Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

McConnell has been an ally of Democrats far too often. He did all sorts of deals with both Obama and Biden to agree to overspending, and in one case sold out for an Obama earmark for Kentucky, which was deemed the "Kentucky kickback". Since Biden is back, McConnell supported restoring the corrupt "earmarks" grift to federal budget, earning the title of "Earmarxist". McConnell has also led resistance to conservative efforts on many policy issues like trying to repeal Obamacare. He has too often been working with the Democrats to support big spending which has caused all the inflation we are now suffered. Good riddance to this pompous big spending jerk.

Commented: Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 @ 8:48 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Yeah, all those federally subsidized wind turbines in Texas, not only make their grid unreliable but are also prime ignition sources for wildfires.
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But realistically, the wildfire problem these days comes mostly from bad forestry management practices dictated by the environmentalists.

Commented: Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 @ 8:10 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

"Summer in February"? Nuts! Little Bobbie ought to learn a few more real facts about weather before spewing his climate alarmist nonsense. Weather systems, high and low pressure move from west to east all year, and the winds rotate around them, with wind blowing up from the south on one side. That brings up higher temperatures from the south. This has gone on forever. The impact of El Nino and La Nina cycles which have also gone on forever have the effect of amplifying or depressing the impact, as well as keeping the jet stream higher or lower. None of this has anything at all to do with CO2. They are all natural cycles that have always gone on, as are the longer term natural cooling and warming cycles.

And that last bit of gibberish indicates Bobbie probably needs some mental health help.

Commented: Tuesday, February 27th, 2024 @ 9:35 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Bolshevik Bob, you are nothing but a tool of the globalists, pumping out their absurd propaganda blaming CO2 for what are actually natural climate cycles. Maybe you know that you are deliberately spewing propaganda but maybe you are just an ignorant lemming too dense to understand it. I doubt you have the brainpower to understand the real science on this issue, presented in a British TV documentary broadcast nationally on the UK's Channel 4, entitled "The Great Global Warming Swindle": www.youtube.com

Commented: Saturday, February 24th, 2024 @ 11:48 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Beaufort County voters should be especially wary of Berger-backed candidates due to Berger's role in gerrymandering our county a few years ago into a Democrat-dominated majority black district so he could get rid of Senator Bill Cook. That makes Phil Berger an enemy of Beaufort County. Berger was calling the shots in that redistricting and he wanted to push through a far left green energy bill but knew that Senator Cook was very knowledgable in that subject and would fight for the ratepayers against that nonsense. So Berger gerrymandered Beaufort County to get rid of Cook so he could pass that liberal John Kerry / Al Gore / Greta Thunberg bill. That also makes Berger an enemy of conservatives and of electric ratepayers.

NEVER BBRGER (or Berger flunkies).

Commented: Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 @ 9:41 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

When President Trump is reelected, one of his first executive orders should be to transfer every penny we now give the UN and its agencies to building the border wall instead. The globalists at the UN are a big threat to our sovereighty and our freedom.

Commented: Monday, February 19th, 2024 @ 8:10 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

You make a very good point, Van Zant, about most people's loyalty to their church revolving around their local congregation, not the far off national denomination. Church members usually look to their friends in the local congregation, their local minister, even a cherished church building rather than the agenda of a distant denomination office. Why would someone prioritize a national church body unless it was over ideology? In this case, it appears that promotion of homosexuality was the lightning rod in the split, with the Global Methodist Church rejecting that promotion. Someone would really have to be wound up in the issues involved to leave their longtime local church. I can readily see how this would concern voters particularly over a school board member,

Personally, I am not in Mrs. Walker's district, but if I was my vote would have been determined by the fact that she is part of the "seat warmer" faction that fails to give proper financial oversight to the liberal school superintendant Cheeseman, or, in fact, proper oversight of much of anything.

Randy Walker initially impressed me with his many social media posts about being a watchdog for the taxpayer, but once he won the primary, he took all of those down. Instead, Randy has become a lapdog of the county manager and the ruling coalition, and has not looked out for the taxpayer at all. With his record he would never have had my vote anyway. He has been part of the group piling up a slush fund instead of reducing taxes. With the revaluation coming, we need pro-taxpayer commissioners now more than ever, and Randy just is not one of them.

The state motto Esse Quam Videri is Latin for "To be rather than to seem". That is what voters need to look for in elections, those who are the real deal instead of those just telling voters what they think the voters want to hear as Randy did in his first primary with regard to taxes.

Commented: Monday, February 12th, 2024 @ 12:04 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Solar panels are full of harmful substances including carcinogins, and they are being dumped in landfills when they wear out. They are a ticking environmental pollution timebomb. That is REAL pollution, in contrast to CO2 which is a natural substance, not pollution, that is beneficial to plant growth.

Solar panels and wind turbines also hurt people, especially the poor, by making electricity more expensive and less reliable.

Commented: Monday, February 5th, 2024 @ 5:35 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

When it comes to raising taxes, Brinson has linked up with fellow travellers in Beaufort County. One of his main campaign operatives is big spending tax raising liberal Republican county commissioner Frankie Waters, who boasted last election that he had raised taxes in three of the eight years he had been a county commissioner. Another is big spender John Rebholz. Both Waters and Rebholz have a long history of lining up politically with liberal Democrats instead of fellow Republicans. That is what is pushing Brinson in Beaufort County. They say birds of a feather flock together. All of them are prone to raise taxes and increase spending.

And, yes, in his short time as a New Bern Alderman, Bob Brinson has already voted to raise taxes there.

Michael Speciale, on the other hand was one of the founders and an early chairman of the Coastal Carolina Taxpayers Association, which fights for the taxpayers against big spending.

Commented: Saturday, February 3rd, 2024 @ 5:41 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The theory that CO2 had an impact on climate was proposed by a Swedish physicist in the 1890s and got no traction in climate science and was largely forgotten until a British scientific magazine, the New Scientist published an article on this old and forgotten theory in the 1970s, and first British politicians and then UN politicians decided it could be useful politically. The British politicians insured its revival by dumping a bunch of government research money behind it, and that is like dragging a $100 bill through a trailer park to too many scientists. Now the WEF globalists have gotten involved, too.

In reality, the Earth's climate history has seen a repeated cycle of multi-century warm cycles and cool cycles. The last cool cycle, the particularly cold "Little Ice Age" or Maunder Minimum ended in the 19th century and we have been in a natural warming cycle since.

The last warming cycle, the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than today and a period of great wealth, not a period will all the bad things today's climate alarmists claim. The granddaddy of warm periods was the Holocene Maximum when it was much warmer than today for 3,000 years and none of the dire consequences claimed by the climate alarmists happened. This cycle coincided with the heyday of ancient Greek civilization and their writings do not indicate any negative effects from it.

Real science show these cycles driven by the level of solar radiation, not the level of CO2. In fact the study of ice core samples shows that the levels in CO2 in the atmosphere do not precede temperature changes, but in fact follow them by several hundred years. That means more CO2 is a result of warming, not a cause of it.

Commented: Wednesday, January 31st, 2024 @ 9:33 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Well, Little Bobbie, have you ever been elected to mulitple terms as prime minister of a country then mulitple terms as president? No, I didn't think so. Ever earned a PhD? No, I didn't think so. Ever written a book published in eight languages? No, I didn't think so. That Czech president has accompanished a whole lot more than an internet troll like yourself who does not even produce his own material, just regurgitates it from the far left talking points. If you want to see a real crackpot, Little Bobbie, just look in a mirror.

Also, Bobbie, it is clear that your role model is Chicken Little.

Commented: Tuesday, January 30th, 2024 @ 8:28 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Speciale was a taxpayer hero in the legislature, leading successful efforts to trim lots of wasteful spending, including the state subsidies for expensive and unreliable solar and wind energy from the budget. We need him back.

I asked a friend in New Bern if the other guy had done anything for the taxpayers on the New Bern city council and he could not come up with a thing he had done to cut taxes and spending.

Commented: Saturday, January 27th, 2024 @ 5:13 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Most of the claims of the climate alarmists can be debunked. In fact, the Climategate emails show that their claims are manipulated and bogus and they know it.

Commented: Sunday, January 21st, 2024 @ 4:52 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The globalists have told us repeatedly what it is that they want us to eat, and that is worms and bugs and lab-grown Franken-meat. Bill Gates is already hard at work on that project, endorsed by the WEF and Klaus Schwab. So the farms in their new world order will only be needed for food for the elite which is allowed to eat normal food.

Commented: Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 @ 7:50 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Hopefully, Europe is about to slay its green monster. They are wrecking their economy and destroying the quality of life of their citizens in pursuit of this net zero nonsense. Biden is well on his way to doing the same to us. We badly need President Trump back in office to reverse course on this nightmare.

Commented: Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 @ 8:03 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

A Democrat scheme to boost Haley's vote did not work so well in Iowa, but according to the radio this afternoon they are trying the same thing in New Hampshire. Democrat rigging of their own nomination process included disallowing New Hampshire's traditional primary date and they have been stripped of delegates by the DNC because they would not go along. Biden did not even ask to be on the ballot, so that leaves lots of Democrat voters able to make mischief in the GOP primary. According to what I heard on the radio today, Democrat operatives are knocking on doors asking identified Democrat voters to "hold their nose for Haley" in the GOP primary in order to hurt Trump. Unforturnately, the Republican primary is an open primary to everyone, so the Democrats do not even have to re-register to vote in it. Why people who will be voting Democrat in November are allowed to participate in a Republican primary at all is beyond me.

Commented: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 2:43 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The driving force behind this unneeded school is the Superintendant, who wants it for a resume item for when he seeks to move up to a larger and better paying school system. It is really about building a resume to benefit an individual, not building a school to benefit students. The sad part is that the majority of our school board are weak and easily controlled yes-men and yes-women who function as puppets of the superintendant. We need new school board members who will represent the voters and taxpayers instead of just representing the superintendant and his interests. This is particularly essential when we have a superintendant who is a total control freak like Cheeseman.

Commented: Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 5:38 am By: Concerned Taxpayer