Health & Fitness
Kasich’s uncertainty hampering Ohio economy
By Tom Blumer│For Ohio Watchdog
Ohio Governor John Kasich seems oblivious to the damage his political stubbornness is inflicting.
Kasich has often justly complained about what economic and regulatory uncertainties from Washington, D.C., have done to companies and to the state economies and budgets that depend on the jobs those companies create.
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Shortly after the November 2010 elections that swept Republicans into power in theU.S. House, the newly elected Kasich joined Congressman and House Speaker-in-Waiting John Boehner to speak on that very topic:
“The policies in Washington are hurting our ability to create jobs,” (Kasich) said. “I don’t get what they don’t get about this. Companies need certainty.”
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Despite what he said in 2010, the 2013 version of Kasich doesn’t seem to “get” that the uncertainties created by his insistence on trying to expand Medicaid and on passing a steep oil and gas severance tax — when the debate over the state’s two-year budget through June 2015 is supposed to be over — are hurting job creation in Ohio.