I don't like to name call but Ohio voters are idiots!

[peace13]

What a difference one day makes. Today we have given one organization the right to build casinos that will gain tax free profits from slot machines. We have decided to borrow money to pay veterans a bonus instead of using other funds. We have created a board of large corp members to oversee our farm animals while selling the amendment as safe food and organic lifestyle safeguards. It is mornings like these that remind me that I am surrounded by a sea of nonthinking fools. And so they passed three for three, but don't think they gave one penny to the vocational school! Fume!

[YOY]

1. Ohio suffers from "Brain Drain."

There's just no good work for educated folks.

[ellie]

2. I live in Ohio

and these people are idiots. I voted against all three measures. Especially the casinos and they all passed. Bunch of goddamn dummies.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

5. Stupid Ohioans. +1 eom

[Enthusiast]

9. Me too.

[johnnie]

3. We would have never gotten casinos any other way

If it wasn't Gilbert, it would be some other schmuck.

[Deep13]

4. Dumbfuckistan

All three of these measures write special interests into the state constitution. We already had a state board to govern farming, the state legislature. If we wanted to legalize casino gambling, the legislature could have simply done that without writing one company into the constitution. And the legislature could already grant $$$ to war vertarns through its taxing and spending powers.

[safeinOhio]

6. There are the large urban areas, and then the rest

is Ohiotucky.

[Berry Cool]

7. Well, this sure is a great place for people to get blanket condemnations

just because of the way the majority of people in their states votes. Once.

A year ago, we helped put Obama over. People were drooling all over us and loving us.

Now we're all "idiots."

Thanks a lot.

[peace13]

8. Berry don't take it personally.

People need to read the changes when it involves the State Constitution! Just saying that over 50% of the state voted against their own best interests yesterday. Which as you point out, they have a right to do.

[YOY]

10. Considering most here griping are Ohioans...you may have misunderstood the case.

n.t.

[RollWithIt]

11. No sir, you are the idiot, because you DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT

The casino bill does NOT give the profits tax free. Not even close.


http://www.cleveland.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/11/cle ...

The Issue 3 campaign sold the proposal as an economic stimulus for Ohio. The state will collect a 33-percent tax against casino revenues after payouts to gamblers. The tax money will be distributed to all 88 counties and the host cities.

The kickback to Ohio could be as much as $648 million in the first year all four casinos are open, according to a state Department of Taxation report.

The campaign also promised jobs -- 34,000 of them.

[peace13]

12. Sorry but I am not a sir but thanks for checking in on Ohio politics from FL!

[louis c]

13. I agree

Any Democrat that opposes gaming to raise revenue and create jobs, doesn't get it.

That's a traditional Republican position.

[gmoney]

14. wait a minute... haven't the casinos saved Michigan's economy... and WV?

I don't think anyone in Ohio is more than a 3 hour drive from a casino anyway... maybe that money was leaving the state, and maybe now some of it will stay here. But casinos in the state constitution is a pretty dumb way to go about it.

Yeah, many of us are ijits.

[tabbycat31]

15. didn't 2004 prove that?

[rucky]

16. I voted for two of the three.

guess I'm an idiot, but I read the measures & while they weren't perfect, they seemed to do more good than harm.

I didn't vote for Measure 3 because it would create a monopoly and ban gambling as a fundraising tool for non-profits.