Mitch Daniels on Lake County and bad government:
Gov. Mitch Daniels is fed up with Lake County government and he’s tired of pretending he isn’t.
During a wide-ranging question-and-answer period with locals at Griffith High School on Friday, Daniels returned time and again to one point: Lake County will remain alienated from the rest of the state until voters here hold public officials to a higher standard.
“You are entitled to all the lousy, crummy, graft-ridden government you want and are willing to pay for,” Daniels told a crowd of about 450 people, one of the largest turnouts he said he’s seen at such a forum…
“I guess after five years of trying to speak always to the positive and encourage people to move in a positive direction, that I’m trying to express candidly my thought that I’m a little tired of waiting,” he said.
It’s true for other places, too, not just Lake County. One thing about democracy is that people get the government they want and the government they deserve, not necessarily the government that they need (and not necessarily even the government they are willing to pay for, given the example of Obama and the current Congress).
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