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Liberals, conservatives plan conference together
The left and right are joining hands in Ohio, at least for a day, to discuss meaty issues such as public pension reform, local tax rates, health care, the national debt and federal fiscal policy, and government consolidation.
The Buckeye Institute, a conservative think tank based in Columbus, the Center for Community Solutions, a liberal research group based in Cleveland, and Greater Ohio, a non-partisan organization focused on smart growth, are co-sponsoring a day-long conference Dec. 8 in Columbus that they hope will raise the level of discourse on important issues.
The conference will include nationally known speakers, including Alice Rivlin who served as President Clinton’s budget director, and Arthur Laffer, founder of the Laffer Center for Supply-Side Economics.
The sponsors expect about 1,000 people to attend and hope to influence lawmakers and other policy makers to recognize that they can have civil discourse and find common ground. The conference, which costs $125 per person, is open to the public and registration details can be found at www.futureohio.org.
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By fastwillys
September 26, 2011 4:03 PM | Link to this
There they go again talking about everything they can cut from the middle class and seniors and more job killing budget cuts. Third month in a row we have had a decline in Ohio employment WHERE THE H*LL ARE THE JOBS YOU PROMISED?
By Avg Joe
September 26, 2011 1:34 PM | Link to this
Maybe there is hope after all. I don’t doubt that these groups could agree on a core set of changes necessary for our future. What I’m concerned about is the ability of politicians to implement such plans. Even the President’s bi-partisan commission on debt reduction came up with a set of plans…then to politicians from both parties just ignored them. This is what’s killing this country. People want to do what gets them elected, not what’s in the best interest of the country.