John Kasich, the Familiar Radical
John Kasich has long been known for his putting together 5 straight balanced budgets and pushing a pro-growth agenda. Now that he’s running to defeat Ted Strickland as Ohio’s governor, he’s introducing common sense plans that career politicians think of as radical:
Instead, he said, government should be run like a business, with evaluation programs to determine whether programs are needed, how they can be improved and whether they produce results. “That’s a radical idea in government,” he said sarcastically.
Unfortunately, he’s right in saying that politicians won’t think of eliminating programs that aren’t improving people’s lives. Government programs have the nasty habit of living long beyond their usefulness.
The good news is that Gov. Kasich would apply the same principles to Ohio’s problems as he brought to solving Washington’s problems. I can’t stress enough the importance of electing John Kasich to solving the nation’s economic troubles. If he’s elected, he’ll implement policies that actually will jumpstart America’s economy. He won’t only talk about stimulating the economy. He’ll actually deliver on growing Ohio’s economy.
Unlike the Vacillator-In-Chief, John Kasich won’t waver. He’ll actually keep his promises. Unlike the Vacillator-In-Chief, John Kasich doesn’t put a time limit on his promises. Unlike the Vacillator-In-Chief, John Kasich knows how to keep spending under control and create jobs.
On education, he argued that dollars should follow the student. He supports educational vouchers and charter schools as a way to put pressure on public schools so they’ll make necessary changes. “It isn’t money, it’s results, and we need to drive them,” he said. “We need more choice. We need innovation.”
The Democrats are arguing that there’s a need for a public option to give private insurance ‘competition’. While they’re making that argument, Democrats are vehemently opposed to giving vouchers to parents and children to provide competition to the government-run school monopoly. It’s something that fits into the Democrats’ do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do habits. Competition is great, Democrats say, except when their special interest allies have to compete for business.
The bottom line is that John Kasich is a true leader with a track record filled with remarkable accomplishments that created 20,000,000 jobs and brought prosperity to milions of people. John Kasich made an impact; Ted Strickland was a backbencher follower.
Things haven’t changed.
Technorati Tags: Leadership, Fiscal Restraint, Job Growth, Budget Surplus, John Kasich, Conservatism, Ted Strickland, Unemployment, Democrats, Election 2010
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
September 27th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Kasich - one of the meager few politicians in this country from any party whose word can be trusted.
And not only his word, but his instincts are right on, and the theorizing he does to reach the conclusions for action are dead-on, too. Ohio’s lucky to have him.
September 27th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
I hope Ohioans are still smart enough to know they are. They sure as hell blew it with Strickland. I can say that being a native Buckeye.
September 28th, 2009 at 10:52 am
That was a good analogy of comparing the Democrats’ perspective on school vouchers, which is a big no-no to them, to their so-called alternative “choice” in proposing a public option in healthcare. It’s obvious that their idea is never about choice, which would promote competion thereby driving down the costs of healthcare. As in public education, it’s all about control and more monies in their pockets.
September 29th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
It is never about choice, it isn’t about “helping”, it isn’t about anyone or anything except themselves. Unintended consequences have no place in their thinking because, if things don’t turn out as conceptualized by them, someone else screwed up their plan. Besides, their intentions were good and that’s all that matters because the lives they ruin (up to and including death) don’t count - they’re just collateral damage.
September 30th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Well, you know theres the old tongue in cheek line that the only reason socialism has never worked is because up until now, the wrong people have been in charge of it.