By G

August 2, 2010 10:34 AM | Link to this

Another case of Republicans expecting people to not be smart enough to make up their own minds and believe these stupid commercials. How is NCR leaving Ohio anyone’s fault.

By franklin

July 12, 2010 12:47 PM | Link to this

I saw the commercial with the folks talking about how NCR’s leaving Dayton was Strickland’s fault. Did anyone notice how the phones were ringing and ringing and ringing while the employees continued to discuss NCR? It seem that these folks were far busier gossiping about the Governor than doing their jobs. If they were too busy gossiping, then perhaps the folks in the commercial should have lost THEIR jobs.

By Jim

July 12, 2010 9:00 AM | Link to this

Great post Mr. Esrati. You will have my vote tomorrow.

By John G

July 11, 2010 1:40 PM | Link to this

This is the same ad campaign that claims Strickland lost 400,000 jobs. Strickland didn’t fire those people and there are a variety of economic reasons for the jobs being lost. The real issue is that depending on government to “create” jobs is simply not a valid permanent solution. Never has been and never will be. Companies have to be encouraged to invest in a community and the community needs to make the economic decisions to foster development. Have Ohio and local governments done enough in this area? Probably not if you consider the magnitude of the NCR and GM reductions. But the blame shouldn’t fall on Strickland alone.

By springfieldknowsnull

July 8, 2010 6:21 PM | Link to this

I would like to know which of you all-knowing blog commentators could tell me exactly how Ohio is over regulated and over taxed. Please only use real facts.

By Ipploit

July 8, 2010 10:09 AM | Link to this

FACT: Strickland ran on a platform promising jobs. FACT: Ohio has lost jobs during his tenure. The ad is completely legit. Politicians on both sides need to be held accountable for their campaign promises.

By jay dee

July 8, 2010 9:45 AM | Link to this

Blame game tactics are not going to fix this problem…..the job loss and off-shore movement has been going on for more than 10 years….if you don’t understand the problem…the reason companies leave ….. and are willing to find the change that will entice the companies to stay……nothing will change and next time it will be another big company…listen up…school taxes are increasing everywhere ……….because the state can’t pay their fair share!!! so more heaped onto the beaten-up tax payer….it will end with the haves and have nots….. and middle class has been eliminated…..20-30 years from now

By tiredofit!

July 8, 2010 9:29 AM | Link to this

this was another failure of the bush administration!

By Muggsie

July 7, 2010 6:42 PM | Link to this

Maybe the reporter should stop doing he said she said and actually find out WHY they left - but that would be stirring the pot. That would be journalism.

By Muggsie

July 7, 2010 6:41 PM | Link to this

Maybe the reporter should stop doing he said she said and actually find out WHY they left - but that would be stirring the pot. That would be journalism.

By an angry man

July 7, 2010 4:50 PM | Link to this

Of course NCR was fleeing Ohio for greener pastures. Ohio is the land of high taxes and anti-business pro-union Democrats. Sometime do your homework and find out how anti-business it is here in the Buckeye state. Our politicians have to play “lets make a deal” and give deap discounts in order to just level the playing field. Think things are bad now? Wait until the Ohio hospital taxes kick in, combined with the Obama tax increases next year, things are going to get worse at an ever increasing rate.

By Nana

July 7, 2010 3:33 PM | Link to this

Hey, I say go for it Repubs. So far, your ads have been nauseating, the “actors” repulsive and snotty. They’re good for the democrats.

By Becky101

July 7, 2010 2:59 PM | Link to this

Every time they OVER TAX, OVER REGULATE, Business will flee for the next friendly state they can find. This is what the Democrat party is now known for. They are ANTI BUSINESS and anti freedom of liberty. All of you useful iditots that still believe in bad big corp better look again at the people you put in office last time. WHO now owns all those BIG CORPORATIONS? Has anything CHANGED for you? Did it provide you with a job or better firtunes or did it benifit the BIG POLITICIONS? If you remember the Robin hood story they love to repeat, then remember why Robin Hood was stealing from the rich. It was because the rich, kings and Lords, were stealing from the poor tax payers!

By Jesse

July 7, 2010 11:51 AM | Link to this

All of us have sold out to get the pennies a big corporation have offered. Tax breaks, school taxes, on and on,WPAFB. We are reaping what we have sown. How do we fix this monster? Obama’s hope and change? Let us all step up and fix our own problems. For the GOOD of OUR COUNTRY!!!

By David Esrati

July 7, 2010 11:39 AM | Link to this

As long as corporate welfare is legal in the United States- jobs will move thanks to the criminals we elect who take our hard earned tax dollars and hand them over to CEOs making millions. Nuti makes $2K an hour- and has lost 2/3rds of NCR’s value in his 4 years at the helm. Yet- he’s got the minimum wage earner in Georgia shelling out $100 million to entice NCR there. This is criminal- it’s not a democrat or republican thing- it’s a corrupt system of electing crooks. We have the best politicians money can buy who’ve become experts at taking from the needy to give to the greedy.

By J

July 7, 2010 11:36 AM | Link to this

Wait a minute, wasn’t this Rhine McLin’s fault last year?