“A raw deal that does not create jobs.” — Betty Sutton
With a job-destroying debt ceiling bill poised to become law, Ohioans are looking at some devastating economic times just ahead. Our governor produced a budget that, while spending five billion more than the previous budget, starves local governments and school systems — the job engines of local communities now that bad trade and tax policies have made private companies unwilling to create jobs — to subsidize his cronies at taxpayer expense. We have already seen the impact of his policies in rising unemployment last month, grinding to a halt a year and a half of the Ted Strickland recovery. As local governments and schools shed more jobs, and as the fallout from that income loss hits small businesses in communities, things are going to get worse.