely failing enterprise as drugs have wracked small communities such as Bardstown and other areas of Kentucky, etc. Because the truth is that the government doesn't want to end the drug problems or at least minimize the damage from such. It helps out the court systems, pays for judges and police services, etc. 

All the while people end up getting murdered in Kentucky towns such as Bardstown and nothing is ever done by the local officials and local mayors that are elected by the people of said communities. 

Justice will not be done by these people because they have a vested interest in keeping the drug trade flowing in places like Bardstown because they know that if it was shut off they would lose their cash cow. All the while factories and businesses wither on the vine and America becomes a narco state such as one would see in South America such as Peru, Colombia and other nations where the drug trade takes the place of honest businesses and economic progress. 

Bardstown officials are hiding something very serious especially with all of the corruption scandals that have plagued that community for the past several years but even going back decades when someone was killed by the police with no real reason other than just satisfying an extrajudicial vendetta where the person was shot to death by the police after having some run-ins with the local law enforcement. 

With all of the resignations of local police in Bardstown, Kentucky including a prominent retirement one has to wonder who is hiding what and who is covering up for the corrupt system. Now that local officials know and have known for years about said corruption what are they doing about it and what are they planning to bring those involved in these grisly murders to justice. 

The people and families of such murders and crimes against their person deserve so much better. Not a corrupt country town good old boy government that is covering up these crimes. Not a bunch of meaningless words from a bunch of small town cops and officials about how they actually cared about Mr. Ellis and all of the other victims of crimes against them because some of those people just knew too much about someone or something. 

The truth will come out someday either in this life or eternity no matter how much those involved want to cover up the criminality and the corrupt system that allows these crimes to occur. Hope for their sake they have some fire retardant pants on for the afterlife. 

Kentucky Sucks......A Few Personal Anecdotes

Re: This State Sucks Monkey Balls (Hilarious and True) (Truth)

I totally sympathize with the intelligent people that live in Kentucky and either can't get out because their finances or job situation won't let them. Even the people there who have family and know what a stinking shithole it truly is. I wrote this a while back and got the usual pissed off comments from a couple of small minded backwoods fucks who either weren't smart enough to know what I was talking about or too stupid to have been anywhere else and have a clue about the outside world. The next paragraph is where my comment while back comes in.

Some of the posters on here hit it directly on the head when it comes to Kentucky. What a ass backward state that regularly finishes in the bottom 5 or 10 in every category out of all 50 states. In fact, Kentucky recently ranked 1st in child abuse cases, 1st in elderly abuse cases, 1st in animal abuse cases, 47th in income, 47th in percentage of population with some college or even graduates, etc. Consistently its one of the worst states in the whole Union in health outcomes, cancer deaths, obesity, and many other categories. I could probably write a whole white paper on those issues.

But instead I'll give you a few personal anecdotes regarding my 4 year stint of living in Kentucky as a full time resident. Now I've lived in Northern Indiana, Central Indiana, Southern Indiana, Central Ohio, SW Ohio, and the Northern Kentucky and Louisville regions. Yet have been to most of the counties in Kentucky as part of my job for the two years I was there. Most of the state outside of Florence/NKY and East Louisville is a joke. Its like a big farm with mentally unstable rejects along with a huge meth presence. What I term as a skidmark on the underpants of society.

Every state has its mental rejects, trash, and totally useless eaters. Kentucky has generations of them in that these same morons have been living there for generations. Even my wife (A Native Kentucky Born Individual) and her sister realize what a bunch of trash that goes on there. Their parents were born elsewhere but live in the Louisville area. Both of them were born in Northern KY. Like my sister in law said........she would love to leave KY but her child support arrangements and visitation keeps her there. Sad but true that it limits her in that area. Its interesting to hear her and the in laws talk about how bad the schools are in Kentucky and the Louisville region. If it wasn't for the Louisville East area and some areas of Northern KY the state would be as low as Mississippi.

Which I find amazing to me because one would think that Kentucky would focus on education and literacy instead of producing generations of morons and inbreeds that incapable of doing anything but collect government benefits over generations. Kentucky has long been one of the states that have a high level of welfare dependency even going back to when the economy was good. Interestingly, there seems to be a racket that goes on in Kentucky that the state readily provides crazy check benefits and it was mentioned in a book regarding people in Kentucky receiving such benefits. That prior to the establishment of the Social Security Disability that Kentucky was giving out checks openly to incompetents for generations.

Anyway......my personal experience that many people from Kentucky have problems with basic civility and basic common sense. Those stereotypes that many hold against native Kentuckians are very true. I don't consider them stereotypes because I've seen enough crazy and nonsense behavior over the years. When I commented on this to my wife.........she said its because people are crazy in Kentucky. I think she happens to be right in many cases. Mental illness always seems to be very high in Kentucky as well. When I worked in Louisville years ago........there about half of the women where I worked that were on all kinds of nut pills, anti depressants, etc. Bad drivers, uneducated, nasty, and plain uncouth.

Always noticed something else.......someone in Kentucky always wanted to pick a fight or think they was some sort of badass. I lived in Gary, IN growing up...........those people were the real badasses not a bunch of Kentucky clowns. Same goes for inner city Indianapolis and Cincy.

One poster talks about Owensboro. That's a joke of a town if there ever was one. One little shitty excuse for a shopping mall in a city of 50,000 hayseeds. A commercial district that fits in a few blocks of any other city the same size.

I know I'm going to get ripped for my comments but Kentucky is a backwards hole. My wife was so glad to leave Kentucky a few years ago. When I mentioned that we should move back......she said not only NO but HELL NO. The only time she goes back is to visit her sister and mom and dad. My comment to her that Indiana was going to become like Kentucky was like "I hope that doesn't happen"

Kentucky has been a jackass colony for decades if not since the Civil War. From what I have read, after the Civil War, Kentucky state government was overtaken by a bunch of backwards neo-confederates and their sympathizers so nothing really changed despite the war being won by the north. Kind of sounds like most other Southern states that are still backwards holes in the ground in the bottom 10 of about every category. Look it up........the facts and figures are out there how Southern states rank in education, incomes, jobs, health, etc. Bottom feeders almost all of them.

Why the few good people in Kentucky put up with it is beyond me...........maybe they like the poverty and stupidity that exists en masse in their state. Its not just urban areas with the ghetto dwellers like one finds in the North.........but its also in the rural areas in Kentucky. In fact, actually some parts of these cities resemble something decent, its just that the rest of the area is a poop stain.