ted strickland: having his cake and eating it too
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland whines that Ohio is being unfairly used as a poster child for the nation’s economic woes:
Ohio is going to be a hard fought-over state in this presidential election. And consequently, the economy of this bellwether state has become highly scrutinized.
But much of this scrutiny has focused only on the admittedly tragic loss of manufacturing jobs, while overlooking major investments in tax reform, technology and higher education. Things in Ohio are not as the news coverage has made them appear.
Really? So we don’t need to protect manufacturing with those tariffs, right? But your colleague Sherrod Brown argued the very opposite last spring. And what about the college kids and businesses who are leaving the nation’s most heavily taxed state in droves? Oh, wait, I get it: the point is that you are awesome, contradiction and economic reality notwithstanding. Well played, Ted.