State agencies are cutting costs in myriad ways.
Asked to trim spending by up to nine percent by Gov. Beverly Perdue, agencies are delayng the opening of prison units, cutting their own grass and driving Highway Patrol cars longer.
They have put a freeze on most hiring, reduced travel to professional conferences and delayed the purchase of cars, computers, mowers and tractors.
The N.C. Department of Transportation laid off 1,200 — or 92 percent — of its temporary workers, who typically fill potholes, mow grass and clean out drain pipes.
The Revenue Department delayed by a month the hiring of temporary workers who handle the spring state income tax rush, and the Department of Environment and Natual Resources is hiring fewer seasonal workers for state parks. (N&O)
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Predator State: Defined By James K. Gailbraith
the Predator State is a coalition of relentless opponents of the very idea of a “public interest”, whose purpose is to master the state structure in order to empower a high plutocracy with nothing more than vile and rapacious goals.
Look closely at the flow of money in state gummint: In the front door from the taxpayers, out the back door to profit obsessed corporations.