Monthly Archives: December 2008

Ohio’s 2005 Tax Reduction Act Was Predicted, By 2010, To Result In Yearly State Budget Shortfall of Billions

Recent Dayton Daily News articles seem to put blame for Ohio’s huge budget deficits on the recession and completely ignore the big impact Ohio’s 2005 Tax Reduction Act has on state revenue.  In 2005, when this Reduction Act was being … Continue reading

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Mike Turner Voted “No” On Auto Bailout Because He Feared GM Would Send Money To Brazil

Ohio’s 3rd Congressional District Representative, Mike Turner, voted “No” on the recent $14 billion Detroit auto bailout legislation. Turner’s web-site doesn’t say a peep about Turner’s reasons for voting “No,” so, I telephoned his Dayton office and was told that … Continue reading

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Joseph Stiglitz Says Anti-Regulation Ideology Caused Financial Meltdown

Interesting article in Vanity Fair, Capitalist Fools, by Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, traces our financial crisis to terribly flawed ideology — one that says markets are self-adjusting and that the role of government should be minimal. Stiglitz reports … Continue reading

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Gov. Strickland Should Seek Revision In Ohio’s 2005 Tax Reduction Law — Before He Asks The Feds For Cash Handout

Ohio is missing a lot of money.   A recent press release from the governor said, “Governor Ted Strickland and Budget Director J. Pari Sabety today announced that the state is facing not only a budget deficit in our current … Continue reading

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Deepak Chopra’s New Book: “Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment”

In searching around about Deepak Chopra’s controversial comments on CNN, I discovered that Chopra has published a new book, Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment. This Time Magazine review, by David Van Biema, says, that in this book, “We meet Jesus … Continue reading

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Gotham Chopra Defends His Dad, Deepak, From WSJ Attack, About Origins Of Terrorism

Until the recent dustup about his CNN interview, I didn’t know that Deepak Chopra has a son, Gotham. Gotham’s bio shows that he works for Channel 1, the in school TV show for over 8 million students, as a foreign … Continue reading

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