Cap'n Cat wrote:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31772392/ns ... gton_post/
States, municipalities getting the sh*t kicked out of them. Conks squeezed the last blood from turnips 15 years ago.
Arizona's Republican governor called the Republican-led legislature into special session on Monday after the two sides failed to agree on the fate of a sales tax hike. Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland (D) said the state is losing money every day its two-year budget goes unpassed and called on lawmakers "to bring their pizza and pillows to the statehouse."
"For a lot of people, there is a continuing failure to recognize the severity of what is happening with this economy," Strickland said in a telephone interview from Columbus. "Programs will be reduced. Some programs will be eliminated."
Billions in federal stimulus dollars have kept cuts from being worse, Strickland said, but there is no magical cure for budget ills largely caused by plummeting tax revenues. The combination of a sour economy and balanced-budget requirements is forcing states to live with smaller budgets at a time when demand for services is increasing.
Or, in the case of NC led by Donks since 1988 and with only 2 Conk governors since Reconstruction, they could just quit spending money unwisely.....
The Top 10 Transportation Boondoggles in N.C. =
http://www.serve.com/ccnc/archive/dot/boondoggles.html
Global Transpark
"Original predictions of the GTP’s economic impact were ambitious. Studies said that it would create 55,000 jobs by 1998 and pump $2.8 billion dollars a year into the region’s economy. Since 1991 more than $140 million in federal, state and county funds have been spent on the GTP, but the project has failed to land a major corporate tenant, has no manufacturing facilities as tenants and has not created a single manufacturing job."
The Randy Parton Theater: A Comedy of Errors That Has No One Laughing
http://www.capitol-monitor.org/its-your ... -a-com.php
Political Body Count Rises in Mary Easley Scandal: NC State Document Dump Gives Inside Peek at how Deal was Done
The former First Lady had signed a five-year, $850,000 contract with NC State in 2008. NC State officials are defending the trustees’ move as a response to state government’s current budget crisis.
In a victory for advocates of government transparency, NC State University released to the public all of the documents subpoenaed by the federal grand jury currently investigating Mike and Mary Easley. The subpoenaed materials included official documentation related to Mrs. Easley’s position, as well as e-mails dealing with the creation of the position and the hiring of Mrs Easley.
Former Governor Easley has maintained since the scandal broke in 2008 that he had no involvement in the creation of the position and the hiring of his wife at the Raleigh campus. But the emails released by NC State officials paint a different picture. The document dump included emails from Dan Gerlach, then a top Easley aide, discussing the creation of the position and the hiring of Mrs. Easley with NC State officials (Gerlach currently heads the Golden Leaf Foundation, a public-private venture charged with investing the proceeds from the federal tobacco settlement).
http://www.capitol-monitor.org/in-a-pic ... st-lad.php
