Somebody signed me up for spammers, reportedly from the Office of Governor Bev Perdue. Written much like articles in The Onion, these spoofs make the governor out to be a clueless ideologue who thinks she controls all things. This one makes fun of the way leaders in government use job creation to justify everything up to and including self-destruction.
. . . A bill moving through the Senate would raid the funds, which have helped Gov. Perdue attract pledges of more than 24,000 new jobs and more than $3.4 billion in new investments for the state’s recovering economy.
Gov. Perdue, who has made jobs a top priority, urged senators to reconsider the proposal.
“The proposed cuts to North Carolina’s jobs and economic development funds will damage our ability to recruit new jobs and to expand existing businesses in the state. Other Southern states, notably Virginia, have called for an increase in similar funds so they can take our jobs away,” she said.
“I am truly surprised that Senate leadership is considering taking North Carolina’s jobs money as a way to balance the budget. It won’t work – and what’s more, our people won’t work if we can’t bring new companies and new industries to our state. We have many hundreds of new jobs in the pipeline right now, and they depend on that money. If we don’t win those projects, those jobs go somewhere else. It’s that simple.”
The hyperlink for the evil bill, of course, led to the text of the Balanced Budget Act of 2011. If this sort of humor makes you jolly, you can sign up for the “newsletter” at
http://www.governor.state.nc.us/newsletter/default.aspx.
