Ohio Legislators should be forced to return paychecks!

If you worked at McDonald's, the corner store, a gas station, you would be forced to pay if your cash drawer was short - right? If you were a corporate big wig and you told stock holders you blew the budget by about $670 - $677 million dollars - you would probably get fired or demoted to janitor.

If you are an elected state official in Ohio and face this kind of mishap - don't worry - you can keep your job by blaming it on something or someone else. The just tell the public your going to "tighten your belt" on spending. They will be busy watching American Idol and not paying attention.

Our elected cone heads claim are going to "tighten the belt" on spending and they do.... what they don't tell us is we keep getting a bigger belt! All they do is keep tightening their ever-growing belt to encompass the ever-growing waist/waste of government.

The PD --

The state faces a budget shortfall of between $733 million and $1.9 billion dollars by the middle of next year, the governor's office said Wednesday.

The budget -- the Democratic governor's first -- was approved by the Republican-controlled legislature at the end of June with prediction of a $56 million surplus at the end of two years. More....

• Let's take the lower of the two estimated shortfalls --$733 million
• All the whiz kids in Columbus projected a surplus of -- $56 million
• This means they missed the budget by --- $677 Million.

How in the HELL does somebody make a $677 million dollar in crafting a budget. How poorly does it speak of our republicans that approved it!?!?

The PD is trying to soften this embarrassment by pointing out the loss of revenue from the phase out of the corporate franchise tax was close to $70 million. This is no excuse - they knew that tax was being phased out!

Even by being nice and giving them a pass on the $70 million loss due to phasing out the corporate franchise tax that leaves an estimated shortfall of $607 million!!!!! That anyone would even attempt to make excuses for a bust in numbers this large is an exercise in idiocy!

The voters of Ohio, republican, democrat and independent, ALL should expect more and surely deserve more from the cataclysmic cone heads in Columbus.