NC Govenor Dem Govenor Steals from the kids

[Fieldmouse]

Here in NC it was a big fight to get the lottery. In fact it was and still maybe a crime to have tickets from another states lottery. We get it passed. The proceeds were directed to help pay for the education of our children. Anyone who knows Wake County, where Raleigh is located, knows what a mess that schools system is. Every year you must wait until spring time to find out where your kid will be bussed to next school year. FYI, all in the name of diversity and shortage of classrooms. Now the new Democrat Govenor Bev Perdue needs money to cover budget shortfalls. What better place to take it from but the Educational Lottery money.[:@]

http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2009/mar/03/perdue-dips-lottery-funds-early-term/news/

During her campaign for governor, Beverly Perdue often said she wanted take extra steps to ensure profits from the North Carolina Education Lottery were spent solely on education.
She was worried lawmakers might tap the ready source of cash for something else. And less than two months in office, faced with a brutal economy that's sapping the state of revenue, both lottery critics and allies say she's become the prime example of her own fears.
Perdue said last week she would use $87.6 million in lottery profits to ensure there's money available in the state's day-to-day operating accounts to pay the bills through mid-April. Lawmakers who voted for the lottery law say they're frustrated by the decision, even though they know she made it to face the state's worst fiscal emergency in a generation.

For the record, this doesn't affect me or my kids. I will always send my kids to private schools. This is about the other kids who don't get that option.Their education should mean a little more to a Democrat but as history bears out, they don't really care.

[kevin1]

I don't think any state has ever begun a lottery with the intent of dedicating the funds to a sole benficiary, most allot a portion to the schools and the rest to the general fund. The "money for the schools" pitch is intended to make it look too noble for the blue noses to vote against.

[bugsNbows]

FL lottery money has supposedly been directed to education for many years. It's all BS. The government schools here are a joke, and they all are cutting deep due to budget shortfalls. Thank goodness I don't have any children in these schools. They are PATHETIC. Can somebody please cite something (anything) that the government does that is successful or profitable and actually works? I can't think of anything.

[Doe Dumper]

LOL True.. theres no problem in existence that government cant make worse