Gov. Beverly Perdue said North Carolina may see stimulus money by the end of the week.
Speaking on the lawn in front of the White House today, Perdue said that she had been assured by President Barack Obama that the first round of stimulus spending will begin as soon as Wednesday.
She said the money will help build roads, create environmentally friendly jobs and save teachers' jobs in North Carolina.
Perdue spoke with Obama Sunday night and this morning about the stimulus.
"I think if it's shaky for us in North Carolina these days, how must it feel if you're looking at the whole country or the whole world?" she said.
Perdue also repeated a line she has used this weekend to jibe Republican governors who have criticized the stimulus, saying they may not take all of the money allocated to their states.
"I am not a real good driver, but I will take a pickup truck to South Carolina and be glad to take any of the money that (Gov.) Mark Sanford and the people of South Carolina don't want," she said.
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Re: Perdue: Stimulus coming this week
This "stimulus" is NOT free money...it is taxpayer money. If The NC legislature and governors past & present had been good stewards of taxpayer money instead of spending every penny collected...they wouldn't need more of it...but democrats have never seen a taxpayer dollar they didn't want to spend. This isn't about jobs for North Carolinians, its about filling a budget gap created by overspending. Give NC businesses tax breaks and hiring incentives instead....thats how jobs are really created and an economy stimulated.