Howey Hearts Mitch

I've come to expect the national "news" media (the quotes are for Fox) to do a certain amount of water carrying for the Bush administration, it's so much easier to just read a press release then to, well you know report. But not to be outdone our local media has been going out of it's way to make sure Mitch doesn't miss the national press corp's touch, none possibly more so then Brian Howey. The last few weeks has been a build up towards this mash note to Mitch, but still the force with which Howey really seems to love his dear leader was a little shocking. Even more shocking is how little sense he makes in his column, but then love makes you do crazy things.

"Except that it sucks ... resources, as opposed to private corporations that contribute funding to government. “If we ignore this, if manufacturing goes away, then the whole state hollows out and collapses,” said Ed Roberts, vice president of the Indiana Manufacturers Association. “Government consumes a lot of resources. But without those resources, it all collapses.”

Yeah that's the problem too many BMV branches, not cheap foreign labor. As for private corporations that contribute, you can't throw a rock without hitting a company getting a tax abatement. And then there's Wal-Mart which views Medicaid as it's own free health insurance company.

Except that it sucks ... resources, as opposed to private corporations that contribute funding to government. “If we ignore this, if manufacturing goes away, then the whole state hollows out and collapses,” said Ed Roberts, vice president of the Indiana Manufacturers Association. “Government consumes a lot of resources. But without those resources, it all collapses.”

"Wake up, Hoosiers.

If, in a decade, government continues to be our biggest employers, we are going to be in deep, deep trouble. It is an unsustainable trend."

Damn right if we're gonna keep shedding jobs we've got to start looking for new sources of unemployed workers, those people aren't going to fire themselves.

"We have a governor who is a reformer."

Oh he's something else all right he really reformed the Hell out of the unemployment system. And DST, that was one of the best managed policies ever.