Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

Earth is simply in one of its long series of warming and cooling cycles that last multiple centuries. We came out of the last cooling cycle, known as the Maunder Minimum or the Little Ice Age, a particularly cold cycle in the 19th century and are now in a natural warming cycle, that has nothing to do with fossil fuels. The last warming cycle, known as the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than today, and there were no adverse consequences. We know where the coastal cities were in Medieval times and we know that there are no records of any "sea level rise". Further, the granddaddy of all warm periods, the Holocene Maximum when it was much warmer than today for three thousand years corresponded to the golden age of ancient Greek civilization. Again, we know where the coastal cities in Greece were at that time and there is no evidence in ancient Greek writings or elsewhere of any "sea level rise" then either.

Bobbie does not dispute that the BBC's claim of no sea ice at all by 2013 was proven to be false. All of the scare stories from the globalist warmists turn out to be false when they reach the date by which they are supposed to happen.

Commented: Friday, December 27th, 2024 @ 5:46 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Government debt when it gets too extreme will often lead to economic disaster, as it did in Germany in 1923 when it took a wheelbarrow full of paper money to buy a loaf of bread. It almost happened to the UK a century earlier and if the Rothschilds had not bailed out the Bank of England, it would have. In more recent times there have been examples like Zimbabwe and Venezuela, even though both are very rich in natural resources, but leftwingers mishandled their economies with way too much debt.

A counter example is the economic miracle we are seeing in Argentina with the election last year of a Libertarian president, Milei. Milei campaigned with a chainsaw, revving it up to illustrate what he was going to do to government bureaucracy. The first thing he did was to eliminate about half of all national government departments and he has continued to take his chainsaw to government bureaucracy and programs and indicated Argentina will be leaving the Paris Climate Accords. Now the economy is booming, inflation that had been rampant in the country is now nonexistant, the budget is balanced, and he has just given all Argentines a big tax cut.

President Milei of Argentina should be the model for Trump and for DOGE.

Commented: Friday, December 20th, 2024 @ 9:45 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Why in the world would Speaker Johnson engage in this sellout with Senate Democrats? All he would have to do is pass a clean 3 month continuing resolution through the House, and then let the lame duck Senate Democrat majority decide if they want to shut down the government over some pork barrel they want. My guess is they would not, but either way it would be a win for Republicans. Is Johnson just that stupid or is it there was some pork in there that HE wanted?

Commented: Thursday, December 19th, 2024 @ 2:43 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Musk and Soros are alike in one way, the objectives for which they spend money are ideological, not self-serving financial, but they are opposite sides of the ideological divide. Soros is a globalist elitist and collectivist. Musk has joined the forces of individualism and liberty, taling a populist appreach. Soros works with groups like the WEF to promote their agenda. Musk works largely independently to promote his own contrasting vision. The area of censorship is a good example where Soros fights for the WEF vision of controlling the narrative through censorship, while Musk fights for free speech for all and against censorship.

Commented: Wednesday, December 18th, 2024 @ 12:16 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

WHile Obamacare had some similarities to Romneycare, it actually was a tweaking of Hillarycare. All of these socialized medicine halfway houses are a nightmare. Romneycare is a huge reason Mitt Romney should NEVER have been a GOP nominee.

Another huge factor in Obamacare getting off the ground is that the pro-China traitor Mitch McConnell refused to fight it in the Senate. McConnell, as usual, was prostituting his office to special interests instead of representing Republican voters.

And Little Bobbie has totally misrepresented his earlier post, which can easily be seen by scrolling down to it.

Commented: Monday, December 16th, 2024 @ 5:01 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

I guess everything is about race to a race hustler like Bobbie, but our Obamacare mess is NOT. It is about a longterm scheme by leftwing Democrats to capture our health system. Their first big play was HillaryCare during the Clinton regime but that bombed. Those who concocted what later became known in popular culture as "Obamacare" were actually white leftists, many of them retreads from HillaryCare.

All of the regulations and rules of Obamacare are what led to the mass centralization of our health care, including health insurance, that destroyed choice for American consumers. Here in Beaufort County, we had two independent hospitals prior to OBamcare, but post Obamacare, Vidant in Greensville bought both and closed one. Vidant also bought up many of what had been independent doctors offices. All of that was driven by Obamacare, and that consolidation is not good for consumer choice. Similarly many of the insurance companies that used to offer health insurance got out of that business after Obamacare, and that also destroyed consumer choice.

HillaryCare would have done exactly the same. That was all predictable since that had also been the result of Australia's government medicine program called Medicare, which had also seen massive consolidation and centralization in health care, to the point that a subsequent govenrment that looked into ending Medicare (the Australian equivalent of Obamacare) found that all of the centralization that had occured made it impossible to go back to what had previously worked better for Australians.

Oh, and as to those insurance companies, I am sure you will find their stockholders are of all races, and so are their employees. This is NOT a racial issue, dude.

Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 9:49 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Given how screwed up our state Board of Elections has become under 8 years of Democrat control, it is no wonder that the legislature has moved it from the governor's office to the state auditor, where it will be under Republican control. Now finally, we can hope they will comply with federal election laws that are designed to promote election integrity and make cheating harder.

Commented: Thursday, December 12th, 2024 @ 11:36 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

This should be a wakeup call on how Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a threat to privacy and freedom. Many states, including North Carolina are passing laws to require that for government transactions, cash must still be accepted. There is legislation in Congress that needs to be passed to prohibit the Federal Reserve from proceeding with its CBDC project.

If we only had CBDC, the government could find out erverything about anyone they wanted. We are already seeing how government can coerse banks to giving up this info on political opponents.

Commented: Saturday, December 7th, 2024 @ 8:02 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Musk has revealed that the DOGE will not make any cuts to Social Security or Medicare, two programs whose recipients have been paying into all their working lives.

Commented: Thursday, December 5th, 2024 @ 5:12 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This congressional report had the China-dominated World Health Organization pegged correctly. President Trump needs to cut off US contributions and get us out of that WHO mousetrap.

Commented: Wednesday, December 4th, 2024 @ 7:23 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Dale Folwell has been a great State Treasurer and would have made a great governor. That Briner is anti-Folwell tells you everything you need to know about him. He is as phony as a three dollar bill and is nothing but a Democrat in false Republican clothing.

Commented: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024 @ 9:04 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The utter corruption of Big Tech censorship is illustrated by the way they colluded with the MSM to throw the 2020 presidential election by actively suppressing the true story on the Hunter Biden laptop. This was done entirely for political purposes and according to polling data changed the outcome of the election. This should never be allowed to happen again. Our country has suffered a lot of misery as a result. Those who censor information like that need to go to prison for a long, long, long time, Censorship is un-American and it should be severely punished.

Commented: Monday, December 2nd, 2024 @ 9:08 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Hurricanes can take out electric power temporarily by taking out the electric transmission lines, but those can be restored reasonably quickly. Conventional power is much more robust. Coal, oil, gas, and nuclear power plants do not go down and are there to supply power when the lines get put back up. The left is trying to make our electric grid much more vulnerable to hurricanes by switchin to power sources, wind and solar, that are extremely vulnernable to the powers of a hurricane. Thousands of solar panels and dozens of wind turbines were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Helene. They take a lot longer to replace, many months, than the power lines. The more dependant our electric grid gets on wind and solar, the more vulnerable we are to long term, months long, blackouts from hurricanes.

Commented: Saturday, November 30th, 2024 @ 9:53 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

"Climate change" or "global warming" is another red herring of the globalists.

Commented: Friday, November 29th, 2024 @ 7:21 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

These Democrat election officials are sloppy on purpose because it makes it easier for their party to cheat.

Commented: Wednesday, November 27th, 2024 @ 4:56 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

No, Bobbie, what Will presents is actual science, unlike the self serving science fiction of the climate alarmists.

Commented: Tuesday, November 26th, 2024 @ 11:05 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

It seems to me that it would be efficient and cost effective for the school board to maintain a list of the email addresses of those who want to receive notices and full agendas, and then someone at the central office could hit a button, say a week before the meeting, to send notices to those people.

Commented: Sunday, November 24th, 2024 @ 3:21 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer