Rahm, it’s Ted. You’ve never failed me and I need $5 billion.
The teaser headline at the Washington Post states, “Ohio Begs for Federal Lifeline”, the actual article is titled, Like Many States, Ohio Reaches for A Lifeline. I recommend reading the article in full, but the part referenced in the title:
“We’re not crying wolf. This is real,” Strickland said in an interview in his statehouse office, pointing to charts that project the most serious erosion of state income in 40 years and a two-year budget deficit of $7.3 billion. Revenue shortfalls in the upcoming two-year budget could amount to about 25 percent of the state’s discretionary spending.
Strickland recently picked up the telephone and called Rahm Emanuel, the incoming White House chief of staff. When he heard the recorded voice of his former congressional colleague, he left a message: “Rahm, it’s Ted. You’ve never failed me and I need $5 billion.”
The story focuses for the most part on Columbus and not how other parts of the state are also suffering and if you are curious as to what Rahm’s response was?
Emanuel called back and said “something to the effect of, ‘I hear you. You may not get everything you want, but you’ll get help.’ “
Keep cutting Uncle Ted. You can do it. Til it hurts and then do a little more after that…
December 27th, 2008 at 12:16 pmAt least the Governor is willing to cut. Like the $930,000 to help 1,100 smokers quit – WTF?!?! The state has no business in most of these programs – what is being cut is waste and graft.
Sometimes it can be healthy to heave-ho after too much senseless partying! Even IF it seemed like a good idea at the time.
December 27th, 2008 at 2:01 pmHEY FOLKS, HAVE SOME RESPECT FOR THE GOVERNOR HE IS DOING THE BEST JOB HE CAN, WITH THE MESS THAT TAFT LEFT HIM.
December 27th, 2008 at 10:57 pmYeah, let’s keep cutting things like recreations centers in urban cities so that seniors will stay at home and die of boredom and neglect, while the youth have no place to go except street corners and abandoned foreclosed properties, And while we are at it, let’s cut education down to the bone — no more frills like the arts, or useless things like history and science. Why educate the future citizens when there are no jobs for them to fill?
Let’s make Ohio the worst place to live in the country so that everybody simply picks up and leaves. Then the entire state could be turned into a landfill for all the other states to dump their toxic wastes.
Happy new year indeed.
December 27th, 2008 at 11:51 pm