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What do Tommy Thompson, Economic Developer for Beaufort County, Bev. Perdue and Nancy Pelosi have in common? They are all economic illiterates. Let us explain.
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Last week we were treated to pictures of an American drone captured in Iran. Less noticed in the spin coming out of the White House about Obama's winning the War in Iraq was a note that American drones will continue to operate over Iraq.
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The Pantego Wind Farm continues to attract attention by the Beaufort County Commissioners, if for no other reason than several members of the public are intent on being sure the Commissioners understand the issues and the company is putting for a valiant effort to "sell" the project.
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Proof that we have an economic illiterate for President of the United States was clearly demonstrated Sunday night (12-12-11) on 60 Minutes when Steve Croft interviewed Barack Obama.
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Barack Obama made a speech the other day in Osawatomie, Kansas declaring that capitalism and a free market economy have failed and we need to redefine the American system.
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Most people, especially in Beaufort County, do not live within the city limits of a municipality and most do not even live close enough to be threatened by annexation.
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Does Wal-Mart know something our EDC/Committee of 100 doesn't know?
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The Washington Daily News is once again feeding us the line our "leaders" want us to believe. Those leaders include Alan Jordan, Jerry Langley, Al Klemm and Jay McRoy.
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Such were the words of an admired law professor we once had. He went on to explain that, in law, it is essential for justice to prevail, and therefore extreme care must be taken in making an exception to any law.
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"Further study is needed..." those words, perhaps the most frequently occurring in academic writing are code for "give us more money."
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There are an abundance of research and popular media reports about the problems we identified with wind generated electricity.
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We sat and listened to the speakers at the Utilities Commission hearing the other night and thought: "this wind stuff sounds real good." We particularly like the part about being pollution free and reducing CO2.
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An Illinois company, doing business as Pantego Wind Energy LLC proposes to build a windmill farm in Pantego to generate electricity. It is a bad idea.
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Walter B. Jones, Jr. supports the pullout of American troops from Afghanistan. Now we learn how the enemy views all this.
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It didn't work. In spite of all the threats from Team Obama the Democrat-controlled Senate rejected Obama's "piece" of his Jobs Bill stimulus that was proposed to provide for firemen, policemen and teachers.
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He has written a letter to Congress trying to justify his role in "Fast and Furious." We'll save you a recitation of the details of Fast and Furious, but a quick internet search will give you hundreds of articles on the topic. Suffice it to say it is a big story.
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We've posted several articles and videos the last few days about the "Occupy wherever" protests. You've probably seen reports if you watch the Elite Media evening news stories.
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Crony capitalism. Well connected special interests getting lucrative breaks from government has become so commonplace that most Americans no longer pay much attention to them.
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has called Social Security a Ponzi scheme. Democrats are busy cranking out emails castigating him for pointing out the obvious.
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You are in trouble. Deep, deep trouble. The evidence to support that contention is all around, but none more profound than Maureen Dowd's piece in the Sunday New York Times.
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Barack Obama has both begun his re-election campaign and signaled what his message will be: "Politics is the problem." Or, if you prefer: "Those Republican politicians are the problem." Technocracy is his solution.
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Have you ever wondered why it seems that Beaufort County is almost always behind other counties?
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We recently reported on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling against the Forsyth County commissioners prayer policy.
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What they're doing in Washington is nothing more than a Kabuki dance of politics. The debt ceiling crisis is nothing more than a manufacturered crisis designed to accomplish partisan political objectives.
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Imagine you own a business that has multiple locations but with basically the same demographics of employees at each of the six locations.
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Tell us what you have against the Voting Rights Act? Is that piece of legislation, and specifically its most recent extension, something the WDN is "concerned" about?
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In recent years the same has come to be true with "jobs." If something is said to create or retain jobs, it'll most likely to fly with a politician.
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It is a generally accepted proposition, except in some government bureaucracies, that clearly incompetent employees should be removed from the organization.
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Certainly our well-informed Beaufort Observer readers know about the recent climate change research fraud. And then there is the little known story of the pfiesteria outbreaks in the 1990's.
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We understand this is a complex issue. A wrong was done. We may debate by whom. We may also debate appropriate penance.
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You would have to be incredibly creative to imagine a more absurd exhibition of what is wrong with government in this country than what was the reality exhibited by the Beaufort County Commissioners last night (6-20-11). More precisely... by five of the seven commissioners.
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Is it a conflict of interest for a local government official to vote on a matter before a board upon which he/she sits if one of the parties with an interest in the issue before the board is a close associate, such as a client, employee or close business associate of the official?
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This year's budget process was pretty much the same as the previous year's...and the year before. The only real difference is that they have much less in their reserve account so they simply plan to raise taxes.
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To understand what I'm about to say requires you to either accept that this nation, state and county are in serious financial trouble.
Published: Friday, May 6th, 2011 @ 12:09 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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