Locally, certain not to happen is construction of a $15 million facility planned for Columbus by US Railcar Co. The plant would have employed up to 200 when fully staffed, said Mike Pracht, president and chief executive officer of the Columbus-based railroad-car manufacturer.
“It’s unbelievable these states would send back $400 million and $800 million in free money,” Pracht said. “It’s mind-boggling.”
“The only thing I can compare it to is the interstate-highway program back in the ’60s. Where would Ohio be today if it opted out of the interstate highway system? To suggest passenger rail would be any different is naive.”
Pracht said that in addition to the jobs his company would have added, abandoning the rail plan negates millions of dollars in potential development that would have clustered around each rail station along the 258-mile route.
Way to make your constituents suffer for the sake of your pathetically stupid ideology. And with unemployment at 9.5% in Ohio, it's not like you need to do anything that would actually create jobs, although I'm sure the standard GOP tax cut fetish will take care of that in due time.
At least other states aren't as dumb as Ohio/Wisconsin.
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