Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern North Carolina Now

All of this Democrat bungling on the Los Angeles wildfires is going to hit all of us.

Take insurance. All insurance companies buy "reinsurance" to back them up on major losses from companies like Swiss Re. These reinsurance companies are going to get soaked in Los Angeles, and will raise their rates to the insurance companies we buy from in North Carolina. That will raise our premiums. The companies with heavy direct exposure to Los Angeles will also probably try to increase their rates in other states to cover their Los Angeles losses.

THen consider all of the mortgages on houses that have gone up in smoke. THey are not likely to be paid and the collateral is now greatly reduced, being now only the land. Some already shaky financial insitutions with a lot of Los Angeles mortgage expsoure may go under from this and that may set up a chain reaction with other financial institutions.

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 8:22 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Little Bobbie sure is brainwashed into that Climate Scientology cult. Santa Ana winds have been around as long as we have records. They happen at this time of year. So has the El Nino / La Nina cycle. Neither are "change". Also, the longtime pattern is that when you have La Nina, as has just started last year, you have stronger Santa Ana winds. For California, an El Nino pattern gives more rain, but a La Nina pattern gives little rain. A lot of growth of plants followed by drying out is simply what always happens when a La Nina pattern takes over from an El Nino pattern. It is not "climate change". It is a natural climate cycle that has gone on as long as we have records.

Bobbie's brainwashing seems to be as thorough as Greta Thunberg's. Haybe he needs professional help in getting out of that cult.

Commented: Sunday, January 12th, 2025 @ 8:14 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Our School Board has a history of poor planning in school construction and renovation, and this isn't their first rodeo of screwing up. We saw a lot of that in the last bond referendum and the poor planning that went into that. The real problem is that we have had a hands-off rubber stamp school board that has been just window dressing for a power-bully superintendant who really runs the show. The superintendant is playing this construction in the way that most benefits his resume for a job in a higher paying larger school system, not what is best for Beaufort County. We need a School Board that will take charge and remind the superintendant that he is the employee, not the boss.

Too much of this process has been done in the backroom controlled by the superintendant and now the cracks are showing. Putting T.W. Allen to go to meetings with the superintendant is a joke because T.W. Allen is a pathetic lap puppy for the superintendant and just does what he is told by the superintendant.

Why in the heck did the school board not figure out that the city owned 4 acres of that school site early on and deal with it before getting this deep in the process. That was absolute incompetence by the superintendant who has been running the show.

We need a new superintendant and we need one badly, but we also need a school board that will step up and represent the citizens like they are supposed to and not be sock puppets for an out of control power-bully superintendant.

Commented: Friday, January 10th, 2025 @ 10:56 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Trump spoke at length in his Joe Rogan interview in the campaign about how California's policies created a fire danger and how they were stuck on those policies. He also pointed out that in his first term, he had arranged for a program to get California more water but that Democrat California Governor Newsome had refused to sign it. The interview can be watched at this link:
www.thegatewaypundit.com

Commented: Thursday, January 9th, 2025 @ 8:45 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Those who want high gas prices are a very small minority, and that is who Biden is playing to.

Commented: Monday, January 6th, 2025 @ 11:52 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Well, there we have it. Even our own climate alarmist troll admits he does not care about whales, birds, or trees. He is an anti-environmentalist like the rest of his ilk.

Commented: Sunday, January 5th, 2025 @ 8:47 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Going to another country to live off of their government and taxpayers would seem to be the main example of acting like an ass. It is time for all western countries to send them home. We have our own people we have responsibilities to.

Commented: Saturday, January 4th, 2025 @ 5:00 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Democrat Governor Roy Cooper has also been horrible at hurricane relief, with lots still not done for hurricanes from earlier years, and a recent audit showing lots of money that could not be accounted for in the hurricane programs from earlier storms. Unlike the governors of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, Cooper failed to pre-stage supplies and personnel ahead of Hurricane Helene.

Commented: Thursday, January 2nd, 2025 @ 1:04 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

One of Farage's three main points is bringing the climate alarmist agenda to a screeching halt, noting it only makes the average citizen have to pay more out of their family budget while it destroys the country's industry. It was one of Reform UK's other Members of Parliament, Richard Tice who aptly dubbed Net Zero (CO2) as "Net Stupid".

Of course, Farage's other two main oints, stopping illegal immigration and teaching children to love their country, also resonate here in America.

Commented: Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 @ 8:34 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Time HAS told. It has clearly shown ALL of the dire predictions of the climate alarmists to be nonsense. EVERY ONE that has passed the time it was supposed to happen according to the climate alarmist "experts" has NOT happened. Not a one of them and there are already dozens in that category.

The other way time has told is to look backwards at climate. The Earth has ALWAYS gone through alternating warming and cooling cycles and levels of CO2 have never had anything to do with either.

This Canada / Greenland thing is just another one of those silly far left talking points you like to parrot. Trump is playing with Trudeau, who is a globalist idiot and likely on his way out as prime minister, and his main goal is border security on our northern border. Greenland is more of a geostrategetic play.

Greenland got its name because during the Medieval Warm Period, when it was warmer than today, farmers were growing crops there.

Commented: Tuesday, December 31st, 2024 @ 9:05 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Being for types of energy that are expensive and unreliable like wind and solar is the same thing as being anti-energy. Merkel's idiot "energy transition" in Germany has given them the highest residential electric rates in the world, three times what we pay in North Carolina, and it has put their whole economy in the toilet with companies closing and moving abroad. The UK's "Net Zero" (or "Net Stupid" as the Reform Party calls it) is in the process of doing the same there.

Here is a good article on how bad the German economy has gotten due to the "green energy" madness: rmx.news

The globalists get their panties in a twist over CO2 but that is NOT a pollutant. It is necessary for plant life. Without it, all plants on Earth would die, followed qucikly by all animals. Modern scrubbers remove virtually all of the real pollutants from coal emissions.

Commented: Monday, December 30th, 2024 @ 8:43 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Earth is simply in one of its long series of warming and cooling cycles that last multiple centuries. We came out of the last cooling cycle, known as the Maunder Minimum or the Little Ice Age, a particularly cold cycle in the 19th century and are now in a natural warming cycle, that has nothing to do with fossil fuels. The last warming cycle, known as the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than today, and there were no adverse consequences. We know where the coastal cities were in Medieval times and we know that there are no records of any "sea level rise". Further, the granddaddy of all warm periods, the Holocene Maximum when it was much warmer than today for three thousand years corresponded to the golden age of ancient Greek civilization. Again, we know where the coastal cities in Greece were at that time and there is no evidence in ancient Greek writings or elsewhere of any "sea level rise" then either.

Bobbie does not dispute that the BBC's claim of no sea ice at all by 2013 was proven to be false. All of the scare stories from the globalist warmists turn out to be false when they reach the date by which they are supposed to happen.

Commented: Friday, December 27th, 2024 @ 5:46 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Government debt when it gets too extreme will often lead to economic disaster, as it did in Germany in 1923 when it took a wheelbarrow full of paper money to buy a loaf of bread. It almost happened to the UK a century earlier and if the Rothschilds had not bailed out the Bank of England, it would have. In more recent times there have been examples like Zimbabwe and Venezuela, even though both are very rich in natural resources, but leftwingers mishandled their economies with way too much debt.

A counter example is the economic miracle we are seeing in Argentina with the election last year of a Libertarian president, Milei. Milei campaigned with a chainsaw, revving it up to illustrate what he was going to do to government bureaucracy. The first thing he did was to eliminate about half of all national government departments and he has continued to take his chainsaw to government bureaucracy and programs and indicated Argentina will be leaving the Paris Climate Accords. Now the economy is booming, inflation that had been rampant in the country is now nonexistant, the budget is balanced, and he has just given all Argentines a big tax cut.

President Milei of Argentina should be the model for Trump and for DOGE.

Commented: Friday, December 20th, 2024 @ 9:45 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Why in the world would Speaker Johnson engage in this sellout with Senate Democrats? All he would have to do is pass a clean 3 month continuing resolution through the House, and then let the lame duck Senate Democrat majority decide if they want to shut down the government over some pork barrel they want. My guess is they would not, but either way it would be a win for Republicans. Is Johnson just that stupid or is it there was some pork in there that HE wanted?

Commented: Thursday, December 19th, 2024 @ 2:43 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Musk and Soros are alike in one way, the objectives for which they spend money are ideological, not self-serving financial, but they are opposite sides of the ideological divide. Soros is a globalist elitist and collectivist. Musk has joined the forces of individualism and liberty, taling a populist appreach. Soros works with groups like the WEF to promote their agenda. Musk works largely independently to promote his own contrasting vision. The area of censorship is a good example where Soros fights for the WEF vision of controlling the narrative through censorship, while Musk fights for free speech for all and against censorship.

Commented: Wednesday, December 18th, 2024 @ 12:16 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

WHile Obamacare had some similarities to Romneycare, it actually was a tweaking of Hillarycare. All of these socialized medicine halfway houses are a nightmare. Romneycare is a huge reason Mitt Romney should NEVER have been a GOP nominee.

Another huge factor in Obamacare getting off the ground is that the pro-China traitor Mitch McConnell refused to fight it in the Senate. McConnell, as usual, was prostituting his office to special interests instead of representing Republican voters.

And Little Bobbie has totally misrepresented his earlier post, which can easily be seen by scrolling down to it.

Commented: Monday, December 16th, 2024 @ 5:01 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

I guess everything is about race to a race hustler like Bobbie, but our Obamacare mess is NOT. It is about a longterm scheme by leftwing Democrats to capture our health system. Their first big play was HillaryCare during the Clinton regime but that bombed. Those who concocted what later became known in popular culture as "Obamacare" were actually white leftists, many of them retreads from HillaryCare.

All of the regulations and rules of Obamacare are what led to the mass centralization of our health care, including health insurance, that destroyed choice for American consumers. Here in Beaufort County, we had two independent hospitals prior to OBamcare, but post Obamacare, Vidant in Greensville bought both and closed one. Vidant also bought up many of what had been independent doctors offices. All of that was driven by Obamacare, and that consolidation is not good for consumer choice. Similarly many of the insurance companies that used to offer health insurance got out of that business after Obamacare, and that also destroyed consumer choice.

HillaryCare would have done exactly the same. That was all predictable since that had also been the result of Australia's government medicine program called Medicare, which had also seen massive consolidation and centralization in health care, to the point that a subsequent govenrment that looked into ending Medicare (the Australian equivalent of Obamacare) found that all of the centralization that had occured made it impossible to go back to what had previously worked better for Australians.

Oh, and as to those insurance companies, I am sure you will find their stockholders are of all races, and so are their employees. This is NOT a racial issue, dude.

Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 9:49 am By: Concerned Taxpayer