Joe Coletti, fiscal policy analyst for the John Locke Foundation, doesn’t mince words about North Carolina’s staggering unemployment rate — we’re now 9th in the nation — or what to do about it.
“The governor has pledged to seek every ‘recovery’ dollar she can get for the state,” Coletti added. “But that’s just a case of the government taking dollars out of the economy and handing them out to politically connected groups while calling the process ‘recovery.’ You can’t build an economy by scooping water out of one end of a swimming pool, dumping it into the other end, claiming the swimming pool has more water, and calling it stimulus.”
Coletti’s full comments are available here.
