Bad day for Ohio

While I was not in favor of McCain, I was rooting against Obama (which I think was quite apparent in earlier posts). I have shown more hostility towards B.O. then McCain for two reasons: 1. Like it or not, Obama is more socialistic than McCain and I think big government will grow even faster under his regime; 2. His supporters act like he’s God and going to change the world, even though it can be argued McCain and him are not as different as some think.

That being said, I have thought for awhile, mostly because of the media’s bias and his supporters fervor, that Obama was going to win. This I was prepared for. What I was NOT prepared for was every race I cared about (chiefly Space v. Dailey and Killroy v. Stivers) going against me. Space was somehow reelected, no matter that he voted for the Wall Street “gift” of $700-million. Killroy beat Stivers…and honestly I just met her once and didn’t like her so I wanted Stivers to win. Indepedent attorney general candidate Robert Owens also was defeated by a larger margin than I was hoping for (last I seen he only had 4%).

Besides that, restrictions were placed on businesses (Issue 5 – it was to cap pay day loan stores or whatever you want to call them) that the government has no right to do. Pay day loan places have every RIGHT and should be at liberty to charge at 395% increase if they want to. It’s the people’s choice to go to them. In some instances they NEED to charge an obscene amount because they are making VERY risky loans – sometimes to shady people.

Issue 6 (which would allow a casino) also failed. The main argument against it was that there were loopholes to allow it to not pay casino taxes. To this I say ‘So what?’ If congress would allow casino’s in the first place in Ohio, then they could tax the shit out of it! But they have been sitting on their highly paid asses and ignoring that fact. It’s my right to waste my money at a craps table if I see fit!

And that’s the news from Ohio. It is a rainy day for liberty and anti-state minds.