So I need to make sure I'm on the same wave length with Ohio's top ranked "progressive".
He's against pay day loan operations because they take advantage of the poor people who use the service.
He's against casino gambling because it takes money away from the poor.
But he's all about video Keno?
Huh?
Gov. Ted Strickland betrayed fellow Methodists and reneged on a campaign promise not to expand gambling when he lent his support to a new lottery game, a prominent church leader said Thursday.
"Having talked to now-Gov. Strickland while he was campaigning for election, with my bishop present, I believe that Gov. Strickland has betrayed what he knows he communicated to the United Methodist community when he is now supporting keno gambling," said the Rev. John Edgar, chairman of the United Methodist Anti-Gambling Task Force.
Strickland, an ordained Methodist minister, said through his spokesman that he does not consider his support for keno - a video game that resembles bingo - to be a violation of his pledge.
Strickland backed the game to raise money to close an expected budget gap. The game is scheduled to begin statewide Aug. 1.
The Ohio Lottery Commission is controlled and regulated by the state, sanctioned by voters, and has a long history of offering new games, said governor's spokesman Keith Dailey. The Democratic governor believes that's all keno is: a new game.
So I guess the logic is this; it's not OK for private enterprise to steal from the poor. But if you are the state of Ohio government, it's more than welcome.....
Welcome to the Socialist Republic of Ohio.
2 comments:
Taxman,
do you have any idea how they are going to select where Keno is and where it is not?
No matter where you go in this world there are going to be fat cats. That is, people who become obscenely wealthy and/or powerful.
In small government societies most of the fat cats are in the private sector. In big governement societies most of the fat cats are politicians and litigators.
There is a big difference though. To become a fat cat in the private sector you usually have to make a product and employ people. And the product that you make has to be a product that people want and provide the motivation (i.e. paycheck) to have employees show up consistently. In other words you have to add value to society.
Govenment fat cats typically are the opposite. They create nothing. They are only good at two things: consolidating their own power and limiting power of the private sector. They get rich my creating roadblocks for society's private sector producers, then charging a toll to lift the roadblocks. The few cases where they offer a product it is expensive and of sub-standard quality. This is why we don't want government takovers of any part of this economy.
The lottery is a perfect example. Gambling is either a net good thing or a net bad thing for society. But Ted S. wants to play both sides of this. He wants to tell the private sector that they can't be in this business, but when it comes to gambling as a tool to grow government he is all for it.
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