Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton visited Western North Carolina again to address job creation. This time, he was to hear from “experts” from the fields of economic development and transportation. [Translation: We want to flatter and trick you into saying you want passenger rail.] Dalton was attending as chair of the North Carolina Logistics Task Force.

The mission of the Logistics Task Force is to ensure that North Carolina has the necessary foundation to remain competitive in the global economy over the long-term.

[Translation: As with all evils, our lust to tax and regulate will never be satisfied, so we must become a more onerous task master. If people who don’t understand economics try to leave the state because they say they can no longer operate here at a profit, we state can seek federal dollars to lure them to stay and become bureaucracies.]

The members of the Task Force are focusing on developing a strategic list of statewide priorities for continued job creation.

[Translation 1: We’re going to double the influx of illegal immigrants. Hey, where are all the jobs going?]

[Translation 2: People only think on election day when they vote us omniscient. Otherwise, they’re too stupid to even figure out if they want to put food in their mouths they have to get out of bed and get to work. Socialist dictatorships have never in history created prosperity only because I, great me, wasn’t in charge. We need to hire experts to come up with a master plan so we can strategically move our human material about our chessboard. Meanwhile, let’s regulate business until proprietors can’t turn to the right or the left without paying an accountant and lawyer $200/hr.]

The Task Force is studying the critical relationship between commerce and infrastructure . . .

[Hint: How about replacing the “Build it and they will come” model with a “Don’t strangle them, and they’ll build it themselves” one.]

. . . and expects to develop a plan for the seamless movement of people, goods, and information throughout the state and beyond.

[Free Association: This conjures images of trains in Germany (1933-45).]