BloggeRhythms 5/23/2012

Scanning channels yesterday, I came across an interview on Fox News of Mitch Daniels, Republican Governor of Indiana. He was in New York to receive the conservative Manhattan Institute's Alexander Hamilton Award because, according to them, “The institute selected the governor for his achievements in state government, including health-care improvements, landmark education reforms and fiscal responsibility."

Later in the day, Daniels caught my eye again as he was chatting with Stuart Varney of Fox Business News. And although I’d seen him in the past, he was another person I really didn’t know all that much about, so I looked him up on the web and here’s what I found out:

He began his first four-year term as governor on January 10, 2005, and was elected to his second term by an 18-point margin on November 4, 2008. Previously, he was the Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush. He was also formerly Senior Vice President of Ely Lilly and Company, Indiana's largest corporation, in charge of the corporation's business strategy and was widely speculated to be a candidate for President of the United States in 2012 before choosing not to run.

However, what interested me most was hearing his philosophy on extremely important subjects such as unemployment whereas his state was the number one job creator last month. And according to him, one of the most important aspects of his economic success was keeping taxes low. In fact, Indiana citizens will soon be getting a rebate because such a good job was done at managing to the budget.

And while talking with Varney, he also said, “The record of economic history is very clear. The countries that have rebounded the most swiftly from a bad situation, debt situation, did it by reducing spending, not by raising taxes. And the so-called stimulus experience we’ve just been through here, (is a) complete and abject failure by any measure, as if we needed any fresh evidence.”

I wanted to mention him today because here’s a highly successful business person who went out and applied his knowledge to trying to help his state. And by employing proven economic techniques and strategies he’s done exactly that. Consequently, his state’s growing rapidly while the federal government’s going backwards and wallowing in continually growing debt.

But, the most glaring example to me of total incompetence is that right after Governor Daniels interview wherein he carefully explained the proven rationale for governmental success; I saw a flash of Joe Biden on another channel. The VP was telling an audience of stooges that Obama’s good and Romney’s bad and he thought that’s all they needed to know which came across to me as so inane it’s far beyond pathetic. But, I guess, it’s just about all a dunce like him can grasp.

That’s it for today folks.

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