Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

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

The Republican Party in Beaufort County is riddled with these stupid personality conflicts. What matters is how they vote on real issues, and how they vote to organize government bodies.

Commented: Monday, October 2nd, 2023 @ 1:42 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

They need to cut off welfare checks when there is a government shutdown to get the Democrats is line. They also ought to cut off the paychecks of Congress, including staff, and not reimburse those ever.

Commented: Saturday, September 30th, 2023 @ 9:26 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Why has the school board not gotten involved in this problem? Clearly the superintendant is not stopping it since it seems to keep popping up.

Commented: Friday, September 29th, 2023 @ 7:55 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Not only is "green energy" an environmental nightmare, but it also wrecks economies, as the Germans are now finding out. stopthesethings.com

Who pushed North Carolina down this path? Our own local RINO State Senator Jim Perry, for one. He needs to GO.

Commented: Tuesday, September 26th, 2023 @ 4:46 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

So only the powerful special interests have the money to buy Pay-to-Play Perry? Like Big Medicine or the Green New Deal crowd? Look at Perry's liberal voting record and then look at the special interests that bought him. The latest is the casino cabal, and it cost them over $40,000 to buy Perry. Yeah, he is not cheap, but he is for sale to the highest bidder.

And actually Causey has a very strong record of helping consumers when they have a problem with insurance companies. The problem between Perry and Causey has to do with that crooked Blue Cross bill that Perry pushed and Causey vocally opposed. That bill royally screwed consumers to pander to a special interest that gave Perry money. And Perry was throwing consumers under the bus while Causey was standing up for their rights.

Commented: Friday, September 22nd, 2023 @ 9:06 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

One of the big threats to fishing are the offshore wind turbines that Biden and Cooper are pushing. For a bottom swelling fish like a flounder, the power cables from wind turbines present a major threat, as they do to crabs, lobsters, and other sea creatures. Wind turbines are already causing whale deaths.

Commented: Sunday, September 17th, 2023 @ 9:01 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

That so-called "stormwater utility" was always just a dishonest shell game to hide tax increases. For many decades, the city has been dealing with stormwater out of the regular city budget with tax money. This was hived off as a "utility" to cover up a tax increase some years ago. They kept the official tax rate the same, saying they were just adding a utility fee. As if voters could not see through that bullshit. Now they are playing similar dishonest games to hide another tax increase. After raising our city taxes a whopping ten percent last year, they are now back to their crooked shell game in an election year. Shame on you, Mayor Sadler.

Commented: Wednesday, September 13th, 2023 @ 2:40 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer