Centers Of Excellence Or Centers Of Wasted Money
North Dakota Governor John Hoeven has made much, of late, of the “Centers of Excellence” he’s established all over the state. He’s claiming that they’ve created jobs etc., but one problem is that he sold these centers as needing only a one-time grant from the state to get started. Now several of the centers have come back to the state government looking for millions more in tax dollars.
Ten million more dollars, in fact, to be split up among centers in Grand Forks, Fargo, Minot and Devils Lake. House Majority Leader Bob Stenehjem voted against the request for money made to the Emergency Commission, but the rest of the people on the commission voted to grant it.
In the business world, what do we call an enterprise that can’t be successful without infusions of tax dollars? We call it a failure. Which is what these “centers of excellence” are.
Failures.
