Magic Nanny Strickland should cut government slop, not sell bonds

The Magic Nanny is alive and well in Columbus Ohio. She is going to create 80,000 new jobs for us. She is going to do this by selling $1.7 billion in bonds.

Magic Nanny Ted Strickland is pretending to "give" us something for nothing. He's counting on the likelihood that folks don't understand that "selling bonds" is borrowing money that must be paid back.

And he's going to "give" us more jobs? That may have a feel-good ring to it, but the fact is that taxpayers don't need more jobs. Only government needs more jobs so it can feed on itself, grow bigger, fatter, and more important.

Through some really weird quirk, government has convinced most folks that "more jobs" is a good thing. This, though generally people who want to work and who are qualified to work are already working. How many more jobs do we need?

To create 80,000 more jobs would be to encourage 80,000 more families to move to Ohio, many of them likely illegal immigrants. For that, we profit by the receipt of thousands more cars on the highways that can scarcely accommodate what is already here, and thousands and thousands of additional students in a school system scarcely able to stay afloat. We get a multitude of new problems and expenses and aggravations brought on by the congestion that has already resulted from the "new-jobs" bureaucracy of years past.

We don't need this, Magic Nanny. It's just another government slight-of-hand. We've seen it before, we didn't like it then, we are suffering for it now, and we can't afford any more of it in the future.

Instead, start thinking like the voters who put you in office: Figure a way to scale back, as we must do in hard times. Eliminate government give-aways and cut the public payroll for bureaucrats and their employees. Cut the slop from state government, scale it back, serve your constituency responsibly and you won't need the Magic Nanny charade.