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Governor Daniels, an advisor to President Reagan and longtime supporter of Reagan’s 1968, ’76, ’80, and ’84 presidential campaigns, gave a speech critical of the federal government and outlined his agenda for the country. Governor Daniels criticized “our mortally obese government,” which he said was in need of “pediatric surgery.” In referring to the present course of the nation under President Obama, Gov Daniels stated, “In this room we all know how much change is needed,” going on to call for a return to Reagan’s policy of ‘Peace through Strength’ Daniels tackled the nation’s bloated national debt, which he described: It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be. Upon equating the nation’s deficit with the threat of communism, Daniels rightly recognized that the consequences of the debt toward personal freedom, a coloration often made by Congressman Ron Paul in his critique of the nation’s wasteful spending and overseas borrowing perpetuated by the Federal

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