First You Get the Raise, and Then You Do the Job

Pat McCrory just gave his cabinet secretaries 8% pay hikes as large as $13,200 -- more than anything afforded to typical state employees in recent years. This brings their salaries into the $130k or more a year range. Why the increase? “I’m trying to make it at least where they can afford to live while running multibillion-dollar departments,” McCrory said. Wow. Tell us: Just how do the rest of you struggling along on a mere $121,000 salary do it?! What's the real problem here? Are they all tapped out from the money they gave to the McCrory campaign? (Hattip: Pay-to-Play Pat)