GunnyFreedom
04-25-2010, 05:42 AM
Governor Perdue proposes massive spending increases (http://glenbradley.net/node/48)
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In the midst of a terrible recession and skyrocketing unemployment, the Governor of North Carolina proposes to increase spending by at least $16 Million dollars, thereby increasing the intense burden on the North Carolina taxpayers and small businesses which are the engine of job growth and job creation.
First we learn that Governor Perdue wants to spend an additional $1 Million to increase State Government transparency (http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/21/447180/about-a-million-to-keep-e-mail.html). How about we just stop keeping so many secrets, Governor? It doesn't take a million dollars just to open the doors to public disclosure. I suspect that there are some friends and lobbyists right now in the process of selling our Governor a massively overpriced storage network with a search function.
As a network technology professional myself, I could accomplish the same job that she has proposed spending $750,000 to accomplish, at less than $7,500. Yes ladies and gentlemen, our governor proposes paying ten times the actual cost of archiving searchable emails in order to "improve government transparency" when our first priority needs to be getting spending under control, lowering tax burdens, and allowing our small businesses to grow and expand their operations and hire new workers to reduce unemployment statewide.
However, this $1 Million boondoggle is only the beginning: inspired by the extremely expensive and obviously failed federal job stimulus programs that have been enacted by Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, Governor Perdue has indicated that she intends to send $15 Million to her friends and cronies in the name of job creation (http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/21/447177/15-million-is-intended-to-spur.html).
Given the complete lack of success of every taxpayer-funded "job stimulus plan" that has ever been proposed in the history of the United States and North Carolina, can we really afford to put our taxpayers and job-makers on the hook for another $15 million in payouts to the special interests?Read More (http://glenbradley.net/node/48)
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In the midst of a terrible recession and skyrocketing unemployment, the Governor of North Carolina proposes to increase spending by at least $16 Million dollars, thereby increasing the intense burden on the North Carolina taxpayers and small businesses which are the engine of job growth and job creation.
First we learn that Governor Perdue wants to spend an additional $1 Million to increase State Government transparency (http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/21/447180/about-a-million-to-keep-e-mail.html). How about we just stop keeping so many secrets, Governor? It doesn't take a million dollars just to open the doors to public disclosure. I suspect that there are some friends and lobbyists right now in the process of selling our Governor a massively overpriced storage network with a search function.
As a network technology professional myself, I could accomplish the same job that she has proposed spending $750,000 to accomplish, at less than $7,500. Yes ladies and gentlemen, our governor proposes paying ten times the actual cost of archiving searchable emails in order to "improve government transparency" when our first priority needs to be getting spending under control, lowering tax burdens, and allowing our small businesses to grow and expand their operations and hire new workers to reduce unemployment statewide.
However, this $1 Million boondoggle is only the beginning: inspired by the extremely expensive and obviously failed federal job stimulus programs that have been enacted by Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, Governor Perdue has indicated that she intends to send $15 Million to her friends and cronies in the name of job creation (http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/21/447177/15-million-is-intended-to-spur.html).
Given the complete lack of success of every taxpayer-funded "job stimulus plan" that has ever been proposed in the history of the United States and North Carolina, can we really afford to put our taxpayers and job-makers on the hook for another $15 million in payouts to the special interests?Read More (http://glenbradley.net/node/48)