Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern North Carolina Now

Cheeseman has selected a construction firm with an extensive history of cost overruns in school construction. He will be long gone to his next job before those chickens come home to roost. Indeed there is an FBI investigation ongoing in Beaufort County, South Carolina over this same firm's cost overruns/

Maybe that is why he wants to close Snowden. He is freeing up some money to cover those expected cost overruns on his pet project.

This school is also being built on the lowest part of the lot. That will prove real smart when hurricanes come along and it floods, won't it?

And Gary, do you condone Cheeseman's gross mismanagement over that missing 4 acres? How about his half million dollar solution to his blunder when it could have been done with a property swap without costing that half million dollars to the taxpayers.

Cheeseman's pet project will prove a total boondoggle from start to finish. That grant from the lottery fund could have been used MUCh more effectively for our schools.

Commented: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 @ 9:43 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Illegal aliens are a huge financial burden on our taxpayers. They evaded due process in coming in, so why in hell should we be bound by any type of due process in sending them home? Especially when they are criminals like MS13 and Tren de Arague. These freeloading parasites need to be GONE.

We also need a special grand jury, seated somewhere like Texas, to investigate criminal charges against the Biden officials who thwarted immigration law to let them in, starting with Mayorkas. Maybe some Obama and Biden federal judges need to be indicted for harboring illegal aliens due to their crazy abuse of power rulings.

Commented: Saturday, April 19th, 2025 @ 9:42 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Cheeseman seems to want to make his plan to close Snowden all about money, so that begs the question of how the half million dollars Cheeseman blew in his bungling on the 4 acre screwup on his new monster consolidated elementary school in Washington ties into this. Half of that half million came directly from the school system budget and the other half ostensibly from the county commission but that probably also represents an advance from the commission on what the schools would have gotten this year. Is Cheeseman closing Snowden to make up for that half million dollars he blew on the mismanagement of his Washington consolidated school boondoggle? Will the school board sit there as sock puppets and let him get away with that?

There was an article on the BO on all the state statutes that Cheeseman ignored on his Washington consolidation boondoggle, and it appears he is on the same path with Snowden. Was his liberal Durham lawyer even apprised on how Cheeseman was handling that or did Cheeseman wing it on his own? Regardless, if the school board plays sock puppet and rubberstamps Cheeseman on this, the people of Aurora should raise the money and hire a lawyer to file a lawsuit over it.

Commented: Thursday, April 17th, 2025 @ 1:24 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Hood Richardson has always been a stalwart friend of the taxpayers on the county commission and a steadfast foe of waste and fraud in government. We need more like him (and less like spendthrifts Ed Booth, Frankie Waters, Randy Walker, and Jerry Langley).

Commented: Monday, April 14th, 2025 @ 2:28 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Thom Tillis, Mitch McConnell, and a few other RINOs are the reason we got the budget busting Green New Deal mislabeled as the "Inflation Reduction Act" (it did just the opposite!). These RINOs gave Biden the votes to pass their also mislabeled "infrastructure" bill without having to use their "reconcilation" slot that avoided filibusters. It was only the fact that the reconciliation slot was still available that theywere able to pass the Green New Deal budget busting bill. Thanks a lot, Tillis. That is a big reason that I will NOT be voting for you regardless of who is running against you. Tillis is a spendthrift that we do not need in the Senate.

Commented: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 @ 12:34 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

CNN is playing its usual political gain. When the stock market was going down after this policy was announced, it kept a stock ticket on its screen, but today with the market going up, funny thing, that stock ticker is absent.

Commented: Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 @ 1:59 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Maybe Musk could set up an "X Lite" with a landing page reciting that the person using it is living in a non-democratic country that does not have freedom of speech, so political discussion is not allowed. That would slam all of these fake democracies with their citizens. Then the citizens would need to learn, as Russians already have, that all you need is a VPN that says you are in a free country to be able to access the REAL X which has free speech and to be able to discuss what you want.

Commented: Friday, April 4th, 2025 @ 1:38 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

DOGE is doing great work finding all this stuff. No wonder the far left has its panties in a twist. Elon Musk is a hero.

Commented: Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 @ 3:46 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Global warming / climate change is, indeed, a highly debated subject in both science and politics. There is an online petition of thousands fo scientists who disagree with the establishment polemic. One wonders if they are now teaching one side of the issue as fact in our schools. It is good that British schools are required to let students know that the polemic is not gospel truth.

Commented: Thursday, March 27th, 2025 @ 4:26 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Human health is an important reason to regulate wind and solar energy production by strong county ordinances. THere are toxic substances involved in both as well as the harmful effects of the operation of wind turbines.

Another reason is to make sure these things get cleaned up when they are no longer functional. Hurricanes and tornadoes can shatter a wide area of wind turbines, scattering shards of glass as well as toxic substances. When they wear out, there needs to be a bond posted to cover decommisioned them and removing them.

Commented: Sunday, March 23rd, 2025 @ 7:11 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Yes, Merz did a deal with the Greens, too, doubling the climate funds from the last budget and agreeing to put their net zero nonsense into the Constitution. He did that to get their votes for his massive big spending bill. Every bit of that went against his promises to the voters in last month's election. Merz has now reversed every major issue he ran on in the campaign. He lied about everything. He has totally backstabbed his voters and he is not even in office as chancellor, yet.
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Commented: Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 @ 6:55 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Cutting back on expensive and unreliable wind and solar energy is key to keeping our utility rates low. This stuff is also extremely vulnerable in hurricanes and other major stomrs, which a conventional electric plant is NOT. Offshore wind is also the absolute worst.

Commented: Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 @ 11:55 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Florida has done a lot to rid itself of illegal aliens by strict mandates on use of E-verify by employers to confirm legal status. Many illegal aliens have left the state shown by a dramatic decline in illegal alien hospital care. But $660 Million after those restrictions were put in place is appalling. Liberal states like California, New York, and Illinois are paying a lot more. Maybe ICE should stake out hospital Emergency Rooms to arrest illegal aliens for deportation.

Commented: Thursday, March 13th, 2025 @ 11:57 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The USAID Deep State bureaucrats were and are clearly a bunch of crooks who are now trying to destroy the evidence of their corruption. Every one of them who participated in this destruction of evidence needs to be fired for cause, have their pension revoked, and be prosecuted. DOGE did a great service in exposing this cesspool of corruption.

Commented: Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 @ 9:57 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Congress is who is supposed to appropriate money but they never approved this DEI mess, so Biden abused power to inappropriately spend a trillion dollars. It is things like this that have put our country into a financial mess.

Commented: Monday, March 10th, 2025 @ 9:23 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Those EPA funding pools under Biden were little more than political slush funds. Fortunately, it looks like taxpayers will get that money back. That should not be enough though. Those involved in this fraud should be prosecutred and jailed, both those who set it up at EPA and those who had their hands in the cookie jar.

It is being reported that there will be some criminal referals on the USAID fraud, so hopefully there will be some on the EPA fraud.

Commented: Saturday, March 8th, 2025 @ 6:18 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The unelected oligarchs are the Deep State beaucrats, and DOGE is reining them in. We have needed soemthing like DOGE for a long time. Trump campaigned on doing this to sort out the waste and fraud in our government, and the people voted for that. This is the Deep State bureaucrats versus the people and the polling reflects that. Cry us a river, Little Bobbie. USAID is a good example of how out of control these despicable Deep State bureaucrats are. They were spending hundreds of millions to promote censorship of conservative and to promote globalist ideology. Screw those jerks all the way to the unemployment line. Maybe Soros will hire them, directly this time.

Commented: Wednesday, March 5th, 2025 @ 1:20 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer