Too Much, Too Fast

"Too much, too fast"

"Too much, too fast" by Mary Beth Snider and Theodore Kim is an article about Mitch Daniels' first year as governor- what he has done, what he is trying to do, and how his approval ratings are dropping(2006). "Too much, too fast" (2006) also took quotes from a poll conducted over the telephone by an outside company, Selzer & Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, from February 28 to March 2 of this year. The polls show that the approval rating for Governor Daniels has dropped from a 55 percent approval rating when the governor took office in January of 2005 to a 37 percent approval rating.

One citizen from Fayette County was quoted as saying, "I thought he was great, but now he is doing too many things too fast" (Indianapolis Star, 2006, p.1 of 4). My view is that our governor, the leader of our state, could never do too many things too quickly. Especially if he is doing the exact things that he said he was going to do when he was campaigning for his position, then he needs to move fast. Governor Daniels told us he was going to do his best to get this state out of debt. I believe that his proposed lease of the Indiana Toll Road, which will bring in 3.85 billion dollars to the state of Indiana (Indianapolis Star, 2006, p.1 of 4), will certainly get us on the right track. This same citizen also said "He might as well have left things the way they were." The way I see it is, if we leave things they way they are, then in a couple years we will not be able to drive down the road without having to take our cars to the shop due to pot holes and cracks in the road. The state is in a budget crisis and the people of Indiana wanted this fixed. The governor made a proposal to start fixing this problem and the people of Indiana are upset with him. We need to make up our minds.

Governor Daniels, while campaigning, spoke on the daylight savings time issue. He liked the idea of daylight savings time and he was very forward with what he wanted to do about it. Hoosiers elected Daniels to make this decision for them and that he did. He did exactly as he said he would. Governor Daniels caught us up with the rest of the 47 continental states. We will be officially joining them April 2 of this year. Now, I will be honest with you, I really do not understand all of the pros of daylight savings time. But I do understand that, if the other 47 continental states have found it to be useful for the people and the economy, then I do not understand why it took us so long to get to where we are now. I do understand that for us to have good business relations and be competitive enough to make good money, we need to be on the same schedule as our business partners and our