Perdue Vows to Fight Budget Cuts

CARY — Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue said Saturday that she was prepared to protect North Carolina’s position as the progressive leader of the South, despite budget cutbacks by the Republican legislative leadership that she said could leave the Tar Heel state trailing Mississippi.

Appearing at a Democratic fundraising breakfast, Perdue said the Republican House budget that will be voted on this week would result in 30,000 public employees being laid off.

“We are about to see the largest public layoff in North Carolina and maybe in American history,” Perdue told about 350 people at a Jefferson- Jackson Democratic party breakfast at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Cary.

She drew her loudest cheers and whistles from the partisan crowd when she said she was prepared to veto a Republican bill requiring voters to produce photo identification at the polls.

The News & Observer

This is why Bev Perdue is not going to get reelected next year, assuming she even runs again.  If her approval is still in the 30s come next year I wouldn’t be surprised to see her bow out.  She continues to act like a complete clown when it comes to the state’s debt.  When a state has billions of dollars in budget shortfalls, cuts have to be made, and yes, that means state employees will have to be let go.  While it’s never a positive thing to see anyone out of a job, the less government employees we have, the better the environment becomes for private sector job creation.  Government employees do not produce anything.  They don’t bring additional wealth or revenue to a state.  They are an expense that pulls money out of the private sector and ultimately stifles job creation.

Furthermore, Governor Perdue seems to think it’s perfectly ok for anyone to walk into the voting booth and vote without having to prove who they are.  Why is she so opposed to having to show an ID at the polls?  Does she not care about fair and free elections?  5,000 non-citizens voted in Colorado’s elections last year.  That’s a large enough amount to throw a very close election.  Minnesota Senator Al Franken defeated his predecessor Norm Coleman by a mere 312 votes in 2008.

People want spending reined in and they also support voter ID.  Perdue is going against the will of her state for politically partisan reasons and I predict it’s going to hurt her in the end.

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