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John Kasich: Ohio’s Next Governor
Yes, I just claimed that John Kasich is going to be Ohio’s next governor. This is not meant as hyperbole. I really believe Kasich is going to beat Governor Strickland in November.
This is not based on deep study of the polls or a county-by-county analysis or anything of that sort. It is more of a [...]
Spending freeze doesn’t hold water
Via Jonah at the Corner
Ohio’s Unemployed Masses Are Getting Hammered Like Never Before
Source.
The Failed Stimulus: Part Two
Another one of those picture paints a thousand words type things:
Key Quote:
This suggests that there is no real correlation between unemployment rates in the states and the number of jobs “created or saved” with stimulus money.
Renewable Realities
I meant to post this after the Energy Summit but life and technical difficulties intervened. The chart was used by Jolene Thompson from AMP Ohio during her presentation. By way of explanation, the chart show capacity factors for the various forms of generation. The charts assume coal, nuclear, hydroelectric, wind and solar generating facilities, [...]
Cap and Trade: a job killer for Ohio
You don’t have to be an economist to understand the situation in Ohio. Unemployment has hit double digits and is growing (340,000 jobs lost since Ted Strickland and Lee Fisher took office) and everyone is paying the price. The stimulus has accomplished nothing (In the neighborhood of 100,000 jobs lost since its passage) and [...]
Zach Space’s bait and switch on health care reform
Zach Space talks a good game. He knows how to say what he thinks voters want to hear. The problem is that his votes don’t line up and his rhetoric is slippery.
A perfect example is health care reform legislation. Here is Space on why he supports the Democrat proposals:
And the Ohio Democrat now supports the [...]
Obama driving the debt car
Awesome video illustration on the federal budget deficit and the shrieks about Bush and the shrugs over Obama:
The tax cut conundrum
The liberals who want to raise taxes, and who have never met a government spending program they don’t support, are starting to make the argument – or starting to make it in a more public way – that tax cuts don’t spur growth and that it is just fine to raise taxes during an economic [...]
Gambling semantics or principles?
Image by Lisa Brewster via Flickr
The Dispatch attempts to break down the terms at the center of the budget debate and accusations of hypocrisy:
When is a slot machine not a slot machine?
When it’s a video lottery terminal? Or when it’s a video racing terminal?
The terminal terminology entered the political debate yesterday when Gov. Ted Strickland [...]
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