North Carolina: Easley budget would use lottery money (*note: not yet legal*), local reimbursements

Durham Herald-Sun (Durham, NC) ^ | May 22, 2002 | Scott Mooneyham, AP Writer

[snopercod]

I know where Easley can get $12 million. Just give back Jim Anthony's confiscated property near Brevard.

[Baseballguy]

Why do local polocitians go on retreats to the resorts of NC using state money?

[Hard Case]

Because they are nobility of course. They work hard at taking away our rights and they just plum wears them out. Why should they have to pay their own way? They did all this for us therefore we must owe them rest and relaxation so they can come back full of vigor to take any freedoms we have left.

You know what's even better? They pass laws just for their trips. They charted a bus one year to go down to the coast. Well the aristocracy found out that they weren't allowed to have open containers on the trip down. So then they passed a law allowing open containers in vehicles. The only stipulation was that there had to be one less open container thatn occupants in the vehicle. Well the citizens found out about that one. I even tried it out and we got pulled over. No problem. Well you can't have people doing what the "enlightened ones" want to do themselves so they pass another law saying that open containers are only allowed on charter busses, I think limmo's as well, but I don't think in taxis. Don't worry though, they only have you on their altruistic agenda.

[doglot]

Well now, some do spread it around. Remember seeing where Winston-Salem's people took a few trips to NYC? Stayed at and ate the finest. Little trip to Hawaii thown in there too. Wouldn't want the big city boys think they had anything on the bucolic gang.