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Ohio pays $6 a month more in phone service than NJ

Ohio foodstamp distribution costs millions more than

  the smartcard in Indiana and Michigan

Ohio is paying money for agriculture extension agents

  who promote toxic animal food while other agencies

  are required by law to attempt to clean up factory farm

  waste.



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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