Why not? Is there a more pressing need in Mecklenburg County?
CMPD — controlled by the city of Charlotte — complains non-stop of arresting the same guys over and over. Why is it suddenly the city’s job to fund libraries but not a broken criminal justice system?
I’ll tell you why: We are being governed by a bunch of grandstanding morons. Morons who are completely bamboozled by career bureaucrats like Curt Walton and Harry Jones.
Here is Curt Walton, political philosopher, spinning his desire to manage down and justify his own huge salary by boosting city employees’ take by an outrageous $6.1 million:
“It’s not the employees vs. the community,” Walton said. “The employees are the community.”
Wrong, Prof. Walton. The city of Charlotte workforce has shrunk not at all in the current economic climate while Mecklenburg County is still down about 30,000 jobs since 2008. The official state numbers for March are 51,295 unemployed in the county. I suspect that improved some in April — say down to 45K jobless.
That is the community the city of Charlotte is taxing in order to fund grandstanding, hubris, and an out-of-control public sector which refuses to do the hard, dirty work of governing while constantly crowing about how wonderful it is.
What it really is is disgusting — and it will destroy this community.
