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Where are the news conferences by the Republicans who passed the bill to begin with?

An en masse news blitz, a large press conference with every state senator and representative present, where they explain what you have explained above, would be easy free publicity.

Where is Governor Kasich? After his bungled attempt to stop the referendum with a meeting “to compromise” with the Dems and the unions last summer – the Dems and the unions failed to show up for his compromise party – Ohio has not heard much from him on WHY WE SHOULD VOTE “YES” !!!

Have they all been spooked by the unions? As I have written before here on this topic, the silence is most distressing

This is just another example of the Great Frustration of dealing with establishment Republicans: even when they do something right, they suddenly become timorous when it comes to time to defend their position.

I read an article discussing the Ohio situation this morning and it showed how far we conservatives have to go. There is so much information out there and so little true knowledge or wisdom.
Much of it might have to do with self interest – people who will ignore the fact that the money they are taking now will have to come out of the pockets of the ‘children’ they claim to be worried about.
Much of it is probably just ignorance and disinterest. So many people do not care enough to want to look beyond the latest sound bite or ‘news story’ on MSNBC or the colbert report or whatever.

Another portion is immorality – those who understand the system enough and participate in it to the extent that they have positioned themselves to get as much money as they can from the state. These are the people who manipulate the system: they or a relative are ‘consultants’ or have a ‘company’ that provides some ‘serivce’ for which they are paid handsomely. Or perhaps they hold down a ‘job’ in which they do not actually do anything but for which they are paid nicely. There are so many different ways to do this when no one cares enough to look.

A little here and a little there and pretty soon you have the material future philosophers and historians will use to document the death of the Republic.

I believe that one of our biggest weapons is education. We have to keep repeating that we are so broke that we make normal broke look rich. When they say we need more for education we have to show the figures demonstrating that we spend more than almost any other country and get less for it. We can’t get into sound bite wars with these people because they will almost always win these because they lie.