Most important characteristics of the speech. I am the only candidate in this race who can be trusted to run the government efficiently. During my 20 years of experience in state and local government, I have learned that most government spending programs are a waste of taxpayer money. If I am elected governor, you can expect me to slash wasteful government spending, allowing me to lower taxes for everybody in the state. My opponent doesn't share this vision for smaller government. He believes that taxes should be raised on successful businesses just to increase funding for a public school system that is already failing our children. Everybody knows that the problems in our schools are caused by too much government interference; why would we consider giving such a corrupt system even more taxpayer money?

We have to find the author, time, intended audience, main idea, context, bias, and accuracy of the text.

Author - a candidate for government office.

Time - government election campaign.

Intended audience - potential voters.

Main idea - the candidate is the only one who can be trusted with taxpayer money, and this is crucial because taxpayer money is being wasted.

Context - Government intervention does more harm than good: raising taxes on successful businesses to fund failing public schools only has the effect of both reducing wealth creation, and educating children poorly.

Bias - the candidate has anti-goverment bias.

Accuracy - the candidate does not provide evidence to back his claims in the speech, thus, the accuracy of it cannot be properly gauged.

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