Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The Really Good Stuff and the Bad

THE REALLY GOOD STUFF:

>>>>  We have evidence of Health Reform in Action in this video from The White House:



This is evidence of the good and life saving treatment that will come out of the health care reform law.  Support it.  Enjoy it.  Thank President Obama and the Democrats for their action.
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......THE BAD ----
***  Every family has one--- the relative who is a cocky, loud mouthed, know-it-all.  Unfortunately for us, we have a candidate for governor who resembles that cocky, loud mouthed, know-it-all.

Here is my example from the Bucyrustelegraphforum which describes an incident  from Sharonville, Ohio:

....Her brother, a boy of about 10, stood nearby.

"Hey, you've got ketchup or something on your shirt,'' Kasich said, poking the little boy in the breastbone. When the boy looked down, Kasich flipped his finger and popped him in the nose.

"Gotcha,'' the candidate said. The kid had a wide smile, and so did his father....

I don't find that funny.  I don't like it when grownups pick on children and if that had been my child, I wouldn't have been smiling.

Do you remember the hints we got from the article in TheOtherPaper, titled "Does Ohio need an SOB as governor?"  Take this article and the story in the Bucyrustelegraphforum and you have a pretty good picture of the kind of man Kasich is.

Here is a quote that might make you think a little bit more about how Kasich treated this young boy.  Josephsoninstitute.org:

The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back. 
Abigail van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman), American newspaper advice columnist (1918-2002)

*  What were those budgets like that Kasich proposed while he served in the House of Representatives?  The CBPP.org (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities) examined the budget Kasich championed in 1998.   Here are some excerpts from the CBPP's report
(June 12, 1998):
House Budget Contains Large Cuts in Low-Income
Mandatory Programs Not Included in the Senate Budget
by Robert Greenstein and Sam Elkin
....Many of the cuts would primarily or exclusively affect low-income workers or those seeking to work. For example, all remaining funds in the welfare-to-work block grant enacted as part of last year's budget agreement would be eliminated. This block grant provides funds to states and cities to help move the hardest-to-employ welfare recipients into employment.....

.....The House budget also would reduce food stamp benefits for families with children whose housing costs consume more than half of their income. These families' benefits would be cut below the levels prescribed under the welfare law, with many of these families ultimately losing $180 a year in food stamps. A substantial share of those who would be affected are working poor families struggling to raise their families on low wages and receiving neither cash assistance nor housing assistance....

......The House budget would raise taxes on some of the nation's poorest workers. It assumes elimination of the Earned Income Tax Credit for workers with incomes under $10,000 who are not raising minor children..... 

Thank goodness Kasich's budget plan that penalized the poor did not pass. What kind of man proposes to deny the poor of food stamp benefits so that the rich can get tax cuts? Kasich