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Your Buckeye, John Kazalia.

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Your Buckeye, John Kazalia.

We’re so moral, until we squander our manufacturing base and there ain’t much left.  Then it’s gambling after all!

Oh well.

Your Buckeye, John Kazalia.

So I had to laugh when I was Mary Withrow saying it was all paid for by out-of-state casinos that don’t want to lose money they currently get from Ohioans traveling to them.

Well, so casinos are bad for Ohio? 38 states have them, including all of them that border Ohio. And with the exception of Michigan, all of them are doing better economically (and Michigan is largely because of Detroit). Not too bad for them.

And what is this cash doesn’t count stuff? The proposal says Ohio casinos pay taxes on gross receipts, nothing about cash. And my favorite is when they say the issue “won’t create 34,000 jobs at any one time.” Well yeah, the proposal is predicted to create 34,000 jobs over time, not at one time. Lies, lies, lies.

I can’t wait for the election to be over.

Your Buckeye, John Kazalia.

Then I look at the Humane Society site, and I see they are opposed to Issue 2 because it is just a smokescreen created by agribusiness to make it look like something is being done to improve animal treatment.

So which is it? What’s a Buckeye to do?

Your Buckeye, John Kazalia.

Anyway, here’s his press conference:

Strickland Ohio’s H1N1 Preparedness

Wow, notice the poster: wash your hands! Never thought of that!!

Your Buckeye, John Kazalia.

Lake County
Medina County
Southern Ohio

For more information visit the Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources leaf page.

Your Buckeye, John Kazalia.

Let’s hear it for Captain Obvious!

Hip-hip, DUH!  Hip-hip, DUH!  Hip-hip, DUH!

About time!  What is the point in giving taxpayers a piddly tax cut when the state is going broke, local governments are putting levies on the ballot, license fees are being increased, etc.?

Ooh, that big tax cut saves me about 50 bucks a year.  What will I ever do?  Meanwhile Ohio sinks toward rock bottom.

Why couldn’t Strickland have proposed this idea a year or two ago?  If he only had a brain….

Your Buckeye, John Kazalia.

First, Columbus is the largest city in America without passenger rail service.

Second, yes, many won’t use it, but many don’t use schools or airports or whatever.  They are still important.  And don’t forget there are people in Ohio that can’t drive for various reasons.

Third, I am sick of the “it has to make money” bit.  Why does transit always have to make money?  How much money does I-71 make?  It loses billions, not only on building and maintaining it, but on State Highway Patrol keeping it safe, ODOT mowing and plowing, people cleaning the restrooms, etc.

Yes you can buy a tank of gas for what a ticket will cost.  But gas is hardly the only expense in operating an automobile.  For example, last year I attended a conference in Cleveland.  My truck is old, so I rented a car for the trip.  (My conference was in Tower City, so trains would have been perfect.)

The cost?  Rental car fee plus tax plus gas plus exhorbitant parking fees put the cost well over $15o.  That $25 train ticket would have been a bargain.

And I would have loved riding a train.

Your Buckeye, John Kazalia.

Strickland Approval Rating Up

Up? Why? What has he done, let alone done right? If 48 percent of Ohioans approve, then 48 percent of Ohioans are morons.

Glad to be in the 52 percent majority.

Your Buckeye, John Kazalia.