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Upon going out of the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what type of government the delegates acquired created. His answer the public: "A republic, if you can keep it." Now America's most respected governor explains precisely how close we've come to losing the republic, and how exactly we can bring back it to greatness. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has been called "the most presidential man in America." He has taken more change to his condition in a couple of years than most see in years. During his tenure, Daniels flipped a $700 million deficit into a billion dollar surplus, healthy Indiana's budget even during the recession, turned its once unattractive business climate into one of the best for private sector job progress. The Hoosier condition is currently a model of good and effective governance. Its public sector payroll is currently the smallest per capita in the country. And yet services have advanced across the table. Even its Bureau of AUTOMOBILES -- the ultimate symbol of dysfunctional bureaucracy - has been ranked the best in the united states. Daniels has done this by concentrating on government's core obligations, cutting taxes, empowering citizens, and undertaking what he calls an "old tribal ritual" - spending less overall than his condition takes in, while distinguishing between skepticism towards big government and hostility towards all government. Alas few politicians have willpower or courage to follow his lead. And worse, many suppose that Us citizens are too intimidated, gullible or dim-witted to make smart decisions about their health care, mortgages, the education of these kids, and other important issues. The result has been a steady drop in liberty, as elite government experts -- "our benevolent betters", in Daniels' phrase -- make an effort to regulate every part in our lives. Daniels bluntly calls our exploding nationwide credit debt "a survival-level menace to the America we've known.
