As they say in China, xie xie Mr. Gibbs! Actually, San Francisco, China says, xie xie Mr Space

NARRATOR: We’ve lost 91,000 jobs to China through unfair trade deals like NAFTA — the kind of deals Gibbs wants more of.

GIBBS: I’m a free trader.

NARRATOR: 91,000 jobs. As they say in China, xie xie Mr. Gibbs!



So, I'm a bit foggy on Space's geography. His ad shows jobs going to San Francisco. Were those Ohio jobs? If Zack thinks San Francisco is in China where the Hell does he think the 18th district of Ohio is? Searchlight, Nevada. 
 
If those were Ohio jobs that went to San Francisco it wasn't Gibbs that sent them, but Space and his buddy Ted Strickland.
 
After all, according to Zack Space, Maxferd Jewelry is in San Francisco, China, and is also in Nancy Pelosi's 18th District and Space is a very good friend and 93% supporter of Nancy Pelosi.
 
So, of the 400,000 Ohio jobs that Space and Strickland have lost, they sent 91,000 to Nancy Pelosi? How nice for the voters of the 18th District. The 18th District of Ohio which is still in Ohio. Zack might want to remember that. In the meantime, Rep Pelosi (D-8 China) say, xie xie Rep Space (D-18 NV).
 

Glenn Harlan Reynolds Talks About An Education Bubble, But Who Will Talk About Bubble Headed Education?

Here's just one from the Glenn, but the stories about teachers, education officials and administrators pushing their liberal/progressive agenda just keep coming. And? They just keep going away and nothing gets changed.

Lawsuit: CPS pushing Democrats

Full disclosure: I know Tom Brinkman and I like Tom Brinkman. Plus I had a political science professor named Pinkly. No, really.

Also, in the No, Really catagory, the students were given sample ballots listing only Democrat candidates. Really. Sounds kinda pinkly, doesn't it.

Ohio Dems Avg Day: TVs For POs And Judges For Sale

Well, the Ohio Democrat Machine is running a tad bad today. What with a former Democratic chairman, union officials, judges, a county commissioner, school board members, an ex-mayor, county employees, contractors, an auditor and his son all being charged with a plethora of charges such as bribery and taking gifts such as a talkative "massage" giver.

“I just said, she gives a massage. Is that how we're going to start her out?” Dimora tells a buddy in a conversation secretly taped by investigators.

I'm thinking by "start her out" he means getting her certified to be a union plumbing assistant.

I knew things are bad in the land of the Cuyahoga, but trading television sets for contracts? I'm trusting they were really big flat screens that didn't "fall" off a Teamster truck.
 
Investigators say the younger Russo conspired to trade television sets for consulting contracts.
 
The courts will take care of all this, right? Uh, maybe not.
 
According to the indictment, Dimora bribed McCafferty and Terry to influence litigation (cases) in their respective courtrooms.

The unions should really do something about judge's pay so judges don't have to moonlight in other jobs such as being bribees.

Ohio Democrats never tire in their work to improve the lives of Democrats Ohio's workers. That's why Team Strickland never sleeps.

Zack Space: Worst Cliched Lie Of The Year

Democrats are worried and especially worried by Minority Leader John Boehner. Now Ohio's Democrat delegation has lined up lock step to attack another Ohioan for suggesting solutions, some endorsed by them and Steny Hoyer, and then spouting fear mongering drivel.

Ohio Democrats, President Obama gang up on John Boehner

Rep. Marcy Kaptur, the dean of the Ohio delegation, said that Boehner’s proposal to cut Social Security to pay for the war in Afghanistan is “callous, outrageous and frankly un-American.” Rep. Tim Ryan said the people that would be affected by Boehner’s Social Security plan are “people who work for a living with their hands, not that wear ties and suits and nice dresses and jewelry and play golf and hang out.”

Ohio Democratic Rep. Zack Space said that if “the Boehner plan” went into effect, the elderly would be “cleaning toilets, stocking shelves, serving French fries.”

“We as Buckeyes do not stand with him, and it shows how out of touch he and his party are with the rank and file,” Kaptur said.

Now if Space had said that anyone who voted for Cap and Trade wanted their constituents to be “cleaning toilets, stocking shelves, serving French fries” then I'd believe him. Otherwise Space is just politicking with the likes of Obama and Kaptur to hurt Ohioans. Puppets.

BTW, John Boehner worked with his hands, grew up hard and is a self made man. Can't say that about those attacking him which tells us a lot.

Larry Kaczala

Larry has left us. I knew him as an honest and actually funny guy. One day we were going over proposed answers for an upcoming press conference and I had asked him to think outside the box which he thought funny. After a break he returned to the "podium" we had set up in his living room and placed a box next to himself and, with a straight face, answered all the questions.

Rest in peace Larry. I believe you deserve at least that.

A Primer On Respect For Constituents By Politicians

Last night, I attended an event in my district, and ran into a voter who lives in District 7. This person was a total asshole. Really, truly, a fantastically foul, very visible, demonstrative, to the point of other people noticing, asshole. In fact, let’s call him Mr. Asshole.

I feel the love, the respect and the trust in voters written into the above statement. Living in a Republic does allow one to see how sausage is made, but just like with elections, one shouldn't observe the process just before dining. It might cause a lack of appetite. Of course, one could just sit and hope for a dinner of observation and snappy repartee, eh?

Governor To Establish Ohio Council On Dimons And Earls

In his never ending attempt to harness more votes, Governor Strickland will soon announce the new Council on Dimon and Earls which is another attempt to sway voters through excessive petting.

Strickland will state, "I'm not sure how many Dimons there might be, but in my neck of the woods there are Earls out the butt and they, as a group, need representation beyond what they have received in the past. As a patriarchal dynasty they have entered to positions of familial power hence forth unseen. This council will play a vital role in helping engage individuals, organizations, and communities across the state to further strengthen the role of Dimons (and Earls) in our society.”

No doubt, there will be a council on simians and curs in the near future. One should never leave the relatives out.

Why Not Ohio? Green $800,000 Per Year Jobs

I love wind power, especially when you hear that main sail snap during a tack. It is awesome, but wind power as envisioned here in Ohio isn't a sail, but a noisy and huge boondoggle that is expensive and not cost effective. Oh, and if wind power provided by wind farms is "green" then the green movement really has little to do with environmentalism and a lot more to do with green power.

Released Emails Show Wind Lobby, Soros Group Helped with White House PR
The emails show that the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) coordinated their response to a damning Spanish report on “green jobs” with wind industry lobbyists and the Center for American Progress (the progressive think tank founded by John Podesta and funded by George Soros).

The report from Spain’s Universidad Rey Juan Carlos — which was the subject of a George Will column in the Washington Post on June 25, 2009 — showed each “green job” that had been added by Spain’s aggressive wind energy program cost Spain nearly $800,000 and resulted in the loss of 2.2 jobs elsewhere in the economy.

Eight times, Obama had publicly referred to Spain’s program as being a model for a U.S. wind energy program.

Americans being manipulated by the scare tactics of the "green" movement is one thing, but when the "green" movement is being manipulated by foreign political influence, it becomes a manipulation too far. What do the funders and drivers of this movement plan to get in return. In Soros' mind, as history shows, it is massive amounts of money, profit, in terms of billions of dollars.

Soros' followers in the chase for the green will be left broke, unemployed and disgraced in the eyes of the people who will be left with huge ugly facilities that cannot perform as advertised, i.e., provide power to the people.

Why not Ohio? Hopefully because Ohio is too smart to be fooled by this hogwash.

Ohio: Most Lib/Con Congressmen

BTW, I just read that Sherrod Brown is rated the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate. Way to go Sherrod. Keep voting against your constituents.

From the National Journal

Batchelder Decries Dems Squashing Of Free Speech And Tax Reform In Ohio

via Right Ohio

A great piece about Bill Batchelder whose thinking could save the Republican Party here in Ohio. Go read it!

House Republican Leader Bill Batchelter Strikes Back at Speech-Stiffing Democrats

Below is Statehouse News Bureau Bill Cohen with some background on Rep. Batchelder's speech.

Fisher Doomed?

Fisher replaces campaign manager

Bringing in a guy that worked with Angelo's friend Chris Dodd and Louisianna Purchase Landrieu is going to help Fisher? Hopefully Howser can get Fisher a good mortgage deal on an Arcadian shotgun house after the election.

Indicator Of Ohio's Demise

When people leave and take their money and patronage with them, it is an indicator of deep problems whether it is a small business or big business. When business goes elsewhere, well, then somebody has screwed the pooch big time.


Welcome to Ohio.



Unfortunately this cannot all be blamed on Democrats, unions and their allies in poaching the public purse.


Remember Bob Taft? Remember state elected Republicans and those in Washington as they emulated Democrats? Yep, they were spending our money like drunks in a Tijuana whorehouse with no repercussions or remorse.


They did so to be re-elected or they had convinced themselves that government, and our money, could right the ills of a society that government had caused in the first place. Either way, a disaster.

If workers and business continue to flee Ohio we won't have to worry that 30% of workers will have to support the other 70% of Ohio's population. At that point governments workers from those states with fiscal sense will be supporting 100% of Ohio's population.


How low Ohio has sunk. If things do not turn around dramatically and soon, Ohio's demise will be imminent.

Onerous Ohio Taxes On Everything

I just got a friendly reminder from the Ohio Department of Public Safety about the need for me to renew my license pkates.

Ohio now taxes every thing one does and taxes it at usuary rates.

Special plate fees $25.00
State license tax $31.00
Local/county tax $10.00
Service fee $ 3.50
Postage $ 0.37

TOTAL $69.87

Of the 50 states, Ohio now ranks as the 8th most taxed state, according to the Census Bureau, of all the United States of America. When I left for Washington, DC all those years ago, Ohio was, as I remember, the 42nd most taxed state in the United States.

In terms of state and local taxes, in 1977 Ohio ranked 45th in the country for the amount individual tax burdens. By 2008 Ohio had moved to 7th in the nation.

It's time for all this tax stuff to stop. We can't just blame Strickland because there was Taft Jr., Gilligan, Celeste, Voinovich and legislatures that bought votes and monuments to their dim status as legislators. Nothing puts gravitas to a career as much as having pretty much every building, bridge and pig pen named after you.

It is obvious that having one's name attached to great deeds is a good way to be remembered, but cutting the size, scope and impact of government probably won't have a building with a big bureaucracy in it to do such a deed, ergo, nobody gets to put their name on it by legislating huge sums of money to something to cut huge sums of money. Wait a minute, I think this has already been tried.

Anyway, I'll pay for the new tags, but I'm tired of it all.

Casinos And Increased Crime Go Hand In Hand

Gambling and Crime

Chad Hills (Originally written by Ron Reno)
Data from gambling communities across the country indicates that gambling does indeed foster a significant increase in crime.

Polls show that most Americans assume an association between gambling and increased criminal activity. The gambling industry offers hearty denials and various statistical manipulations attempting to counter this perception. Data from gambling communities across the country, however, indicates that gambling does indeed foster a significant increase in crime.

"In the most desperate phase of compulsive gambling, they will do anything to gamble," Schaff said. "They start stealing money from their spouses, family . . . they'll get money anyhow, anywhere. They'll do forgeries, embezzlements, thefts. It's mostly white-collar crime." -Counselor for the Dept. of Corrections in Wisconsin1

"We have studies that show for every dollar you bring in gambling revenue, you'll lose $1.90 in costs to the taxpayer," he said. It's as simple as ABC, "the addiction, the bankruptcy, the crime and corruption that you already have will just multiply with this expansion." … "If you're not fighting it, it's like cancer and will metastasize and take you over," said Tom Grey, President of National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling. 2

"We arrest 450 to 500 people a year for various types of embezzlement crimes. About 40 percent are employees," Keith Copher, chief of enforcement for the Gaming Control Board in Nevada, validates.3

Tony Washington's addiction to gambling was so strong that he robbed to gamble. What began as a flirtation with gambling on weekends, soon suffocated him in unpaid bills. For Washington, a 40-year-old Wisconsin man, the compulsion to gamble led to life in prison. Washington is one of 250,000 compulsive gamblers in Wisconsin and about 8 million nationwide who claim gambling either led them into debt or trouble with their families or the law. Schaff counsels inmates on gambling for the Department of Corrections in Wisconsin.4

The number of purse snatchings, assaults, rapes, robberies and murders skyrocketed after the casinos opened. FBI statistics show the crime rate per 1,000 residents went from 134.3 in 1978 to a peak of 450.3 in 1988.5

In the first six years of casinos in Minnesota, the crime rate in counties with casinos increased more than twice as fast as in non-casino counties. According to an analysis by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the median crime rate in casino counties rose 39 percent during that period as compared to an 18 percent increase in non-casino counties.6

The total number of crimes within a 30-mile radius of Atlantic City increased by 107 percent in the nine years following the introduction of casinos to Atlantic City. 7

The Mississippi Gulf Coast experienced a 43 percent increase in crime in the four years after casinos arrived. Harrison County, where most of the Gulf Coast casinos are located, witnessed a 58 percent increase in total crimes between 1993 and 1996. 8

A U.S. News & World Report analysis found crime rates in casino communities to be 84 percent higher than the national average. Further, while crime rates nationally dropped by 2 percent in 1994, the 31 localities that introduced casinos in 1993 saw an increase in crime of 7.7 percent the following year.9

The number of court cases filed in Tunica County, Mississippi, went from 689 in 1991, the year before casinos began operating there, to 11,100 in 1996. 10

The annual number of calls to the Ledyard, Connecticut, police department jumped from 4,000 to 16,700 within five years after the opening of the nearby Foxwoods Casino. 11

University of Nevada-Las Vegas researchers concluded that the state of Wisconsin experiences an average of 5,300 additional major crimes a year due to the presence of casinos in that state. They also attributed an additional 17,100 arrests for less-serious crimes each year to the existence of casino gambling. 12

Nevada ranked first in crime rates among the fifty states in both 1995 and 1996, based on an analysis of FBI Uniform Crime Report statistics. Further, the violent crime rate in Nevada increased by close to 40 percent from 1991 to 1996, a period in which the national violent crime rate dropped by approximately 10 percent. 13

The San Jose, California, police department reported significant increases in crime in the vicinity of a new cardroom in the year after its opening. Narcotics offenses increased by 200 percent, property crimes by 83 percent, petty thefts by 56 percent, auto thefts by 21 percent, and traffic accidents by 55 percent in a single year. 14

The number of police calls in Black Hawk, Colorado, increased from 25 a year before casinos to 15,000 annually after their introduction. In neighboring Central City, the number of arrests increased by 275 percent the year after casinos arrived. In Cripple Creek, Colorado, serious crime increased by 287 percent in the first three years after casinos. 15

The annual number of felony cases filed in Lawrence County, South Dakota, has increased by approximately 69 percent since the introduction of casinos to Deadwood.16

Half of Louisiana District Attorneys surveyed in 1995 noted gambling as a factor in rising crime rates in their jurisdictions.17

Endnotes:
1. Zahida Hafeez, "Compulsion to gamble led to bank robbery Robber's sister on a mission," Journal Sentinel (WI), 19 October 1998, News, p. 1.
2. Gordon Govier, "Doyle's gaming stance dismays clerics," Capital Times (Madison, WI), 3 March 2003.
3. Thomas J. Walsh and Sheila Gardner, "Harveys Tahoe pit boss, accomplice nabbed in embezzlement scheme," Reno Gazette-Journal, 10 July 2003, http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/07/10/46650.php?sp1=rgj&sp2=Umbrella&sp3=Umbrella (8 December 2003).
4. Zahida Hafeez, Journal Sentinel (WI), Ibid.
5. John Curran, "Mixed blessings in Atlantic City, N.J., a quarter-century after first casino opens it doors," The Associated Press, Domestic News, 13 May 2003.
6. Dennis J. McGrath and Chris Ison, “Gambling Spawns a New Breed of Criminal,” [Minneapolis] Star Tribune, December 4, 1995, p. A6.
7. Andrew J. Buck, Simon Hakim, and Uriel Spiegel, “Casinos, Crime and Real Estate Values: Do They Relate?,” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, August 1991, p. 295.
8. Robert Waterbury, “1996 Mississippi Coast Crime Statistics,” Mississippi Coast Crime Commission, May 1997.
9. Joseph P. Shapiro, “America’s Gambling Fever,” U.S. News & World Report, January 15, 1996, pp. 58, 60.
10. Bartholomew Sullivan, “Once-Sleepy Tunica Awakens to Gambling-Inspired Crime,” [Memphis] Commercial Appeal, October 20, 1997, p. A5.
11. Mayor Wesley J. Johnson, Sr., “Fiscal Impacts of Foxwoods Casino on the Town of Ledyard, Connecticut,” April 1997.
12. William N. Thompson, Ricardo Gazel, Dan Rickman, “Casinos and Crime in Wisconsin: What’s the Connection?”, Wisconsin Policy Research Institute Report, November 1996.
13. Ed Koch, “Nevada: Most Dangerous?” Las Vegas Sun, July 16, 1997, p. 1A.
14. Louis A. Cobarruviaz, City of San Jose Memorandum from the Chief of Police to the Mayor and City Council, October 27, 1995.
15. Colorado Division of Gaming, Criminal Activity, 24 February 2003, http://www.gaming.state.co.us/enforce.htm (24 February 2003); Ann Herda-Rapp, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Sociology UW-Marathon County, A Review of the Sociological Literature on Gambling's Social Impacts, http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/news_and_events/casino_files/herda-rapp.pdf (22 February 2003); J. Joseph Curran, Jr., “The House Never Loses and Maryland Cannot Win: Why Casino Gaming Is a Bad Idea,” Report of Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr., on the Impact of Casino Gaming on Crime, October 16, 1995, pp. 9, 12, 27 December 1999, (20 February 2003).
16. Information provided by the Eighth Circuit Court of South Dakota, November 12, 1997.
17. Greg Garland, “Crime Rising with Gambling: Bad Checks, Theft Show Biggest Gain,” [Baton Rouge, La.] Advocate, July 30, 1995, p. 1A.

Zack Space Continues To Hide From Mere Voters, But Has Time For Big Donors/DC Elite/Afghanistan

My wife, daughter and I decided to take a Sunday drive to do some photography. After a really great afternoon we decided to stop at the Ye Olde Mill, the Velvet ice cream museum and restaurant, to get a treat (I highly recommend this).

While there I picked up a copy of The Utica Herald and saw an interesting article. An article that probably won't appear in the MSM.

[text, article]
Congressman Zack Space Refuses to Meet with Local Constituents After Tea Party

Coach Dave Daubenmire of "Pass the Salt Ministries" and a handful of dedicated citizens drove across three counties last night in an attempt to secure a face to face meeting with their Congressman. When finally located, Congressman Space refused to speak to this small, but hearty group.

Over a hundred protesters endured the rain on Wednesday afternoon to attend a Tea Party in order to exercise their right of "Freedom of Speech." There were protesters from at least 5 counties in the district: Licking. Muskingum, Knox, Coshocton and Tuscarawas. There was also a petition passed around to collect signatures that urge Space to vote "NO" on the "unconstitutional" health care bill. There was a vaiety of speakers there to represent people from both parties and Independents. All spoke about the government over stepping the Constitution. "They think the Bill of Rights are privileges they give us, but in reality they are limits that we place on them" speaker Beau Bromberg said.

After the 4 pm Tea-Party outside of Congressman Space's Zanesville, Ohio office, Coach Daubenmire and his crew drove the hour to a private location where Congressman Space was holding a "fundraiser." A local Knox County Deputy stood guard at the house to prevent the group from attending the meeting.

The group appealed to Congressman Space or any one of his handlers to please come out and speak with them. The gol of the group was to schedule a "town hall meeting" for a later date where Congressman Space could look into the eyes of those he represents.

For three hours, the group waited for someone from the Congressman's office to speak with. Instead of responding to the group's civil request, Congressman Space snuck out or the residence under the cover of darkness.

From Knox County, Ohio:

Space declined to address media
Rep. Zack Space sent word through a sheriff’s deputy at a fundraiser he attended Wednesday night that he would address citizens’ concerns but not in the presence of news media outlets.

Less than a dozen constituents from Space’s 18th District traveled from as far away as Muskingum County, hoping to catch the congressman as he left the home of Linda and Peter Michaels on New Gambier Road.

Space had been the featured guest at a campaign fundraiser for the Knox County Democratic Women’s Club, a private event where a Knox County Sheriff’s Deputy stood guard at the end of the driveway to keep out uninvited guests.

A group gathered along the roadside with a Fox News cameraman and reporters who were hoping for an opportunity to meet with Space.

Just after the event, at least two attendees hurled insults as they exited Michaels’ driveway, one an attorney and former village councilman from Gambier who gave a middle finger to those standing by. Others stopped to hold conversations or left politely.

Bob Denny, an advertising sales representative from Baltimore, traveled from a gathering at Space’s Zanesville office with a group of friends. He said he’s troubled that Space has refused to hold a town-hall style meeting with constituents.

“People want to talk to him face to face. They want to read his body language, look him in the eye and they want to see truth,” said Denny. “There are 535 people in Washington controlling 300 million plus and they’re not listening to the majority.”

On the other side was Ada Jacobs, whose husband knew Space from his days as a student at Kenyon College. She attended the fundraiser and said Space had made the decision to meet with smaller groups because he felt they’d be more effective than town hall meetings.

“This was announced to many people, and they had the opportunity to come,” she said.

However, Linda Michaels told radio station WMVO in a telephone call on Monday that event was private, despite an invitation on a public portion the Knox County Democratic Party’s website.

Jacobs said Space answered a myriad of questions on current health care reform proposals, but declined to speak about portions of the bill he was unfamiliar with, like nonprofit co-ops.

“He didn’t play games,” she said. “He said he needed to do some more research.”

Others, like Coach Dave Daubenmire, weren’t happy to learn that Space wouldn’t meet in the presence of reporters. The well-known religious commentator and demonstrator said he was turned away at the door earlier in the evening, but was told by a sheriff’s deputy that he could come back to meet with the congressman.

“I’d like to have a conversation with Zack Space out here for all the world to see – not go back and hide in some room and let him come out and tell a different story…” he said. “I’ve called his office four times and he would not return my call.”

Space has been under increasing pressure recently following his vote against an amendment prohibiting illegal aliens from receiving health benefits. Space introduced his own amendment a short time later which he said was binding, but critics say it lacks language that would require proof of citizenship.

Calls to Space’s Zanesville office have gone unanswered.

But Space has time to travel 50 mile outside of the district to a fundraiser in Bexley, Ohio with DC bigwigs:

Space fundraiser to feature U.S. agriculture secretary
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsak will headline a fundraiser next Sunday in Bexley for Democratic U.S. Rep. Zack Space of Dover.

The evening event will be held in the home of David Wilhelm, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and manager of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. Wilhelm's home is outside of Space's 18th Congressional District.

Those attending the Space fundraiser in Bexley are being asked to contribute at one of four levels ranging from $250 to $2,400.

Group to petition Space for town hall meeting on health care
And in Zanesville, Ohio, small businessmen demanded the same from Congressman Zack Space where, according to one activist-businessman, “his August schedule was set months ago. Mr. Space apparently can’t set aside a single day to meet with us.”

Apparently, Congressman Space feels safer in Afghanistan than in his Ohio district.

Brown, Space visit Afghanistan

Maybe not, since the US has given Afghanistan the right to be free, maybe they'll ask some questions he wants to avoid.

Entrepreneurs VS Bad Government & Unions In Ohio

via Instapundit from the American

Ohio has had a bad run these past years. When I left for DC to work many years ago Ohio had one of the lowest tax rates in the country and the state was thriving. Upon returning, I told my wife how great Ohio was and we were shocked at what we found. Liberal Democrats were in place and little republicans acted just like them. Ohio, my home state that I love, was looking like Michigan and losing jobs almost as fast while taxes continued to go up and up. We actually pay higher taxes than we did in the People's Republic of Montgomery in Maryland.

Ohio is dying. Dying at the hands of do-gooders supporting legislators at all levels garnering power in the name of the people in order to keep and grow their power. They have, like blue states, harnessed the power to bribe large sections of the electorate and money people. They are killing one of the best states in the nation that used to be a bell weather state that quietly suggested the future of the country through large and small industry, agriculture, a vast higher education system and politics. As Ohio went, so went the nation.

Now, as the nation goes, so went Ohio, downward to the "common good" to the detriment of all that is good. Small sections of society were held up by special interest groups and politicians as those that deserve the ideal of an America that gives grace. Large chunks of the economy were taken from the majority to finance this grace, but those chunks, in both large and small amounts, started to erode the financial base and goodwill of Ohio's people and employers. Both started leaving for states that envied what Ohio had, thus those other states did something smart, they lured them with lower taxes and less government. They went. Not Ohio, they, our people, our best, went. Ohio became a coastal state in thought, but without the coast.

As the outward trickle of "doers" grew, politicians, organizers, special interest groups and bureaucrats drew from the past, failed models of ideals. They bemoaned that if only we "helped" resurrect failed ideals such as (forced) government supported unions, larger governmental intrusion into the failed sections of society and more taxes as examples, Ohio would prosper and become a "good" state, but not if we returned to our old hayseed ways. Ohio became a union state with the government, including teachers, as the largest union. A union of bureaucrats.

There are a few who belie this trend through entrepreneurship and the ability to keep ahead of the blackmail payments to the federal, state and local authorities. I don't believe they are all Republicans or Democrats, they are driven to do their best. They give their best to their workers, their community and the state.

Below is such a story.

A Tale of Two $100,000 Jobs — A Tale of Two Americas

(Be sure to link through to the BusinessWeek story)

Ohio needs entrepreneurs, but most will go elsewhere to find a better environment in which to do their magic. Our environment will not improve until Republicans stop acting like liberals.

Until then, Ohio will continue its decent into a third-state environment. Like Michigan.

This Might Be Fun!

Be sure to be spiritual.

We Got A Town Hall Meeting! $30 Per Question!

Another Sutton observed, "Go where the money is... and go there often." Betty agrees.

$30 to ask Betty Sutton a question (go read, it's funny, but true)

Ah, the lucky 13th, Akron. I used to visit there often up a tiny dead end street at an apartment in an old industrial brick building with a shear drop down one side to a highway, but a lovely lady named Etta lived there. And she always had a cherry pie for me. With ice cream. And a hug.

Etta would've told Betty Iscariot where she could deposit her 30 pieces of silver.

If Slander, Name Calling & Lies Don't Work For Demo Town Hall Mtgs Just Use Censorship

I guess calling little old men "Nazis", little old ladies "evil mongers" and voters "KKK", "unAmerican", "racists, "terrorists", and (more to come, no doubt) hasn't made the difference in the government controlled health care debate that Democrats had hoped for. Nor has fake doctors. Nor has planting faux protesters with hateful signs. Alas, nor has lying and slandering Republican elected officials for their opposition. What to do, what to do?

Now the Democrats want to censor the news so the people can't see what is going on. Brilliant.




Like the reporter said, the next step in to stop meeting with constituents. Oh wait, that's already happening. Where in the world is Zach Space, Betty Sutton, Marcy Kaptur and others? Many are saying they will attend meetings with no dates or times or "stop" by a fair to "chat" with voters or there is the fudge factor where protesters are thrown out of constituent meetings. Of course, nobody really knows where Dennis "Moonbeam" Kucinich has or will be for years. It is reported that there are "Kilroy ain't been here" all over the 15th district. Tim Ryan? Nope, he whispers that it is too early for health care forums. Driehaus had one and he's still nursing the trauma. Probably from that smarmy intro given by everybody's worst nightmare teacher.

Barack Strickland Brings Back Barack Celeste

Ohio Unemployment Rate Exceeded 10 Percent In April
Ohio has an unemployment rate of more than 10 percent, for the first time in more than 25 years.

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services announced Friday that the state jobless rate for April was 10.2 percent, up from 9.7 percent in March.

Department spokesman Brian Harter said last month's rate was the highest since December 1983, when joblessness in Ohio hit 10.4 percent.

2009 & 1983. Strickland and Celeste. What a pair. One had a wife who preferred to live in another state and vacation with a sexual deviant employed by her husband and the other had a wife who felt she was forced to file for divorce from a sex addict and secretly become a 'catholic' priest.

They have more in common than shafting Ohio's workers with their anti-business programs.