Bevin to coal country -- no help for you
While Donald Trump bamboozled Eastern Kentucky voters by promising to bring back coal jobs, his mini-me, Gov. Matt Bevin, has thumbed his nose at that part of the state, hoping it won’t notice.
Watch this city slicker work.
His budget proposal, released last week, lists 70 state programs that would get “no state funds” for the period of two years, or basically until he’s up for re-election. They include cuts to Mining Engineering Scholarships, Robinson Scholars (a program that helps Eastern Kentucky youth receive a higher education), Kentucky Coal Academy at Kentucky College and Technical School, Appalachian Learning Disabled Tutoring, Coal County College Completion Scholarship and several agricultural programs.
The budget is disastrous to some of the most-vulnerable citizens of the state. Eastern Kentucky — or Coal Country, as it is called — is not known for its wealth and economic stability. Read any story about the area and it is rife with tales of its devastating poverty. This is the poverty that Republicans like to pretend doesn’t exist in America or that exists only until those bootstraps can be pulled. It’s deep, unsettling and generational poverty.
Bevin is sticking a knife in the back of the coal country voters who helped get him elected, voters who have repeatedly been ridden bareback by politicians promising the sun and delivering nothing but extended and exacerbated poverty.
Read more: https://www.leoweekly.com/2018/01/bevin-coal-country-no-help/
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