Ohio's Republican legislators don't understand the budget or math they just passed

[Ichingcarpenter]

Any attempt to understand Ohio's budget begins with a puzzling mathematical question: How do you subtract almost $8 billion but end up $5 billion higher?

That's only the start of the confusion -- arithmetical, political and, some say, logical -- concerning the state's two-year $55.6 billion-plus budget that takes effect July 1.


Almost two months after Gov. John Kasich unveiled his fiscal 2012-13 budget -- and after repeated explanations from the governor's team -- many legislators and other top officials remain befuddled by the basic budget math being debated in Columbus.

"That's a darn good question I'm not sure I can answer," state Sen. Bill Seitz, R-Green Township, said of the budget's adding-while-subtracting dynamics. "What I've seen, heard or been told isn't all that clear. I don't completely comprehend it."


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[saras]

1. There's a new system - abandon the outmoded principle that numbers have to add up

It works everywhere else, right? Why not in accounting? If you ACT like they're true, then any old made-up numbers are as good as those old fuddy-duddy correct ones, now, aren't they?

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. I thought this was comedy when I read it but its true

Ohio voters what were you thinking in the last election?

Nevermind.... I used the word thinking.

[InkAddict]

3. Doesn't appear that Californians got it so right either...

Oh, nevermind choir girls and boys...

Persuasion and logic cannot dissuade the willfully, blissfully ignorant, religiously obsessed, or those benefiting from the corruption (which at this point seems to be any of those that are still employed, salaried or hourly, FT/PT. Like DRAFTED soldiers killed on the battlefield, the rest of us will be sacrificed on the vile platform of on-going war and greed served up on both sides of the aisle.)