Another Beshear screw-up

Kentucky has had a system of unemployment insurance that has served workers well since 1938 – offering 26 weeks of insurance.

But starting next month, unemployment insurance in Kentucky is being slashed so it will last only 12 to 24 weeks – depending on the recent unemployment rate. With unemployment as bad as it is lately, you might think that it will be 24 weeks when this change takes place. But who are we kidding? It's 12 weeks. Of course.

Much like how our rulers deliberately used a botched model for COVID deaths as an excuse for stay-at-home orders and other police state measures, they've been using made-up employment figures for years – almost always vastly undercounting the unemployment rate. Their penchant for disinformation isn't limited to science and law, but also economics.

The Beshear administration is making this change to appease the governor's friends at the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce – much as how some of Beshear's COVID measures also pleased this elite secret society.

Andy Beshear's legacy will be not just a botched COVID response but also gutting a successful worker insurance system that has lasted 84 years.