They've put their kids through school, they've made their contributions and now their health care and other things are more expensive for them. It's just the right thing to do.
One lesson we learned from Katrina is that you don't wait 'til the levee breaks to take action.
The First Lady set this up as a nonprofit organization to raise money for the collection of antique furniture in the mansion. It's one of the premier collections in the country _ it belongs to the people of Georgia and is falling apart. She didn't go to the Legislature and ask for public dollars. People wanted to support the arts and the mansion.
The governor didn't choose this candidate; the Board of Regents did.
Virtually every part of state government has had to find efficiencies.
The politically safe thing to would be to do nothing, and then blame the hurricane for any subsequent problems. But that's not leadership.
We had a very difficult couple of years; we were left with a bad economy and it took some time to get out from under it. The governor has said when more money was available, we're not going to go back to spending it how it was spent.
He thinks it's best to send people out to smaller facilities and individual homes and help integrate them into communities across Georgia. A lot of these people are going to become permanent Georgians. The quicker we can get them into individual communities, the better.
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