QUOTE from Calvin Coolidge: "I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm."
More LEARNING about what's wrong with America.- today it is Ohio.
OHIO: John Kasich is the newly elected Republican governor of Ohio. He was backed financially by the likes of the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch (the FOX News guy.) Kasich is now backing their vision of a union-free America. His club of chioce is a draconian law that bars teachers and other public employees from striking for any reason, punishes any workers who participate in a walkout, eliminates automatic pay raises, bans any union effort to limit privatation of a government function, proihibits police and firefighters from access to binding arbitration in contract disputes, and only allows public employees to bargain with their governmental bosses when the bosses say they can.
Kasich excuses this by asserting that he was elected to make drastic cuts in state spending, including in the pay of these workers. But he has spared a few workers - those in his office. For example, he is paying his chief of staff $170,000 a year, nearly $50,000 more than the position previously paid. To get "good people to come in" to government, you have to offer good salaries.
(I find that statement a little ironic - I guess according to Kashich's thinking that only applies to his office.)
Kasich's approval rating has crashed to around 30%.
Tomoirrow I'll look at Texas and Wisconsin.
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