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Becoming Alabama? Hey, at least we're not becoming CHARLOTTE.

Published: Friday, September 19th, 2014 @ 11:49 pm
By: Brant Clifton ( More Entries )

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    Publisher's note: Brant Clifton uses the words of others, in part, to expose the elitist view in his "bare knuckles" Conservative online publication known as The Daily Haymaker.

    The Prius-driving, low-T, latte-sipping NPR-swooning lefty-snobs at The Charlotte Observer, one of McClatchy's many failing media holdings in The Carolinas, are aghast that this state might become more like — *GASP* — Alabama.

    How are we accomplishing this dastardly deed? By cutting taxes, the really really really smart people in The Observer newsroom tell us. Actually, by cutting taxes, we're becoming less like Alabama. According to The Tax Foundation, Alabama is ranked 25th out of 50 in terms of average state and local sales tax rates. (North Carolina is #6.)

    The American Legislative Exchange Council rated the states according to their projected 2014 outlook. Alabama came in at #20. North Carolina came in at 6th place. Area Development Online ranked the states in terms of being the best places to do business. Alabama came in at #4, and North Carolina was at #5. (So, there's one case where we'd want to be more like Alabama.)

    Alabama is becoming a national and world power in automobile manufacturing. South Carolina landed BMW. (And — um — I don't think we have anybody in that line of work.)

    So, there are plenty of examples where we are outpacing Alabama, as well as some circumstances where we need to be more like Alabama. drive_by_media1

    Maybe — to please the lefty pointy heads at Charlotte's Low-T embassy — we should be more like The Queen City. Charlotte is regularly ranked as the highest taxed locality in the state. It's noted for its crime and its traffic congestion. They spend a lot of money on things like light rail that (1) no one uses and (2) really sock it to the taxpayers. Their last city manager described the city as being "in decline." Charlotte has been doing everything the Observer editorial board wants, and it is in decline. Imagine that!

    It appears the arrogant lefty Yankee transplants are moving on to Alabama, since their attack — or attacks — on Mississippi went soooo well. Ever notice how these high-tax, hyper-bureaucratized localities the lefties love to rave about (DC, NYC, L.A.) are actually some of the honestly least attractive places to live?

    This is really all about trying to beat down McCrory and Tillis. If we're really going to get on a soapbox about legislative performance doing economic damage, what about the U.S. Senate — where Kay Hagan lives and works?

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Gene Scarborough said:

( September 21st, 2014 @ 9:14 am )

I did a paper in my Bible course at Emory about Jesus being the Suffering Servant of Isaiah's Prophecy. I did it with research in my father's massive personal library for preaching. I was so proud of it.

It came back to me with a "C". I was more than pissed UNTIL I read the note: "You did an excellent job on the side of the argument that Jesus WAS the Suffering Servant. You did little or nothing on the opposite theory that his position was viewed through the eyes of history rather than the eyes of his day and the Pharisee dismissal of such. A balanced paper with reason is what is wanted in Emory religious education. Had you done both sides and then concluded with your personal reasoned view, It could be the best paper ever turned in."

I give the political post above a big "C" on the same basis. If you can address the opposite view with as much clarity, I could THEN give your more balanced view a well-reasoned "A".

Only ONE SIDE of any argument makes one a great Propagandist!

We are divided as a nation and in politics. Some kind of more reasonable compromise is far wiser, in my view. I thank you for many points that are hard to dismiss. They stroke the "Conservative" side of my self-description.

Gene Scarborough said:

( September 21st, 2014 @ 9:07 am )

Lester was a "unique" character. He owned and operated the Pickwick Restaurant in Atlanta. When blacks insisted on being served, he denied them service. He had a big ax handle to enforce it!

After that, enterprising Maddox had a basket of miniature ones for sale in his lobby!

I have a picture in my Emory yearbook of him participating in a fraternity event called the "Great Bed Race." He was the occupant as the brothers pushed against their competition. He was a sport as well.

I had an Emory classmate from Adel, GA. She was more than lovely---which was unusual for Emory coeds of "brainy" extraction. I all got far more lovely when women's lib hit the campus and they all burned their bras!

It seems many most intelligent women are endowed in proportion to their brains! Why did I have to graduate in 1967 and go to Southeastern Seminary where such things were off their radar --- as well as the radar of Capital City women by and large.

Silly me.

Stan Deatherage said:

( September 20th, 2014 @ 11:24 am )

I actually met Lester Maddox in 1963 at a small country church near Adel, Georgia. I don't remember him having an ax handle with him.

Gene Scarborough said:

( September 20th, 2014 @ 11:11 am )

Do you get high on hate, my brother??? If there were a sneer emoticon, you should just use it to save words!

I grew up in Atlanta. Charlotte reminds me much of that big city as it surpassed its first million residents. Now Atlanta has some 8+ million and to drive through metro Atlanta takes a good 2 hours --- 3 if you get in a traffic jam of the hour!

The problem with taxation for Atlanta was always the quick grow demands for new schools. I graduated with 63 classmates in 1963 from a little town the size of Bath. It now graduates some 400 each year. Few are white. Most are dark-skinned and from nations around the world. That part of metro Atlanta is a true melting pot of cultures. The crime of DeKalb County is high because so many stressed financially people live there now. My sister just retired early at the end of 20 years because her new student were not of the caliber as the earlier ones.

The thing you must realize about big cities is that traditions are challenged and things change fast. When I left GA for NC back in 1967, I was glad to get away before Lester Madox of ax-handle fame became its governor. I arrived in Wake Forest to tune in the news from Channel 5 Raleigh. Jesse Helms was delivering his nightly editorial and I could not help but say, "Be darned, Lester's first Cousin of Conservatism lives in NC!!!"

Lester did not ruin GA / Jesse did not ruin America while in Congress

Would it not be a most dull world if everybody thought alike ~~~ especially in a nation built on freedom of speech and the press? With the current political race I know 2 things:

(1) The media is getting rich off advertising and distortion.
(2) The wise voter looks to see which media and money is backing a particular candidate for office.

Viva la difference, Sir!!!