The Latest of 57 Reasons to Reject Ohio Learn & Earn Initiative (092906)
From Jill at Writes Like She Talks (original entry relating to Jill’s effort is here):
- Reason 43: “Because everyone else is voting no” (actually, it’s down in the Columbus Dispatch poll 48-43, but it’s probably not that close).
- Reason 42: “….. if the concept of Ohio Learn and Earn is so awesome, amazing and worthy of a state constitutional amendment, they why the &%#&%# aren’t each and every one of us in Ohio willing to just give that amount of money over to the Board of Regents starting now?”
- Reason 41: “Because you, someone you know, someone you love, or someone related to you could become one of these stories” of problem gambling.
UPDATE: Reason 40 — “Because its mere existence forces me into bed with truly strange and otherwise extreme people.” An interesting one. I think when you find out that someone you normally oppose has the occasional sensible streak is beneficial. Just imagine how hard some of us on the right are having to swallow to say that Joe Lieberman is the better choice in Connecticut’s US Senate race. More appropros to the OL&E, the initiative isn’t really a right-left debate as much as it’s a matter of, first, inappropriately matching a public good (education) with a socially questionable enterprise (casino gambling), and second, even if you don’t agree with the first reason, recognizing a bad deal when you see it.
