"Of the bureaucracy, For the bureaucracy, and By the bureaucracy..."

That is how the government of this United States is set up, right? It certainly has nothing to do with the PEOPLE today. Just an example, a few quotes from a GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE, who is supposed to work for the people:

UNC Charlotte Chancellor Phil Dubois plans to convene a committee this summer to study how rapidly the campus should grow over the next decade or two.

Dubois has previously said he thinks UNC Charlotte's student population probably needs to be much larger

Dubois also told trustees that he's confident that the N.C. General Assembly will approve UNC Charlotte's request for a $45.8 million

This is 100% backwards from how this country was founded. The government was supposed to work for the people. The people were to tell the government what to do, not the other way around. This just gives further proof that the government is absolutely, completely, beyond control.

The only remaining question is whether the government can be brought back subservient to the people with or without violence.

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I seriously, honestly, want to know if ANY government-run school has EVER NOT asked for more money because it was the end of the world and all children would fail or die if they weren't given more money. Johnson schools has asked for a 15% increase for the year. And of course, it's a major crisis if they don't get it:

Some of this is not even break-even, weÂ’re just trying to keep our heads above water

It's a bare-bones budget

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The Ogre received an email entitled, "The Dukes of Cary?" As most people who get piles of email every day, I thought, "Spam," got hungry and readied the "delete" key. But I missed the delete key and read the email by mistake.

I found a reference to a printed letter to the editor in the Raleigh News and Observer. If you've followed politics in NC at all and know the politics behind the current Duke Lacrosse team, you'll get a kick out of the letter.

Nice one, Mike!

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That's the message to the North Carolina General Assembly from the North Carolina Community College System. They want more than $1 billion, an increase of THIRTY percent over last year's budget. Why?

Because we've never been fully funded

Community college officials said they would prefer to keep tuition affordable for working people, so the extra money needs to come from taxpayers.

The theory is that the students will get higher-paying jobs and generate more state tax revenue in the future to ease the burden on the taxpayers who now being asked to foot the bill.

If that theory is so true, can anyone tell me the last time that ANY education system EVER asked for less? At what point will there be a reduction in burdens on the taxpayer? In North Carolina? The morons who run this state can't even make do with cost of living increases -- they're asking for THIRTY PERCENT MORE. No, that's not a theory, that's a blatant lie.

The Community College system might have a purpose, but it's no longer being used to educate -- it's being used to redistribute wealth from those who work and earn money to those who do not. It's wrong -- but the Socialist Democrats running the state disagree. As long as you support Democrats in North Carolina, they will continue to spend and waste money taken from those who work.

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Remember, later this year, as across North Carolina you are absolutely inundated with calls for increased spending, increased taxes, more funding, and bond package support that's For The Children (TM) and government-run "education."

Since the 1997-98 school year:

Cartaret County lost 300 students through decreased enrollment -- but gained 117 new employees.

Craven County lost 278 students -- yet gained 142 new employees.

Rutherford County lost 115 students and gained 146 new employees.

In a total of 36 of North Carolina's school districts, there was a reduction of nearly 10,000 students -- and an increase of 800 new "administration" and other employees. Across the North Carolina system, enrollment is up 11% while the number of employees has increased 19% -- to a tune of over $1,000,000,000.00 in the last TWO years.

Remember that the next time an elected official tells you that ANY increase in taxes or education funding is "For The Children" or even for educating the children -- they're just outright lying.

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