So, during the toughest economy in the past twenty years, NC has grown government significantly while losing jobs. Contrast that with the fact that the state of Massachusetts has cut more government jobs than any state in the union over the past three years.

In fact they cut 5% of their payroll and 3.1% of their total workforce between 2001 and 2003. I wonder if the NC legislature is watching? Doubtful, but one can always hope!

Obviously, the state employees union isn’t happy. Their membership is down about 2,000 members during the same period of time.