Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

"Clean energy" is an oxymoron. There is nothing "clean" about wind and solar. Just the opposite. Take the 5 million euro fine against a wind farm in Ireland over a fish kill it caused killing millions of fish, or the multiple felony indictments for polluting the groundwater against four wind energy companies operating in the Chatham-Kent district of Ontario? That groundware was so poisonous, thanks to the windfarms, that it was not safe to even take a bath in it.

Wind turbines also present physical dangers as are now being discussed in Scotland: www.scotsman.com

Commented: Saturday, November 4th, 2023 @ 9:17 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

RINOs in the NC legislature have done worse to North Carolina on a Green New Deal than what the EU has done to itself. RINO legislative leaders Phil Berger and Tim Moore are mostly to blame, but local RINO state senator Jim Perry was a big player in pushing it, too.

The NC Green New Deal, HB951, requires a 70% reduction in CO2 by 2030, significantly more than the 50% required by the EU Green Deal. That will mean much more expensive electricity for NC ratepayers.

Norway is smart to be running away from this green nonsense. North Carolina needs to do so as well. And we need to defeat legislators responsible like Phil Berger and Jim Perry.

Commented: Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 @ 2:39 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This FOIA request seems geared primarily to the junketing all over the country at taxpayer expense by the Washington Housing Authority members appointed by Sadler, which include Sadler's wife and his pastor. Mayor Sadler, himself, went on many of those junket trips. When they stonewall you, the next thing to do is sue them in court. Of course, it is likely that once the election is over and hiding this stuff is no longer politically important to them, they will then likely give it to you.

On Brooks' motion and vote to appropriate money to buy property he himself owned, this is a clear ethical violation, one that got a Hyde County commissioner prosecuted criminally. Sadler clearly knew what was going on and did not tell the rest of the council. I wonder if he could be charged as well? At the very least, Brooks should be compelled to give the money he received back to the city. He should not be allowed to profiteer off of his unethical behavior.

Commented: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 10:20 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

With all the adverising money that Cheeseman wastes on puff piece ads in the Washington Daily News, he could easily pay for filming the school board meetings. He just does not want to, and a majority of the go-along get-along school board members refuse to push him.

Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 6:22 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Time to get out of the UN mousetrap. The current Secretary General is a socialist who is more interested in pushing leftwing dogma than in working for peace. He is using his office to be the top globalist propagandist for the globalist climate alarmist narrative. He is little more than a snake oil salesman for the biggest doomsday cult in history, Chicken Little on steroids.

We did indeed see with the Russia / Ukraine crisis, a very real crisis unlike "climate change" and the Hamas terrorist crisis that the UN is absolutely useless and in some ways even counterproductive. We need to save our money and our effort. THe UN needs to go the way of the League of Nations. That Czech Defense Minister sure has it right.

Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 11:40 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Washington has a Tammany Hall machine in place under Donald Sadler, and the voters need to remove that cancer from control of our city government. Sadler has had two absolute rubberstamps on the city council, the semi-literate Richard Brooks and the often drunk Mike Renn. They will do whatever Sadler tells them to do. Now Sadler has two more rubberstamps running, Anthony Tyre (who really lives in Aurora) and Antwon Horton.

Yes, Sadler went with his wife on many if not all of those taxpayer funded junkets. You left out the one to Las Vegas. So did Sadler's preacher who he also appointed to the Washington Housing Authority.

Washington taxpayers need an outside agency, maybe the State Auditor or the Local Government Commission to investigate the goings on at the Washington Housing Authority. Gary, you have been stonewalled, but they cannot stonewall state agencies like that. If things were on the up and up, you would have had an answer by now.

Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 9:02 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The climate alarmists are Chicken Little on steroids. None of their dire warmings ever actually come true. Dozens of those dire warnings have already passed the dates when they were supposed to have happened and not a one of them has come true or even come close to coming true. They are liars and blowhards and any politician who follows their ravings is either an idiot or is using it to push his own power.

NO, I am not going to eat bugs and worms. NO, I will not buy an overly expensive, inconvenient, self-combusting electric vehicle. NO, I do not want expensive and unreliable wind and solar energy. These blowhards can get stuffed.

Commented: Thursday, October 26th, 2023 @ 8:42 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Hmmm! Both major negative financial indicators flashing red for Washington, NC at the same time. And our spendthrift mayor taking a "move along, nothing to see here" stance on it in his campaign mailing. Voters should run, not walk, away from the existing power clique, but how many voters will find out given that our local newspaper is a pathetic joke that covers only fluff? Taxpayers need to flood social media with this and get the word out before voters go to the polls. Put up a link and ask people to share it. If Washington were a business corporation, its stock would be dropping like a stone right now.

Commented: Monday, October 23rd, 2023 @ 7:58 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Voting against budgets full of waste and fluff is what fiscal conservatives do. It is what Walter Jones did his whole Congressional career. It is what Keith Kidwell announced he would do if the Senate insisted on putting some improper things in the budget. It is what former State Repesentative Mike Speciale did if certain spending items were not taken out of the budget. I could go on. It is also what fiscal conservative Hood Richardson has done.

Our county commission has been under the control of a rotten coalition of Democrats and liberal Republicans for many years and they spend way too much money. Our taxes are higher than they ought to be. Personally, I will never vote for any of the damn spenders who do that to taxpayers.

And "Ethics Matter" has outted himself / herself as a taxer and spender, probably a Biden Democrat. He / she certainly thinks like a Biden Democrat.

I do not agree with Richardson on everything, but he has been a champion for the taxpayers on the county commission, much better than Democrat allies Waters and Rebholtz, or Randy Walker who can't seem to figure out if he is coming or going.

Commented: Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 @ 1:18 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

There are a lot of people who need to be indicted under that statute, Country Girl, starting with Biden himself and Mayorkas, and going down through the Biden regime. Also, many of the pro-migrant NGOs. There needs to be a special prosecutor appointed to bring indictments. Other charges can include being accessories to human smauggling. Illegal migrants are soaking our American taxpayers. Why should taxpayers have to pay out the nose to put them up in high class hotels and feed them? A plane ticket home is a lot cheaper.

Commented: Tuesday, October 17th, 2023 @ 7:02 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Talk is cheap. Perry's votes are what counts. That is only a smokescreen. What is the old saying about "all talk and no DO"?

Maybe "Casino Jim" Perry's vocal support of such leftwing programs as the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, the NC Green New Deal (HB951), the Blue Cross raid on its reserves, and gambling bills, which also matched up with his votes for those issues are causing him to want a little deniability by setting up a smokescreen.

Commented: Saturday, October 14th, 2023 @ 1:57 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

NCInnovation is a terrible misuse of taxpayer money but it is par for the course for an Obama Republican like Phil "Boss Hogg" Berger. Berger already pushed through a lot of Cooper and Biden's agenda like the Obamacare Medicaid expansion and the Green New Deal, and "Casino Jim" Perry was right there with him on all of this left wing legislation. Both need to be run out of office on a rail by primary voters.

Commented: Friday, October 13th, 2023 @ 12:25 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

What a corrupt waste of taxpayer money. More stinking subsidies of electric cars that polls and actual dealer experience show that most people do not want to buy. And to a foreign company at that. Why should this boondoggle be foisted upon taxpayers? We need more conservatives and fewer RINOs in the legislature, more Keith Kidwells and fewer Jim Perrys.

Commented: Monday, October 9th, 2023 @ 3:00 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Stan, you might want to review the many prominent scientists interviewed in the British TV documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle" or the recent statement by 1,600 scientists including two Nobel Prize winners who debunk the theory of manmade global warming. The fact are that the greenhouse effect is necessary to keep the earth warm enough to support life, that C02 is a necessary nutriet for plants and without it all plant life would die, that CO2 is a very minor greenhouse gas, that water vapor is by far the most important greenhouse gas accounting for 90% of the greenhouse effect, that humans provide only a miniscule portion of the CO2 in the atmosphere, and that the Earth has continuously gone through multi-century climate cycles. We are now in one of those natural warming cycles following the end of the last cold cycle know as the Little Ice Age or Maunder Minimum in the 19th century. The previous warm cycle, when it was warmer than today, known as the Medieval Warm Period, was a time of great wealth and prosperity for the human race.

The theory about human produced CO2 making the Earth warmer was concocted by a Swedish psychicist in the 1890s and got almost no traction beyound his own writings, until an article in the British scientific journal, The New Scientist, rehashed it in the 1970s. The only reason it got traction then was political, not scientific. It was convenient to Margaret Thatcher in her battles with the coal miners unions and the arab oil shieks to bolster her desire to move to nuclear power, so her government put out gobs of grant money to promote it, and scientists came running to collect that money. Then the UN discovered how it could be used for their own political purposes and jumped on the bandwagon.

Watch "The Great Global Warming Swindle". It totally debunks the claim that man's actions have anything at all to do with climate. Here is a link to it:
www.youtube.com

Commented: Sunday, October 8th, 2023 @ 8:38 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Denial is not a river in Egypt, Little Bobbie. The CNN clip where Hillary made that outrageous and totalitarian statement is embedded in the media links in that post. Did you shoot from the hip about your personal opinion without even watching the clip where she said it?

Commented: Friday, October 6th, 2023 @ 5:54 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Half of Canada? There goes Bullshot Bob on another of his wild exagerations.

There is a long known and understood short term climate cycle between El Nino and La Nina that cuased weather conditions favorable to wildfiree this year. That was also true in Europe, and there it was arson that was found to be the main ignition source. Indeed, there is one interesting video out of some Greek citizens making a citizen arrest of a group of illegal alien migrants attempting to light a wildfire and locking them up in the back of a truck until they got the cops there.

Another big factor many places in wildfires is that too many governmental bodies are following the diktat of some eco-freaks and not clearing the underbrush as used to be done regularly in forest management, so that now once a wildfire starts, it has a lot more fuel to expand and keep burning.

That video is impressive as are the speakers environmental credentials. The likes of Al Gore, John Kerry, and Greta Thunberg are not even close.

Commented: Wednesday, October 4th, 2023 @ 10:19 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Legislating punitive penalties and fees at the state level on wind and solar is hardly "loving it". The problem is that the wind and solar grifters "love" the federal subsidies, and Texas is imposing fees and penalties to counteract those so they can put the brakes on wind and solar. Texas taxpayers are also having to kick in $10 billion to incentivize new gas power plants to keep the grid up and prevent blackouts when the wind is not blowing (or blowing too hard) and the sun is not shining.

The Wall Street Journal wrote an editorial this past April on the problems that "green energy" brings to Texas that was entitled "A Texas sized Energy Fiasco" which begins "What a mess. Renewable subsidies have distorted and destabilized the Texas electric grid . . ." To avoid the paywall, that editorial is reposted in full at the link below:
stopthesethings.com

Commented: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 @ 7:42 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer