Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

The recent rolling blackouts on Christmas are a foretaste of what these greenie idiots - Cooper, Berger, and Moore - are bringing to North Carolina. Duke Eneergy has already prematurely closed some coal plants, including the one in Brunswick County just a few weeks before the rolling blackouts and that is why we do not have enough electricity. As they close more under their "carbon plan" it will just get worse. Intermittant sources of power like unreliable and expensive solar and wind power just do not cut the mustard. The only way to protect our electric ratepayers is to repeal HB951, which is more radical than the EU's climate crusade. North Carolina Republicans were sold down the river by Phil Berger and Tim Moore, and the writer of this article was right there working with Berger on this scam in the legislature.

Commented: Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 @ 12:38 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is probably designed to bleed over to illegal aliens as well. Already, there are probably way too many illegal aliens who Social Services has found ways to put on the welfare rolls, either through their children or otherwise, and that is sapping federal, state, anc county taxpayer funds. This needs to be stopped.

Commented: Friday, January 6th, 2023 @ 3:03 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Many of these definitions are spot on as to the Orwellian Newspeak of today's far left Democrats. One they have totally missed, however is "Diversity" and the new Democrat definiation of that is "knocking down whitey", especially white heterosexual males.

Commented: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023 @ 8:10 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The Biden regime is a threat to our pocketbooks. His tax increases are terrible, and so are his gas increases that we have already seen and will see more of, and his coming electricity price increases from his idiotic wind and solar fiasco.

Commented: Friday, December 30th, 2022 @ 8:02 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The Spanish American War was a war that Big Media of the day pushed us into. Spain probably had nothing to do with the explosion on the battleship Maine, which was not at all in their interest. It came within a day of being an extremely consequential war for the US, because that is how long the Imperial German Far East Fleet lost their race with Dewey to reach Manila Bay. Imperial Germany wanted the Phillipines and when the war broke out, they ordered their Far East Fleet based in Kaio Chau, the German version of Hong Kong on the Chinese coast, to steam for Manila. The goal was to position the German fleet in front of the Spanish to force US Admiral Dewey to either attack them first or leave. If the former happened, the Kaiser was ready to go to the Reichstag for a declaration of war, and America would have found itself fighting the world's second most powerful navy at the time (the UK's Royal Navy was the most powerful). As it was, the German fleet was a day late and while they steamed around trying to provoke an attack by Dewey, including landing German marines, Dewey was smart enough to ignore them and they eventually steamed away. Even after the naval gambit failed, Germany offered to buy the Phillipines from Spain and take on evicting the Americans themselves. That is why in the peace treaty with Spain, the US paid for the Phillipines while Cuba and Puerto Rico were ceded without any payment.

Commented: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 12:20 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

McConnell has sold us out to the Democrats AGAIN. We can expect RINOs Tillis and Burr to go along with that as well. With "Republicans" like McConnell, Tillis, and Burr, who needs Democrats? Will Ted Budd be any better? He certainly was in the House, so I am still keeping my fingers crossed on him in the Senate. McConnell is as much of a spendtrhrit as Sshumer. They are two peas in a leftwing pod.

Commented: Monday, December 19th, 2022 @ 9:52 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

He just plays one on TV.

Commented: Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 @ 12:29 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Dale Folwell is a breath of fresh air. He is taking on this ESG monster and one of its worst practictioners, Larry Fink (who has a very apt last name). I look forward to Folwell running for and being elected our governor in 2024.

Commented: Saturday, December 10th, 2022 @ 8:38 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

mitch McConnell is an absolute disaster. He connives with the liberals, including Obama and Biden and attacks conservatives every chance he gets. GOP senators needed to ditch Tax Hike Mitch as leader but they sorely failed our taxpayers and Republican voters. Mitch McConnell and his turncoat leadership is why we do not have a Republican senate majority right now. We all know Thom Tillis is just as big a traitor as McConnell, but I was appalled that Ted Budd did not join the conservatives in pushing to get rid of McConnell.

Commented: Thursday, December 1st, 2022 @ 7:38 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Electric buses are downright dangerous. One had its huge lithium battery spontaneously combust in Connecticut, burning up the bus, and Connecticut took all such buses off the road. Paris had three electric buses spontaneously combust and burn up, the last one while out of service on a busy public street where there was lots of video of it. They also took their electric buses out of service. So far, there have been no passengers or staff on board when these buses went up in flames, but watching the Paris videos, the fire moved so rapidly that if there had been most of them would have been dead. Roy Cooper is a climate crazy who is trying to push that wacky doctrine on our state.

Commented: Saturday, November 19th, 2022 @ 7:58 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This new pagan religious cult, a kind of Gaia worship, should be called Climate Scientology. It worships a flawed doomsday theory promoted by a group of dishonest scientists seeking fame, fortune, and power and followed by sleazy politicians who seem the same. The climategate email dump exposed them for the frauds they are - "hide the decline" - but the leftie media is still entralled with them.

Commented: Saturday, November 19th, 2022 @ 10:40 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Pitt County had a school board disaster, with two ultra-woke far-left radicals winning seats. Conservatives were asleep at the switch there. I am very happy about our school board results here, and I loved the radio ad of the conservative school board team.

Commented: Friday, November 11th, 2022 @ 7:36 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

What is even more interesting is that the German Finance Minister has called for allowing fracking to allow Germany to get more gas. Finance Minister Christian Lindner is a member of the only right of center party, the Free Democrats (FPD) in the present coalition. His party was just wiped out in the state election in the important state of Lower Saxony due to its national alignment with the leftist coalition government. Lindner seems to be wanting to put some daylight between the FDP and its coalition partners, the Social Democrats and Greens. The latter, however, would probably rather have Germans freeze than to allow fracking. www.breitbart.com

Commented: Sunday, October 30th, 2022 @ 9:15 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Gaskins' politics are bad news, and reason enough NOT to vote for Rogerson, but he is not the only lefty behind Rogerson. So is the New Jail mafia that wants to spend many millions on a totally unnecessary new jail. I think Gaskins may be a part of that, too. Jerry Langley, the godfather of the new jail movement is backing Rogerson, as is Langley's sidekick on the commission, Ed Booth. So is RINO jail advocate and Langley ally Frankie Waters. Electing Rogerson would be an expensive endeavor for Beaufort County taxpayers.

Commented: Friday, October 28th, 2022 @ 5:23 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

BCCC has students from several other counties around us. Will Beaufort County be paying their tuition and fees? Will their own county be doing it? Or will they have to pay it themselves? Beaufort County taxpayers should not be on the hook for any of this, but it becomes even worse if they are not even Beaufort County citizens. If a BCCC student comes from Hyde or Washington County, for example, who pays for their tuition and fees?

With illegal aliens, FAFSA covers "qualified non-citizens" and that includes those seeking asylum, which includes a huge percentage of illegal aliens coming into this country. They are taught to claim asylum even though very few of them will actually qualify for it if they show up in court. Most of them know that, too, and never show up for court.

Who besides bona fide Beaufort County citizens can get this "free" tuition? The Frankie Waters majority hung the taxpayers out to dry on that one.

Commented: Friday, October 14th, 2022 @ 9:20 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Sooo! Mr. Loope stated something was a policy that in fact is at present only a PROPOSED policy, not yet approved by the Board of Trustees. I hope they approve it to keep our tax money from going to illegal aliens.

It looks like the college is doing something the county commissioners should have done. They left the barn door wide open for the money to go to illegal aliens. They did it knowingly and with one of the governing coalition members openly stating he wanted the money to go to illegal aliens.

But there is a bigger issue here. "Make college free" is a national policy objective of the left wing of the Democrat Party. Why in the world is a supposedly Republican majority on our county commission carrying out a national leftwing Democrat policy objective? Beaufort Promise is something AOC or Bernie Sanders could have produced.

Commented: Tuesday, October 11th, 2022 @ 7:29 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

That video is almost two and a half hours long. Where in it is the part about the tuition for illegal aliens at the community college?

Commented: Sunday, October 9th, 2022 @ 6:53 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer