Up and Coming Weekly is a weekly publication in Fayetteville, NC and Fort Bragg, NC area offering local news, views, arts, entertainment and community event and business information.
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STAFF WRITER Stephanie Crider PUBLISHER Bill Bowman INSIDE PUBLISHER’S PEN by BILL BOWMAN By the time you read this editorial, some of it (or all of it) may be old news. This is always the risk a weekly community newspaper takes when it is reporting and commenting on current and important local issues and events. In this case, at this writing Gov. Beverly Perdue is mulling over the decision whether or not to veto the $19.7 billion spending plan sent to her courtesy of North Carolina Republicans and fi ve gutsy Democrats. Yes, it was not “political” business-as-usual as N.C. House Democrats Jim Crawford, Bill Owens, Dewey Hill, Tim Spear and our own Bladen/Cumberland County Representative William Brisson looked beyond goose stepping to party politics and yielded to presenting a plan that would eliminate the state’s burdensome $2.4 billion defi cit and implement a program that, hopefully, will reduce taxes, government, spending and eventually stimulate the N.C. economy, improve education and create what the Democrats have heralded as their number one priority: Jobs, jobs, jobs! Well, it really doesn’t make any difference what political affi liation you are: Democrat, Republican, Independent, Tea Partier, way left liberal or far right conservative, job one should be addressing the dire state of our economy. This should be the highest priority for all of our political leaders. Think about it, with the housing market in the toilet, unemployment exceeding 9 percent and the commercial banking industry sitting on their money waiting for it to hatch, I don’t think we really need to be coddling the unemployed or waiting for McDonald’s fast food restaurants to create another hiring frenzy. We need to lower taxes now and provide incentives for businesses and industry to grow and expand so they can provide jobs for many of those 47,000 unemployed North Carolinian’s who are desperately waiting at their mailboxes for their next unemployment check. They refer to this group as the long-term jobless workers. Fayetteville’s Weather Forecast Thursday June 9 Friday June 10 Saturday June 11 Fayetteville’s Weather Forecast Well, of course they are. If the government pays you not to work, why would anyone aspire be a short-term jobless worker? But, I digress. Back to the fi ve political servants who dare put their state, communities and constituents fi rst by making decisions that are unpopular and not without political consequence. They have endured long weeks of democratic peer pressure, hundreds of pleas via email and telephone from die-hard party loyalists, several meetings with the governor herself and, fi nally, a mass mailing assault by the North Carolina Association of Educators into each one of their districts demonizing their actions on behalf of their constituents. Oh well, that’s politics. I guess. You won’t have to worry about the future of these fi ve brave and noble public servants. They looked beyond party loyalties and did what they thought was right for North Carolina and the people they serve. In other words, they did the right thing, for the right reasons. How could anyone go wrong, Republican or Democrat, by following this simple philosophy? Besides, the reality of it all when it comes to getting us out of this $2.4 billion defi cit, is to realize that we surely cannot spend our way out of it. We must reduce our spending, downsize the government and get everyone to participate in the process. That’s right, everyone must participate. No sacred cows! One of the problems is that everyone knows what we must do, but no one wants to do it! Put another way: Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die! When the going gets tough ... the tough get going. It is times like these that test the mettle of men. In the end, everyone will know who their friends are. Thanks for reading Up & Coming Weekly. BILL BOWMAN, Publisher, Up & Coming Weekly, COMMENTS? 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