McCrory responds to NYT: 'NC is on powerful comeback'

[alp227]

Source: WRAL

Three days after an editorial in The New York Times ripped the policies of North Carolina's Republican-led General Assembly, Gov. Pat McCrory on Saturday wrote a response to the newspaper praising the state's leadership for making the "tough decisions that we were elected to do."

Headlined "North Carolina's Path: The Governor's View," Saturday's letter to the editor claimed that the state is on the road to a powerful comeback and also offered examples of how many of the reforms passed by North Carolina's General Assembly in the last six months are paying off.

"Already companies have announced plans to create more than 9,300 jobs in the state and invest more than $1.1 billion in facilities," the letter said. "The jet engine manufacturer GE Aviation is bringing its advanced materials production to a new facility near Asheville."

McCrory also pointed to his experience as the mayor of Charlotte, saying that during his time leading the city he didn't bother with keeping tabs on what side of the political aisle ideas came from as long as they solved a problem in a cost effective way for taxpayers.

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[Stargazer09]

1. Really?

A powerful comeback? For men, maybe.

[meow2u3]

2. Translation: segregation and oppression is coming back

after decades of equality and justice for all.

[BornLooser]

3. No Woids

[ancianita]

4. We can probably look forward to a big comeback in rigged elections, as well.

The best gubmint money can buy.

[bluemarkers]

5. Businesses located here all the time before this reign of terror

Charlotte, RTP etc have flourished under Democrats and progressive policies.

I think he meant to say he was taking the state backwards in moral terms.

[otohara]

6. Ugh - Never Visitng That State

even though our kid is living there now.

[cstanleytech]

20. I came >.< to moving there about 4 years ago it makes me glad I am still in Georgia

which considering how badly I hate living in this state a major achievement by NC.

[Faygo Kid]

7. Jerk.

And to think not long ago I considered North Carolina as a retirement destination.

No chance now.

[cstanleytech]

21. How about Oregon or Washington state or even the northern part of CA?

[jtuck004]

8. I wonder if GE Aviation has been asked for a public comment on their support of

the denial of voting rights for black citizens, and the other "improvements" this sorry excuse for an elected official is so proud of.

That would make a fine newspaper article, plastered across the nation.

[JanMichael]

10. Pat McCrory and his bunch gave them about 27 million in incentives

GE already has facilities in the state, and needed a new location for manufacturing....that was fairly close to their other buildings-

[jtuck004]

12. I figured that, but lots of sunlight on their support of racism and denial of voting rights

could cost them a lot more than $27 million - they depend a lot on foreign sales, and that could seriously interfere with that. Make that $27 million look insignificant by comparison.

[JanMichael]

13. another thing too....it's about 250 jobs added over FIVE years

not immediate

[DonCoquixote]

9. Translation

"The Koch Royal House and their comrades worked very hard to turn this state into a bastion of the New Confederate states of America. We got rid of all this progressive crap you Yankees were bringing down here, but we still use it to lure down banks, businesses and students who would otherwise avoid our state."

[NRaleighLiberal]

11. "powerful comeback" to the pre-Civil War years. it's all good, Pat!

Always looks like he is smelling something foul - like his ethics and politics. He reeks!

[Kelvin Mace]

14. That's right 19th Century, we are coming back to YOU!

We should have Jim Crow back in place by year' end.

[mwooldri]

15. Powerful comeback? 5th highest unemployment rate?

Before 2008 the unemployment rate was around 5%. It shot up at one point to 11%. It has improved, granted, and we're a little under 9% now. So why does Virginia have a much lower unemployment rate? For the past 3 years, NC's unemployment rate has been bouncing around 9-10%. Virginia is bouncing around 5-6%. Why the gap? If we're "roaring back" then shouldn't NC have unemployment rates in the 5% range that we did have in the past?

Where's these 9,300 jobs coming from? A single major company in 2010 culled 3,000 from its workforce in the Piedmont Triad area alone. Three years later another major company in the same line of business added about 1,000 jobs. So we've still got a net jobs shortfall.

Speaking of unemployment figures - I can guarantee that they will go down. If the insurance payout doesn't last as long, then people claiming unemployment insurance will go down ... and drop out of the pool of people seeking employment. That may make the unemployment figure shrink quickly but it will be an artificial drop.

[marions ghost]

16. I hope that media keeps on covering this

as it unfolds. People around the country need to understand what is going on in NC.

[struggle4progress]

17. "Marching proudly towards our glorious future!"

[jmowreader]

18. Pat brags about that which he should be ashamed of

This 9300 jobs he touts?

The population of North Carolina is 9.752 million, according to the Census Bureau. Deduct the 23.4 percent that's too young to work, and the 13.8 percent that's of retirement age, and you wind up with 6.124 million North Carolinians.

The U6 unemployment rate is 16.2 percent averaged over the last year. To drop that rate to the five percent that economists count as "full employment," he's got to create 686,000 jobs. In percentages, he is creating 1.3 percent of his needs. Economists count that as either a blip or a rounding error, depending on how vicious they want to get.

If he can come up with 100,000 jobs that don't require their employees to ask if you want fries with that, I'll be impressed.

[LiberalElite]

19. Sure it is - to the 19th century eom