Monday, November 24, 2008

Indiana's Man

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do promise, do promise
not to post, not to post
about politics, about politics
after this post, after this post
for at least, for at least
two weeks, two weeks.
Forbes.com has an interesting article entitled, "Obama's Perfect Foil." The man? Indiana's man, Mitch Daniels. Here are two excerpts:
The right man for the job is Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana. After telling the Indianapolis Star that throwing taxpayer money at the Big Three won't work, Daniels underlined the central unfairness of bailouts: "I didn't notice anyone throwing money at the RV industry, and that cost Indiana a lot of jobs."
Stephen Goldsmith, possibly the best mayor the country has ever seen, built on the Lugar legacy by introducing competition in public services. Daniels, a Lugar protégé, has taken the Indianapolis model statewide. Every state agency has been pushed to offer a higher quality of service to the public at lower cost. Faced with the real possibility of outsourcing, once-slothful bureaucracies like the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles have become as customer-friendly as the best top-performing companies.

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