The Latest of 57 Reasons to Reject the Ohio Learn & Earn Initiative (101706)

From Jill at Writes Like She Talks (original entry relating to Jill’s effort is here) –

• Reason 25 — “Because it abdicates responsibility and accountability.”

As Jill says:

If the proponents are smart enough to find the tens of millions being used to push for passage of Issue 3, to find people and entities to help do the dirty deceptive work of getting petitions signed, and to turn their heads away every time they see a billboard on the side of bus saying “It’s for the Children” and chuckle because really “It’s for the owners,” they could - if they wanted to - come up with far better ways to make Ohio’s students, families, corporations, government, nonprofits and academic institutions solve the affordability problems.

• Reason 24 — “When people desire money over sex, you know it’s a bad proposition.” Specifically, “Apparently, more than half of the US population would swap a healthy sex life for a healthy bank balance made from an online poker win. And even more surprising than that is more men would do the celibacy swap for cash than women, however men did have a higher price for the trauma. The Women asked said they would settle for no sex for a year for an average of $1.9 million, the men asked for $2.3 million.”

• Reason 23 — “Because the Plain Dealer says to vote yes. How many times over the years have I heard people say, I just vote opposite of what the paper says?”

Jill goes on:

“Now, I need to resist getting too emotional, but I’m dropping the Plain Dealer subscription I’ve had longer than I can even remember (at least 13 years) as a result of the endorsement. However, I cannot emphasize enough that I’m doing so, not because the PD supports Issue 3. I’m doing so because their endorsement is insupportable, just on the basis of what it states.”

She is right. That is one ugly editorial.