| 2008 North Carolina Election Results | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bev Perdue | DEM | 2120149 | 50.22 | |
| Pat McCrory | REP | 1980162 | 46.91 | |
| Michael C. Munger | LIB | 121191 | 2.87 | |
The bureaucrat's first objective, of course, is preservation of his job -- provided by the big-government system, at the taxpayers expense. -- Whether real world problems get solved or not is of secondary importance. It doesn't take much cynicism, in fact, to see that the bureaucrats have a vested interest in not having problems solved. If the problems did not exist (or had been invented), there would be no reason for the bureaucrat to have a job -- William Simon