Ohio is going to Hell in a Handbasket -- are you listening, Governor DeWine?

[Ohiogal]

Cross posted in Ohio group.

Yep, those Republican policies are just working wonders, aren't they? All those tax cuts have worked miracles ....



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As state lawmakers begin dissecting Gov. Mike DeWine’s inaugural budget proposal this month, Ohio desperately needs legislators to face stubborn facts.

For the last half-century, compared to the nation as a whole, Ohio has been in decline on nearly every measure of economic well-being and quality of life.

On average, Ohioans are less educated, poorer, fatter, more drug-addicted and more likely to smoke than their fellow Americans.

As of 2016, Ohio ranked 29th among the states in per capita personal income, nearly $5,000 below the national average.

It’s no coincidence that as Ohio has lagged the nation in job growth and prosperity it has lagged in educational opportunity — from sparse pre-K to costly college tuition.

Since 2006, state funding for the Department of Higher Education, in inflation-adjusted dollars, fell by $505 million. The net cost of a full year at one of Ohio’s public colleges, as a share of family income, is higher than in 44 other states.

That’s just one example of the many ways Ohio, in real-dollar terms, has disinvested in programs that shape the future well-being of its citizens.

https://www.the-daily-record.com/opinion/20190312/editorial-next-state-budget-must-address-ohios-declining-quality-of-life

[blueinredohio]

1. And it's only going to get worse under DeSwine.

[Ohiogal]

2. Yep.

Did you see the first bill he signed? An "emergency measure" (cough cough) to fix wording in a gun bill passed last year..... changing language describing long guns as dangerous .....funny he did that after being visited by all the gun loving organizations. How much $ did they give him for his election? I guess we are in for at least 4 years of this shit. What is it with Republicans and "emergencies"??

[Botany]

3. When my mom dies I am out of here.

This state has sunk from being one of the best in the nation to the
level of Arkansas or Oklahoma.

[llmart]

4. I left in early 1980's.

Never, ever, not once regretted leaving. I've watched the state of my birth and my parents' births slowly go from being top notch to rivaling such states as Mississippi and West Virginia for last place.

[Botany]

5. You would never know that we have as many or even more Ds than Rs

The elections here are a joke. In 2018 we re-elected a liberal Democratic senator
in Sherrod Brown but over 200,000 of those same voters turned around and voted for
a conservative republicans for Governor, A.G., & Sec. of State?

Years ago very republican Jim Rhodes set about making sure that Ohio had a college
and or good Tech School w/in 50 miles of everybody in Ohio and that public schools
were funded and were quality too .... Ohio was then one of the top states in the nation
but those days are long gone.

[llmart]

6. Rhodes was also the governor when the National Guard shot 4 students.