Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Who's governing who?

Goobernatorial debate 2006 State Ohio.
Maybe something happened to me in Europe, I don't know... I am just a guy, a simple guy, no PHD or anything, but the prospective political leadership of the State of Ohio is piss poor. This maybe another indicator of how much the system is actually broken. I really think after listening to these to two candidates that my proposal for turning OHIO back into a farm land sounds very palatable at this point, because nothing out of any of their mouths has any sense of leadership or or action to produce any realistic value here

Dead weight sums up the two candidates.
How do you even work with this crappy leadership? I mean just complaining is as much apart of the problem. Nobody is going to vote except for the rural farmers, the ones that probably would support my plan.
My platform would be:
-lower the drinking age to 18 (deal with the ramifications of the federal backlash)
-public infrastructure for new business' in rural to suburban areas that require "tie" inn to these services will not be publicly subsidized , ie. no funding for widening roads, no funding for water mains, no funding for electrical tie inn. Essentially if a business wants to do business in a rural area of Ohio then it must realize the total cost of doing business there.
-Privatize the OHIO turnpike and sell it as an asset and use the funds for investing in infrasture in a highspeed (transport)system from Columbus to Cleveland and also to Cinncinatti. Preferably highspeed rail, but no regional light rail exists, so personal transport may still be required, but automated, a hybrid system.
- School Funding REVAMP! Remove property tax funding for local schools. Regionalize the way the taxes are directed.
-Increase tax on fossil fuel energy sources. (idea being, tax and have the consumer realize the "true" cost of the fossil fuel and market forces will then be allowed to take over giving way to energy alternatives) Money directed to regional transport services
-institute a use tax of resources, water, land fill space, fuel (families over three will have special program so as not to penalize for larger families)
-Glass Bottle Return program begin
-direct revenue back to cities and regions which utilize existing resources and infrastructure for creating new business'
-advertising campaign for Ohio Tourism, for Ohioians. ie. Promote existing infrastucture and natural landscapes Southeastern ohio.
that is just the beginning i have to get back to my essay...

2 Comments:

Blogger Sober in Chicago said...

dude, you are anything but "a simple guy".... can you even finish a sentence??

5:47 AM  
Blogger Griet Menschaert said...

that is the green spirit! maybe you should go into politics.. use your charism to spread the green thinking into the big nation...

4:51 AM  

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