I’m what you might call “irritated” at a money issue right now (filing taxes rules), but short of going into detail I thought I’d offer a few words of financial encouragement from Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, former staff member of President Bush, current asshole.
“Of course you feel terrible about anybody who experiences a significant (pay) reduction. And I’m not defending it. But $9 an hour, plus a huge benefit package, is not a job we should turn our nose up at in Indiana. We’ve got a lot of folks for whom that would be a very acceptable job, or a step up.”
- Gov. Mitch Daniels, November 2005, remarking on an incentive package to drastically reduce wages in order to keep Delphi jobs in Indiana
During his tenure as director of the Office of Management and Budget, Daniels took the “starve the beast” directive to heart by overseeing a $236 billion annual surplus that turned into a $400 billion deficit during his 29-month tenure. He apparently encourages that of the state’s residents as well, no matter what that means to us or our families. Those who waste not want not!
Via Taking Down Words, who adds: “He knows Indiana trails the nation in job and personal income growth. He knows there are plenty of Hoosiers out there who can’t even find Wal-Mart jobs to make ends meet. And he knows that he has to spin like hell to get people to forget those campaign promises about turning our state’s economy around.”
Not My Man Mitch also pushed the bill to lease out Indiana toll roads to an international corporation for a whopping 75 years for a mere $3.8 billion. The state gets that money, but the private company collects the tolls (Source).
NMMM also recently suggested Indiana lease out its lottery for 30 years, for about $1 billion up-front and about $200 million/year (Source).
Leasing out our lives to wage slavery is the next logical move.
Dude, I totally commented. It had two links in it, though.
I’ll bet the Spaminator ate it. Lemme check.
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If he thinks Delphi employees, and the businesses that make money from said employees, are going to accept $9 an hour jobs (that’s just over $18K a year salary, unless you can get overtime, which I suspect won’t be time-and-a-half, somehow), Daniels is nuts.
Further, the biggest bugaboo in Indiana has always been deficits. Aren’t the local media covering this $636 million dollar drop? The last Republican governor they had almost had his head bit off by activists in his own party for demanding a two cent raise in the sales tax, then ending up with a surplus the following year.
The media, even the “God’s on our masthead” Indianapolis Star, is going to let this go by unchallenged?