Layoff Politics
2011-11-17 - by
Today’s N&O story (“Data show fewer state layoffs”) puts pressure on Governor Perdue and legislative Democrats to show they weren’t crying wolf about Republican budget cuts.
Republicans sounded delighted with the report that 1,630 people have been laid off: “’The wild allegation has been that 30,000 state jobs were going to be eliminated,’ said Sen. Richard Stevens, a Cary Republican and lead budget writer.”
Republicans said back then that the job losses would be about 18,000, including 3,000 vacant positions.
But a not-so-political observer at breakfast today put a different light on the story when she said: “So the Republicans are boasting that they laid off only 1,600 people? Sounds pretty callous to me.”
Layoff Politics
2011-11-17/
Today’s N&O story (“Data show fewer state layoffs”) puts pressure on Governor Perdue and legislative Democrats to show they weren’t crying wolf about Republican budget cuts.
Republicans sounded delighted with the report that 1,630 people have been laid off: “’The wild allegation has been that 30,000 state jobs were going to be eliminated,’ said Sen. Richard Stevens, a Cary Republican and lead budget writer.”
Republicans said back then that the job losses would be about 18,000, including 3,000 vacant positions.
But a not-so-political observer at breakfast today put a different light on the story when she said: “So the Republicans are boasting that they laid off only 1,600 people? Sounds pretty callous to me.”