Norm Cox has an entry entitled “Battle Lines,” describing the past week in state government. Gov. Daniels treated us to some tough talk and some trashing on neighboring states, but not much talk about jobs. He said that these tough economic conditions were the time to separate the “winners from the whiners.” The Democrats hit back bringing a parade of Indiana workers who couldn’t get any satisfaction from the Governor’s Department of Workforce Development which has seemingly taken the insurance industry’s “it’s a feature, not a bug” view of impenetrable claims bureaucracy. Following a contentious hearing with Indiana Department of Transportation Commissioner, Karl Browning, Democrats in the House Roads and Transportation Committee (one of my old committees) also passed a bill which significantly rearranges the allocation of transportation funds — stripping some control from INDOT and giving it to local government. (More here.)
M’yeah. I work for INDOT, and also happen to be a liberal Democrat. That transportation bill isn’t just potentially unconstitutional, but it’s grossly irresponsible.
Karl is correct that, if passed, the law would gut INDOT and not produce better roads. It’s really unbelievable how shortsighted the Democrats are on this one.
Please clarify that you’re talking about the mess created in Indy by the leaders(?) and not the frontline staff dealing with the perfect storm.
“Department of Workforce Development which has seemingly taken the insurance industry’s “it’s a feature, not a bug†view of impenetrable claims bureaucracy.”
You just did.