Foriest: We made hard choices

Submitted by bkrueger on August 12, 2009 - 9:37am.
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When Dan Ingle was selected to fill the vacancy created by Cary Allred's resignation from the state House in May, one of his first acts was to vote on the state budget.

Ingle, a Burlington Republican, voted against it. He said it was a bad time to increase taxes, according to an account in The Times News of Burlington.

"When I walk down the street in Alamance County, 12 out of every 100 people, they're not working right now," he said.

Democratic lawmakers from the area told the paper they had done the best the could in a difficult year.

"We had to step up and made some hard choices," said Sen. Tony Foriest. a Graham Democrat. "I think we did that."

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Re: Foriest: We made hard choices

Submitted by TruthNGovt on August 12, 2009 - 8:01pm.

Hard choices?? You raised the sales tax, the income tax.... Any idiot could have come up with that in 5 minutes. Why did it take so long?? Enjoying that per diem at the taxpayer's expense, I bet. How is it Dumpling can afford a new communications director?

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Re: Foriest: We made hard choices

Submitted by dahedgehog on August 12, 2009 - 1:07pm.

Burlington's economy must be booming:

"When I walk down the street in Alamance County, 12 out of every 100 people, they're not working right now," (Ingle) said.

They've got a shocking number of people working in Burlington considering that the national employment-population ratio is at 59.4. That means that 40 out of every 100 people walking down the street in the rest of the country are not working. I'm amazed that Burlington is doing so well!

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