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NBC4 reports Gov. Strickland defended the loss of taxpayer dollars in the Skybus failure thusly:

“We should not stop trying to move Ohio’s economy forward and take the risk necessary to do that. That’s a part of our free enterprise system,” said Ohio Governor Ted Strickland.

Actually, Governor, the phrase ‘free enterprise’ system refers to a system free from government interference such as the picking and choosing of winners and losers in the economy because of their political value to politicians instead of their economic value to citizens. Government entanglement in private enterprise to the tune of millions of taxpayer dollars is state socialism, pure and simple, and not the ‘free enterprise’ you repeatedly pretend it to be.

Please stop giving the engine of our state’s and country’s prosperity today a bad name by confusing it with the failed policies better suited to the tastes of people living less free lives, more dependent on government, than do Ohioans and Americans.

Tags: Corporate Welfare

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