Voting--finally--NO

We voted today. It wasn't easy. We've lived here since 2002, and this is our 4th polling location. No wonder some people just give up. I went to the location I thought was right and nothing was there. Came home, looked it up on the internet, and didn't even recognize the name of the building, but we eventually found it. The Catholic church where we last voted had purchased a fraternal building across the street and turned it into a parish hall, so that was the new location. However, when we got there we followed signage to nowhere, because what the arrow meant was "next door" not follow the arrow. We told the ladies at the bake sale about it, but nothing was changed when we left. I have always found polling places to be the most obscure, poorly signed buildings I've ever been to--for years we voted at St. Mark's in our old neighborhood, and they were always changing the room within the building. The voting machines are confusing for people who don't use computers--or even those of us who use them a lot. But that only matters in "ethnic" neighborhoods where Democrats might have a close vote. Anyway, just in case there were others who think our $25 million library levy is absurd and outrageous for the challenging times but couldn't figure out where to go to vote NO, I also voted against the Franklin county park issue. Normally, it would have had my vote easily. I can't take a chance on two local tax increases with Washington going crazy with economy killing measures.

Ohio will be hit very hard economically by Obamanomics, so we don't need more local taxes, although Mayor Coleman (an Obama-wannabee) is looking for "loose change." (He's as light skinned and handsome as Obama, but is a more fluent and traditional Democrat--seems to manage the English language without heavy reliance on the teleprompter. His wife's DUI problem has held him back.) Not only does Obama intend to kill our coal industry, but he has already killed the auto industry for us (yes, we are very close to Michigan in this area, not just geographically). The death of the auto industry will help in shuttering our local newspapers and local TV coverage, since they were heavy advertisers. But that's fine--all we need is the national media, right? And when they too are gone, there's always the government.

. . . the costs of accepting federal dollars from the ARRA will be a long-term drain on the private sector. The ARRA will increase the government expenditure wedge from 49.16% to 52.41% for an overall 3.25% increase. This increase will reduce the growth in real net business output by 2.5%, which translates to a reduction of 1.7 million jobs nationally - of which between 66,400 and 91,200 jobs will be lost in Ohio. Buckeye Institute