Strickland Outlines Worst Case

NBC 4: Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has compiled a worst-case budget document that envisions cuts as high as 25 percent to state agencies. Strickland, who is pushing Congress for federal aid to states, says he created the scenario to show how bad things could be without help from Washington. The Department of Education says such cuts would reduce its budget by $2 billion and force many districts into the red. The prisons department says it would have to close six prisons and triple-bunk many inmates. Ohio faces a budget deficit of as much as $7 billion next year and in 2011.

Remember all that euphoria when our governor was elected… I said then and I will say now, anyone who could walk and chew gum would have a ninety percent approval rating after Bob Taft… Now is when those approval ratings get earned…