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Allison Ball Kentucky State Auditor posted this:What’s going on with our tax dollars in Kentucky? While some people are barely scraping by, we’ve got food banks popping up all over the state, and good hard-working men breaking their backs, just so these clowns in Frankfort can blow millions while the state crumbles. Auditor Allison Ball’s report just dropped, and it’s a rage inducing dumpster fire. Let me break it down for you. First off, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services dropped $249,950 on an ad campaign that included pushing COVID vaccines like, are we still doing this crap? Then their Office of the Secretary and Medical Cannabis folks shelled out $339,365.90 to ONE vendor for “video footage assistance, social media strategy, and digital comms.” Because apparently, we need fancy TikToks to tell people about weed cards while kids go hungry.Speaking of hungry the Department for Aging and Independent Living spent $198,000 on a media blitz for the Senior Meals Program, even though THEY CLAIM THERE’S A SHORTFALL IN THE PROGRAM ITSELF! Fix the shortfall first! And don’t get me started on the swag: CHFS’s Department for Community Based Services blew $45,635.20 on crap like color-changing tumblers, cotton totes, stadium cushions, football rockets, and hand sanitizers with clips. Who needs that junk? Hand it out at the Derby or something? Oh wait, more on that later.The Council for Postsecondary Education? $300,000 to “increase awareness” of college. As if Kentuckians don’t know education matters, we just can’t afford it because you’re wasting our money!Out-of-state travel? $7.4 MILLION, including $398,897 on AmEx cards. Kentucky Department of Education: nearly $930K, with $28K in flights for non-employees?Kentucky State Police spent $183K babysitting Gov. Beshear on trips, including $11K flights to Europe, $7K limo in Germany, $5K airport BS in Switzerland, and $520 at some elite Caribou Club in Aspen. Plus $11K at Eau Palm Beach Resort, $3.5K at Limelight Hotel in Aspen, $3K in Beverly Hills hotels. Living like kings on OUR dime while roads here are pothole hell!Conferences and trainings? $16.7 MILLION on that nonsense, including Tourism Cabinet and Gov’s Office paying $338K to a nonprofit for Derby parties. Dept of Public Advocacy: $153K for 2024 conference, $189K for 2025. Medicaid Services: $34K banquet with $9K breakfast and $13K lunch. Gluttony much?Other garbage: $69.7 MILLION on temp workers, including $8M by Driver Licensing amid black market license scandals for undocumented folks. Community Based Services: $916K on legal services despite 50+ in-house lawyers, and $481K to one vendor for “emotional injury evals” $339K more than the next guy. Sketchy.And ongoing screw ups: Medicaid giving benefits to ineligible noncitizens for YEARS, $836 MILLION in waste since 2019. No competitive bidding, crappy record keeping it’s all rigged to hide the waste!This is YOUR money funding their luxury jaunts and useless ads while seniors starve and families struggle.——————Andrew Cooperider Kentucky Conservative Podcaster:Kentucky is in a full-blown government financial transparency tailspin—and taxpayers deserve action.State Auditor Allison Ball just told the House Appropriations and Revenue Committee she's struggling to trace transactions because of major red flags:- No uniform expenditure codes - No consistent detail on what supports spending - Expenditures not recorded in real time - Reports that raised more questions than answersThe Beshear administration even refused to hand over key financial reports to the legislature, claiming they're "internal documents" only for their eyes. Lawmakers are reportedly having a hard time figuring out what departments are actually doing with base budget funds—the pots of money meant for essential functions where agencies have wide control over spending. It's not just state government. Local governments are struggling too: - FCPS audits reveal serious budget oversight failures and wasteful practices. - JCPS admitted in an open records response that their central office has no way to access bank accounts or spending statements from individual schools—no centralized oversight at all!This is a system ripe for waste, confusion, and worse. The Legislature is moving a few laws through session to help clear this up, but it's not enough. There needs to be real consequences for basic failures to track spending, or the waste will