Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

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

Bobbie, you do know that the ground sinking, a geological issue, is different from the claim that the sea is rising, don't you?

Filling a room, or any space with CO2 does not make ir a "pollutant". It would only harm animals if there were a lack of oxygen, but with a lot of CO2 around, plants will be making Oxygen like crazy. The Earth once had 100 times as much CO2 in the atmosphere as today, and the planet was just fine.

Commented: Tuesday, January 9th, 2024 @ 5:20 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

What a curious deflection, Bullsh!t Bob. Of course CO2 does "effect the ATMOSPHERE" since it is part of the atmosphere. What it does NOT effect is TEMPERATURE. CO2 is a PRODUCT of temperature changes, NOT a cause of them. Changes in atmospheric CO2 follow changes in global temperatures by several hundred years, the reverse of what would be true if they were the cause of them. CO2 is a nutrient for plants and the more of it in the atmosphere, the better plants grow.

The dishonest and scheming nature of the climate alarmist seientists was clearly shown in the Climategate emails. They are all conmen out to keep the government grant money rolling in.

Commented: Monday, January 8th, 2024 @ 7:30 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Actual climate history shows that the "rising sea level" hoax of the climate alarmists is poppycock. The last multi-century warm cycle in Earth's history, the Medieval Warm Period, when it was warmer than today, had no "sea level rise". We know where the coastal cities of the world were at that time and there is no recorded evidence anywhere of a sea level rise. Actual experience shows this climate alarmist scare story to be false. Ditto another multi-century warming cycle during the Roman Empire. There is no evidence of a "sea level rise" then, either.

To top it all off is the Holocene Mazimum, the granddady of multi-century warm cycles, when it was much warmer than today for 3,000 years. This included the heyday of ancient Greek civilization. We know where the cities of ancient Greece were located and there is no evidence of any "sea level riae" then, either. Climate history exposes this cliimate alarmist fairy tale as a lie.

Commented: Sunday, January 7th, 2024 @ 10:31 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Not only are electric buses part of the climate boondoggle that is gouging taxpayers and indeed all citizens, but they are also clearly dangerous.

Commented: Saturday, January 6th, 2024 @ 3:17 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The two tier "justice" system is based on politics, not race or wealth, although I know in your mind, Bobbie, everything is based on race. You are a total race hustler. When it comes to classified documents, Hillary and Biden are treated one way and Trump another, and it is all about politics. Pro-Hamas militants can riot inside the Capital Building in support of a terrorist cause and nobody gets arrested, but when Trump supporters do the same, there are mass arrests and long prison sentences. These are two flagrant examples, but there are many more.

Commented: Thursday, January 4th, 2024 @ 10:09 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Florida has passed legislation shutting down DEI in state funded higher education, banning use of state funds for this evil racism and also prohibiting colleges and universities from getting private grants to pay for it. Several other states have also moved to shut down DEI. Are Beaufort County Commsissioners going to tolerate this evil racism in our community college?

Taxpayers should not be paying to cram wokeness down kids throats. Even many woke large companies are now defunding DEI it is so bad. We do NOT need a "Dumb Evil Idiot" on the payrole of BCCC at taxpayers expense.

Commented: Thursday, January 4th, 2024 @ 8:52 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

It is good to see that some scientists have some common sense and integrity instead of just chasing all the government anti-carbon research money, which is mothing but a political agenda for world government for the globalist elitists.

Commented: Sunday, December 31st, 2023 @ 8:59 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The myth of "hardworking illegal aliens" is blown up by welfare statistics in both America and Europe. Is "welfare recipient" one of those "jobs Americans don't want to do"? Maybe you count those Venezuelan illegal alien migrant prostitutes in Brooklyn who have set up a big open air sex market, but probably they are double dipping from the taxpayer, too. Yes, there are some individual Hispanics I am personally aware of who are hardworking, but I am also aware of others who are not. The welfare rolls tell the tale about the overall picture.

What you seem to hate is the Rule of Law, Bobbie. Our immigration laws should be enforced. The illegal aliens should not be let into the country and those who have sneaked in should be sent home. If they want to come to America, they should follow our immigration laws and apply properly, not thumb their noses at our laws.

I would support reinstituting the old Bracero law which allowed for legal and regulated temporary workers from abroad who went home after completing their work. It was the Democrat unions that killed off that law.

Commented: Saturday, December 30th, 2023 @ 10:19 am By: Concerned Taxpayer