“We’re on track to have one of the lowest years ever,” said Lowe, who attributed Iowa’s improving safety record to better engineered roadway designs, improved safety features on vehicles, improved driving skills and Iowa’s 93-percent seat belt usage rate compared to the national average of 86 percent.

Notice how the official stats and reports like this fail to include the traffic speed cameras or the red light intersection cameras as contributing to less fatalities? I'd bet the *bigger government* and the *more revenue supporters* cringed when they read this year end report.

http://muscatinejournal.com/news/local/iowa-roads-are-getting-less-deadly/article_be3a8642-90a2-5686-8e0b-c95c71ceeeb3.html

Your underlined items are the result of "bigger government".

 and working as you can see.

"Better" is not bigger, dummy. Read it again. It does not take more people to perform better engineering. It just takes smarter thinking and a Republican governor that make the engineers work smarter.

The rest of the underlined elements are private industry-related and personal-skills related. Nothing to do with government.

Sometimes even I am still amazed by your ineptness.

Staff cuts, hiring freeze hit Iowa state agencies

March 14, 2010 8:30 pm Quad City Times

According to figures from state agencies and departments, the number of state employees is down more than 2 percent, or roughly 1,500 since last year. The level is expected to drop further in the coming months as an early retirement plan takes effect.

The decrease in the number of state workers is because of a combination of layoffs and a hiring freeze on all but essential positions.

..."“It’s forcing people just to be creative and to look how those same services can be delivered,” Oshlo said." <----  Smaller government working smarter! Told ya so!