Posted on 10/01/2006 5:33:56 AM PDT by Disturbin
This includes Education, Economy, Health, and Environment, plus citations.
I see Massachusetts as a place in which businesses invest because of a well-educated and well-prepared workforce and because they are assured that neither taxes nor regulation will be unreasonable. Massachusetts will be where people with ideas and initiative want to be, whether they are the next software giant or the next local grocer.
I see Massachusetts as the research and development center of the world in biotech, biomedical and alternative energy industries. I see a thriving marine science industry on the South Coast; expanding agricultural enterprise in western Massachusetts, including environmentally sensitive forestry on state lands; and robust year-round tourism across the state, supported by an active marketing program.
I see direct trade agreements with some of the most vibrant economies in the world.
I see an economy marked by innovation, converting new technologies created in our universities and research laboratories into products and services in demand worldwide. Whether a new industry or a more traditional one, I see an environment where businesses can bring their products and services to market quickly.
In a strong Massachusetts economy, both entrepreneurs and workers will benefit. Health and housing costs will be affordable, thanks to more choices and fairer competition. Public education will be consistently excellent and investment in public higher education will expand. Start-up and reinvestment capital will be broadly available. Because of the wealth of opportunity, young people and families will want to set down roots here.
Supporting this economic renaissance, state government will become an active partner with businesses and workers. As Governor, I will be personally involved in expanding opportunity and business growth.
Our Current Reality
Jobs, and the businesses that create them, have been leaving Massachusetts in alarming numbers. Nearly 192,000 non-agricultural jobs have been lost since December 2000, compared to a modest increase nationwide. Out-of-state conglomerates have acquired longstanding Massachusetts businesses such as Gillette, Hancock, Fleet and Polaroid, moving jobs and civic leadership out of state. As a result, the only state in the nation to have lost population last year - nearly 60,000 people net out-migration between 2003 and 2004 -- mainly young families who can no longer afford the high housing costs. Massachusetts is losing her future.
Meanwhile, businesses trying to get started or to expand in Massachusetts face longer and more cumbersome approval and permitting processes than elsewhere. By one measure, it takes an average of two years to get approvals for biotech facilities here as compared to half that time in competitor states. That same facility requires the sign-off of 8 to 10 different government authorities. It simply takes too long (and costs too much) to get to market in Massachusetts.
Instead of supporting our slim lead in the biotech industry, the Romney/Healey administration has played politics with stem cell research. Though this research provides hope to those suffering from Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis or any number of other chronic genetic ailments, Romney erects barriers to it while other states seek to attract it away.
Further, Romney/Healey refuse to invest in the Commonwealth's public universities and colleges, limiting the ability of working families, especially immigrant households, to send their children to high-quality, well-funded colleges and limiting upward mobility. Yet in some regions of the state, only ten percent of the adult population has a college or junior college degree.
At the same time, healthcare costs continue to rise at annual double-digit rates, causing more and more businesses to favor less and less coverage for their workers.
Housing costs, particularly in the eastern part of the state, have become unaffordable for young families; one recent study concluded that, thanks to the cost of housing, Boston is the most expensive city in America.
Closing the Gap
In a Patrick administration, I will work in partnership with business, labor and community leaders to grow the Massachusetts economy and expand opportunities. In my first year in office, I will implement the following:
Will you be able to get free wifi if you're just over the New Hampshire border?
If socialized medicine actually takes hold in Massachusetts, I see a lot of businesses leaving the state.
Our founding fathers must be proud.
"Selling Massachusetts. As Governor, working with mayors and other local officials, I will personally engage in attracting new businesses and workers to Massachusetts and encouraging those here to expand. We will also fund a marketing program to stimulate investment in and relocation to Massachusetts."
Seems like this goal is in direct conflict with all the other goals.
I see someone with an overactive imagination!
Didn't every candidate *except* this guy promise to lower the state income tax? How did he get such a high percentage of votes?
New England has consistently higher energy costs than the rest of the country. If only someone could figure out that more power plants is the only real way to get energy prices down to the levels they are in other states...
pretty good, throwing every socialist cliche and failed idea into one little article.
Depends on what you mean by "promise." I believe one said the tax would be reduced to the level voters approved ('course the voters' will means naught in MA) in stages, the other was going to do it immediately.
Regardless, the moonbats that voted for Deval most likely either live off of others' taxes, trust funds or are just stupid.
But we can't build Power Plants here, they aren't environmentally sound. And we can lower energy costs by increasing the gas tax and thus lowering the demand... (Lefty Logic)
I'm normally a lurker but I needed to ask about this guy. Isn't this the guy who sat on the board as General Counsel of two of the largest companies in the world? Which, during his tenure, at each of those companies respectively, experienced being hit with two of the biggest discrimination lawsuits (at the time) in history. And on his forced resignation from the later, didn't Jessie Shakedown Jackson storm a board meeting to VOICE his concern for the way Devil Patrick had been treated. He was given a multi-million dollar severance package and then "decided" to run for political office. Didn't he also work in the Clintoon Justice Department prior to that?
I can do that, too!
That is to say: moving Massachusetts "forward" into a collectivist "New Age" in which the socialist ethos reigns supreme. Any garden variety Marxist will issue the same slogans; however, potential voters - and all concerned about government in the United States - should bear in mind that the same rhetoric being employed bt state Democrats was employed by Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Fidel, and all the rest of the Utopian gang. Some people - and especially the Massachusetts secular humanist, Lefty Liberal, "warm and fuzzy" crowd - have failed utterly to learn or profit from the lessons of history.
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Yes, this guy is a nightmare. He's buddies with Obama ("Osama Obama" according to Ted Kennedy).
The best part is, voting records show he's only voted in a few elections in the past several years even though he maintains a Springfield office. Can't wait to hear him backpeddle on that one.
Add to that - he is listed as a supporter on the web site of a guy named LaGuer who was convicted of a brutal rape of a 59-year old woman. The moron pushed for DNA testing in 2002, which proved without a doubt that he's the perp. Because it's a white victim and a black criminal, he says it was a frame-up by the cops, and Deval said: "I therefore have serious misgivings about the integrity of the criminal justice system in this case, as I believe any citizen would." Again he is backpeddling now, LOL!
We have to make sure that the 300,000 illegal Brazilians here in the Commonwealth have state-wide access to free internet access. They should have it in NH, too, so they can access the internet when they are buying tax-free goods!
I see a failed state, and Boston is a failed city. I await its final demise with much cheer as the Kerrys and Kennedys and the Dukakis' and the O'Neills and the Boston Globe and entire rat dominate State General Assembly will look around at the chaos and panic as the whole scam implodes from decreasing revenues and increasing tax burdens, brain drain and collapsing populations and know, finally know, that they and their brain-dead rat constituents have finally achieved their utopia. I hope it is at least as pleasant as say, Somalia.
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