Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

Having worked in state government in the department that oversaw those hospitals, you have at best a half truth. It was the left saying that it was more humane to put most of the mental patients out on the streets responsible for the major downsising of mental hospitals. Tht fact that the Democrats who then controlled federal spending because they controlled Congress did start cutting funds played some role, but the ultimate decision was made at the state level, and that again was by the Democrat Jim Hunt admnistration, backed by a Democrat controlled legislature.

Commented: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 7:39 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Mental hospitals have always been a state function, NOT a federal function. The left thought it was better and more humane to put the inmates out on the street. The major downsizing of mental health hospitals in North Carolina occured during the administration of Democrat Governor Jim Hunt. The drunks and drug addicts were previously the long term homeless, and this added a big new component to them.

Commented: Sunday, February 5th, 2023 @ 12:11 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

It is funny how the biased MSM always amplifies false Democrat claims about the GOP cutting Medicare, but now when Biden and the Democrats are actually moving to do it, they are silent. The MSM are propagnadists, not journalists. And where is the liberal AARP?

Commented: Saturday, February 4th, 2023 @ 11:06 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Another issue of huge concern to conservatives is the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, which RINOs are trying to sell us out to the special interests on. So far the House is standing firm against it, with Keith Kidwell one of those helping hold the line. Sellout mania is terrbie in the Senate, and one of the ringleaders of it is RINO Jim Perry wno (mis)represents Beaufort County in the Senate. Both RINO legislative "leaders" PHil Berger in the Senate and Tim Moore in the House are all-in on selling out to Roy Cooper, the Democrats, and the special interests on Obamacare Medicaid expansion. Republicans in the General Assembly need new leadership who will work for Republican principles, not for Democrats and special interests, and this district needs a new state senator who is not a whore to the special interests like Perry is.

Commented: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 10:51 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The way climate alarmists play games by deliberately fudging the numbers was first esposed by the Climategate emails but also by Mann's fake "hockey stick curve" chart. EVERY dire warning they have ever made that has past the date it was supposed to happen, HASN'T, and there have been dozens of them. These clowns are nothing but a doomsday cult dressed up by science fiction and many of them are doing it to rake in money or accumulate power or prestige.

Commented: Tuesday, January 24th, 2023 @ 1:34 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Natural climate change IS real. It changes every year between winter, spring, summer,and fall. It is cold in winter, hot in summer, and warm in spring and fall. Then there are the longer natural climate cycles running multiple centuries. We came out of the last natural colling cycle, known to climatologists as the Little Ice Age or Maunder Minimum in the 19th century and have been in a natural warming cycle since. The last natural warming cycle, the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than it is today. The longest natural warming cycle, the Holocene Maximum, lasted three thousand years and was much warmer than today.

Manmade global warming? That is just leftwing political poppycock, now being used by the globalists to try to scare people into giving up their freedoms. The immediate past president of the Czech Republic, Dr. Vaclav Klaus, wrote a very good book on that subject, "Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What is in jeopardy, climate or freedom?".

Oh, I know that the biggest doomsday cult in history, which ought to be called Climate Scientology, keeps trying to scare people with their dire predictions. But you know what? Dozens of their dire predictions have already passed the date they were supposed to happen, and not a single one of those dire predictions has actually come to pass. In fact, not a one of them was even close. With that record of false prophecies, only a blithering idiot would believe anything they have to say.

Exxon-Mobile? Larry Fink of ESG machine Blackrock inserted three climate crazies onto their board of directors at their last stockholder meeting, one of the reasons many states are withdrawing their pension funds from Blackrock. After that, anything they have to say on the subject is very highly suspect.

Commented: Tuesday, January 24th, 2023 @ 8:36 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Stein is using the Democrat playbook of attacking the Republican he wants to run against. Conservative State Treasurer Dale Folwell is not only our strongest candidate, but will make the best governor.

Commented: Monday, January 23rd, 2023 @ 9:25 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

SAVVAS was one of the companies whose textbooks were rejected by the state of Florida as being too woke. Why in the heck are they being proposed in Beaufort County?

And, Big Bob, the "woke" agenda of their attacks on history is extremely similar to Mao's Cultural Revolution in Red China. I guess you consider mass murderer Mao "a decent human being"?

Woke is also highly racist. If you are white, you are bad. If you are a white male, you are worse, and a heterosexual white male worse still. Worst of all in their woke racist world is a white male heterosexual Christian.

Commented: Friday, January 20th, 2023 @ 11:18 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Our former GOP state senator Bill Cook ran campaign ads against the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. Now, his RINO replacement Jim Perry of Kinston is in the hip pocket of Big Medicine and pushing this Democrat priority just as hard as he can.

Nationally, getting all states onboard the Obamacare Medicaid expansion is a big priorty of Democrats. It is disgusting to Republican voters that we have sell-out Special Interest Republicans in leadership positions in the General Assembly, Phil Berger and Tim Moore who are working as hard as the Democrats for this major Democrat priority. With "Republicans" like Berger and Moore, who even needs Democrats?

This is not the first time and probably will not be the last that Berger and Moore have betrayed Republican principles to do the bidding of the liberal special interests. This has also been a huge problem in DC with Mitch McConnell being one of the most shameless Special Interest Republicans around, and a parade of special interest Republicans like Boehner and Ryan heading House Repubilcans.

At least this time in the US Congress we had 20 heroes force McCarthy to make some commitments where he is supposed to actually function as a Republican for a change. His history in the past has always been as a special interest Republican. Where are our heroes in the General Assembly to whittle down the excessive control exercised by Berger and Moore? Do so many of them lack a full set of vertebrae?

Why bother to elect a Republican legislative majority if they are going to sell us out at every turn? Phil Berger is little more than a backwater Mitch McConnell and Tim Moore a backwater John Boehner. Why do we tolerate these backstabbing scoundrels?

At least it was encouraging to hear Rep. Keith Kidwell on WTIB speaking out against the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. Rank and file Republicans stopped it in the House last session, and hopefully they will have the backbone to do it again.

Berger and Moore are beneath contempt. THey have been doing Roy Cooper and the Democrats' bidding on issue after issue. They are not only Special Interest Republicans who sell us out to the special interests, but they are also Benedict Arnold Republicans who sell us out to the Democrats.

Commented: Sunday, January 15th, 2023 @ 3:53 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Globalism is a totalitarian ideology, much like communism and fascism in the 20th century. The WEF's Klaus Schwab's "Great Reset" book is the equivalent of Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto" and Adolph Hitler's "Mein Kampf". They are a huge threat to freedom. One of the WEF slogans is "you will own nothing and you will be happy".

Commented: Friday, January 13th, 2023 @ 12:06 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This Log Cabin Republican is one of the ones pulling Locke to the left. HB951 is NC's Green New Deal, and contains no "brilliance". It is only "bipartisan" in that the establishment House and Senate "Republican" leadership of Moore and Berger sold out to the special interests and screwed the NC Republican base and NC electric customers. Duke Energy is as "woke" as it gets and is all in to the radical ESG nonsense, and they and the solar / wind grifters are who Berger and Moore sold us out to.

Locke is destroying its conservative reputation by hired a greenie like Bellievue.

Commented: Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 @ 7:33 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Trump's support of McCarthy is a support of one of the worst swamp creatures. That does it. I am in the deSantis camp solidly now for '24..

Commented: Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 10:35 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

I understand that our new conservative trio has been reaching out to some of the other board members in trying to find votes on key policy. I hope they are successful, and we start to see our School Board adopt a pro-parent position instead of being lapdogs of the school bureanracy. I agree that there is a lot to do and voters are anxious to start getting it done. If they can't find two other votes, there are going to be a lot more defeated incumbents in the 2024 cycle.

Commented: Friday, December 30th, 2022 @ 8:14 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

At the time, Speaker Moore's refusal to call the Parents Bill of Rights up for a vote was a real head scratcher. The votes were there in the House to pass it. It was election time. Sure, Cooper would probably veto it, but it put Democrat legislators on record on an issue where voters would not agree with them. Then put it up again for a veto override and make them vote on it again. That would have been a heck of a campaign issue if the Democrats held firm, but Moore took a pass on it. That made absolutely no sense at the time. It seemed to reek of political malpractice. Now, however, one can connect the dots between Speaker Moore and the homosexual lobby, and why it happened is just too crystal clear, and too infuriating. Moore needs to go. He is not serving the Republicans of North Carolina and our interests.

Commented: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 8:40 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive Republican, a big spender and a big government guy, more like a Cheney than a Trump. His role in the Spanish American War was more hype than reality. He may have exuded a certain personal bravado, but his politics were to the left of most Republicans of his day.

Commented: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 10:23 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

I guess that Mitch McConnell could be called the Frankie Waters of the US Senate, always there to do the Democrats bidding instead of working with his own party. It was appalling that Republican senators let this quisling continue to be GOP leader. I am very disappointed in Ted Budd, although we always knew that Thom Tillis is also a quisling.

Commented: Thursday, December 15th, 2022 @ 8:39 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

That contract boondoggle has a strong whiff of corruption. Didn't Stan Deatherage try to get some honest policies established for county contracts? That apparently went nowhere. I wonder whose buddy that second bidder was? We are not getting transparency in government, and that hurts our taxpayers.

Commented: Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 @ 7:52 am By: Concerned Taxpayer