posted 09-05-2012 07:33 AM                  

He spoke at the DNC last night and gave high praise to Obama for how he's turned Ohio's economy around, etc, etc.... What a crock of sh!!!

Ohio is doing better than average, thank you, but it's not due to Obama's policies....It's the leadership of John Kasich who inherited a $7.7 billion dollar deficit from Strickland in 2010...

He's since balanced the budget, created 122,000 jobs and lowered unemployment.....Now Obama wants to take credit.

Here's what the Wall Street Journal said about our Republican Governor John Kasich..

From The WSJ

The reform-minded GOP Governors across the upper Midwest have sustained a lot of political damage lately, but at least they’re delivering on their campaign promises and will be judged on the results. The latest is Ohio’s John Kasich, who signed an ambitious budget late last week that will help the Buckeye State’s economy and finances.

Mr. Kasich took office this year facing the largest deficit in Ohio history, close to $7.7 billion. His predecessor, Democrat Ted Strickland, had avoided any serious reform in advance of the 2010 election, despite a shrinking economy and tax base, and had concealed fiscal holes with federal stimulus dollars that have now run out. To close the gap with revenue alone, the Ohio tax department estimated that income rates for the average family would need to rise 56%.

Mr. Kasich’s budget is bringing Ohio’s finances into balance by cutting spending while also cutting taxes, which ought to be a lesson for Washington. The $55.8 billion two-year budget pares from nearly every state program and agency, and it privatizes some of them, including some prisons and maybe even the Ohio Turnpike, if the legislature approves. It restores a scheduled cut in the top income tax rate to 5.9% from 6.2%—part of a larger across-the-board cut over five years that Mr. Strickland deferred. And it eliminates Ohio’s estate tax and cuts property taxes by $1.7 billion.

And

Mr. Kasich’s approval ratings have fallen sharply as he’s pursued budget and labor change, though challenging the status quo is always disruptive. On the other hand, voters didn’t reward Mr. Strickland for making the problem worse by doing nothing