As the charade plays out in the Obama White House over budgets and debt, it’s worth noting what happened last month in North Carolina. Fiscal conservatives promptly overrode a liberal veto. North Carolina grew resoundingly in the 1960s and 70s. Industry escaped from repressive Democratic Yankee states to the more business-friendly South. Retirees also [...]
Posts tagged ‘layoffs’
Governor Beverly Perdue’s Bad Day
July 20th, 2011
Connecticut Bites The Bullet
May 10th, 2011
A Democrat has to LAY OFF union employees. As of the 2010 Census, Connecticut had 3,518,288 people. 1.3% of them (46,290 people) are full-time state employees – most in unions. Governor Dan Malloy is sending 4,742 of them pink slips. Connecticut is short of cash!
Wave 1,100 Goodbyes Deval
March 15th, 2011
And take a big bow Deval, – you did it! You and those stuck-on-stupid Taxocrats have just managed to push another 1,100 high-paying white collar [green] jobs out of state. And barely 2 months into your second term! Wow, you are one fast-acting governor. Fidelity Investments announced today that after cutting some 8,000 jobs [...]
Going, Going, Almost Gone!
February 24th, 2010
Begun: 1953 Dying: 2010 With network anchor faces we all remember such as John Charles Daly, John Cameron Swayze, Frank Reynolds, Howard K. Smith, Harry Reasoner, Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings, Elizabeth Vargas, Bob Woodruff*, Charles Gibson, Diane Sawyer, and lately even that kid – George Stephanopoulos, – ABC news is down to some 1400 employees [...]