Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Just Asking

The Ohio Republican Party has given us their usual collection of candidates--- a former bank lobbyist, a former Wall Street investment banker, and the budget director for former President George W. Bush. What harm could they bring us?

What does a bank lobbyist do? A bank lobbyist is a person who works for a bank, protects the bank against laws and regulations, and lobbies state and federal government to reduce and remove consumer protection laws so that the banks can run roughshod over the rights of ordinary people.

Why should we fear a former Wall Street investment banker? Wall Streeters were playing and gambling with the money from home mortgages, individual investments, and the retirement funds of state employees, while the rest of us were left unaware of their high risk handling of our funds. As evidenced by the congressional hearings, they joked about selling of worthless funds and showed little respect for their investors, life savings, and retirement funds of the everyday people.

What does it matter if someone was the budget director in the past Republican administration? What decisions did he make as the director of the Office of Management and Budget? Did his decisions about the economy create the financial disaster we've experienced?

What does it all matter that the candidates offered by the Ohio Republican Party, Stivers, Kasich, and Portman, are right leaning, anti-worker, pro-banker individuals? Do we really want to go back to having decisions made by the "old rich white guys" of the Republican Party?