The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
2009-07-30 - by
It’s a fact: One hand in Governor Perdue’s administration doesn’t have a clue what the other hand is doing. The Governor’s out telling everyone who’ll listen that if she doesn’t raise taxes a billion dollars she’s going to have to make terrible, terrible budget cuts – but the factotums in her administration seem determined to prove to folks she’s just dead wrong.
Here’s an example of a cut that doesn’t sound too painful at all.
The folks over at the Department of Transportation just spent $29,000 to buy 100,000 ‘Clickers’ – which, as best I can tell, are the modern day equivalent to the tin ‘crickets’ we used to play with as children.
Last week the Department of Health and Human Services spent $38,000 on crab pots.
Before that the Governor, herself, spent $25 million on a grand deluxe fishing pier.
Now it’s ‘clickers.’
And what on earth would anyone do with 100,000 ‘clickers’ or ‘crickets’ – well, the DOT says, it’s going to pass them out to children at fairs as a promotional gimmick – as in ‘click it or tick-et.’
Now there’s a crucial expenditure. DOT’s laying off road workers but buying 100,000 ‘clickers.’
How on earth does Governor Perdue think she’s ever going to convince people there’s no waste left to cut in State government when every time folks turn around she’s buying ‘crab pots’ or ‘clickers’ – just naturally everyone’s wondering how much other waste she missed or if she’d even recognize waste if she ran into it head on.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Democrats
The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
2009-07-30/
It’s a fact: One hand in Governor Perdue’s administration doesn’t have a clue what the other hand is doing. The Governor’s out telling everyone who’ll listen that if she doesn’t raise taxes a billion dollars she’s going to have to make terrible, terrible budget cuts – but the factotums in her administration seem determined to prove to folks she’s just dead wrong.
Here’s an example of a cut that doesn’t sound too painful at all.
The folks over at the Department of Transportation just spent $29,000 to buy 100,000 ‘Clickers’ – which, as best I can tell, are the modern day equivalent to the tin ‘crickets’ we used to play with as children.
Last week the Department of Health and Human Services spent $38,000 on crab pots.
Before that the Governor, herself, spent $25 million on a grand deluxe fishing pier.
Now it’s ‘clickers.’
And what on earth would anyone do with 100,000 ‘clickers’ or ‘crickets’ – well, the DOT says, it’s going to pass them out to children at fairs as a promotional gimmick – as in ‘click it or tick-et.’
Now there’s a crucial expenditure. DOT’s laying off road workers but buying 100,000 ‘clickers.’
How on earth does Governor Perdue think she’s ever going to convince people there’s no waste left to cut in State government when every time folks turn around she’s buying ‘crab pots’ or ‘clickers’ – just naturally everyone’s wondering how much other waste she missed or if she’d even recognize waste if she ran into it head on.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Democrats