Comments on: Iraq, Education, Health Care, Highways: Nothing’s as easy as it looks.

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The Odd Blog Couple: Yielding Wealth and Taxgirl — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:28:47 +0000

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By: Wayne PHILLIPS

Wayne PHILLIPS — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:34:33 +0000

Precisely the point made by most conservative folks. Most Americans live with a known income. If you spend more than coming in, you better have a reserve, or tap the credit card. You are expected, and said you would, repay the money. The government thinks otherwise in most cases, trying to satisfy constituents so they can be re-elected. Doesn’t term limits sound better!! get elected, do you public duty for the public good, and go home. Bridges to no-where. Zoos in the desert. Research on why some rats have web feet (they can swim better). And if the administration decides to fund something, bales of $100 bills are prepared on a pallets and hundreds of pallets are sent to Iraq to help those folks, who land over-flowth with oil. Just too many folks want to control the oil, without us there. Alas, better roads, better medical care and better educational opportunities could be done with the excessive monies we have paid in our foreign endeavors. American wealth in men and treasury, lost for empire and ego. How shameful for the good public servants to stand by and allow! Goes for local government also. Local development sponsored by the “surge” in realtors ( we need to disperse some of these folks to the Rockies or somewhere else) has stolen with promises of wealth to the owners, the basis folks love this area of NC. Some locals were shamelessly fooled and their land taken for endless development. In turn the folks who do not wantr to sell, are perfectly happy to stay where they are the rest of their lives, are taxed from their homesteads. So private business and the “public good” merge for the greed of a few and setting of priorities that only a few benefit.
Realtors and “lifetime politicians” share the title of low-life with used cqar salesmen and moticians. That is one cut on how choices are made with our tax monies, which can lead to invasion of your personal life and loss of assets.

By: Mary Emma Allen

Mary Emma Allen — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:36:59 +0000

No easy answers, as you say, Kelly. And you pose a good question, Ren. Everyone has their own priorities at all levels. It’s the same at the town level, where we’re hit with higher and higher property taxes to fund town and school budgets. Instead of cutting back (as we must with our personal grocery, clothing, home repair,and recreation budgets when earnings don’t cover expenses) government and school officials just keep thinking “we’ll tax the taxpayer more.” What happens when “there ain’t no more blood to squeeze outta that there stone?”

By: Ren Garcia

Ren Garcia — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:20:09 +0000

Nothing’s as easy as it looks is right. Your closing opens another issue: who sets the priorities? Priorities tend to favor some and disadvantage others. So, whose priorities and for whom. Just asking.