Year one of John Kasich’s time behind the desk was marked with a lot of bullish and baiting commentary issuing out of governor’s mouth. Now it seems like the governor is trying to turn around his public image and show Ohio he’s got a warm gooey center just like the rest of us — even if that means pulling back from his own party’s hardline agenda points.
This week Kasich told reporters he wasn’t so sure about a proposal circulating the legislature to drug test welfare recipients, according to the Columbus Dispatch. The idea — which hasn’t worked out so well in other states, mainly Florida — was introduced by Lancaster Republican Tim Schaffer as a way to ensure our hard earned tax dollars aren’t going straight into some basehead’s pipe.
However, on Tuesday, a kinder, gentler Kasich said he’d like to see more help offered to addicts on welfare, not finger wagging.
This article appears in Dec 7-13, 2011.
The ability to change positions and philosophy is a sign of an open mind. If any one thinks it is easy to represent and work for a bunch of wealthy republicans, think again. These rich and powerful men who pull the strings of the Columbus Dispatch and the local media and anything else which they feel a need to control, are not good and are not for the general population and freedom of speech.
A student of politics can not understand power unless they understand Niccolo’ Machiavelli. Born: May 5, 1469 in Italy. This was, as most times have been throughout history, turbulent. The Cathlic Church was control-freaking the world…and it still would be if they had not recently been opposed to abuse of children. The guilt machine of Christianity continued to not just throw the ‘first stone’, but nearly all of the stones of guilt.
But Machiavelli was a very smart and political guy. He had to be approved by the most censorship and control-freaked out ruling class there was. Censorship is the tool of the great republican rulers of old Italy, and elsewhere in time and place. The Machiavelli well written proofs of thinking at the time he was alive come through to some inellectuals of today as being satire and comedy diguised as plays and stories. This was the only way you could write in any critical manner is to have your stories show the up-side-down-thinking of the time. This practice must be used today to convey true and deep ideas which oppose the current rulers. Satire and humor must be used or the writer gets punished in …reprisals of harrassment in the form of tax audits and police investigations of you and ivestigations done by private dicks who follow you around to see if you behave dangerously. In the old days they would not think twice about having me talked to by some knee-capper or expensive thug..maybe even have you bumped if you got too talkative against the ruling guys. Or maybe they would frame you if you had no one to represent you for anything…even murder.
Now that is Machiavellian behavior for sure. Using power and leverage any way you like so long as the end happens as planned. If you want to remember what the basic philosophical foundation is to those who use machiavelli it is just that simple: The ends justify the means. Think that way and you can do anything to get what you think you want.
censorship test…121311–1124am
When our higher education systems became over-run with law degrees and business and bean-counting degrees there was a message made loud and clear: We want an educated class which thinks mostly about money and the political power it can lever. Those who went for philosophy or history or other thinking literature of higher thought were looked at as a waist of time and things like that were for loosers. I was one of the loosers when I went to college back in the seventies. I went on the GI bill and came from a working class family in a town that cared little about politics or most anything unrelated to the town or the area and the big city of Cleveland which was a whole different world from town or suburb. It had Ghoulardi and Dorthy and, believe or not Dick Gotter…’hey, did you hear about Liz Taylor? Dick Got her…LOL..At the same time as ‘hey, did you hear about Natalie Wood? Max Fact her….’did you hear about Joe? Joe who? Joe mamma..
if you truely care about the children you would make sure their parents were supporting them insted of smoking or snorting the welfare they recieve. it would be better for the children to be removed from that environment so as not to follow and break the cycle of drug abuse. children raised in such end up as welfare recipients. and the cycle keeps repeating itself.
Glowtop, what about Kasich’s JobsOhio beneficiaries…should they be drug tested, too? Or recipients of exotic tax breaks only the 1% can quality for?