Comments on: Ohio House leadership announcements

By: oengus

oengus — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:27:27 +0000

A wealthy Beachwood separatist…please. How to stay wealthy until you die…how the baby boomers will hang the next generation out to dry.

I should write a book…

Dropping dimes…calling out the operators.

By: oengus

oengus — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:01:11 +0000

Government is too big and the State of Ohio government is nothing much more than the largest State employer and the biggest waste of money.

It maybe they are too conservative…yah that for sure, but we have little ingenuity in this state…we have even less creativity.

Our kings and Queens are basically unimpressive.

By: oengus

oengus — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:54:04 +0000

If you offer $100.00 to everyone that will change nothing, if you gave $30,000,000,000.00 to the correct individual that could very well change everything.

Fair is unfair, makes you think. A wise and benevolent dictator or even a very wealthy venture capitalist can do way more than a bunch of novices elected by the peanut gallery.

If the government has money to hand out they should not just hand it out and hope for the best, they need to fund specifics and in the web of dispersions it often looses all accountability.

By: oengus

oengus — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:40:44 +0000

The City of Columbus (city) was awarded $22,845,495 of NSP funds from HUD.

How much did Cleveland get?

Even though it looks like Columbus got more than Cleveland, they did not, Cleveland is Geographically much smaller than Columbus and in so much Cuyahoga received more than Franklin County.

Here is a list of where the money is being allocated…combined Cuyahoga and Cleveland will get near 38M in funding.

http://voinovich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsCenter.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=9fcb84ec-9a17-b02f-13e7-6064c900e093

250 million for the State to help recover foreclosed properties, to prevent blight.

By: cromesbl

cromesbl — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:58:09 +0000

Hard to quibble with any of these choices.

Budish is a terrific fundraiser, Szollosi and Garrison bring a lot of energy and tenacity, Heard and Sayre are trusted hands, and Goyal is ODP’s version of Bobby Jindal (young, diverse face of the future).

I’m excited to see Gov. Strickland finally get the partner he needs to fix the mess he inherited.

Good night.

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