Remember 7-7-7?
Before Herman Cain one (or two) upped him with his 9-9-9 plan (and doesn’t Herman wish people would resume debating the merits of that right now?), the Governor won office a year ago today by pushing for his 7-7-7 plan that would create 700,000 new private-sector jobs in seven years. And to help do that, he said the state could save $77 million by adding a testing requirement and more stringent work provisions for cash welfare recipients.
But a federal Judge ruled last week that the state’s “evidence” indicating that it was saving money by administering those tests wasn’t readily apparent to her. So now the Governor is singing a different tune, such as when he went on Fox Business Channel with Gerri Willis on Monday:
This article appears in Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2011.
