Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

Biden's fake jobs report shows how his regime manipulates data for false claims. Most of his claimed "job increase" -231,000 out of a total of 272,000 claimed - came from one arbitrary adjustment to the calculation. That is the adjustment for "business births and deaths" (business start-ups and closures) and as the Bloomberg chief economist points out, they adjusted that in the wrong direction for what is actually happening in the economy. If that was adjusted the correct direction, the report would have undoubtedly showed an overall job loss.

To look at what is happening in just one industry in one state, it is estimated that 10,000 jobs have been lost in California last month as hundreds of fast food restaurants close and others cut staff in response to the new $20 an hour minimum wage in that state.

Commented: Sunday, June 9th, 2024 @ 8:19 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The issue of large consolidated schools versus neighborhood schools has always been an issue that separates conservatives from liberals. Conservatives support neighborhood schools and that is particularly true for elementary school.

School superintendants career paths are to build their resumes to try to move up to larger and better paying school districts, and they look for things that will please the liberal education establishment as the larger districts are more likely to be run by liberals. This huge consolidated elementary school was just what Cheeseman's resume needed for his own career advancement.

We cannot overlook the role of liberal "Republican" state Superintendant Catherine Truitt in this boondoggle. She helped steer this money to big consolidated schools instead of neighborhood schools. It is good that she got bounced in the GOP primary by conservative Michelle Morrow, who will follow a conservative and Republican path in that position. Truitt's attempts to buy votes with these last minute grants just before the election did not work. Beaufort County and others that got her consolidation focused grants helped vote her out of office.

To really fix education in Beaufort County, we need to take Cheeseman's rubber stamps off of our local school board. T.W. Allen, Mack Hodges, and Eltha Booth all need to be replaced by people who will represent the citizens and taxpayers instead of being sock puppets for our liberal superintendant.

Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 10:30 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

This morning, I probably feel a lot like a liberty-loving German in the waning days of the Weimar Republic. A wannabee dictator has come to power through electoral means and is now making his play for absolute power, seeking to sweep away opposition. What happened yesterday is like their Reichstag Fire. Biden is the budding dictator trying to extinguish our democracy and he and his movement simply must be stopped.

Using the courts with false and made-up charges to take down political opponents is what dictators and would-be dictators do. Biden is following the path of Stalin, Putin, Maduro, Hitler, and others.

Commented: Friday, May 31st, 2024 @ 11:21 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

What taxpayers needed to see was serious planning for future school needs. In the past, superintendants have pushed plans that left us with excess capacity in some places and unfullfilled needs in others. Here we go again, with a superintendant crafted plan with no expert analysis. There are people who do population projections, but our own school admin office lacks that capacity, and no experts were called in. Such projects are essential to competently project school needs. We have a superintendant who simply wants to create a resume item for when he applies for a better paying job at a bigger system and he wants it quickly, so never mind doing the legwork that should be done. WE have no comprehensive facilities plan, and that is what is needed before going off half cocked and spending milliions of taxpayer dollars.

Commented: Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 @ 3:51 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Transparency and open government are two things that do not exist with our current school board majority and their puppetmaster superintendant. This $50 million scheme was concocted in the backroom with no public input or even knowledge and then rubberstamped, again with no real public input by the sockpuppet majority on the school board. Where were the public hearings on school needs preceding the planning or indeed in any stage of the planning? Where were the outside expert analysis reports and recommendations? Some of these idiots may nominally be "Republicans" but they spend money like Biden and Pelosi.

Commented: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 @ 3:36 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Biden's attempt to buy votes by cancelling college debts is ripping off the taxpayers and further boosting Bidenflation. His arrogance in defying the Supreme Court on that is appallingly arrogant.

Commented: Saturday, May 25th, 2024 @ 9:05 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The left wants to shut down free speech on a lot of public policy issues. The climate alarmists, for example, call for not allowing anyone to dispute their positions in public, even criminalising doing so. Biden has tried to suppress information contrary to his political positions, and the State of Missouri now has a lawsuit on that in front of the Supreme Court.

Commented: Thursday, May 23rd, 2024 @ 4:28 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This school ought to be named "Cheeseman's Folly" because it is all about building his resume for his next job, not about what our school system needs. The lack of any outside study on school system facility needs and the best way to accomplish those is glaring. This project is all about Cheeseman and nothing else. Many on the school board have not been in the loop, and the leadership who have known about it have been Cheeseman's flunkies. What a boondoggle.

Commented: Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024 @ 2:53 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The Biden energy policies which are driving fuel and electricity prices into the stratosphere are part of Biden's War on the Middle Class. Biden does the dirty work of the Davos globalist elites.

Commented: Tuesday, May 21st, 2024 @ 9:31 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Biden wants to make the electric grid situation even worse with electric cars, putting more demand for capacity on the grid at the same time he wants to make grid stability a crap shoot by imposing intermittant wind and solar in place of steady and reliable coal and gas.

As the grid goes unreliable, how will people get around? California has already said that when grid capacity is tight, they can ban charging of electric cars and Switzerland has said it would ban electric cars from the roads and highways when the grid capacity was tight.

Commented: Saturday, May 18th, 2024 @ 3:21 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Why are we spending all of this taxpayer money, without a proper independent study of our real school facility needs, just to bolster Cheeseman's resume? Our patheric school board majority are nothing but seat warmers.

Commented: Thursday, May 16th, 2024 @ 11:22 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Look in a mirror if you want to see an idiot, Little Bobbie. All you do is blindly follow the crazy climate cult and their wacky tunnel vision. They are the biggest doomsday cult in history, and you are a stupid lemming marching off the cliff with them.

If you want to escape from that cult, try that book by Michael Shellenberger, a true environmentalist who was once caught up in that cult too but after thinking it all through for himself, escaped from it.

Commented: Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 @ 9:31 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

LIttle Bobbie seems stuck on Common Core math. The conventional power that the Long Island power agency buys IS fossil fuel power, and it is one-third the cost of power from that offshore wind development.

Commented: Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 @ 12:11 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

North Carolina has something worse than the EU's Green Deal facing us, and it is all the fault of liberal "Republican" Senate boss Phil Berger and his radical left last minute rewrite of HB951. The EU's Green Deal calls for reducing "greenhouse emissions" by 50% by 2030 while NC's HB951 calls for a much bigger 70% reduction. That will send our electric rates into the stratosphere. Thanks a whole heck of a lot, traitor Phil Berger! Here is the whole sordid story of how HB951 was hijacked and passed: www.beaufortcountynow.com

Commented: Sunday, May 12th, 2024 @ 10:40 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

I heard on the radio today, that the Hamas terrorist group still has 14,000 terrorist fighters in Rafah, as well as their surviving leadership. Leaving them in place just makes new terrorism certain. They very simply have to be dealt with, and Biden trying to protect them almost makes Biden an accessory after the fact to the Oct. 7 terrorism.

Isreal is letting the civilians out, but Hamas wants to use them as human shields. That should not be tolerated but it should not stop the campaign to eradicate Hamas.

We could not let some of the Nazi leadership slip off to some part of Germany and stay intact in WWII, and for the same reason, Israel cannot do that now. In WWII, we and our allies deliberately bombed civilian areas in Germany. Israel has done all it can to avoid doing that.

Without those precision weapons, the necessary Israeli campaign to wipe out Hamas will be more costly both in Israeli soldiers and in Gaza civilians. That blood will be on Biden's hands, and it is all for his stinking politics over the Muslim vote in Michigan. He will not prevent the removal of Hamas from Rafah, he will just make it more bloody.

Commented: Friday, May 10th, 2024 @ 4:23 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

I wish we had a US president as concerned about illegal migration to the US as Panama's new president. Illegal immigration is costing our taxpayers a mint, thanks to Biden. I suspect we will have a president who will crack down on this flood of illegals mooching off of our taxpayers once President Trump returns to office in January.

Commented: Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 @ 12:28 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The current universities are a woke joke. What is needed is a new type of diversity - viewpoint diversity. What is needed on every key faculty is that there be at least one third of the faculty members right of center and one third left of center. Where they are out of balance now, as all of them are, impose affirmative action to bring the numbers of the underrepresented viewpoint to at least a third. Steps should also be taken to insure that there is not viewpoint discrimination on admissions.

The recent rise of the pro-Hamas new Hitler Youth on college campuses is a big wake up call for change.

Commented: Friday, May 3rd, 2024 @ 8:45 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer