When more money is taken from people than should be, "people" come out of the gutters to demand their "fair share" of that cash. It's absolutely amazing to me how many people honestly want something for quite literally nothing.

This time, it's the State Employees. You see, the state of North Carolina stole collected more tax money than they anticipated. This created a rather unique situation where the government has more money than they needed for their budget. So, instead of doing the right thing and giving the extra money back to the people who paid it, the state government is seeing how quickly they can spend the money, under the leadership of governor Mike Easley (D) and the legislature (D).

Easley has proposed raising taxes more to collect even more money and giving teachers a huge pay increase. And no, the teachers don't actually have to do, well, ANYTHING to get that pay increase -- they are to get a raise for simply breathing. Mike Gould, a state employee, wants to be paid more for breathing, too. No, he doesn't want to produce anything more, he just wants more cash.

Oh, and Easley has already proposed giving Mike and his fellow breathers a four-percent pay raise with zero increase in productivity -- an extra 4% for continuing to breathe. However, Mr. Gould says that's not enough -- he should get 15% for being able to continue to breathe and produce exactly what he's producing now.

What ever happened to hard work? I'll tell you what happened to it: government. Government is literally destroying America from within. Government should only do what no one else can do. Government, as it grows, continues to crush the free market by doing things like this -- rewarding people for breathing and not producing. The moochers are winning. Maybe I should join them.

Oh, how I yearn for freedom.

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