Bloomberg:
Ohio Governor John Kasich proposed a $55.5 billion biennial spending plan that calls for selling five prisons and issuing bonds for economic development backed by liquor-distribution profits in what he called “the jobs budget.”
....The Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, which represents 10,000 prison employees, opposes the sales. Union leaders say running safe, secure prisons is a responsibility for government, not profit-driven companies.....
......Kasich said in briefing documents that state funding for education would increase under his budget. That doesn’t count the federal stimulus dollars that schools get in the current budget, so actual funding would decrease $395 million in 2012 and $305 million in 2013, according to an Innovation Ohio analysis. That would cost 7,000 teachers their jobs, the group said....
With just this information, we can see that the Kasich road to recovery will sell off state assets, force 17,000 people to lose their jobs, put our communities at risk with privately run prisons with companies more interested in profits than safety, and hurt school children by increasing class sizes. I guess as long as Kasich's buddies are getting richer, and the rich get tax cuts, it doesn't matter that Ohio's middle class jobs will disappear.