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This letter was sent to us, anonymously, regarding the Nash County Commissioners meeting on February 1, 2010.

Robert,

At this morning’s meeting, commissioners again sat silently until a vote was taken on just how to finance the new school construction. They then stuck it to the voters.

The usual procedure, per the N.C. Constitution, for floating a bond, is to list it on the next ballot for voter approval. The idea of getting voter approval to increase our indebtedness started to backfire as governments attempted to take us deeper and deeper into debt and the voters began to reject some of these bonds.

So, our legislature devised a bypass around the people by passing a law whereby some of the public buildings can be listed as collateral for the bonds instead of listing the good faith and credit of the people. By doing this, they can float a bond without ever asking the voters for approval.

At this mornings commissioner meeting, they once again rejected a bond referendum using the excuse of the urgency of the moment. The vote was 4-3 with the four tax and spend democrats voting to take the short-cut. When given an opportunity by Commissioner Wayne Outlaw to assure the voters that a tax increase would not be necessary, the same four democrats again declined to add such a statement to the financing resolution.

Three of these commissioners are up for re-election even though two of them are insulated and protected by racial gerrymandering.

It’s great to know that our county commissioners have no problem saddling future generations with debt.

It never ceases to amaze me that people will actually cheer not only the expansion of government, but the seizure of income, and the mindless tax the rich scams. Oregonians are doing just that with their ballot initiatives 66 and 67 to tax heavily any individual making over $125,000 and businesses a minimum of $30,000 per year. The tax measures were passed in the legislature late last year and so heavily opposed that a referendum was called for yesterday in an attempt to overturn these excessive tax measures. Sadly, both measures were upheld in the vote yesterday.

In an economic recession when not only government revenues are down but individual income is diminished, we have individuals who follow the self-destructive French Revolution tactic of attacking the rich. Just as in the French Revolution, the gallows become hungry when the so-called rich become short in supply.

I suppose I shouldn’t be too hard on the Oregonians because just as the people here in North Carolina, they heard the siren song or “for the children” and the even more alluring call of “for the schools.” These two hypnotizing melodies seem to make even the most logical and fiscally responsible individual blather nonsensically about pie in the sky pipe dreams and pull out their wallet to give up even more of their hard earned income.

The sad part of the entire Oregon pyramid scheme is that ultimately the cost will be borne by the population at large through price increases, the loss of jobs, and a decline in the general economy. Why do Americans have such backward thinking when it comes to government and taxes. Perhaps we should look to the example of some other nations who reduced their taxes during this recession.

Taking more money out of the general economy and giving it to politicians has never made things better.

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Michingan Mom told she can’t have neighborhood kids wait for the school bus at her house without a license from the state.

The bureaucrat that sent the warning letter to her should be fired. The law should be reviewed and the drafters of the original legislation should be tarred and feathered! O.K. maybe that’s a little harsh.

At the very least, a review of such policies needs to be completed and the bureaucracies need to be restrained in such cases of utter nonsense.

There are supposed to be directors, managers, case workers, and review mechanisms in place that can oversee and step in when the idiot proofing fails. This is a common problem in bureaucracies where a rigid adherence to the written rule supplants all possibility of the use of practical sense.

Have organizations where practical sense and critical thinking are valued become extinct?

Situations like this certainly make one wonder!

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This article from the Von Mises institute is as relevant today as it was in 2003. Government schemes to take from some in order to benefit others, always end up being destructive for all. The leftist refuse to admit this and continue on every level of govenment by telling us all the wonderful things they are going to do for some with our money.

In this time of raising taxes indescriminately, increasing the rates on utilities for which we are captured customers, and seizing title to property through forced annexation, every politician, administrator,appointee, school teacher, professor, and individual citizen needs to read and understand this.

Government with its inefficiencies can’t take from one, give to another, and make everyone whole through the pipe-dream good of society they are so fond of using as an excuse to steal.

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Janet Napolitano and DHS recruiting Girl Scouts. Is this a little scary given the leftist slant in government today? While the message of being prepared is a good message, what scares me it who is doing the recruiting. Children are so impressionable and easily lead that having political appointees with distinct political philosophies in a position of influencing them is a very delicate situation. We have seen and are constantly dealing with an educational curriculum influenced by a leftist teachers union so it’s not being paranoid to be a little concerned and a lot watchful when agendized political appointees are at the helm.

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The planned address by Mr. Obama to America’s school children may be a make or break event for the beleaguered administration. The President should be very careful and keep his talk confined to encouraging education rather than using it as an opportunity to indoctrinate. With the unabashed use of ACORN and the DNC to push the health care take-over, many in the public are angered by the likelihood that this talk will be another attempt to co-opt impressionable minds toward supporting an unpopular agenda. The leftist in Washington and many in the media are trying to portray angry parents as being paranoid. The word is cautious! We must all be cautious given the track record of those in Washington and especially those trained in leftist community organizing. Alinsky, who trained both Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton had no qualms about using children to push leftist agendas. I’ve searched the internet for the text of the address – which we know will be teleprompted – and have yet to locate it. It would be nice if parents could take a look before our children were subjected to it. After all, parents still have the right to protect their children from indoctrination by those with whom we do not agree.

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Are we expected to believe that the President’s address to the nation’s school children is a spur of the moment talk and can’t be finalized or released until Monday – the day before it’s to be given? The preliminary reports on this indicated that it was to be a plea to the school children to help the president – with what exactly wasn’t revealed. Now with the backlash from parents and school districts, Mr. Obama’s speech writers may be retuning the talk to avoid accusations of attempts to brainwash our children. The President addressing school children on the importance of education, staying in school, studying hard, etc. is a good thing. A president co-opting children to sway parents to embrace the health care take-over, global warming, Iranian nukes, or any other contrived agenda is just dead wrong.

We all need to read the released talk on Monday and if it contains any political agenda we should demand that it not be shown in our child’s school and failing that, demand that our children be excused from being forced to watch.

Government prescribed curriculum has already diminished the quality of education and has likely lead to some of the societal issues we see in the younger generation.

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Primary motivation no longer is religion.  People are finally realizing that the public school system, no matter how much money you sink into it, is broken beyond repair.

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Policies that rid Maine high schools of sugary drinks seem to have had little impact on teenagers’ overall intake of sugar-laden beverages, according to a new study. Proof that “banning” items tends to backfire.

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A decade behind schedule, a $350 million downtown high school finally opened on Wednesday after years of environmental, seismic and legal troubles.

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