Guess all that he has done to cut bigger government and taxs flew right over your head.
“Mitch is the real thing,” said Nancy Dorn, his deputy at OMB and now the head of General Electric Co.’s Washington office. “He’s a true fiscal conservative.”
He has cut spending, cut taxes, leased the state’s toll road to a private company for billions and expanded health insurance and prescription drug access in a market-friendly way. The result is an approval rating of 70 percent, according to one recent survey, placing him among the country’s most popular governors.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33561.html#ixzz0qNXIWi69
I don’t think you read the article in total.
I think we have to have a government, just a (really) limited one and where government is appropriate, it should serve the people’s interest (not government employee union interest).
Seems Governor Daniels is doing just that in Indiana. The article points out about a dozen ways in which he has turned the state into a limited, taxpayer-value focused government.
He disbanded the unions in Indiana, turned a budget that was hundreds of millions in debt to billions in surplus...during these lean economic times.
On the more personal issues, I don’t see anything “compassionate” about making the Bureau of Motor Vehicles assist the citizens of Indiana faster (average times went from over 40 minutes to under 10 minutes). That’s common sense stuff.
And, as a small businessmen, if I could save 75% of my time every time I have to deal with state government, that’s brass-tacks, common sense value.
I suspect the length of the article or your loathe for Daniels probably controls your reply. I had a nominal understanding of who Mitch Daniels was/is and I found the article interesting. My reply was genuine and based on the substance of the article.
And, say what you want, but he’d be a helluva lot better than the schmuck that is at the helm right now (course, my local AC repairmen would probably do a better job too...no offense to AC repairmen, of course).