Governor Easley is in the last days of his time in elected office. In the 2008 elections, barring some quick and dirty changes to the NC Constitution (which is very possible) by the Democrats, Easley will have to give up his throne and allow another to spend money be governor. So, in his last days, he really wants to spend a LOT of your money.

He's already done all he can to make a high school diploma worthless in North Carolina. He's tried to ensure that every single person in the state (legally or illegally) gets a diploma, even if they can't add 2+2. Now he wants to make the college diploma just as worthless.

Since students aren't learning anything in school anyway, he proposes to allow high school students to get an associate's degree while in high school. Since they're not actually doing any educating in high school, there's no question that the students certainly have the time to do so. So why not give them away? Government hates competition, so this appears to be a move to compete -- with the mail-order diploma mills.

In addition, he wants to make college free -- for those who benefit, not everyone else. He proposes that if students are willing to "work" a whopping 10 hours a week, then they should get up to $50,000 in pay -- from the taxpayer. Don't you think it's a great idea for you, the taxpayer (and yes, you'll get this nationwide because we'll use federal dollars, too) to hire a student for 10 hours a week at $50,000 a year? Too bad, you don't have any say in the matter. He wants to take your money and give it to his pals in the education bureaucracy -- he doesn't even trust the student he loves to spend the money correctly, so he's actually proposing a transfer of funds from the taxpayers to the educrats -- in the name of the student (for the children), of course.

Oh, and those of you paying taxes and who will have to pay increased taxes to pay for such crap? Well, you're going to need to pay just a little bit more because Easley wants to buy a few more stupid poor people's votes -- he wants to increase taxes on people who work for a living "the wealthy," and decrease taxes on lazy bastards who don't work ("the poor").

What a socialist pile of crap. But that is what you get when you elect Democrats.

Posted by: Ogre at 12:43 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
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