It’s not my responsibility?

I watched the Governor of Ohio, Strickland; argue on a TV interview that he needed a 5 billion dollar bailout because he wasn’t responsible for the Lehman Brothers crash that started the current financial “crisis” which is impacting his state negatively. Curious that he used that example since it was Senator Schumer of NY that started the initial panic, and should be brought up on insider trading charges since he had confidential information which he revealed to start the wave of failures. This entire meltdown seems much orchestrated by people that had an interest in a failing economy. Namely every socialist democrat in our government.

Strickland argued that he has cut the state services to the bone and that it was not prudent to raise taxes in a slow economy. Hmmm! I will bet that state employees in Ohio have some really pricey pension, compensation, and benefit plans that could use some trimming. That is what the private sector is doing, and this is only a guess but I would bet they are like every other state that seems to always have more than enough employees that can stand around an open hole in the ground and ponder the next move. It is laughable when you hear any government bureaucrat state they have nowhere to cut! The reason they don’t want to cut is because they lose their donors or risk going back on a quid pro quo of a past donor. That is the simple fact.

But I digress. Here is a recommendation to all of the Governors in the states, lead or get out. Begging for a bailout is not leadership. Making the tough choices and standing up to the Federal government is. Let’s start applying the 10th amendment to the constitution and start taking back the responsibility of running our states at the local level. Let’s get out of DC. Now that would be leadership. And that is the responsible thing to do…