NC State Workers Want "Free" Cash, Too.

When more money is taken from people than should be, "people" come out of the gutters to demand their "fair share" of that cash. It's absolutely amazing to me how many people honestly want something for quite literally nothing.

This time, it's the State Employees. You see, the state of North Carolina stole collected more tax money than they anticipated. This created a rather unique situation where the government has more money than they needed for their budget. So, instead of doing the right thing and giving the extra money back to the people who paid it, the state government is seeing how quickly they can spend the money, under the leadership of governor Mike Easley (D) and the legislature (D).

Easley has proposed raising taxes more to collect even more money and giving teachers a huge pay increase. And no, the teachers don't actually have to do, well, ANYTHING to get that pay increase -- they are to get a raise for simply breathing. Mike Gould, a state employee, wants to be paid more for breathing, too. No, he doesn't want to produce anything more, he just wants more cash.

Oh, and Easley has already proposed giving Mike and his fellow breathers a four-percent pay raise with zero increase in productivity -- an extra 4% for continuing to breathe. However, Mr. Gould says that's not enough -- he should get 15% for being able to continue to breathe and produce exactly what he's producing now.

What ever happened to hard work? I'll tell you what happened to it: government. Government is literally destroying America from within. Government should only do what no one else can do. Government, as it grows, continues to crush the free market by doing things like this -- rewarding people for breathing and not producing. The moochers are winning. Maybe I should join them.

Oh, how I yearn for freedom.

Posted by: Ogre at 11:08 AM

Comments

1 Teachers are moochers?

Are the teachers being paid fairly?

I would tend to agree with your point on the legislators but the teachers are probably doing more than just breathing.

It seems to me that most of the money spent on education ends up in the hands of the administrators not the classroom teachers. Teachers (in most states) need a pay raise.


I guess any Libertarian credentials I had are gone now!

I work in the private sector BTW.

Posted by: Dan at May 23, 2006 01:59 PM (ckQml)

2 Anyone who wants more without producing more is indeed a moocher. Are teachers being paid enough? In a free market, clearly they are.

And certainly, there's no question the administrators do get most of the "raises" and shouldn't. But then again, that's another reason why the government should not be in the education business -- they're incompetent.

Posted by: Ogre at May 23, 2006 02:27 PM (/k+l4)






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