This afternoon an email flies in over the transom: The states broke and Governor Perdue’s been forced to call for a $1.6 billion tax increase.

 

An hour later another email flies in over the transom: The Department and Health and Human Services has just had to make an emergency appropriation for ‘items needed by a disabled man.’

 

The urgent need: 1100 crab pots – for a handicapped man “who has a boat and wants to go into the crabbing business.”

 

Only there’s one problem: The state procurement officer has “found out crab pots are made by hand” – so the vendors available to make them are limited since the disabled “client had to personally oversee the building of the crab pots and could not travel far.”

 

Secretary Lanier Cansler personally approves the $38,018 expenditure. And the Perdue Administration gives a disabled man who can’t travel 1100 crab pots to put out.

 

Doesn’t that beat anything you ever heard?

 

 

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