Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

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

It is not just immigration. The backlash against Climate Alarmism has risen rapidly in the UK after Labour's draconian Net Zero program was implemented, which will cost ordinary Brits a bundle in their own pocketbooks. Conservatives have announced a plan reining in the most expensive parts, but the Reform Party, which has always called Net Zero "Net Stupid" wants to cancel it in its entirety. They also blame the Conservatives for starting the Net Zero project in the first place. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's then girlfriend, and now wife, was and is a big climate activist.

Immigration is part of what is driving the Reform Party's surge but so is the backlash to climate alarmism and Net Zero.

Commented: Monday, April 21st, 2025 @ 8:09 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Expensive and unreliable wind and solar energy is why electric rates in Germany are three times higher than in North Carolina, and why their industries are moving out. We do not need to make the same mistake.

Commented: Saturday, April 19th, 2025 @ 9:36 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Letitia James had a lot of gall to make up fake charges on Trump when she was the one actually engaged in mortgage fraud in two different states. She appears to have told at least three lies to get better rates, 1) that she was married to her own father, 2) that an investment property in Virginia was her "primary residence" when she was registered to vote and elected to public office in New York where she actually lived, and 3) that a 5 unit apartment buliding was a 4 unit apartment building. She did not stop with one lie but covered the waterfront.

Commented: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025 @ 1:19 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The UN or any of its agencies being able to impose "taxes" is a horrible precedent and must be stopped. This is globalist nonsense. The US needs to withdraw its membership from this UN organization and urge other countries to do so. We also need to take a chainsaw to our UN contributions over this travesty.

Commented: Saturday, April 12th, 2025 @ 8:03 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

It is likely that ActBlue is how the Mexican crime cartels, who were making money hand over fist from human smuggling from the Biden Democrats' open borders policies, funneled money to Harris-Waltz and other Democrat campaigns. It was a good investment for them.

Commented: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 @ 12:26 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

It is an insult to down and out Americans to use any public money to put illegal aliens up in hotels, especially luxury hotels. Legal immigrants have to have a sponsor to cover any initial housing and support expenses, so why should people who should not even be here get all these perks? It is an insult to legal immigrants as well as to citizens. Trump is doing a good job cutting off these parasites.

Commented: Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 @ 1:46 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The climate alarmists and their idiotic demands are responsible for much of the inflation we face in our economy. It is good to see Trump reining in this nonsense.

Commented: Friday, April 4th, 2025 @ 1:33 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The fact that his announcement ignores two big issues in front of the school board, curriculum and the new school construction boondoggle, tells the voters that this dude Garrison is NOT a conservative.

Ever since parents were outraged during Covid when the instruction at home regime allowed them to see the woke crap their kids were getting in the classroom, getting woke out of the curriculum has been the driving issue for conservatives in school boards races across the country, around the state, and here in Beaufort County. The "business as usual" crowd is being kicked to the curb all over the country. Garrison is either a liberal or he is clueless.

Then there is the new school construction boondaggle where a series of blunders by the school administration, meekly rubberstamped by a yes-man majority on the school board has created a real mess. It would appear that Garrison wants to join that yes-man majority that considers itself subservient to our liberal and domineering superintendant.

Commented: Friday, March 28th, 2025 @ 9:17 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Illegal aliens are a huge cost to taxpayers. More needs to be done to cut them off from having their snouts in the trough. What about state and local funds? It all needs to be cut off.

Commented: Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 @ 12:57 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Always double check anything Dr. Parker tells you. He is not known for accuracy. In the last debate over the social studies curriculum, Parker told the School Board that the Savvas curriculum was the only one approved by DPI. That was not true, as at least six others were on DPI's list On the math curriculum debate, he told the school board that the Bridges curriculum was "not Common Core" when its own website said it was. He had to reverse himself after this was pointed out. One wonders if Parker is just that out of touch or if he is giving answers fed to him by his superior. Either way, I would not trust anything that comes out of his mouth.

Commented: Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 @ 7:29 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

America is drowning in debt and so much of our spending is going on useless crap and far left ideological projects. DOGE is saving the day for our economy, which irritates the far left. The polls show that what DOGE is doing is supported by a significant majority of the American people even if the globalists and far left do not like it.

Indivisible should be declared a terrorist organization and all of those thugs involved in this vandalism should get heavy sentences for domestic terrorism.

Commented: Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 @ 12:00 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer