Another state delivers bailout demands


When will it stop?
First California, now Ohio.

I found this bit really telling. Emphasis added.

In Ohio, which has shed 100,000 jobs in the past year, Gov. Ted Strickland (D) and his budget team spend a lot of time delivering bad news to constituents and plotting ways to wring money from the federal government. He announced $640 million in cuts for the budget year ending June 30, for a total of $1.9 billion since the economic crisis began.

It should be obvious to anyone, but I guess it isn't.

Choices mean consequences. Good choices reward, bad choices punish.

If you remove the consequences of bad and marginal choices, then there is less reason for people to rethink their behavior. If the "right" choices mean that you have to work hard for the rewards, then there is even less reason to change.

Yes it seems harsh.

But by removing the consequences of choice, you've just made someone dependent.

Why should Ohio get to pick my pocket and raid my checking account to pay for their mistakes? Because that is what it's really about. That's what this bailout mess has become.

Theft backed with the coercive power of the Federal Government.

Do you want that?

— NeoWayland

Posted: Sun - December 28, 2008 at 02:52 PM  Tag


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