Now that we know that Republican candidate for governor, John Kasich, was wrong about the taxes and unemployment in Texas, Florida, and Nevada, he has another incorrect statistic to add to his list. Kasich has been wrong about the successes of Republican Mitch Daniels in Indiana.
Dispatch:
...An examination of statistics, however, reveals that Indiana might not be the jobs mecca that Kasich trumpets on the campaign trail....
....But a closer look at data reveals that Indiana has not fared much better than its Midwestern neighbors during the recession. Indiana lost 174,400 jobs since 2007, the year Strickland took office in Ohio, federal labor data show. That's a 5.8 percent decline, which ranks 39th nationwide - just ahead of Ohio, which ranks 42nd after a job loss of 7 percent, or 379,900 jobs.
And Indiana has endured one of the nation's highest employment declines since the recession began, according to the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project. The share of Indiana's population that was employed dropped from 63.5percent in November 2007 to 57.2 percent in May 2010, a steeper decline than in all but five states, none of them in the Midwest. Put another way, Indiana's employment growth trails Ohio's and even Michigan's....
On top of Indiana's job losses, the state also sold off their turnpike to a foreign entity. Even Daniels states that Indiana's problems can be traced to "...national and global economics..."
I'm surprised that Kasich is willing to campaign with someone else, considering his large ego. It just might be that Kasich thinks that Ohioans are so stupid that we are impressed with his buddies like Jeb Bush, Newt Gingrich, and Mitch Daniels. Frankly, I don't care about Kasich's right wing buddies. Jeb Bush screwed up Florida and their entire education system. Gingrich and his scandals, three marriages, and affairs, don't make him a role model. Mitch Daniels? Give me a break.
Kasich still hasn't released an agenda or list of plans he has if elected. We have not seen his income tax returns. What is Kasich hiding?
Speaking of hiding.....
Every week we get another release of another pension fund that lost money because of Kasich and Lehman Brothers. How many people have been hurt because of Kasich's introductions?
