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Beaufort County Schools are building a new school on the same ground where Eastern Elementary already exists, at a cost of $10,500,000.00 to Beaufort County's Taxpayers. Is this a wise expense of taxpayer dollars at this time?
19.23% Yes, Beaufort County has been awarded a 42 million dollars of grant money from the state of North Carolina (FREE MONEY) to construct school at three hundred and eighty three $ per squ ft.
71.15% No, this is the wrong time, to build the wrong school, on the wrong placement - its lowest point - of Eastern Elementary's existing location, when community schools work best.
9.62% Why should I care about the public's education?
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( February 11th, 2021 @ 9:05 pm )
 
There is so very much that Mr. Trump accomplished that will never be overturned, and certainly not by Simple Joe, who will soon have his own problems with so many Executive Orders that did attempt override legislated laws, which are how the enforceable laws are originated and exist.

I do agree with you that the Republican party needs much work, and the Democratic Socialist party now only exists to give folks hope that the Republican party will one day "grow a pair".

These are truly some strange political times.
( February 11th, 2021 @ 4:42 pm )
 
You May be correct. I still find him as the interloper who recovered a Republican fumble and ran for the goal to score a touchdown. However his four years was based on just that one play. He is irrelevant to me now because almost all of his changes can be changed with a ‘STROKE OF THE PEN’ as they were create. His failure to build a consensus within the Republican party created the vacuum that allowed way too many knee jerk emotional voters to fill. I suspect he may revert to his old Democratic ways once his political ambitions are dissolved and reenters the world of real estate and entertainment.

If I may carry the football analogy a bit further, As an Atlanta Falcon fan, I have watched brilliant plays and 1st half’s deteriorate into losing one losing season after another. They have never been able to build on a solid foundation.

While I don’t consider myself a Republican, you could never tell from my voting record. As a libertarian, I have never been able to rationalize why both Republicans and Democrats talk a good game and continue to increase government interference with our individual liberties. Essentially the battle is now and has always been between Urban and Rural citizens. Urban societies are required to depend on some entity to provide basic services like trash, water, and sewage, etc. It is a simple matter to fall into the trap of “Letting others handle it.”

"The mobs of great cities add just so much to support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get plied upon on another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe." Thomas Jefferson.

The Republican parties challenge is to forge a self-reliance based on individual values while at the same time realizing that we are increasingly an urban country. That is the danger facing our society. We have delegated too much to the Government and too little to the individual self-responsibility for our own fate.
( February 11th, 2021 @ 3:53 pm )
 
I agree in 100% in theory, and in part in practice.

Some Republicans are complicated, and some just use the hard fought brand to swing votes that they do not deserve.

I thought Donald Trump was the latter - the interloper - until he proved to me otherwise, and he did it rather convincingly, and I am about as knowledgeable as they come on what makes a real Republican warrior.

President Trump will always be that guy that won the day on popularity, but made a believer out of me due to pure integrity, and the fight of what all Republicans better find in their political spirits, or, they can kiss this Republic goodbye, and goodbye for good.



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