[Speed Gibson,
Tuesday July 12, 2005 at 11:52pm]
Jason Lewis weighs in
Jason Lewis, Minnesota's Mr. Right for ten years, now in North Carolina, has apparently been keeping tabs on our budget situation. He wrote an article appearing in tomorrow's Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Let's see, that's $4,000 per capital in North Carolina, $5,000 per capita here. What are they missing?
Higher education? No, they have 50 to our 38, among them the University of North Carolina, NC State, Duke, and Wake Forest.
K-12 education? Roads? Health care? I bet they have all of these, too.
Makes you wonder.
For no one in the real world thinks that a $30 billion budget in a state of only 5 million residents (North Carolina has a $32 billion biennial budget serving well over 8 million) represents anything other than a "spending problem."
Let's see, that's $4,000 per capital in North Carolina, $5,000 per capita here. What are they missing?
Higher education? No, they have 50 to our 38, among them the University of North Carolina, NC State, Duke, and Wake Forest.
K-12 education? Roads? Health care? I bet they have all of these, too.
Makes you wonder.