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We're sending messages to our young people that if life is hard, you can curl up in the fetal position somewhere in a warm place and just wait until it stops being hard, and that isn't reality.

Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, who said that America "is getting soft" in response to schools being cancelled for the polar vortex, which has killed at least eight people nationwide and brought temperatures 45 degrees below zero.

Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, who said that America "is getting soft" in response to schools being cancelled for the polar vortex, which has killed at least eight people nationwide and brought temperatures 45 degrees below zero.

Caroline Cournoyer is GOVERNING's senior web editor.