Oct 24 2008
A Dose of Budget Reality in North Carolina- Democrats have Failed
I gave what I consider my “Dose of Reality” speech to the Professional Engineers and other candidates present last night at their meet the candidates forum. And you can correspond this with the October 2008 Decision Maker poll that you can link to. A vast majority of North Carolinian voters polled believe we are headed in the wrong direction and blame the state legislature.
The last 8 years have brought us to where we are. The criminal mismanagement of our state budget will leave us with a $2 BILLION shortfall next year by CONSERVATIVE estimates. The idea is not to raise taxes in good economic times but to accumulate rainy day funds for times like these. And this is one of those rainy day periods that proves that uncontrolled spending by the legislature is as I have said above, CRIMINAL.
As we creep towards “Socialism” nationally, we must resist the urge to do so locally. Electing “Economically Conservative” candidates is a necessity if we are to balance the State Budget and ensure fairness to all of us. Electing the same tax and spend politicians will only continue our slide into indebtedness and ultimately a socialist state that benefits no one.
Tell all of your friends and colleagues that they can make a HUGE difference in this year’s election and send a message that CHANGE is desperately needed in our North Carolina General Assembly.
