GovCo Growing Jobs
And doing so at the alarming expense of the private sector, which from 2001 to 2009 lost nearly 50,000 jobs. At the same time, state government ballooned by adding almost 35,000 jobs, a staggering increase of 12.3 percent, according to a recent report by the John W. Pope Civitas Institute.
“The growth in state government workers at the expense of private sector jobs underscores the expansion of state government in North Carolina over the past decade,” said Civitas Institute policy analyst Brian Balfour.
“North Carolina’s trend of fewer private sector workers being forced to carry the burden of more government bureaucrats is unsustainable,” Balfour said. “The massive budget deficits facing state budget writers right now are in large part due to the rapid expansion of state government’s payroll.”
Now let’s place that into context with the City of Charlotte’s stone-crazy rationale for giving city workers a salary bump when the local unemployment rate continues to toggle in double digits and the city is facing a $10-million budget shortfall, while still chasing funding for a streetcar pipedream and massive expansion of light rail.
More and bigger government is not the solution to the problem facing this city, county and state; it is the problem.
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