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Ohio Corporations Take A Ride
Time hath a walnut on its back
and the people of Ohio have Dominion
and BP
First Energy and SBC
on theirs
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88 Ohio State Univ agriculture extension agents in Ohio..
with 88 offices.. a waste of money..
a promotion of lethal animal products..
These corporations pay virtually no taxes in Ohio: BP (which has
dominated the state ever since John D Rockefeller), First Energy,
Dominion E Ohio, SBC
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Joe Finan of WNIR: Several Ohio corporations whose annual
take is 7 billion are paying $50 a year in taxes
(while Taft, Householder, Coughlin and others
in the Ohio GOP want to end support for seniors
in their homes, want to reduce help for the schools,
raise college tuition etc.)
State Lottery: contributing your tax money to war radio to advertise
its gambling
Ohio National Guard: contributing your tax money to Clear Channel
WTAM and other warmonger radio http://www.clearchannelsucks.org
Ohio Dept of Education: contributing your tax money to Clear Channel
billboards
92 million to Ohio Dept of Education .. which promotes
the GOP agenda
How has Ohio spent money
. 6 billion in state business to Lehman Brothers.. of Frank
Grattadauria
. 165 million to Texas Enron
. 81 million lost to McDonald's stock invested against teachers'
will (2.5 million shares)* (as of today McD had dropped to 14)
. obesity http://www.pcrm.org . union busting http://www.ufcw.org
cruelty http://www.mccruelty.com . child exploitation
http://www.mcspotlight.org Mad Cow http://www.mad-cow.org
. millions to ODNR to promote slaughter of animals
. 61 million annually to OSU.. inflicting pain on mammals, birds,
and other creatures
. giving in to pricegouging pharmaceuticals who are in the governor's
words 'decimating Medicaid' rather than putting price caps
on drugs and mandating generics
. millions for each of 5 executions
. state corporations boycotted by international abolitionists
because Taft is not yet in the mercy column
. poor diet Taft is aligned politically to Wendy's
Certified Angus Beef and other meat corporations accounting
for over 50% of Ohio's medical costs
. release of nonviolent offenders (Ohio is in the top 3 in
punishing states with the highest percentage of population
in jail.. in the US which is the highest in the world in
percentage of population jailed)
. ODOT has been accused of corruption.. leasing orange highway
barrels at a high cost per week
. Ohio has spent hundreds of billions on highways, virtually
nothing on mass transit.. while the Western and Eastern corridors
in California, and Boston to DC, have fast trains, there
are no trains linking Cleveland to Columbus Cincinnati
Dayton Toledo Akron Youngstown etc.
Taft took no calls .. as he appeared on union boycotted Clear
Channel stations promoting his budget changes..
. Big corporations continue to get Taft's generosity at the
expense of the poor
. Lockheed and other corporate fraud has gotten little coverage.
E.g., Gary Heiser's whistleblowing in Akron was upheld by the courts
. SBC monopoly takes money from Ohio to Texas
. Clear Channel monopoly of several dozen Ohio stations takes
money from Ohio to Texas
. Exxon takes money from Ohio to Texas
. Waste Management monopoly takes money from Ohio to Texas
Ohio leads the nation in increase in prostate cancer
http://www.notmilk.com
Ohio has the 3rd biggest fast food chain human and animal abuser
http://www.mccruelty.com
Taft has been accused of fast tricks as he asks for a rise in gas
tax
not telling Ohioans that that money is mandated for roads and not
for the general budget. In addition, he is giving big corporations
more free rides in his tax proposals. The Republicans have
a history of promoting car rather than train bus transit. Robert
Taft unveiled his budget cuts showing he is further punishing
the poor rather than standing up to the 2 billion a week George Bush
is spending on war. The people of the US are in debt
2.75 trillion dollars as George Herbert Walker Bush, John Major
and others profiteer from the Carlyle Group and other armaments
investments.
Michael Schwarz of Cleveland State wants no tuition caps
