Hot Corner: Buyer’s remorse
Written by Don Burnard | | opinion@toledofreepress.comThe reign of our new governor, King John Kasich, is beginning to make a lot of voters think that maybe they screwed up when they voted for him — or didn’t bother to vote.
A recent Ohio poll gives him a 40 percent approval rating versus a 47 percent disapproval rating. Among independents, his disapproval rating is at 55 percent. This is the lowest approval rating in memory, including the Bob Taft administration. The poll also showed that if the election was today, Ted Strickland would crush Kasich by 15 points or so. The buyer’s remorse appears to be setting in.
So far, the biggest accomplishment the Kasich administration has seems to be racking up these numbers in only its first three months in office. The jobs agenda he promised during the campaign has not only not materialized, but has actually made the job situation worse. The orating and bloviating about all his big plans for Ohio have been nothing more than hot air, predicated to advance the corporate agenda of the real masters he serves. The arrogance of the man is simply astounding. It has become readily apparent that he has no respect whatsoever for any middle-class working families.
Here’s a guy who goes out and gives a speech about the “idiot” policeman who wrote him up for a traffic violation, and then tries to sell us on the fact that the fiscal problems Ohio faces are largely due to all the money that school teachers, firefighters, police officers, garbage workers and other public employees make. (It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with him and his Wall Street cronies.) The $8 billion deficit that his running mate Mary Taylor projected must be closed at all costs, so long as it doesn’t cost his friends any more. But don’t worry; it’s all going to be done honestly and openly because he’s going to have the most open administration ever. We’re still waiting to hear who it’s going to be open to because it sure isn’t open to the public or the press. It does seem to be wide open to lobbyists and corporations.
The sad part about this circus act is that the general public and press have been thwarted at every turn in trying to find the details in any of these grandiose plans. The plans kind of remind me of those glossy brochures you get in the mail about the great deal on some beautiful condo or lush land in some paradise that turns out to be worthless swampland when you finally see the actual property. The budget was rolled out with great fanfare and four books of noninformation. No actual facts or figures that were relevant were included, and his budget director couldn’t really tell anyone how this snow job was actually going to work to close this $8 billion deficit. (That must be why they didn’t want the press to be there to ask any pesky questions until once again forced to back off.) Even The Columbus Dispatch, which strongly supported Kasich, questioned this: “State Budget Director Tim Keen wasn’t dressed like a magician, but state lawmakers wanted to know yesterday how he made an $8 billion shortfall disappear, even as it appears that overall spending increased in the new two-year budget.”
Wasn’t this the same kind of lack of accounting that Lehman Bros, etc. used to create the Great Recession? Too bad that when Kasich said he wanted to run Ohio like a business, he couldn’t find a better model.
Once you’re king, you make the laws, right? Another example is his Director of Development Mark Kvamme who had to step down since he was constitutionally barred from serving since he wasn’t a resident of Ohio. King John chalked that up to political motivation, and created a new non-Cabinet level post for him. Yep, no smoke and mirrors here! Oh, and by the way Sire, where are the jobs?
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Ipso facto ?! Hardly…
Gov. Kasich, in office two months and whining adolescent neofascist bureacrats expect miracles ( bent over laughing)?!
[T.F.P.'s resident union bureaucrat to this day,still looks for nickels from the tooth fairy under his pillow. So bloody sad... ]
MEANWHILE IN THE REAL WORLD: 83% of real American’s, believe that OweBaMao, is an ineffective Commander In Chief…which,makes perfect sense to me.
The U.S.economy has PLUMMETED to 28th out of 34 countries for economic stability in just TWO YEARS ?!
American business investment PLUNGED 1%, in February, indicating HIGHER unemployment in the near future.
64.6 % of real American’s, believe that America, is woefully headed in the Wrong Direction ?!
A historically record number !
Senate Demonrat Fascist, Kent Conrad Demonrat-N.D., still wants to apply a ” mileage tax”, to every vehicle in what was once America ?!
[ I still believe in a very High Tax on Stupidity, that would cure all of our deficits, 100% !!]
GOD, in DonMao’s Childlike World, is there 17.3 % real unemployment ?
$3.50 gallon of gas ?
28% of American home values lost in three short years, a historic high ?
29.8 % of American mortgages underwater ?
Rolling electrical outages in Texas, California, Ariz., Utah,etc.
Or , in DonMao’s Childlike World, are all these stats like they were under GW ?
Thought so…
This comment was posted on March 25th, 2011 at 10:00 amNEWSFLASH: A ” Jobs Fair”, was canceled in 100% Demonrat controlled Massachusetts today.
REASON: NO FAGAN JOBS !!!!!
ALSO IN THE NEWS: G.E.earned $14 BILLION in AmeriKa, last year and paid ZERO TAXES ?!
Hmmm, I made just a wee bit less than that and ,will pay about what my home has depreciated under OweBaMao’s & the neofascist Demonrats, horrid reign !!
Ahhh, you simply have to loath, how taxes in OweBaMao’s World, are so injustly applied…ain’t life GRAND , in The Great Demonrat Depression Part II !?
This comment was posted on March 25th, 2011 at 1:55 pmWhen voters bought OweBaMao’s and the Demonrats, LIES about our economy in 2006…the dollar was valued at 1/35 the price of GOLD !
Now, the ratio is 1/1,300 !!!
As the dollar PLUMMETS against GOLD and other currencies, complete and total ZEROES DO NOT NOTICE ?!
Does a radical leftist biased eye make you tax and waste Demonrats,actually turn you BLIND, to reality !!??
APPARENTLY, so….
This comment was posted on March 28th, 2011 at 11:13 amYou do realize that, with changes of name and other Ohio-specific details, five of your criticisms of Governor Kasich can be leveled even more accurately at your champion in the White House, don’t you?
Specifically:
* Aproval/disapproval rating
* Failure to create jobs – and this for more than two years as opposed to three months, for crying out loud!
* Smearing of law enforcement – remember Obama saying prejudicially that the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police “acted stupidly’ in arresting his friend Henry Louis Gates?
* Lack of transparency and openness – for instance, refusal to disclose his birth certificate and his oxymoronic closed-door meeting on government openness in December 2009.
* Openness to lobbies and corporations – the president of SEIU and CEO of General Electric (which reportedly paid no federal taxes in 2010 and took a tax benefit opf $1.1 billion in 2009) are among Obama’s closest advisors.
Also, your poll citation is suspect because of its vagueness. Who conducted the poll? How ere the questions phrased? Who was polled?
But it looks like I don’t get to needle you for “where’s (sic) the jobs” anymore.
This comment was posted on March 29th, 2011 at 7:22 pmUNION AVARICE DETAILED :In the 22 ‘right to work states”,( think Texas, Fla., Georgia,etc.) non-farm private sector employment went up 3.7 % in between 1999 and 2009.
For the 28 “non-right to work states” ( think Ohio, Illinois, N.Yawk,Meeshegan, etc.),the rate is a NEGATIVE 2.8 % !!
( That’s a minus, -2.8%, for you TPS’s graduates !)
During the same 10 year epoch,real personal income rose 28.3 %, in the RTW States.
Where as, for the NRTW States, incomes shrank at a 14.7 % rate ?!
Per capita income in the RTW States, is $35,543.
Versus, in the Non-RTW States,per capita income is $33,389 ?!
SUMMARY : in right to work States, they are much more Free !
And , are $ 2,154 per capita more affluent !
THEREFORE: Voting Demonrat, costs you $64,620, in a 30 year period ?!
Even for unionized do-nothing union bureaucrats, that’s a TON OF DOUGH !!!
This comment was posted on March 30th, 2011 at 11:20 amThomas- The poll was done by the University of Cincinnati and is called “the Ohio poll”. Look it up. As to the difference between Obama and Kasich, Obama has a hostile Congress thwarting every move he tries to make on any subject, and who are more interested in their pet peeves than in policy. Kasich has a largely sycophantic legislature that appears willing to do anything Kasich wishes, regardless of how many Ohioans it hurts. As to the birther crap, I thought you were smarter than that. Guess I was wrong. By the way, a Quinnipiac poll came out after I submitted the article that shows K’s approval ratings even lower, at 30%. You can look that up to if you don’t believe it. I don’t hear the Tea Party screaming over GE not paying any taxes and getting back $3.2 billion(not $1.1 billion).2/3 of American corporations paid No taxes. Who do you think makes up the difference in lost revenues? The top 1% or you and I? Food for thought.
This comment was posted on March 30th, 2011 at 12:48 pmI can see it now….
Gov.Kasich, after just two short months in office.
Has DonMao, on his back , kicking, screaming, and thrashing about for the 50,000 jobs lost in Little Detroit ?!
Or, is it for the 800,000 jobs lost in Ohio, during former prison psychologist’s, Strickland’s, horrid and pathetic reign.
REALITY TO UNIONIZED BUREAUCRATS :4.5 % unemployment
Home values highest in American history.
New home building way up.
Gas at $1.81 / gal.
Freeing 53 million citizens in Iraq & Afganistan.
AND, AND, 53 STRAIGHT months of positive economic growth after 9 / 11 !!
All during GW’s , tenure by the by.
All distant memories not soon to be emulated with EXTREME neofascist-Demonrats, in the Senate, blocking everything good !
This comment was posted on March 30th, 2011 at 2:19 pmMore horrible news soon to come…