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Right you are borderhawk: There was a time when Leftists would spew that Illegals more than economically paid their economic way for being here illegally.

From my experience, as a long serving county commissioner, I well understood that incredible statement as pure sophistry, but now, with Non Patriot Joe enticing tens of millions of Illegals into our Constitutional Republic for the Democratic Socialists' sworn "Browning of America," even the most vapid Leftists never make that foolish argument in favor of their "Undocumented Status," unless ... they are off-the-charts-stupid.

Commented: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 @ 10:39 am By: Stan Deatherage

You are clueless, Little Bobbie. A very high percentage of illegal aliens are living on taxpayer handouts. The money spent in Denver was taxpayer money by the government to subsidize the living expenses of illegal aliens. In the US, the streams of money to pay for this often do not come directly from welfare. Think the massive diversion of FEMA funds for migrant housing and the vast diversion of VA funds for migrant medical care. Then there are local government funds to put them up in luxury hotels. In Germany, it is more centralized and easy to compute a number, and there 63% of all welfare spending goes to illegal alien "asylum seekers".

Commented: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 @ 10:17 am By: borderhawk

It was a clear case of the Center - Left Coalition, a political amalgamation of 2 Democratic Socialists and 2 confirmed RINO county commissioners, who swap votes to share power; employing their combined Left leaning, and inextricably vapid voting block to conveniently waste another 500,000.00 of the public's money to further and needlessly invest in the poorly planned and unneeded project of the grandest extreme - the New Eastern Elementary School Positioned at the Lowest Point of 28 Acres on Hudnell and 264 Business - where spending no money would have conveniently sufficed.

This power move by the Center - Left Coalition of Beaufort County Commissioners was a completely thoughtless assertion "bipartisan power" to the point of incredible sophistry, because wasting that 1/2 million dollars served NO PURPOSE whatsoever to my completely Conservative mind.

We should all shake our heads in disbelief, and then develop the electoral wisdom to disabuse these elected RINOs from their coalition of choice, where swapping votes to share power with Democratic Socialists, on the Beaufort County Commission, is all they could ever fathom how to govern.

Commented: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 @ 9:04 am By: Stan Deatherage

The key words “right next to it. “ Zoning laws protect us from money grubbing developers and improve quality of life.

Commented: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 @ 7:39 am By: Big Bob

I have been busy the past week getting ready for meetings at work so I had not read any of the articles here recently. Last night, January 14th, the Board of Commissioners held a special called meeting to vote on this land issue. When it was over the City of Washington got their cake and ate it too.

The City was paid $125,000 an acre for some really horrible low wet land. They also got to keep the park they have behind the old PS Jones School. The county could have just given them the park and the City would have been happy, but we let them have the park and paid them $500,000 of your tax dollars too.

I thought this land swap issue was a no brainer. Everyone I have spoken to said the same thing as me, swap the land. The City has already put a park and bathrooms on it. They have effectively taken control of it, why not make it formal?

Commented: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 @ 7:27 am By: Tandy Oliver Dunn

Great editorial and spot on! The WSJ points out that the Democrat politicians are trying to deflect from their own piss-poor management and governance when they try to blame "climate change".

These weather conditions have existed forever. The Santa Ana winds existed when the Spanish colonists arrived in California in the 1500s and local Indians knew of them long before that. They are NOT 'climate change". The Spanish colonists gave them that name centuries ago. Ditto the El Nino / La Nina cycle that also played a big part in the weather conditions that caused the wildfires.

"Climate change" is nothing but a pile stinky pile of political BS.

Commented: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 @ 8:49 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Maybe we should just cut off all federal funds to any local or state government that subsidizes and harbors illegal aliens.

Commented: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 @ 7:31 am By: Conservative Voter

These interlopers are costing the American taxpayer billions. We badly need Tom Homan getting to work to send them home where they belong. Anyone who gives them taxpayer money ought to be indicted for harboring an illegal alien. Cut off their gravy train of taxpayer money, and many of them will self-deport. We don't need thsee parasites.

Commented: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 @ 7:20 am By: borderhawk

The people of Los Angeles ARE suffering BECAUSE Newsom, Bass, and other Democrats decided to play politics instead of properly governing. Any federal recovery resources should not be pissed away by being put into their hands. Federal resources that go DIRECT to victims, of course, should not be held up for what local politicians did, only funds that those same politicians may screw up with again.

One clear example of how these corrupt Democrats are playing politics is that while the fires are still burning, they have a special legislative session to appropriate $50 million to fight Trump politically but not a dime for firefighting or fire victims. If there is any clear example of playing politics, that is it.

Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 6:09 pm By: John Steed

I love jobs and biddness. But I also love zoning and planning. I would think this might be an issue the seven of you could agree on.

Work to whether, treat each other with respect and get something done. You know, for us.

Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 4:29 pm By: Big Bob

Stan - Any federal funds channeled through any government unit in California must be very tightly restricted so it is not wasted by these morons. Once Trump gets some solid leadership at FEMA, maybe that is the way to route the money, but certainly not with the clowns running FEMA now. For example, they need more fire stations and trucks. Money can be specifically allocated to those purposes. There should be requirements that all wasteful and unnecessary local spending, like DEI, be eliminated. If there is local money thrown away on unnecessary crap, why should federal taxpayers pay for anything? Rebuilding money ought to be conditioned on removal of the burdensome regulations. If federal taxpayers are helping foot the bill, they should not be paying for unnecessary state or local government red tape and bureaucratic delays.

Thankfully, Speaker Johnson has already stated that restrictions need to be put on any federal assistance to prevent local waste, which the California dingbats are notorious for.

Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 3:32 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer