Chester Finn had a revealing piece in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal entitled The Self-Inflicted Economic Death of Ohio.
The trouble with Ohio (and Michigan and most of the old northern tier of industrial states) is that it has for decades been controlled by big government Democrats (the only kind) and big government Republicans (not the only, but the dominant species) whose appetites for government spending and control has made the state unattractive to investors. Ohio’s governor Ted Strickland seems to be playing the role as FDR during the Depression, giving nice speeches, but doing nothing to remedy the underlying problems.
Reading the piece, I could not help but think that if we get an Obama presidency with solid Democratic control of Congress, the entire country will start to look like Ohio.
