Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

Gender dysphoria should be added to the list of mental health conditions that prevent issuance of gun permits. These people are clearly prone to violence and terrorism. For that matter they should not be allowed to have any items that could be used for terrorism - knives, explosives, axes, hatchets, etc. This week there was a killing of 5 students in a school in Brazil by a nutjob with a hatchet (no word if he was transgender).

Commented: Friday, April 7th, 2023 @ 7:22 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Now we have a frivolous prosecution based on the same claims debunked in civil court. Will the Soros-owned thug Alvin Bragg be held accountable? Bragg needs more than being required to pay money. He needs time in prison for trying to abuse power to influence an election.

Commented: Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 @ 12:26 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

That article "The Day America Became Russia" from The European Conservative linked in the post says it all. It is worse than a banana republic. We are now the United Soviet States of America (USSA). Even folks across the Atlantic can see what is being done to us.

Commented: Friday, March 31st, 2023 @ 10:53 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

I was a big fan of Mark Robinson when he ran for his current office. He is a first rate orator and hit all the right conservative notes. He started off great on the education issues, but he stopped, not even attending state school board meetings for months. A governor's appointees are key to his success. They are what made Jim Martin a great governor and Pat McCrory a poor one. Robinson has a rather small staff as Lt. Governor but his appointments there have been less than impressive. Most importantly, Robinson was asleep at the switch when RINOs pushed major left wing legislation including the Obamacare Medicaid expansion and the NC Green New Deal through the legislature. A group of conservative energy experts actually met with Robinson on contesting the Green New Deal but Robinson refused to get involved. Dale Folwell, on the other hand has shown as State Treasurer that he knows how to properly staff government with competent conservatives and he knows how to use the levers of power to push conservative policy. Talk is great with Robinson but it is Folwell who shows he can actually push conservative policy successfully.

Commented: Friday, March 24th, 2023 @ 9:33 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Offshore wind is some of the most expensive there is to produce and will cause our electric bills to skyrocket. It also damages our commercial fishing industry and our coastal tourism industry, and slaughters seabirds, dolphins, and whales. This is a VERY BAD deal for North Carolina.

Commented: Sunday, March 19th, 2023 @ 7:50 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Even the major British newspapers were reporting how "woke" Silicon Valley Bank was. Why can't leftwing commenters like Bobbie manage to figure that out? Do they assume that the only "truth" is derived from the leftwing narrative?
www.dailymail.co.uk

Commented: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 @ 9:07 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Only one member of SVB's board had banking experience. The rest were political hacks, and the bank was eaten up by woke ESG and DEI. Bailing out the depositers was a travesty. But many banks are eaten up by woke and are playing the same destructive ESG and DEI games. The rest way to protect our banking system is to prohibit banks from playing the DEI and ESG games with our money.

SVB spent $74 million on the Marxist organization BLM and on radical left "social justice" causes. redstate.com

Commented: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 @ 11:22 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Pollution from "green energy" can be severe. With modern scrubbers in western countries, that from coal and gas power plants is NOT.

Commented: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 7:56 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Big Bob fits right in with Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, and lots of other dictators who took away guns for people control. It is a necessity to establish a dictatorship. The New York Times published an article in the mid 1930s about how one German state had to take the guns away from the Jewish people because the Jewish people were shooting Nazis, and they reported that nonsense with a straight face. Then in 1938, Hitler's Reich gun law took guns away from everybody. I'll bet those Jewish folks wished they still had their guns when the Gestapo came to send them to the camps. While criminals should not have guns, only totalitarians want to take them from law abiding citizens.

Commented: Thursday, March 9th, 2023 @ 7:28 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is part of the steady march to an authoritarian single payer system like Canada or the UK with horrendous waiting lists for people to get care. ECU Health is part of Big Medicine in promoting this. Republican lawyers who voted for this left wing wet dream should be ashamed of themselves. Yes, thats you Jim Perry, Tim Reeder, John Bell, Chris Humphreys. Shame on you. You are involuntarily transfering hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians who now have private health insurance onto the government dole at the taxpayers expense. If they qualify by income for Medicaid, they have to get Medicaid, and can no longer keep their private health insurance, and that sometimes means they cannot keep their doctor. Taxpayers are also being screwed to the wall to pay for this. Big Medicine is an enemy of American freedom, and Republican sellouts who voted for this bill are traitors to Republican voters.

Commented: Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 @ 5:22 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Climate alarmism is a prime example of President Eisenhower's warning in his Farewell Address about a "scientific-technological elite" getting control of public policy.

Here are President Eisenhower's words, immediately after his warning of a "military-industrial comples":

"Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."

Commented: Tuesday, March 7th, 2023 @ 7:30 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Blindly following the narrative of the woke left will NOT lead you to the truth, Bob, but that seems your source for all of your "information". You obviously are aware of the eco-loons who were inserted onto Exxon's board, which is why you reference Exxon. The sources I provided below are hardly the only ones who reported on it.

Commented: Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 @ 1:31 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Here's more: nypost.com

Commented: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 @ 7:47 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Exxon's board was infiltrated by rabid climate alarmists. That was engineered by Larry Fink (an apt last name), CEO of woke financial firm Blackrock at Exxon's last shareholder meeting. Fink voted the proxies of the many state pension funds that Blackrock manages to force these eco-loons onto the board. That is why a parade of states, including North Carolina is either removing Blackrock as manager of their state pension funds or at least taking those proxies away from them. Fink is very active in Klaus Schwab's totalitarian World Economic Forum.

Commented: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 @ 4:03 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The School Board did NOT "investigate" 28 curricula. That is apparently the number the ultra-liberal Cooper-controlled state Board of Education approved, all "woke" to one degree or another. Superintendant Cheeseman handpicked a committee of school staff (NOT the school board members) who selected this SAVVAS curriculum and that was the only one presented to the school board, take it or leave. It was like a Soviet ballot - only one choice, yes or no. This is incredibly arrogant for staff to treat the elected decision making body this way.

It was refreshing to see our new conservative school board members do their own research on SAVVAS, which is easy enough to do these days with a computer. It is a very "woke" company, which even had its MATH curriculum rejected in Florida for being injected with "woke". A controversy in Arizona over SAVVAS' science curriculum that claimed that there are more than two genders even made the British newspaper.

Do I detect a little sour grapes on your own loss in the School Board race?

Commented: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 @ 6:53 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Hardly "access to health care". What Obamacare Medicaid expansion does is push 120,000 North Carolinians who now have private health insurance, mostly as a benefit of their job onto the Medicaid dole instead. It makes those 120,000 North Carolinians no longer eligible for private health insurance and forces them onto a welfare type program. Many doctors who take private insurance do not take Medicaid, so that will deprive some of them of their doctors. This does these 120,000 North Carolinians no favors.

Oh, and North Carolina has just been informed that we will have to pay the feds another billion dollars a year for the state's part of Medicaid.

This is about making people dependant on government, not about providing better health care, and it stinks. Those Republican legislators who betrayed North Caorlina on this will never get my vote.

Commented: Thursday, February 16th, 2023 @ 8:56 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Phil Berger and Tim Moore are spendthrifts for backing this taxpayer ripoff Medicaid expansion. They are betraying the taxpayers of North Carolina. So is that Jim Perry. How did we ever get stuck with him as our senator, anyway? Every major issue he touches, he seems to act more like a Democrat. Hopefully our state representatives will continue to stand up for our taxpayers. Keith Kidwell has been a real hero on helping stop this bad legislation.

Commented: Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 @ 10:06 am By: Concerned Taxpayer