Watch the video first, it’ll blow your mind. I say that meaning that it should be nothing new, but this time it is a little different. Acorn for all of its government ties and direct links to the Democrat Party was in fact still a separate enterprise from the government. These fine folks helping James O’Keefe qualify as a Drug Dealing Russian Pimp are in fact employees of the State of Ohio, working for the State’s Welfare System. At one point, at the 6:56 mark, I was hopeful that the Sociopathical worker was about to kick the scumbags out, and instead used the delay to inform the drug dealing pimps that they in fact qualified for even better benefits than what they were seeking.

Putting aside for the moment the absolute hilarity of the wretched Russian accents employed by our undercover sting reporters. (it reminded me of my favorite Television show from the sixth grade, Hogan’s Heroes.) As a citizen of the State of Ohio, I find it troubling that as a matter of course, and with absolutely no hint of resistance, we are placing drug smuggling pimps and their sex slaves on the public dole, who are also by the way not citizens of our country. The phrase we hear from the subjects of the sting over and over again is, “I’m not allowed to hear that, la la la la la…” We keep hearing anecdotal stories as a prop to get these insane laws of entitlement passed, forcing greater and greater outlays from the public largess, and as we learned recently, those anecdotal stories more often than not turn out to be outright lies and fabrications. Please tell me that someone else sees the opportunity to cut some of these outflows off without actually hurting in any way people who are truly in need and unable to fulfill their needs without government help.

For those of you who feel as though this evil has been visited upon our society by only one political party, and not both, I am sorry to have to burst your bubble. Ohio has a Republican Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, and State Treasurer. Yes it is true that they have had less than 8 months at the helm, and the current group of leaders have not had time to address this monster. It is also true however that Governor Strickland only served 4 years as Governor, and his entire slate of Democrat cohorts also only had those same 4 years. This problem predates that. Ohio has been dominated by Republican Leadership for a long time, and this monstrosity took much longer than a couple of decades to develop. These boils have been festering for a very long time indeed. If you think that just sending Republicans to elected office will solve this, think again. The problem is that Republicans, while saying the right things often times to get elected, are very often content to assume the power and take the perks of an already bloated system.

An open statement to Governor Kasich: This is why the Tea Parties came about. Whether you realize it or not, the Tea Parties were responsible for sweeping you and your entire staff into office. Get on top of this, and reverse this damage to our State. Merely slowing government growth and accounting gimmicks are not what we want. We want an end to this type of shenanigans. We want an end to smug bureaucrats being employed at our expense and running some 25 square feet of office space as though it were their private kingdom. We want to live in a society where it is no longer necessary for one of every three citizens to posses a government issued permit which enables them to find some form of employment. We want an end to a system which enables drug smuggling pimps to emigrate here and find a willing bureaucracy to place them in the loving hands of the public dole. We want the people who hire others to work and create wealth to be welcomed into our state and not chased away as some sort of monster due to the mythical robber baron mentality. We want an elected official to understand that our Constitution created a framework for a government which would be constrained by the limitations set by its citizens, and not the other way around. If you don’t get this Governor Kasich, your time in charge will last just as long as Ted Strikland’s

Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.