There is something to keep in mind when considering Mitch Daniels's accelerated  I69's expansion through southern Indiana. Everyone who lives in this part of the state will not agree on it. Most that live here love the peaceful small town atmosphere and will consider it a threat to our way of life. Many will welcome the economic benefits and overlook the downsides of the issue but there is one thing that all will agree on and that is we will have to disagree. 

Some of the economic benefits may be seen down the road in attracting manufacturing and distribution facilities. Large manufacturing plants i.e. Honda, Toyota building models require close access to major interstate routes for efficiencies in operations and secure transportation of their products and I69 will attract them. Some would say the modern site model is to build  approximately 10-15 miles or so on either side of an interstate, sometimes if the leg is a 4 lane Highway of state importance ( like 41 to Princeton, In) they may go ~ 20 mile. This is to insure the proper up-keep and snow removal and not to shutting the plant production lines down due to access problems. Interstates are the first to keep clear of snow and kept maintained by the state. They also are thought of as a conveyor belt for parts that are made by Japanese transplant parts suppliers located statistically along these routes.  So that's a ~ 20 - 30 mile path of development area potential winding through southern Indiana.  

My guess, if there is any manufacturing left in America after the Obama administration, southern Indiana workers would be very attractive to the Japaneses transplants and like industries who's prime employment target is the non-unionized ( not self intitaled ), dawn to dusk,  farming work ehtthic type that this area provides.  The transplants ( Japaneses supporting parts manufactures transplanted here from Japan to support larger assembly plants ) are usually placed on major corridors linking to the Major Japaneses plants just like the Toyota truck plant in Princeton Indiana that this I69 will go right past is linked to Georgetown, Ky car plant. There will be a loop corridor that includes I69 to I64 to I75 and I74 will legs off of that. Again ~ 10 miles. i.e. Toyota, Princeston, IN north of I64.  Southern Indiana will be prime for this type of progress ( i hate using that word ) and if our people do their job and not get greedy with taxes we should see our share. Just having an Interstate doesn't guarantee the Japaneses will come. Tax abasements and other large incentives are crucial to attract these loyal community partners. 

I use the Japaneses because unlike other Car manufactures like GM and Chrysler who have gone to China for the parts and cars the vast majority of the Honda and Toyota cars are made here by American workers. Honda and Toyota are quickly becoming the only true American made car company we have outside of maybe Ford who too is importing more and more. As soon as Obama confiscated GM and Chrysler he gave the stock to the big union crime bosses who took the billions in campaign payoffs and then moved big chunks of those companies to China as a bribe for China to buy our treasury bills to finance the planned socialist purchase of America. ( For those of you who didn't understand why that happened.)  Humm.. funny how that works. ( sorry but we must keep light on the truth ). Aren't we glad that God is in control and has this handled. ? I Am.

Other manufactures will find the quality of southern Indiana people and ease of access attractive also but I will say this, be careful of what we ask for. With jobs come traffic and trucks and truck stops and porn stores and crime and drug trafficking and dirty motels and soon what was once small clean, quiet and beautiful communities are not so clean, quiet, beautiful or peaceful.  That's what brought many young family's to Morgan county decades ago seeking a better place to raise their children.

What started out as the NAFTA highway ( Clinton Signed ) to connect Detroit with Mexico, who was making cars and parts for the Big three just a few years ago, has seen many changes in the landscape since it's first conception. One is that the auto plants in Mexico have moved to China leaving Mexico's next two biggest exports besides oil, Drugs and Crime a newly paved freeway with all it's towns and markets to infiltrate and network. If the need for this interstate had to be established fresh as today the conversations would sound much different.  

I69 will bring to the beautiful southern Indiana landscape all the things I mentioned above and more. It will never be the same. I know some who live there who would rather stay poor.

As we find so often, things that benefit can also degrade. Economic growth without interstates would be better. When looking at the big picture .....$$$$$...." Most will have the Most of what they love the Most " or " Most will have a lot of what they love the Most "

Some have blamed this and so many other things recently on Governor Mitch Daniels but as much as I would agree with them on some things, on accelerating the inevitable I will try to look for the best out come of things I can't stop.  

I didn't vote for Mitch Daniels in the primary's. He acted a little impatient while taking a picture with my Grandson at a fund raising dinner held by Johnathan Bird Downtown that he was visitor at. Yes my camera didn't warm up quick enough for him but that look on his face prevented me from warming up to him also.  I also have to be real when searching the truth of the matter.

The nation has placed Indiana's fiscal constraints and surpluses at the top of the hill. Indiana has been the state to learn from as  many states who have suffered budget crisis has set their focus on us. Reserve budgeting  is something that only businesses using solid budget and management methods understand but not so much a part of governments where politicians want to spend every dime they can get their hands on just to buy votes.
 
Yes, cutting budgets make everyone up-set about something. Rightfully so but also in most cases rightfully necessary.

I too have several issues with the Governor and his process that I'm not happy with but I have lived long enough to accept that in tough fiscal times anyone who does a good job won't be liked by anyone. At least not much.

Here is a simple exercise for all you 35-45 year olds out there with children and may have just lost your job and your household income has just dropped in half. Try taking away their cell phone or soda pop or car or Internet connection or games or eating out or cable or satellite or ...I could go on but my guess, you could just stop buying ketchup and you would be the most hated person on the planet even though you are their father ...or ...maybe a husband.

*************WARNING**************

This exercise if practiced at home can result in bodily harm and sometimes in rare instances, death. If it remains Hard for more than 4 months please consult your marriage and family consoler

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I know some of what is going on is budget responsibility shifting and as with the school's and other welfare programs, even personal responsibility shifting. That will not happen without hate, screaming, kicking, name calling and at the least, complaining . 

I'm in this also and as most will testify I do more than my share of complaining along with everyone else but I do know this truth. In this world of accumulation and covetousness, when I have found myself watching Fox News more than reading Gods Word and spending more time and money supporting real estate ( church buildings ) than the needy or missionary's and also having 95% more than needed to actually survive I can conclude it all this way. Though, hard as it may seem to understand, losing stuff is never bad for those who's chasing the right thing. It's can only change ones focus.

I don't want this interstate trashing through beautiful southern Indiana. It will change it's landscape and it's people and some of my friends. But, biting my tongue I'll say this , aew elawaw drol awa......wait, I can't bite my tongue and do this at the same time so I'll just say this, if there is no way of stopping it, speeding up the inevitable to provide disparately needed jobs NOW for Hoosiers that Washington's ( Omama ) method will never be able to do, is better than waiting to provide some jobs 5 years from now and ending up with the same slab of concrete. Just my opinion.

I have this feeling that God doesn't want me to go out as road kill so as usual I refuse to take a middle of the road stance on this or anything else. I don't want it nor do I think in the larger scheme of things will it be best for southern Indiana.  Unfortunately I can't afford to buy enough property to be the sole decider.

 OK, now that I've gone through my Lawry's seasoned salt rub down, set the lions loose.

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