John Kasich
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John Kasich
John Richard Kasich is an American politician, the 69th and current Governor of Ohio, first elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth13 May 1952
CountryUnited States of America
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Let's start off with my father being a mailman. So I understand the concerns of all the folks across this country, some of whom having trouble, you know, making ends meet.
act together wish
Ohio's doing what it can do, but I wish they'd get their act together in Washington.
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But, at the end of the day, we need to represent the taxpayers who have made enormous sacrifices. Many have lost their jobs. Many of them have seen their companies - they don't have a pension - they have seen their companies cut the match for their 401(k). They have seen their health care benefits be shredded.
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When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.
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The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.
You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city.
cut effort lock payroll security social surplus taxes
We are going to make every effort to try to lock up the surplus in payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare, ... Our tax cut doesn't come from Medicare.
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Republicans have gotten the sense that they're going to get elected by passing out money to people.
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First of all, we're not Rust Belt. I mean, that's an old term. We do have manufacturing. We have a half-a-billion-dollar investment from a Chinese individual, which brings a couple thousand jobs in Dayton.
trade free-trade
I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.
maybe strong thinking
He's got strong convictions, maybe he's thinking that is what he's got to do.
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If you can't, frankly, you're living in the past,
balancing everybody knows priorities system
Everybody knows the system is not accurate, and we need to make it accurate, not for purposes of balancing the budget, not for purposes of our priorities or their priorities,
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They have a new CEO in Wells Fargo . I don't know much about him. The lady who was involved to some degree in the shenanigans along with the CEO are gone. So I need to see where things stand before we go any farther at this point.