Ohio Gov. John Kasich counts on liquor consumption to bring jobs

[upstatecajun]

Source: The Plain Dealer

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The success of Gov. John Kasich's plan to recruit new business to Ohio will hinge heavily on just how much Ohioans drink alcohol.

Kasich last week unveiled his state budget proposal, which includes a plan to lease the state's liquor distribution operation -- which of late has drawn record profits -- and use the cash to fund his private economic development machine.

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/03/ohio_gov_john_kasich_hopes_boo.html

Read more: http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/03/ohio_gov_john_kasich_hopes_boo.html

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Drink up Ohio...we need jobs...

[Doremus]

1. Fascism at work. Take a govt agency, replace it with a private corp.

Fund it with public dollars and - voila! - you have your own personal slush fund to use for pet projects of all sorts.

Best of all, no pesky sunshine laws or accountability of any sort!

[bongbong]

2. Finally!

We finally see the repig plan for jobs: get people drunk. It'll also help in hiring more prison guards and lawyers as DWI numbers go up.

I should've had more faith in the ability of repigs to govern.

[ladym55]

3. Okay, so we're trying to resolve a BIG deficit ...

So we PRIVATIZE a major source of state revenue. Damn, these Rethugs are just math-e-matical wizards!!!! They are demonstrating that both they and the IDIOTS who continue to support them are in desperate need of a really good education. Oh, wait.

[Deep13]

4. With Idiot as governor, it might just work. nt