10-12-2016, 08:53 AM
New Mexico ranks 49th in education - Johnson promised reform but failed to deliver.
New Mexico does not have legal marijuana - Johnson promised it but failed to deliver.
Johnson had no vision for the state aside from better schools and weed flowing like sweet honey from the rock. As noted above, he failed on both of those issues. As governor Johnson pretty much only did one thing: he vetoed scores of bills. One way to look at that is he "stood up to big government." Another way to look at it is NM residents elected dozens of representatives to work together and find solutions to NM problems. And hundreds of times when they came together and developed solutions to NM problems one person kept the people's business done, one person impeded the people's progress, one person kept new ideas from being tried and new solutions from being implemented to improve the lives of NM citizens. That one person standing in the way of the people's servants and the people's progress was Gary Johnson.
New Mexico did get to a budget surplus - way to go Gary. But this was achieved in part by firing 1,200 state employees. In a state with unemployment 1-2 points above the national average many economists would point out that eliminating those jobs was not good for the people of New Mexico.
Regarding that budget surplus, many citizens confuse a surplus with "profit," which may be part of the problem with having a "business person" in political office. Having a bunch of money laying around and not doing anything to improve schools, healthcare, law enforcement, or infrastructure is not necessarily a good thing. "Share holders" aren't cheering that the state "made money." Tax payers are wondering why their tax money isn't being put to work solving problems - like unemployment. If some of that money was used to pay salaries - or paid to private contractors if you want to insist they are more efficient - then more capital would be circulating in the NM economy, rather than sitting in state coffers.
Johnson, according to Wikipedia, would rather talk about his workout routine than policy details when meeting with staff to discuss NM policy. That may or may not be true, but I've seen him interviewed repeatedly and it is a fact he is unable to answer the most basic policy questions. Sure, as someone pointed out, "he cares." So does the homeless woman sitting with her shopping bag at the bus stop near the park where she sleeps at night. So does the bus driver who will pick her up in a few minutes. They both care about average Americans. They really do. But, they know very little about governing, and thus I don't want either of them serving as President. I don't want Johnson for the same reason.
New Mexico does not have legal marijuana - Johnson promised it but failed to deliver.
Johnson had no vision for the state aside from better schools and weed flowing like sweet honey from the rock. As noted above, he failed on both of those issues. As governor Johnson pretty much only did one thing: he vetoed scores of bills. One way to look at that is he "stood up to big government." Another way to look at it is NM residents elected dozens of representatives to work together and find solutions to NM problems. And hundreds of times when they came together and developed solutions to NM problems one person kept the people's business done, one person impeded the people's progress, one person kept new ideas from being tried and new solutions from being implemented to improve the lives of NM citizens. That one person standing in the way of the people's servants and the people's progress was Gary Johnson.
New Mexico did get to a budget surplus - way to go Gary. But this was achieved in part by firing 1,200 state employees. In a state with unemployment 1-2 points above the national average many economists would point out that eliminating those jobs was not good for the people of New Mexico.
Regarding that budget surplus, many citizens confuse a surplus with "profit," which may be part of the problem with having a "business person" in political office. Having a bunch of money laying around and not doing anything to improve schools, healthcare, law enforcement, or infrastructure is not necessarily a good thing. "Share holders" aren't cheering that the state "made money." Tax payers are wondering why their tax money isn't being put to work solving problems - like unemployment. If some of that money was used to pay salaries - or paid to private contractors if you want to insist they are more efficient - then more capital would be circulating in the NM economy, rather than sitting in state coffers.
Johnson, according to Wikipedia, would rather talk about his workout routine than policy details when meeting with staff to discuss NM policy. That may or may not be true, but I've seen him interviewed repeatedly and it is a fact he is unable to answer the most basic policy questions. Sure, as someone pointed out, "he cares." So does the homeless woman sitting with her shopping bag at the bus stop near the park where she sleeps at night. So does the bus driver who will pick her up in a few minutes. They both care about average Americans. They really do. But, they know very little about governing, and thus I don't want either of them serving as President. I don't want Johnson for the same reason.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
