To understand what Mump are doing to the Fed gov't, look at North Carolina

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Pulling the state down by its own bootstraps: How 15 years of budget cutting has impacted NC
https://ncnewsline.com/2025/04/22/pulling-the-state-down-by-its-own-bootstraps-how-15-years-of-budget-cutting-have-impacted-nc/

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And so it was that the General Assembly enacted big tax and spending cuts in response – some over the objection of Democratic governors, and for four years, with the aid of a Republican chief executive.

The result, unsurprisingly, was that core services like schools, mental health, transportation, public safety, and environmental permitting – plagued by funding cuts and staff reductions — all struggled mightily to keep up with rising demands of what remained a fast-growing population.

And it wasn’t long before the falloff in services produced scads of constituent complaints. Frustrated by things like teacher shortages, massive waits from services for people with developmental disabilities and basics as simple as driver’s license renewals and construction permits, North Carolinians spoke out and made their unhappiness known. It continues to this day.

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Rather than responding to the complaints about inadequate services by restoring funding and at least placing a hold on more tax cuts, the same politicians who imposed the big cuts in the first place joined the chorus of complaints. Instead of acknowledging how their policies had demoralized and overwhelmed the state employees who remained, GOP lawmakers decried the decline in services, made a regular show of interrogating agency heads, and advanced two new solutions: privatizing public services and lowering standards.

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1. NC had a strong educational system before Republican slash/burn

tactics tore it down.

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2. the wealthy districts in the triangle are cutting positions like crazy

Wake County hasn't hit classroom teachers as much but Durham is cutting 4 core teachers per building while Chapel Hill is cutting positions as well. My school is losing at least 2 positions and we were just about at state minimums.

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3. My daughter and her partner are moving back here to California

She moved back there near Asheville to be with her boyfriend and gave it a good 2 years. They both have had horrible time with employment, they managed to keep their place until late last year and now they're taking care of the boyfriend's dad's apartment while he's out of town. But when he comes back it's not a good situation. So they're actually getting the U-Haul and packing now and hoping to move back out here in the next two weeks before the summer season starts in Lake Tahoe. My daughter can walk right back into her old front desk job and her boyfriend can easily work at any of the restaurants here in town...