Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern North Carolina Now

VZ: The lack of legal counsel by the school board at public hearings is bad enough, but ever worse is the apparent lack of legal counsel in their multi-million dollar school construction project in Washington. If legal counsel had been involved they would not have had that half million dollar blunder on not owning 4 acres of the school site.

Now, they are dealing with a construction company with a long history of cost overruns and do not have legal counsel involved in their meetings with them. I dread to think how much that might eventually cost us. Heck, they even leave the one local county commissioner with engineering and contract experience on major projects, Hood Richardson out of the loop. Instead, they send in Frankie Waters, whose business experience consists of running Tri-County Telephone during the time it was run into the ground and had to be sold off. This is not going to end well for taxpayers.

They had Cheesburger play real estate appraiser on their "fix" on the 4 acre fiasco. Is he playing lawyer, too? He is not qualified for either.

Commented: Sunday, June 1st, 2025 @ 11:39 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Pushing the Green New Deal is what we would expect from Bernie Sanders or AOC. Tillis is way to the left of the NC mainstream. But sometime back I saw a Congressional rating that actually had Tillis as more to the left than Sanders, based on their Senate voting records. Tillis is too liberal for North Carolina and needs to get his waling papers in the 2026 primary. He has worn out his welcome with NC Republican voters.

Commented: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 @ 5:46 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Killing off Snowden is not about money. That is a false flag raised by Cheeseman, whose ludicrous numbers on that score are very seriously flawed. Of course, Cheeseman's blunders with the Washington mega elementary school show that he has absolutely no management or financial competence in the first place. It is all about the leftist education establishment's agenda to kill off community and neighborhood schools. By centralizing education, they can control it and push it in the woke directions they want. Anyone who votes for school consolidation is either a flaming liberal or dumb as a brick.

Commented: Monday, May 26th, 2025 @ 2:16 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Whatley, like Tillis would be certain to be a tax and spend Republican. Indeed, with his background as a paid mouthpiece for special interests, Whatley may even be worse.

Tillis' key assistance to Biden's big spending spree should never be forgotten or forgiven. Along with other Biden Republicans like Mitch McConnell, Tillis voted to let Biden's big spending fake "Infrastructure" bill pass through the normal process. That was bad enough in and of itself, but it set up something even worse. It preserved the "reconciliation" slot that year for Biden to pass the outrageous Green New Deal disguised as the "inflation Reduction Act."

Tillis has disqualified himself from consideration by fiscal conservatives because of his fingerprints all over Biden's big spending spree. Whatley would probably be even worse. Surely the NCGOP has somebody we can rally around and get excited about for 2026, but this badly flawed pair are NOT it.

This Don Brown, however, sounds interesting. I would like to learn more about him.

Commented: Saturday, May 24th, 2025 @ 2:57 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The climate alarmists have been attacking pet ownership recently and have attacked livestock farming for years. They want to force people to only eat fake meat or not to eat meat at all. These shrill nannies are really a religious cult - Climate Scientology.

Commented: Friday, May 23rd, 2025 @ 1:22 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Japan's central bank has been playing with fire longer than The Fed and yesterday things took a really bad turn for them economically as a result of their high government and central bank debt. They started many of the techniques The Fed in using here but have been doing them longer. Now it is about to blow up their economy with a debt problem far worse than Greece had. We need to learn from their mistakes.
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Commented: Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 @ 3:23 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Wind and solar also produce electricity that is much more expensive than conventional electricity. It is also highly unreliable and prone to blackouts. Ask the people of Spain and Portugal that had the most recent nationwide blackout caused by "green" energy a couple of weeks ago.

Commented: Sunday, May 18th, 2025 @ 12:45 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

That bill falls way short on the spending cuts America needs if we are going to save the dollar. It also fails to end the tax on social security benefits, which is highly unfair double taxation. What I hear on the radio is that the problem is the congressional leadership. This is a huge blunder if they fail to take this opportunity for needed budget cuts.

Similarly, the recision bill to cut federal programs already approved seems to be stuck in Congress. We should not tolerate these leadership failures.

Commented: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025 @ 3:19 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Simple, Van Zant. They do not want to be confused by facts because their little mings are already made up.

Commented: Monday, May 12th, 2025 @ 9:04 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Tillis needs to go. Brown sounds like he would make a much better senator, but can he raise the money to defeat Tillis? I hope so. Tillis will be flush with special interest money since he is a special interest poodle in the senate.

Commented: Saturday, May 10th, 2025 @ 7:04 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

In addition to the Antarctic, there has also been an increase in the sea ice in the Artic, which Al Gore and others claimed would be ice free by now. Gore and his mad scientist buddies speak with a forked tongue.

Commented: Thursday, May 8th, 2025 @ 3:21 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This shows what moronic ideologues these Obama judges are. Everybody except them seems to know that the Covid pandemic is long over. They just want to see government money spend and do not care what the excuse is. Obama and Biden judges are engaged in power grabs that are a threat to democracy and must be stopped.

Commented: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025 @ 11:18 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Hopefully, the Reform Party will also block solar and wind farms in the areas where they run the local government. Reform has been called the climate alarmist Net Zero as Net Stupid for some time, and it is an apt description of it.

Commented: Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 @ 5:48 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Another big issue in Great Britain is the climate alarmist "Net Zero" CO2 project that is costing ordinary Brits a lot of money out of their personal pocketbooks. The Reform Party has been the only one taking this head on, calling it "Net Stupid" and calling to end it entirely. The Conservative Party takes a more nuanced approach to eliminate the extremes Labour is pushing but keeping a fair amount of it in place. Interestingly, a think tank headed by former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair issued an analysis highly critical of Net Zero just before the election, which upset the current Labour leadership immensely.

The pollsters thought the Green Party was in real contention with Labour for a mayorship in a left-leaning area, but it turned out that it was the Reform Party, not the Green Party, that turned out to be the real competition to Labour in that seat.

Reading the British newspapers online, unlike American newspapers, gives a real sense of what is happening across the pond. Indeed the British newspapers usually do a more accurate and thoroughr job of reporting what is really happening here in the states as well.

Commented: Friday, May 2nd, 2025 @ 12:28 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The cost of illegal aliens to taxpayers is enormous. They have cost New York City taxpayers $5 Billion. Other localities, too, and being soaked by these deadbeats, but all the Billions Biden shelled out for them is the worst. It is unacceptable to pay to put people who are illegally in the country up in luxury hotels.

Commented: Monday, April 28th, 2025 @ 7:04 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Will Cheeseman play stall ball? I suspect he will as transparency is NOT his game. As I recall they are calling the new school "Washington Elementary School" so it might be helpful to amend your request using that name to avoid a possible stalling tactic.

Cheeseman has played his whole game behind closed doors as much as he could, even to the extent of refusing to follow state law that required public input. He runs the shcools like a little tin horn dictator, a miniture Mussolini.

Commented: Friday, April 25th, 2025 @ 12:32 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Washingtonian, Beaufort County used to have two systems, the Washington City System and the County system, each with its own board and superintendent. However, merger and consolidations are watchwords of the liberal education establishment and that fell by the wayside. I would agree that was a better system.

The reason the liberal education establishment wants school consolidation is to decrease parental involvement. Yes, they like to give lip service to parents being involved but that is just a smokescreen. Another thing they do to push parents away is eliminating textbooks. No longer can parents flip through their child's textbook at home to see what he is being taught. When students were doing their work at home during Covid, that gave parents an opportunity to see what leftwing crap was being drilled into their kids and there arose a nationwide movement to oust the "business as usual" types from school boards.

Stan, I fear you are right on this school boondoggle just getting worse and more expensive. That fiasco over the 4 acres is just the beginning. Cheeseman has hired a construction firm with a long history of cost overruns on building schools, and their oversight group is not up to the task. Cheeseman has already demonstrated his dire lack of management competence. T.W. Allen is a joke, nothing but a front man for Cheeseman who does what he is told. Then you have Frankie Waters, who as chairman of the old Tri-County Telephone ran it into bankruptcy. We have the Three Stooges watching over a company that is almost certain to try to sock us with extra costs.

One suggestion is that when they come back with demands for more money, make a condition of giving any more money that the Three Stooges all resign from their positions, and that means their underlying offices. If they let themselves get suckered, and they will, then we do not need them in ANY public office, appointed or elected.

Commented: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025 @ 10:15 am By: Concerned Taxpayer