School cuts

I'm amazed at the boldness of politicians now a days. Steve Beasher has been in office less than half a year and he already is making decisions that people are hating him for. The issue I'm talking about is the budget cuts that will cause a 15% increase in tuition's of Kentucky colleges. Why is it, whenever the budget is an issue or money is tight, that the government of the state of Kentucky looks to cut money for higher education? In a speech made to the House Budget Review Subcommittee on Education, President Wayne D. Andrews of Morehead State University stated that, " If this budget stands, our students will pay a larger share than the state provides for the second straight year. We try each day to operate efficiently so that we can keep our position as the state’s best tuition value among the universities. That is even more important when you consider that we have the highest percentage of students eligible for need-based financial aid such as Pell and CAP grants. In fact, we have so many students in that demographic that almost 50 percent of our full-time students last year had their tuition paid by a grant or scholarship. Is it easy to raise tuition for students, many of whom are already struggling to pay current rates? Absolutely not! It is my firm belief that there is not a public university administrator in this nation, much less in this state, who could keep his or her institution academically effective or operationally efficient while giving up these large amounts of state funding."( Pres. Wayne D. Andrews)
This has not only got political junkies in on this, but also the college students are getting involved. On Facebook (a popular website for communicating with friends) people have started groups in protest to Steve Beshear and the budget cuts. If in Kentucky Education Pays, why is this even an issue? Education should be the last thing to get cut if we even what to hope to have a future. If they keep raising tuition each year, sooner or later only a select few could get an education; Doctors, Lawyers, judges, and every other profession that needs a college education will be next to extinct. I believe it is in the states interest to help education, not for rankings among states, but for the well-being of the people in general.

I'm a student at Morehead State University studying in the Social work program. I have also been volunteering at a rehabilitation center that treats people for substance abuse; which is run by my church in our small little town. Needless to say, I know a lot about drugs from what the school has taught me and what the residents at the rehab have told me. In December, i had my tonsils removed which was not a big deal. What was interesting, was that the doctor was demanding I take his prescription of Percocets, even though the pain did not bother my that bad. What was even worse was that the prescription called for 2 refills, but i refused to fill it out. I may be young, but i wasn't born yesterday. The fact that someone would try to prescribe that many pills for not a whole lot of pain made me think they were trying to get me addicted. I understand that most people are in real extreme pain and really need the medicine, but why are the doctors so eager to give out the medicine that is extremely addictive? Could it be the fact that once your addicted the only person who really gets money out of it is the company that manufactures the drug. This could be the reason that these pills as well as many others: Loritabs, Oxicodones, and methadone pills are such a problem in today's society. If everyone where addicted to these pills then the drug manufacturers would get even richer than they already are, because they wouldn't want the normal drugs like marijuana, LSD, and Meth; but they would want the drugs that they produce. Unless something is done about these drugs then soon we will all be hooked and if you ask me, that is what the drug companies want.