Bevin a champion

Hoorah for our new governor and the taxpayers of Kentucky. Finally, a politician who calls a spade a spade.

For years, state government has spent money it didn’t have to buy votes, fund special interest projects and pay off political buddies.

That will now stop with the wise decision to cut government waste, reduce political influence and attempt to employ common-sense practices to the people’s business.

Government leaders are drunk on your money, and it’s time they stop the spending orgy. They’ve wasted our money for years, and it’s time a champion speaks up for the taxpayers of Kentucky and stops this foolishness of government waste and political paybacks.

Gov. Matt Bevin has done exactly what’s been needed for years; he tells the financial truth.

William Gladstone, the great prime minister of England once thundered, “Finance is the stomach of the country, from which all organs take their tone.” Big government, with its web of anti-democratic influences on business, freedom and hope, has given everyone an upset stomach and chronic financial indigestion for too long.

Let’s hope the new governor offers the tonic we badly need to confront this problem of big government overreach and infringement of economic rights.

This story was originally published February 19, 2016 at 6:44 PM with the headline "Bevin a champion."