Governor Kasich was in Youngstown for the Youngstown-Warren Regional Chamber of Commerce annual awards luncheon. He has had many visits to this area since his election as Northeast Ohio is the base of Ohio’s economic resurgence. Much of the growth is based in the natural gas industry, but much of it isn’t. In fact, 55% of the business growth stems from diversified industries from food processing to computer software development to new techniques in dye making.
In his comments, he contrasted what is happening in states like Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Texas, North and South Carolina, and Nevada to job flight from states like New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, California and as of late in the news, Rhode Island which for all intents and purposes is bankrupt. It’s more than a coincidence that the states that are growing are Republican run red states…and the ones on the brink which are the bluest of the blue liberal dominated states.
He pointed specifically to New York which has banned fracking; too bad for New York, but great for Ohio. The anti-fracking zealots who are preaching doom and gloom have shut down an industry in New York that could go a long way in producing needed revenue to support its massive welfare system/nanny state.
This message of economic dichotomy is more and more dominating the news. What is even more frightening is these liberal states keep doing more of the same, digging the hole deeper notwithstanding the businesses deserting these states in droves. Even Bill Maher, that paragon of liberal obnoxiousness, has warned California…and his left wing movement….that they may “lose” him unless the unrelenting assault on wealth is stopped.
Of course a little thing like money has never stopped a virtuous liberal from his appointed rounds. I am sure Governor Brown from California and Governor Cuomo from New York are eyeing states that are fostering economic growth. They will be looking for bail outs as their situations worsen. They will be looking for federal intervention to stop economic flight. It will also cause severe blow back from the successful states which will raise a constitutional battle.
Many of the debtor states have large urban populations. As liberal policies have driven out businesses, they have simultaneously attracted the government dependent class. California tops the list with this problem. The fifth largest economy in the world is broke and getting broker by the day.
To states like California, the Constitution is an impediment. The Senate with two senators from each state notwithstanding a state’s population dampens the influence of states like California. More problematic is the electoral college system which is also state based. As it stands now…California with a declining population will ultimately lose electoral votes to those with an increasing population. A declining population always follows loss of business, and states like New York and California will begin to lose a small degree of influence after the next census. All of this makes it difficult for the debtor states to look to the federal government for a bailout. No state, let alone a red state, will vote to provide funds to another state who has acted fiscally irresponsible.
Look for these states to demand amendments to the Constitution promoting things like elimination of the electoral college and a possible revision of Senate rules. They will do this under the guise of “democracy” when what they actually want is wealth redistribution.
America is NOT a democracy. It is a Republic with representative government and checks and balances to prevent a raid on the treasury by either the masses or a dictator. For warned is for armed…and the country needs to be vigilant against those who would destroy it. And there are plenty of those around who are willing to do it in the name of being “fair”.
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