"All things being equal....."

"Why O why O why O did I ever leave Ohio..."

At least, Ohio had the good sense to elect a Republican governor, John Kasich, who is trying to pull Ohio out of the doldrums.  Whether he'll succeed or not is anybodys guess but that rust-belt state has been stagnant for many years.  At one time, they were a manufacturing powerhouse with busy factories throughout the state but, that was once upon a time, a long, long time ago.  

I'm not blaming Democrats for Ohio slipping into the doldrums.  The Republicans either, for that matter.  There were a lot of reasons why Ohio 'n Michigan 'n other manufacturing states collapsed and government certainly played a major role.+

Given the state of the California economy, one must wonder why the voters keep electing Democrats.  Our Democrat controlled legislature has a lower approval rating than the US congress.  

Our retread Governor, Jerry 'Moonbeam' Brown seems to believe that his vision of a high-speed rail system will secure his place in history no matter that it was his lack of vision that led to our decaying highway system that was once the model for the rest of the nation.  

Of course, high-speed rail will allow people to get from Fresno to Bakersfield and back again in record time.  At least, for those who can afford it.  And for those few souls that might actually want to accomplish such a thing.

And of course, don't let us forget our wonderful Democrat legislature that gave out raises to their staff before voting for a 'temporary' freeze on government raises while simultaneously cutting pay and positions for those state workers who actually do the work of keeping the state running.

We must keep looking forward to our wonderful 'green' energy that the Democratic legislature has brought California; the wind farms and the solar grids that have provided us all with cheap energy and dozens of jobs while driving up the cost of those dirty fuels like gasoline that has brought so much harm to our beautiful environment.

We shouldn't ever forget to be grateful to a legislature that has taxed those greedy one percenters to the point that they have left our wonderful state to live in exile in the hinterlands of Texas and Arizona and Florida.  After all, why should we be forced to work to make them even richer than they already are since they only got that way by taking unfair advantage of a rotten capitalistic system that exploits the rest of us.

All things being equal, George Orwell was probably right when he stated that "some animals are more equal than others."