Lordy, here we go .... The Daniels Agenda ...

[hippiechick]

http://www.indystar.com/articles/8/206882-1998-092.html

Agenda highlights
Among Gov.-elect Mitch Daniels' legislative proposals:
• Adopting daylight-saving time in Indiana.
• Reorganizing state government, including breaking apart the mammoth Family and Social Services Administration.
• Selling some state property so the money can help ease the budget deficit.
• Moving the enrollment cutoff for kindergarten from July 1 to Sept. 1, phased in over two years.
• Moving the ISTEP-Plus test to the spring.
• Changing the new Indiana Economic Development Corporation to make it less wieldy and get it running sooner.
• Making small businesses eligible for tax credits now awarded only to large businesses that bring jobs to the state.
• Eliminating health insurance coverage mandates.
• Establishing an eight-week tax amnesty program to get those who owe the state tax money to pay up.
• Creating an Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives to direct federal dollars to religious and other nonprofit programs.


Where shall we begin ??? :mad:


:hippie:

[Florida_Geek]

1. Well one out of 10 is not bad

Adopting daylight-saving time in Indiana.

The rest suck

[nascarblue]

2. Faith based already got 1.7 BILLION last year!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=5&u=/ap/20050103/ap_on_go_ot/federal_faith

[Voltaire]

3. We are in for a fucking nightmare

Believing that bidnessmen run government better is a sucker's bet. But what can we expect from Hoosiers?

[kcwayne]

4. He left the protection of Eli Lilly from lawsuits off the agenda

even though it is his number 1 priority. Especially given the recent disclosure that Lilly suppressed data that showed it knew about the high risks their psychotic drugs (Prozac et al) posed to patients. There are families of suicide victims that want justice, which Mitch will insure does not happen.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Not to be a nit-picker or grammar nazi,

but the drug is psychotropic or anti-psychotic. It's the corporation that is psychotic. :)

[BiggJawn]

6. Daylight Wasting Time...

is that really a priority for the non-Teeee-Veeeee watching population of Indiana?

I don't know about anyone else, INCLUDING the Guvernator-elect, but my vendors and I are smart enough to figure out "Chicago time in the summer, New York time in the Winter"...

Only advantage I could see is possibly being able to get rid of the lights on my bicycles, because the sun wouldn't go down till after 9 PM...

The FSSA is TOAST. He appointed Judge Payne to over-see it.

Oh boy, a HOOSIER office of superstition-based give-aways!

We're fucked. Sure hope all those damn farmers enjoy their "tax cuts" they think they're gonna get (SUCKERS!)

[hippiechick]

8. I grew up with it in WI

... and I think that Indiana is totally farking regressive and stupid for NOT getting it sooner.

It really seems like Hoosiers pride themselves on their resistance to change, no matter how practical or logical it may be.



:hippie:

[bloom]

10. I think the logical thing would be

for everyone else to stop doing daylight savings time. I think it is absurd. And it doesn't save any time either. :)

[Gemini Cat]

15. Agreed.

I hate day light savings. Not having day light savings is one of the things that has kept me in Indiana for the last few years.

[LiberalFighter]

13. It's the only way the cows know when it is time to give milk

At least it seems like that is what farmers in Indiana are trying to say.

[ElaineinIN]

9. Actually

I have heard anecdotally that it has caused some problems in attracting business to Indiana, etc., esp. in high tech. I guess I'm kind of "who cares" ... too many other battle lines to draw!

[Buhda]

7. In 4 years ...

  They will blaming all of their mistakes on the Democrats. 


  He is such a "weasely" little bastard!

[newyawker99]

20. Hi Buhda!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[DrGonzoLives]

11. Yeah, sell the toll road

That would be a great idea - it's already around $2 for that bridge in Gary, privatizing it would make that drive impossible...good thing I don't have to do that anymore.

Daniels will try to say that Daley privatized the Skyway and it works great now...I would research that if I were you.

And it's not so much about the budget as it is about building the new-route I-69 which is evil and needs to be stopped.

[thinkingwoman]

12. New route I 69 is not evil

to the counties it will help.

[Sadie5]

14. In todays Star:

Daniels has stopped the collective bargaining by the union for state workers. Soon state workers can kiss goodby any benefits like insurance etc. Wages will drop + those who remain will likely do the work of two with lower pay.

[thinkingwoman]

17. what does that have to do

with new route I 69?

[DrGonzoLives]

16. It will help?

By what? Springing up a bunch of WalMarts and fast food restaurants? We'll see shitloads of land and forest ripped up for this road, when we have a perfectly good route in I-70 and U.S. 41 that could be turned into limited access (with bypasses around Terre Haute, Sullivan, and Vincennes) that will not have near the environmental impact that a new route will.

Jobs are not suddenly going to sprout up just because there's an interstate.

[thinkingwoman]

18. do you live down here?

I live in a county directly affected by this, and have talked to many many people in neighboring counties.

NOBODY has pie in the sky expectations about jobs "sprouting up."

Let me explain some of what is going on down here...we are having REAL problems economically that tie directly into shipping and access costs because the highway system in middle southern Indiana sucks so badly. One of the largest employers in the area (with employees in the thousands over a 5 county area) is Crane. One of the reasons Crane keeps getting placed on the maybe close list (despite the fact that it makes a lot of the stuff needed to wage war on all those oil-rich countries) is because it is in the middle of frickin nowhere with no good highway system to reach it.

Furthermore, there is no shortage of farmland and forest in southern Indiana. People who will be directly affected WANT this highway.

Why? Because things down here are much much different than in Bloomington and Terre Haute and Evansville and Indianapolis. City folks don't have all the right answers about what will affect us stupid blue hick folks down here.

We know we need this highway. Not to create NEW jobs, but just to keep what we have.

[Plaid Adder]

19. To quote Capt. Willard, "He's really specializing in busting my balls."

1) He wants to SELL the Indiana Toll Road. The hell?

I thought capitalists realized that you're not supposed to spend the principal because that's bad money management? And even children know that you don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. More to the point, if they sell the toll road to some private company that astutely realizes that there is no other way for a lot of us to get to work, and therefore they have a monopoly, what's to stop them from hiking the tolls to $10.00 a mile, never plowing, and letting the potholes become craters? Nothing.

2) Adopting daylight savings time will mean that where I work and where I live are never in the same time zone, as opposed to being in different time zones for only half the year. Thanks, Mitch. Losing that extra hour of sleep is so much fun, I want to be doing it EVERY day.

@#$!,

The Plaid Adder