Mitch Means Business
Posted by PunchTheBag on 6 December 2004 | 6 responses
Indiana Governor-elect Mitch Daniels means it when he says he wants to reform state government. Now he’s going to pay a top agency honcho only $1 a year. Talk about cuts in government spending. He’s ruthless and I like it!
6 Responses to “Mitch Means Business”
He got Mickey Maurer to take a gig? Impressive.
He a multi-millionare to take a job for only $1 a year? How is that impressive?
Oh Good Lord! Can’t you take a little tongue-in- cheek humor?
The fact he got Mickey Maurer is impressive. Maurer is under no obligation to the state to work for a $1. NONE. Thus I am impressed, now lets see some results so I can stay impressed.
“Maurer is under no obligation to the state to work for a $1.”
However, apparently, now that we’ve hired Mitch, the state is under an obligation to let someone so rich he doesn’t even need a salary set state employment policy … looks to me like a corporate insider immidately setting up his corporate pals to run the state. But he came from the Bush administration, so what else would you expect?
Expect rich people to get richer and everyone else to get … well, you see the kind of salaries he thinks are reasonable.
Aaron, if *anyone* in Indiana got richer, then it would be better for the state.
That’s an exaggeration, but let’s face it: The past sixteen years have not exactly been the state’s best period. And if that means that we go back to the dollar-a-year men for advice on how to attract other businesses to the state–well, that’s fine by me.
Government can be too friendly to business. But being friendly to businesses doesn’t automatically imply corruption or greed. And for God’s sake, Mitch hasn’t even taken the oath of office yet! Can’t we at least let him drop the “-elect” from his title before we start calling for his impeachment?