Governor Beverly Perdue came to Waynesville to announce that the jobless rate will recover within a year. This is based on a recipe for success some continue to challenge, and others are just plain sick of watching people trying to ment from pure ideation.
Two philosophies are at odds on how to build a nation:
a. Traditional liberty-loving patriots would turn thousands of people loose, staring into a frontier of potential. Wanting to survive, and driven by something the public schools had not yet had a chance to kill, the pioneers would venture off building railroads across wooded mountains, making better solar adapters for plug-in vehicles, engineering skyscrapers, etc.
b. Hip folks would whine that government needs to give them a job, and arrange covered-dish socials so lots of people can get together and whine. They don’t care who gets taxed to give them makework employment, as long as it’s somebody else.
Now that we have replaced intolerance for the obscene for respect for it, and have collectively embraced (b) as the only solution, we are happy to know that (b) will be administered transparently. That is, every misdirected dollar will be traced publicly to make sure it reaches its ill-chosen target. Expect lots of meetings and bulletins from your local “stimulus†czar and on your dime. Secondly, organizations are urged to beat the clock to apply for and accept job-creating grants before federal guidelines are in place. The president says that people who violate the to-be-formulated rules will be made poster children.
