What Now, Ohio?

If Kasich and the state legislature are looking for easy targets – and they’ve got to be, given the fiscal cliff we’re facing courtesy of Taft, Strickland, and the national economic downturn – public unions seem a perfect place to start. The premise that government desk jockeys who are nigh-impervious to firing need union representation is laughable. Enthusiasm for handsomely compensating public employees is hardly at an all-time high among the public.