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You know, in some respects we have nothing but choices between bad options and worse
ones. But in this and in all of our judgments in this Administration, the leadership we’re
trying to show is based on our values and those values that we see in this Commonwealth
and believe in in this Commonwealth, in high quality education, in services for the most
vulnerable, in the way we invest in ourselves and how and where that whole regional equity
that we’ve worked so ***. I think those and other key values have informed the way
we make decisions before us in closing this gap. I look forward to working with our partners
in the Legislature, with our partners in local government, with ordinary citizens all across
the Commonwealth, to find ways to hold ourselves together and hang together to get through
this to the better times ahead. Those better times are coming. There is good, early indication
that the industries we have focused on and concentrated on are on their way to leading
us first and stronger out of this recession and spreading opportunity slowly but surely
around this Commonwealth. We’re going to stick with that to assure that and we’re
going to stick with it until opportunity has touched every individual and every family
in this Commonwealth.
I want the public as much as possible to be understanding. There will be on how you experience
services in and from government. There will be an impact by the way on the individuals
you are dealing with who are feeling that stress in their own lives. And what they are
experiencing is very much like what the general public is experiencing in your own lives and
in your households. The uncertainty, the anxiety about what is going to happen tomorrow, the
inability to plan for tomorrow based on what happened yesterday. But I am confident we
will get through this and when I say we I am not just talking about state government.
I am talking about all of us here in this Commonwealth. If we draw together, if we lean
on each other and if we keep our eye on where we are going and that’s what our economic
growth strategy is about. That is what our sense of community is about and that is what
our values are about in the choices that we have made.