The way Gov. Bev Perdue, legislative Democrats and the public-sector unions have been whining and gnashing their teeth, you’d think jobs for government drones had fallen off a cliff. However, as Don Carrington’s investigations have found (and as Donna linked below), public-sector employees have skated through this recession virtually untouched.
Perdue vetoed a budget passed by both houses of the General Assembly, saying “It would cause a horrible mess. Government would shut down.” This is pure poppycock, balderdash and shameless demagoguery, and Perdue knows it. But that’s all Democrats have, on the state level and nationally, because they haven’t got the guts or the good sense to understand that we can’t keep spending to satisfy unions and entitlement groups.
The difference between Perdue’s budget and the Republican budget she vetoed is about 3,000 jobs. That doesn’t seem to be too much of a hit for the teachers’ and state workers’ unions to take, considering that the private sector, as Don points out, has lost more than 300,000 jobs already. Where are the protests and marches for them?
Public-sector workers need to suck it up and do their part, and Perdue needs to quit her demagoguery and let them.
