Posted on 10/15/2009 5:02:36 AM PDT by Scanian
As an entrepreneur and resident of Ohio I am used to swimming upstream. Ohio's economy never actually recovered from the 2001 recession. We have been hemorrhaging jobs and population for over a decade. Except for two nuclear power stations and some tiny "green energy" pilot projects, our state is powered by coal fired power plants dotting our lakes and rivers. With our energy intensive manufacturing economy there are few places in the country which will be more affected by Cap and Trade legislation than Ohio.
Short of a nuke-wielding dictator threatening to wipe us off the map, it is hard to imagine a more existential threat to our state than passage of Cap and Trade. Most of my fellow business owners understand the threat. Many will abandon the region should Cap and Trade pass.
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Free Voters get the government they deserve. I’m afraid those that voted for “change” are gonna get it in spades.
unions = useful idiots
union officials = government backed crooks and White Hut advisors.
You can’t say spades! Citizens arayesttttt! Citizens arayesttt!
I went back to Ohio
Saw the signs for Hope and Change
Fade and feel from the fenceposts
As the government
Got increasingly strange
The jobs in Ohio
Had been replaced by welfare lines
Except one guy from the county
Who was removing
old Obama signs
Hey, ho
Way to go
Ohio!
The union rank and file need to get a clue. Union leaders know their growth industry is govt jobs, and they could care less about the private sector rank and file. They sell them out to support cap n trade in a heartbeat.
A lot of them do, don’t be fooled by the union block voting myth. I’ve had to join unions three times in my life and each time I put up with the leadership’s BS and went out and voted exactly the way I wanted to, the bosses be damned. And a whole lot of others do the same thing. Many people are in unions through necessity and couldn’t care less about the liberal propaganda they’re expected to swallow.
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