Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

One has to be clueless on the way government operates to claim with a straight face that the budget is not political. It starts with a proposed budget bny the president. The House then passes a budget bill that is usually quite different from the president's proposal. Then the Senate votes on it and often changes it so it must return to the House. All in all, it is a very political process.

Whiel GDP, jobs numbers, or inflation are not political, the way of calculating them may be bent politically. The policies of the incumbent administration and Congress also impact all of them. The method of calculating inflation, for example, was modified some years ago so that the new method gives a lower number than the old method. Was the change politically motivated? What does common sense tell you?

WOKE - won't be happy until we are all in the poorhouse.

Commented: Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 @ 4:29 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

If you bothered to look at polls on public perceptions of the economy, or, heck, even talked to anyone who regularly buys energy or food, you would know that it is you, Little Bobby, who is wrond and whistling past the graveyard. The recent poor jobs report is what triggered both the Kamala Crash on the stock market and growing talk of a recession.

Commented: Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 @ 7:46 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The working poor and middle class were a lot better off under Trump than under Biden-Harris. There biggest expenses, food, housing, and energy were stable under Trump but have skyrocketed under Biden-Harris. That has been caused by the radical Biden-Harris agenda on climate alarmism, open borders, and other things. And, Bobbie, your obsession with the rich shows your underlying Marxist nature.

Among the falacies of your economic statements:
-the middle class are not doing well due to skyrocketing inflation
- the stock market has been in the Kamala Crash the last few days; hedge funds are dumping lots of stocks and so is Warren Buffet; stock market gains under Trump were many multiples of gains under Biden-Harris, especially when adjusted for inflation, and the Kamala Crash may take them down to the point there are no gains at all under Biden-Harris
- job increases under Biden-Harris have been almost all 1) part time jobs, and 2) jobs for illegal aliens; there is growing underemployment among working class Americans
- real estate prices are up due to Biden-Harris open borders and this is clobbering the working poor and middle class who are renting, and also clobbering those trying to buy their first house.
- energy PRICES are up significantly due to the Biden-Harris climate alarmist agenda

Commented: Monday, August 5th, 2024 @ 6:32 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

You are the one full of BS, Bobbie. Here it is straight from the IRS;
www.irs.gov

Commented: Thursday, August 1st, 2024 @ 6:58 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Like Juan Person ruling through Eva, Obama had his third term ruling through frontman Biden and now wants a fourth term under his puppet Kamala Harris. He is as dangerous to American democracy as Peron was to Argentine democracy. The Obama polcies are drowning America in debt and will destroy our country if they are not stopped.

Commented: Wednesday, July 31st, 2024 @ 9:36 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Our military is also being shackled by the Biden regime's kowtowing to the climate cult. That needs to stop along with the DEI nonsense.

Commented: Saturday, July 20th, 2024 @ 7:12 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

There are not ANY oil platforms off of either Nantucket or North Carolina, so that is an apples and oranges deflection, Little Bobbie.

Big pieces of the shattered turbine can be picked up if they float or wash up on the beach. If they sink close to shore, they will be found when somebody steps on them and cuts themselves severely. Small pieces, which can also do a lot of damage to beachgoers, are extremely difficult to find.

Now imagine a hurricane comes along and shatters a bunch of these things. Finding all the pieces, big and small, is going to be next to impossible. This things need to be banned from our shoreline, or the required insurance needs to be in the stratosphere and cover and direct or indirect damage, including losses of tourism related businesses.

Commented: Wednesday, July 17th, 2024 @ 5:59 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

I wonder if we will ever see any manifesto or other documents of the shooter or if the FBI will cover them up? The FBI is so politicized that it will depend on whether or not such documents are harmful to Biden.

The FBI and their allies are still covering up the manifesto of the "transgender" shooter in that Tennessee school shooting, which has been years. The excuses given have been absurd. The FBI is trying, on behalf of Biden, to protect the "transgender" ideology. That coverup is purely political. When part of those documents were leaked to the "Tennessee Star" and they published them, the editor was cited into court for contempt even though there was no existing court order the editor violated. That was a sinister attempt to misuse the courts to enforce the coverup.

Commented: Sunday, July 14th, 2024 @ 11:17 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

It is not just the Jews talking about fleeing France. The well off and productive citizens are also angling to flee the far left's push for a 90% income tax rate, and the French stock market is in turmoil. Macron has unleashed a Frankenstein monster, and his now much smaller party may have to turn to LePen to stop it. redstate.com

Commented: Tuesday, July 9th, 2024 @ 2:27 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Biden's renaway inflation train is just getting started. Inflation was only 1% when Trump left office. We need to return economic sanity to federal government.

Commented: Friday, July 5th, 2024 @ 2:47 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

What makes NC health care so expensive is the Certificate of Need (CON) laws that stifle competition. Most states have repealed them, but the special interests that benefit from them in NC are thick as thieves with NC legislative leadership, Phil Berger and Tim Moore, and that includes possible Moore successor Destin Hall.

Commented: Monday, July 1st, 2024 @ 3:26 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Public schools are facing more competition. Building a monster sized school to warehouse children with likely worse outcomes is just going to make Beaufort County Schools less appealing and less competitive. Competition currently exists with surrounding county systems and with private and charter schools. Pamlico County is pulling lots of students from Beaufort County, but there are few students Beaufort County pulls from neighboring counties. When a student goes to school in a neighboring county, the state funding, thousands of dollars follows him or her.

Similarly, with the expansion of state Opportunity Scholarships, many parents will now have the ability to send their kids to private schools, and every time they do, that is more state funding per pupil that Beaufort County Schools loses. Would parents rather send their kids to be warehoused in Cheeseman's monster sized school or to a private school of managable size like Terra Ceia?

The Cheeseman plan will drive students away from Beaufort County Schools and certaily not attract any newe ones. From my understanding, population projections are for Beaufort County's growth to be west of Washington toward the Pitt County line. A new school of managable size there would attract students from Pitt County to make up for those lost, with their state funding, to Pamlico County.

But none of this matters to Cheeseman. He wants that huge elementary school on his resume. Even if Cheeseman insists on a huge school, eastern Washington is a really stupid place to build it. The lack of study and planning is glaring.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 4:24 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Tillis is responsible for the most economically destructive pieces of Biden economic legislation, the misnamed "Inflation Reduction Act" which should have been called the "Inflation Creation Act." The Democrats were able to pass that with a simple majority because Tillis and other RINOs helped Biden earlier pass his "Ingrastructure" Bill which contained a whole lot of spending that had nothing to do with infrastructure, by a 60+ vote margin. The Senate has one shot a year to pass a spending bill that does not require a fillibuster proof majority. The only reason the Democrats had that availible to pass the "Inflation Reduction Act" was that thats to Tillis and other RINOs, they had not had to use it to pass the "Infrastructure" bill.

Of course, Tillis has been a total Biden Republican when it somes to spending, debt, and taxes. We badly need to replace him in the next primary. Tillis is completely unacceptable.

Commented: Saturday, June 29th, 2024 @ 9:00 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

If the idea was consolidation of GRADE LEVELS, it is better to change to 3 or 4 of the traditional K-6 elementary schools as neighborshood schools, with a new school west of Washington nearer the Pitt County line and renovations to other facilities. That would create the neighborhood schools we need, consolidate grade levels without monster schools, and update our school facilities. It would also save the public money that could be used for other, more pressing school needs like needed renovations at Chocowinity Elementary.

Putting a brand spanking new school close to the Pitt County line could also snag students away from Pitt County Schools, with state funding following those students who move. Pamlico County Schools have been snagging students and their state funding from Beaufort County for years. With a properly located new school, we could be doing the same to Pitt County.

Beaufort County Schools problem is that they have a superintendant who is a control freak and this school project has been largely a one man show, and from an individual lacking the skill set to do what he is trying to do. It is pathetic that our school board majority is so weak and controllable. We do badly need some major changes there. We do not need a tail that wags the dog which is what we have now.

Commented: Friday, June 28th, 2024 @ 8:12 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The issue here is proper and transparent financial planning for school construction, something we have had little of here in Beaufort County, something that goes back beyond those individuals involved in the current controversy. The last big bond issue saw very poor planning resulting in schools that are still half empty in some cases. This mega school shows the signs of the same jury-rigged process instead of proper planning. The fact that they are suddenly trying to move the actual location of the school on the property shows how totally inept the planning process was.

This issue is much bigger than Richardson or Cheeseman, "Bath Parent". Richardson is a politician and all politicians have their hits and their misses. Cheeseman is a career bureaucrat and career bureaucrats have their ways of looking at things that are often very different than the perspective of the taxpayers who pay the freight for government.

I would not say Richardson is always right or Cheeseman always wrong, but the questions Richardson is asking on this issue are spot on, and are questions any competent person in management ought to be asking on such a project. What shocks me is so many of our elected school board members and county commissioners just sitting there like deer in the headlights on this $50 million plus project. Do they plan to blame it on someone else when it becomes a boondoggle?

Clearly, "Bath Parent" you have a personal dislike of one person and project that onto any issue he takes a stand on. Most of us focus on the issue.

Commented: Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 @ 12:00 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is a huge cost to taxpayers. Why should our government be borrowing money to pay for these parasites medical care? It is outragesous.

Commented: Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 @ 1:33 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Yes, let the TWO CANDIDATES debate, without grandstanding politically biased "moderators" trying to be the center of attention and push thing to their favored candidate.

If one or both of the candidates are jacked up on drugs, the public should know it. A drug test is a great idea, and a recent poll shows the American public agrees.

Commented: Monday, June 24th, 2024 @ 11:31 am By: Concerned Taxpayer