Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

What they really see is a big welfare check and being put up by stupid liberal governments in luxury hotels. When that word gets back to the home country, it draws caravans of mooching parasites. 62.5% of those on welfare in Germany are Third World "asylum seekers"

Iceland put a stop to them coming by making them inelgible for welfare. Denmark discouraged them by greatly reducing their welfare. Temperature has nothing to do with it, the welfare cash does, and that is what needs to be cut off.

Commented: Friday, December 29th, 2023 @ 9:24 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The issue is not who made the plastic, but who is throwing it into the ocean, and Little Bobbie, you are simply trying to deflect on that, based on your usual racial approach to everything. Even as to making the plastic, a whole lot of it comes from China and India, and there are also many smaller countries around the world making things of plastic and making plastic itself
The toxic microplastices shed into the environment by wind turbine blades is a new wrinkle and a good reason to ban wind turbines. But then there are lots of reasons to ban them like slaughtering birds and bats..

STan, carbon is a NON-issue if you listen to the scientists who are not profiteering off of the climate cult. Earth's climate history proves teh warmists WRONG.

Commented: Wednesday, December 27th, 2023 @ 7:49 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Almost all of the plastic pollution in the oceans comes from four rivers in the Third World, however, offshore wind is now a major source of microplastics, which is shed from the turbine blades. This article reprinted from the Buffalo, NY News explains the dangers from wind turbines: stopthesethings.com

Commented: Tuesday, December 26th, 2023 @ 4:33 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The microplastics and harmful chemicals shed by wind turbines blades, both offshore and onshore are a big but hidden environmental problem

Commented: Tuesday, December 26th, 2023 @ 10:48 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

"Solid conservatives" do NOT push the globalist / climate alarmist solar and wind ripoff. Bill Graham has been in thick with those despicable wind and solar grifters, as has his buddy Tillis, and his consultant Shumaker. Graham is of the same ilk as Greta Thunberg and John Kerry.

Commented: Saturday, December 23rd, 2023 @ 8:25 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

It is good to see some action being taken against this ESG scam and one of its biggest scammers, Blackrock. That company's far left CEO has an apt last name - Fink. He is very tight with the globalist network of the World Economic Forum and pushes client money into politically motivated "investments" through ESG. It is a totally rotten company.

Commented: Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 @ 3:40 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

I made the mistake of voting for Randy Walker in his primary last time due to all the stuff he put up on Facebook about being absolutely opposed to raising taxes. Randy has been a disappointment on taxes and spending his whole term. I won't make that mistake again. It is thus not terribly surprising that he has joined the far left cancel culture against southern heritage.

I knew what Murphy was in his first primary, and was not fooled at all there. He was a spendthrift in the legislature known as "Medicaid Murphy". He has gone on to be a dud of a congressman who has sold out taxpayers to the establishment. I think I saw he has a Libertarian opponent this time, and if so that is how I will vote. Murphy is not fit to even shine Walter Jones' shoes. Walter was a great congressman, I wish we still had him.

Commented: Tuesday, December 19th, 2023 @ 11:23 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Those climate crazies have a lot to do with the rising cost of living and inflation. Biden's anti-oil and gas policies drove the cost of gasoline and diesel fuel to staggering heights, and since most goods have to be transported using those fuels, just about everything else followed. Now their wind and solar insanity threatens to drive our electric rates, and everything that depends on them through the roof.

Of course, those idiots don't forget to jack up the price of little things like ceiling fans along the way.

Commented: Saturday, December 16th, 2023 @ 9:26 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Offshore wind turbine power sends consumer power bills through the roof. Industrializing the oceans with wind turbines is a very stupid idea for a lot of reasons.

Commented: Monday, December 11th, 2023 @ 4:20 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Nikki Haley lost me when she had establishment Republican Paul Ryan, who is liberal on a number of issues, trying to get endorsements for her. If Paul Ryan is for someone, I am NOT!

Commented: Friday, December 8th, 2023 @ 9:29 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

When I am in a business and the young person at the cash register has trouble figuring out the change, it is clear that the Common Core math they have been teaching is not working to give them an ability to do even simple math. In spite of this, the Beaufort County School Board just bought another Common Core math curriculum, and this one also has "woke" DEI embedded in it as well.

Your points about evaluation are excellent. This needs to be done in all schools. We also need to evaluate the superintendant with measurable standards on academic performance, and principals as well.

And most of all, we need a new school board majority attuned to actually doing something to improve our schools instead of just being sock puppets for the superintendant.

Commented: Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 @ 7:43 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The climate carbon cult is a politically motivated and profit and power motivated scam. The Climategate emails exposed the rogue scientists involved as a bunch of manipulative liars. Every single one of the dire warnings issued by the climate alarmists that has passed the date they were supposed to happen, and there have been dozens of them, has FAILED to happen, or even come anywhere close. These scammers are batting ZERO on their predictions. Everyone from the globalists at the UN and WEF to Red China are using this fake issue to achieve more power. As Dr. Vaclav Klaus, past president of the Czech Republic has pointed out, climate alarmism is "a budding totalitarian ideology that is the greatest threat to freedom, democracy, and prosperity in the world today."

Commented: Monday, December 4th, 2023 @ 7:09 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Comrade Cooper is just full of Marxist blather, which is all "enviornmental justice" has ever been. Heck, if you look at World Health Organization standards for Europe, wind turbines for producing electricity are identified as a threat to human health, but it is the green left in the US, which supposedly pushes "environmental justice" that is also pushing those things. What stinking hypocrites.

Commented: Sunday, December 3rd, 2023 @ 11:43 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

What is really causing deforestation? Land intensive "green" wind and solar electric operations. In Scotland, according to the government's forestry agency, 13.1 million trees have been cut down, just on govenrment land, and not including those cut on private land, to put up wind and solar "farms". Ancient forests in German are under constant attack to put up wind and solar, from the famed Black Forest in the south to the Reinhardtswald, the ancient forest that was the setting of Grimms Fairy Tales in the north, and many in between. Great swaths of the the Amazon Rain Forest, called the "lungs of the planet" are being clear cut for balsa wood for wind turbine blades.

The carbon cult nazis want to destroy lots of trees to put up their wind and solar eyesores, but blames farms for human food for "global warming". That is pure BS.

Commented: Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 @ 10:12 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The private sector does darn near anything better than government, and that includes education. Private schools, on average, spend less per pupil than public schools but achieve much better education results. Those opportunities should be there for all students, not just children of the rich. The teachers union and much of the education establishment is injecting political indoctrination into public schools. A poll last year in North Carolina found that 71% of North Carolina parents are concerned about political indoctrination in the public schools. Competition makes everything better and that includes schools.

Commented: Monday, November 27th, 2023 @ 2:59 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

It might or might not have been the Mexican cartels that Tillis is fronting for, but it is some special interest. Tillis is NOT representing his constituents in his illegal immigration schemes but fronting for special interests. In doing so, Tillis is costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. He is a disgrace to North Carolina and to the Republican Party, and an enemy to hardworking American taxpayers.

Commented: Thursday, November 23rd, 2023 @ 9:01 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Stan, the Climate-Industrial Complex (great term, BTW!) that is pushing wind and solar is one of the biggest threats to trees in the world today. Scotland's government forestry office has calculated that 13.1 million trees have been cut down just on government land, not counting private land, in Scotland to build wind turbines and solar farms. That does not even count the rest of the UK, either. The "Green" Party government of the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg is turning parts of the Black Forest to sawdust to build wind farms. Real environmentalists have been called "tree huggers" for many years but those in the climate carbon cult seem to be tree haters. It is not just the Amazon, but the Climate-Industrial Complex is causing deforestation all over the world.

If they were really concerned about CO2, cutting trees down would be stupid since trees absorb CO2 in the photosynthesis process and give off oxygen. But honest scientists will tell you that CO2 has nothing to do with climate in the first place. It is a very minor greenshouse gas, and the greenhouse effect is essential to life on Earth. The most important greenhouse gas is water vapor, which accounts for over 90% of the greenhouse effect.

Commented: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023 @ 8:11 am By: Concerned Taxpayer