By Understand how this may work

February 21, 2011 3:02 PM | Link to this

One must understand that it takes someone with expertise in venture capitalism and in entreprenuership without a vested interest in Ohio to get JobsOhio started. Therefore, someone like Mark Kvamme has that expertise. Reportedly, he is not going to run JobsOhio but rather get it started. Hopefully, he will utilize others with venture and entrepreneur expertise currently residing in Ohio to set up the organization.

By An observer

February 20, 2011 9:40 AM | Link to this

Ellen Belcher’s editorial this morning says what is needed. Besides there are some Republicans in the state legislature who think Kasich has gone too far. They need to put their loyalty to their conscience and their constituents. These same Republicans want to get re-elected. If one of them were responsible for saving my job, I would vote for that person.

By Union Yes

February 19, 2011 5:11 PM | Link to this

Elimination of collective bargaining with state and other governmental workers is merely a start. Kasich hasn’t been in office for two months yet and he is already attacking union labor. State employees are just the beginning of the assault. Their voices and opinions will be silenced, and the quality of their trade will be diminished. Healthcare issues can be solved much better through collective bargaining than by elimination of a legal right to organize. Non union workers that agree with this union busting tactic, need to realize that benefits gained through a collective bargaining system (Unions) are the very yardsticks used to determine what your employers think is fair for you.The irresponsible management of the taxpayers contributions to the state’s budget certainly isn’t the fault of the union worker that produces quality products and services. Have a sharp memory and remember, our peaceful revolution against poor government is done at the polls.

By An observer

February 19, 2011 10:44 AM | Link to this

David….If you want facts, ask me, and I will give you some. I have written about a realistic situation in my school…An observer who observes administrators without conscience.

By Chad

February 19, 2011 9:38 AM | Link to this

The so-called facts are actually misrepresentations. First, there are many different plans of how much insurance cost people pay who work for the “government” in Ohio. The private sector does not have any one percentage that people pay. Where do those “facts” come from? How much do the owners of those businesses pay for their insurance out of their own money? Or do they use money from the company to pay their insurance while they charge their workers a large chunk. Look at the high income people Kasich is surrounding himeself with. Think they’re paying 50% of the healthcare costs? They should, shouldn’t they, since that’s the excuse the Republicans are using to try to overthrow the unions. The state has become a rich man’s state—look at Kasich trying to put an out-of-stater in charge of Ohio money in a private business. I expect fraud and kickbacks to the guy’s own companies; someone said there were 9 parts to his company. Hold onto your billfolds. He’s from California, Kvamme.

By David G

February 19, 2011 5:09 AM | Link to this

It is a curious thing that Kasich sites facts and the folks that oppose him site feelings. Example. In today’s paper the report concerning a change in collective barginning Mr. Kasich sited a fact that Ohioans in private industry pay 23% of the cost of health care and public employees pay 9%. All I hear from those against Mr. Kasich is their feelings that he; has a hidden agenda, he is out to get people, he is bad. No facts. Just feelings. Unless those who are against Mr. Kasich site facts and then your argument will not be effective. People who vote are not stupid nor are they simply republicans or democrats. At this point I agree that public employees should pay a higher percentage of the cost of thier health care. That is fair don’t you agree?

By David G

February 19, 2011 5:09 AM | Link to this

It is a curious thing that Kasich sites facts and the folks that oppose him site feelings. Example. In today’s paper the report concerning a change in collective barginning Mr. Kasich sited a fact that Ohioans in private industry pay 23% of the cost of health care and public employees pay 9%. All I hear from those against Mr. Kasich is their feelings that he; has a hidden agenda, he is out to get people, he is bad. No facts. Just feelings. Unless those who are against Mr. Kasich site facts and then your argument will not be effective. People who vote are not stupid nor are they simply republicans or democrats. At this point I agree that public employees should pay a higher percentage of the cost of thier health care. That is fair don’t you agree?

By Bonnie M. Wells

February 18, 2011 4:30 PM | Link to this

Subsidized jobs are not the answer in Ohio or anywhere else. It is a dismal failure in farming and housing, and it just won’t work for very long in any field. What it does is guarantee the very rich that they will make even more ‘unearned and often times undeserved’ money for their products. Take rent for example. At one time a young person could start out with a simple, low paying job, and they could find a cute, little apartment for 50 to 100 doallars a month. This helped the person as well as the property owner. Along comes subsidized housing, and that same little apartment suddenly jumps to 500 dollars a month. Not because it’s worth it, but because the owner realizes he can now get the money from the American taxpayer. Meanwhile, the renter who isn’t elegible for this handout is out on the streets looking for a place to live that he can afford. And eventually there is no place for him to afford because he’s still making minimum wage while the landowners are making a killing from places that sometimes aren’t even worth the original 50 dollars that they charged 30 years ago. Same thing applies to all the subsidized farming. There are people in Ohio who are quite well to do to start with, and they get a huge check sometimes for 50, 60 thousand dollars [or more] every year. This raises the prices of all our food, forces more people to get ‘food subsidizing - welfare,’ and on and on it goes with no real answers to any of the problems and no real hope for the future of our state - or our nation. Every handout comes from the pockets of those who need their money just as much, if not more so than the next guy. In my opinion it’s a form of solicialization/ communisim/spreadfing the wealth to the wealthy, and will ultimately destroy our nation.

By An observer

February 18, 2011 11:45 AM | Link to this

Unfortunately, the governor, a Mr. Kasich, is a businessman’s governor, not an educator’s governor. Therefore, he does not understand or seem to want to understand an educator’s viewpoint.What he is doing will be to reduce the educator on all levels from the status of a professional to that of a civil or public servant. Many careers will be put in jeopardy by the measures advocated by this Kasich. Many of those affected will be above average performers. They will be faced with substantial losses in income and benefits and of personal self worth. What is sadder still is that when and if the situation improves, the lost income and lost contributions to STRS will take years for a person affected to make up. I am sure that this Mr. Kasich, a corporate self-promoter, never looked at things this way, but it is the truth. No where in his rantings and ravings, does the same Mr. Kasich say anything about making administrators on all educational levels adhere to some very rigid guidelines geared to save jobs. For every job that is cut, the educator so affected should have at least an equal job to go to within his school or college or based on his or her years of service the opportunity to be recalled to one as soon as possible. I know that this will not happen as Mr. Kasich is so caught up in the corporate mentality that he has no empathy, none whatsoever. Thus, he will have a hard time requiring administrators to have this same empathy.If you agree with me, send my comments on to a friend and write some of your own.

By jon/ne

February 18, 2011 9:19 AM | Link to this

DDN won’t allow Comments Unless It’s a Republican that they can trash. Liberal or Democrat No Comments allowed. what’s so hard about being Fair.

By jay/ne

February 18, 2011 9:17 AM | Link to this

DDN won’t allow Comments Unless It’s a Republican that they can trash. Liberal or Democrat No Comments allowed. what’s so hard about being Fair.

By jay

February 18, 2011 9:09 AM | Link to this

DDN won’t allow Comments Unless It’s a Republican that they can trash. Liberal or Democrat No Comments allowed. what’s so hard about being Fair.

By jay

February 18, 2011 9:08 AM | Link to this

DDN won’t allow Comments Unless It’s a Republican that they can trash. Liberal or Democrat No Comments allowed. what’s so hard about being Fair.

By Leslie

February 18, 2011 8:58 AM | Link to this

Who and where are all these rich Ohioans that you people are so jealous of? Are only public employees “working people”? Private sector non-union taxpayers are not “working people”? Do you even know want kind of salary most of the taxpayers in Ohio make? Their is no “the MAN” to fight. You are asking people that make either what you do or less than you make and pay more for their health insurance and for their retirement than you do these are the people that you want more from. Wake up to the real world.

By An educator

February 17, 2011 10:13 PM | Link to this

Mr. Kasich would do well to encourage a higher ratio of full to part time instructors on the community college level and insisting that administrators follow the guidelines of the State Board of Regents. He should also urge if not outrightly mandate the re-appointment of those full time lecturers who have been in spite of their good work and years of service been reduced to adjuncts. If he is so anti-union he should insist that administrators become better communicators with all groups of their faculties. He has done none of this so far. All that he had done is to put administratrs in exalted positions with no real accountability except to boards of trustees which are in many cases rubber stamps. Because I knew Kasich would do none of these things, I voted for Strickland. You have listened to my comments; now I will listen to yours.

By jcalvin

February 17, 2011 6:29 PM | Link to this

I’m getting a back feeling about Kasick and Ohioans’ money. He bilked the retirement systems by getting them to invest in Lehman foolish investments. He is trying to destroy the rights of teachers and public workers but not doing anything about reducing management pay in school districts and in the public offices. Now he’s wanting to use public money in a private setup run by a friend of John from California, a state that’s in great shape financially. Something’s wrong here. Sorry I voted for him after the attacks on ordinary teachers and the lower paid workers. If he wants to save Ohio, attack the UAW, IUE, SEIU, and the other private unions that raise our costs.

By fastwillys

February 17, 2011 4:41 PM | Link to this

If Ka sick likes it and the chamber of commerce likes it, it surely must be really bad news for the American worker, the American middle class. Repub governers have been charged with the distruction of unions and the middle class. You see the middle class and unions were beginning to be too powerful for them. We were having too much of a say in what goes on in the country so get them at the state level. It’s much easier that way. Ka sick was instrumental in putting us in the terrible position we are today. Trust me, we haven’t even begun to see what they will do to settle the state and federal debit on the backs of the middle class while he and his rich buddies stick even more of our hard earned money in their pockets. Nothing good will happen to this state and this country under republican rule. I hereby pronounce the middle class dead.

By paul

February 17, 2011 4:26 PM | Link to this

Kasich and his cabal of corporate criminals are more than happy to continue the destruction of Ohio and the middle class, whats left of it. Its a sad day when Americans are actually dumb enough, low IQ enough, hoodwinked fooled and bamboozeled enough to put garbage like Kasich, Boehner, Portman and Dewine in office. Kick out Kasich NOW!!!

By Adriane Scherrer

February 17, 2011 2:50 PM | Link to this

I am a person who has lived most of my life in roles that were more management in nature than the union mentality, under which I was raised most of my childhood. However, I am acutely aware that the destruction of the middle class will make the rich richer and the poor poorer. That will bring us one step closer to the unrest that we witness daily in other nations. Our governor and his supporters are wealthy and are happy to destroy the middle class by controlling the unions collective bargaining capabilities.

By null

February 17, 2011 2:43 PM | Link to this

Glad to see Karon hasn’t gotten any smarter. All mouth, and no facts.

By Jim

February 17, 2011 2:14 PM | Link to this

We can all see that Kasich is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. One of his first moves is pad the wallet of his corporate buddies, while he goes after teachers, fireman, police, and other public employees. I hope all you public employees who voted for this joker see now what he’s all about.

By gabby

February 17, 2011 10:39 AM | Link to this

jobsohio, a private company, an out-of-state director? I thought kasich didn’t like “out of state” people telling Ohio “what to do” (re: Ohioians for Humane Farms who helped citizens voice their opposition to factory farming through petitions)

By sad to be republican

February 17, 2011 10:03 AM | Link to this

I thought Kasich was the answer for Ohio. Sadly I was wrong!

By sad to be republican

February 17, 2011 10:03 AM | Link to this

I thought Kasich was the answer for Ohio. Sadly I was wrong!

By MichaelNDaytonOhio

February 17, 2011 7:39 AM | Link to this

The Governor’s discussion at Dayton’s Chamber of Commerce yesterday was terrific! He has a common sense approach to government and knows tough decisions need to be made and he is making them. It’s time that entitlement seekers go elsewhere rather than in workers pockets!

By ben

February 17, 2011 3:31 AM | Link to this

As a hardcore conservative, I am very disappointed by the governor. This is just another bs move by a politician. If Gov. Kasich is serious about bringing jobs to Ohio, then he needs to drop the corporate tax, and offer an additional tax cut to new business that come to Ohio. Those of you that want Wisconsin, or Egypt style chaos in Ohio, are dead wrong. That is only going to bring more trouble to our state and our country. One thing we can do as citizens is quit sucking off the system, quit trying to get everything for free, and start taking care of yourself. Those of you that voted for Obama, he said there would be sacrifices. Hope you are enjoying making them.

By karon

February 17, 2011 1:37 AM | Link to this

Wish Ohio people would be more like the Wisconsin protesters. These newly elect republican governors are trying stop jobs NOT create them! Wake up Ohio!

By K-Columbus

February 16, 2011 11:34 PM | Link to this

JobsOhio will be a private organization led by Mark Kvamme, a California venture capitalist who has never lived in Ohio and who contributed over $20,000 to Kasich’s campaign. He will lead the organization for less than one year, during which time he will remain a “Special Limited Partner” at his firm, Sequoia Capital. Sequoia has nine focus areas, one of which is Outsourcing, and more offices overseas than in the U.S. Those facts can be verified with a check of Sequoia’s website. If you were a betting person, would you bet that Ohio will benefit from Mr. Kvamme’s temporary assignment in Ohio? Or would you bet that Mr. Kvamme and his firm will benefit from the new contacts that he makes in Ohio? I see this legislation as a recipe for economic ruin for our state.

By willow

February 16, 2011 10:26 PM | Link to this

It is not a terrific victory for the people of Ohio, it’s the governor’s own private corporation using state funds.