Grandview Area Republican Club

John Kasich just announced on his Twitter feed today at 1:30 PM that Ohio State Auditor Mary Taylor will be his running mate and the next LG of Ohio.  Join the GARC and Cap City YRs in celebrating! 

The GARC received the Lincoln Award for Overall Excellence and Outstanding Club of the Year by being more than your grandmother’s Republican club.  We are an active group that…

• Helps to elect Republicans
• Brings new people into the party
• Defeats local Democrats in softball games
• Bowls for charity
• Hosts the local, state, and national GOP chairmen at our events
• Throws picnics with other GOP clubs in the area and has a good time socializing, tailgating, and generally communing with likeminded individuals!

This year, we hope your New Year’s resolution is to get more involved in the GARC and make a difference in the 2010 statewide races.  We are here to help you accomplish that goal!  ACTION ITEMS:

• Read our emails
• Forward these emails to friends and ask them to subscribe
• Join our Facebook Group
• Follow us on Twitter
• Get updates from the GARC Blog
• Become a GARC officer – elections for President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary are February 23, 2009 at 7PM.  If you are interested in running, please email the GARC President here to request an Officer Candidate Form (this form is not an application but a way for us to make copies and disburse to club members at the February meeting so they can read about the candidates).

The Democrats’ Nautilus Shell economy plan seems to be working – as the economy continues to spiral downwards before it goes upward.

In October, the National Unemployment Rate rose once again, from 9.8% in September, to 10.2% in October, marking the highest Unemployment has been since 1983. While the official numbers suggests 1 in 10 Americans are currently out of work, some estimates suggest that it could be closer to 1-in-5 Americans.

From The Associated Press:

The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 — and is likely to go higher.

Nearly 16 million people can’t find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended. TheLabor Department said Friday that the economy shed a net total of 190,000 jobs in October, less than the downwardly revised 219,000 lost in September. August job losses were also revised lower, to 154,000 from 201,000.

But the loss of jobs last month exceeded economists’ estimates. It’s the 22nd straight month the U.S. economy has shed jobs, the longest on records dating back 70 years.

While the unemployment numbers are bad enough, it has much higher ramifications for the economy in general. Without jobs, Black Friday may very well turn into Red Friday, not to mention that we’re in some of the hardest economic conditions since the Great Depression. To make things even more entertaining, the Obama administration is being questioned on just how many jobs have been saved as a result of the $700+ Billion Economic Stimulus Package.

Draw your own conclusions – but many economists are saying despite the government’s excitement to say their spending programs are working, we’re in for a very, VERY long winter.

Read the AP Article Here

The nation’s unemployment rate in September rose to 9.8 percent, its highest level since June 1983, as 263,000 jobs were cut from payrolls, the Labor Department announced Friday

The 263,000 jobs lost during the monthwere far more than most economists had expected. The consensus forecast was that around 175,000 jobs had been shed in September.

“One job lost is one job too many,” said Vice President Biden this morning, flanked by chair of the Council of Economic Advisors Christina Romer; OMB Director Peter Orszag; Director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers; and Executive Director of the Middle Class Task Force Jared Bernstein.

Meanwhile, here in the great state of Ohio, Unemployment still hovers around 11% – August’s Unemployment numbers were reported at 10.8%. While that is down from the high of 11.2% in July, there’s still no reason yet to celebrate – One in Ten Ohioans still do not have a job.

Here in Central Ohio, the picture doesn’t look any better. The area (Franklin County & Surrounding Areas) has an average unemployment rate of 9%, with Pickaway County reporting 11% unemployment in August alone. Other areas of concern throughout the state:

• Meigs County: 16.6% Unemployment
• Highland County: 16.3% Unemployment
• Williams County: 15.9% Unemployment
• Pike & Morgan Counties: 15.6% Unemployment
• Noble & Adams Counties: 15.0% Unemployment
• Scioto County (Gov. Strickland’s Home County): 13.1% Unemployment

The Administration may want to call this “Change.” If this is the change the Cult of Barack Obama was talking about…its change in the wrong direction.

Click here to read the full ABC News Article

Click here for Localized Ohio Unemployment Statistics

What do YOU think? Is there hope yet, or will it get worse before it gets better? Leave a comment!

Once again, Governor Ted Strickland (D) continues to play a shell game with the citizens of Ohio and their possibilities of employment in this state. This time, its found in creating agencies set to create economic opportunities – which do so by not meeting.

Dispatch Politics, an online division of the Columbus Dispatch, shed a little light on Gov. Strickland’s Economic Growth Cabinet. According to the Governor, they have worked tirelessly to bring jobs back to the State of Ohio. Despite the fact that they’ve only met three times.

From the Columbus Dispatch:

Saying he has no greater priority than getting Ohio’s economy moving again, Gov. Ted Strickland created a new Economic Growth Cabinet one year ago to “focus on creating jobs and increasing economic growth opportunities.”

But the group has met only three times. And although no one denies the effects that the global recession has had on all states, Ohio continues to fare worse than most others in net job losses.

“I will concede to you that I think more can be done,” Strickland said last week after announcing a $33 million expansion of the Rolls-Royce facility in Mount Vernon. “But I am very proud, and very appreciative, of all the efforts of my cabinet members and of our Department of Development.”

Administration officials say the measure of the new cabinet is not how many times it has met but how much work has been done behind the scenes to help agencies work together daily — often in unprecedented ways — that is bearing fruit.

Still, a promised “unified economic development budget” to increase transparency in spending and a scorecard to monitor progress of development remain works in progress.

Further proof that Gov. Strickland is playing a shell game with Ohio’s economic future – saying one plan, creating larger government in order to accommodate that plan, and being completely and absolutely ineffective in that plan. The result is money – which could have gone directly to serving Ohioans, and creating jobs – are being wasted on fruitless plans that serve nothing but the governor’s own inner circle.

Take heart, Ohio – only one more year before we can call John Kasich our governor…and get rid of this perfect mess in Gov. Ted Strickland.

Read the Columbus Dispatch article here