The following pertains to a front-page article in the Asheville Citizen-Times which does not appear to be online and reports from WWNC.
I have heard much disappointment about Beverly Perdue’s discovery that federal funds had complicated strings attached which, amazingly, might mean the state can hog the lion’s share of its newly-printed cash rather than passing it along to local governments who wait with baited breath. [Translation: Government is an overgrown bureaucracy bent on increasing its inefficiency and unaccountability. Government is abdication.]
Left-wing bloggers who pick on centrist bloggers like me would take offense if I should launch into a diatribe about Perdue being the state’s greatest industrialist. More exactly, she’s just smarter than all the state’s industrialists, and that’s why she and her minions have the power to redistribute the wealth through the administration of corporate welfare – with reams of complicated paperwork, of course. [Translation: Politicians don’t know squat about the day-to-day operations of most businesses. Historically, remote control of the economy has always reduced potential output.]
My limited experience on the receiving end of corporate welfare causes me to go frenetic trying to figure out what kind of Satan’s spell compels those in authority to apply Procrustean standards to the mass of human capital out here. But that’s a personal problem, and the concept of persons is against the spirit of mass hysterical all-oneness the media tells us we demand from our government. [Translation: Man, in the image of God, is supposed to be creative. Government (that which festers in the abdication of personal responsibility), unchecked, moves in the direction of replacing thought with micromanagement.]
You see, the governor is a stellar example of financial wizardry because she has taxing power. The article states that North Carolina will increases taxes, and that will be fairer. The obvious conclusion is that it is fair for government to have more money. All tax increases, as it turns out, are fair, according to voting politicians on the campaign trail. [Translation: Those with unlimited powers to tax and generate paperwork should not be telling businesses attempting to run at a profit how to operate.]
