N.C. lawmaker critical of Gov's move to take lottery funds from schools

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HaveABall — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:34:56 GMT

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Kaptainess — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:38:41 GMT

Never trust politicians, lawyers, doctors, dentists. The only person I would trust is my trashman that comes every Monday. They take our money and don't listen to us. We put them in office, pay them big salaries, give them top notch bennies and they stab us in the back. I don't know what we as Americans can do other than vote for a Trashman to put in office. BUT the trouble with that, once they are in office and that power thing hits their brains we are back were we started. Catch 22.

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CARBOB — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:29:19 GMT

If anyone beieves the money will be put back in, I have a bridge for sell. This is the very same thing the politicians in Washington have done with the surplus Social Security and Transportation funds, which should have been placed in a trust fund. Those two surplus funds every year are somewhere around 100 billion dollars.

N.C. lawmaker critical of Gov's move to take lottery funds from schools

Lottery Post — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:03:57 GMT

North Carolina State Representative Carolyn Justice says the governor's decision to take lottery funds has left some school districts in distress.

The $50 million in the Education Lottery Reserve Fund was supposed to pay for school construction costs, some for this school year.

The Pender County Republican says that's going to hurt local school districts.

If those counties already issued bonds planning on that money to pay their debt, they're in trouble right now. And this hasn't even... [ More ]