GEF: Intro

PROVIDENCE, RI -- Jill Schlesinger of Strategic Point Advisors gives a brief intro (quoting Carl Jung, I think)…

You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it …

…then quoting Edward Demming...

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

Donald Carcieri then points out, in his intro…

Survival may not be mandatory in the private sector, but it is in the public.

MORE:

Governor Carcieri again…

This is a time for us to seize the opportunity to do some more dramatic things…

Without growing jobs and growing incomes the pie is static and shrinking…

We have to make some huge investments in education and infrastructure. We can’t do that if the pie is not growing.

AND

We need to bring our tax burden down, so we can be more competitive.

AND FINALLY

We’ll come out of this downturn stronger, if we do the right things.