MansfieldNewsJournal:
Ohio House minority leader Armand Budish called Gov. John Kasich's budget proposals "horrific" and said they will have a "terrible" impact on all Ohioans....
"Governor Kasich balances his budget on the backs of working families, the poor and the elderly," Budish said. "It's extremely unfair and unfortunate."
Budish said a proposed $1 billion cut in local government funds will mean local officials will have to slash their budgets and cut police and firefighters. He called a proposed $3 billion reduction in basic funding for schools "horrific" and predicted it would force districts to cut teacher salaries and positions and increase the size of some classes to 50 students or more.....
By cutting the heart and quality of public schools, Gov. John Kasich makes our state less attractive to outside businesses. Most businesses want an educated, capable workforce. Kasich's budget denies the foundation for those kinds outcomes. Kasich also hands a larger chunk of money to the charter school industry and their failing schools. In the end, Ohio's public school children lose.
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>>> The Republicans continue to push Rep. Paul Ryan goofy budget plan. Ryan's plan is based on fuzzy, make believe fairy tales. Here is what Fareed Zakaria of CNN had to say about it:
...It actually increases defense spending over the next 10 years, then it never actually explains what it will cut from discretionary spending. It simply asserts spending will go down massively....
....Ryan's plan is simply unrealistic. The theory behind it is that if individuals have to pay for their health care, they will shop carefully and drive down costs. It's a good theory, but in health care, a huge part of the expenses relate to a small percentage of sick patients and to the last year of life - and those two categories overlap.
Eighty-five percent of Medicare's costs are generated by just 25 percent of patients. Now, even in the most conservative health alternatives, the health savings account, people get to buy catastrophic insurance. Well, the sick 25 percent of the patient population would have catastrophic insurance, which would still explode the Medicare budget.....
Paul Ryan's plan is being pushed by the right wing pundits. That in itself should be explanation enough as to why it won't work.
