One of the ways to rationalize government employment is to write regulations. It is a simple process: for every new regulation more policing agents must be hired to ensure the regulations are abided by. Those who receive payment for such employment include those who produce and process the paperwork, as well as those who actually […]
Wisconsin looks like Greece. The recipients of government largess, upon threat of losing it, take to the streets in protest. Their employers, the various schools systems, do not tell them to take off, their union bosses do, and so they lay out of work to protest. As the failure of major public pension funds looms […]
Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts continues to get her name in the news for the wrong reasons. It seems her relationship with County Manager Harry Jones is unholy and behind closed doors the two of them stir the pot backwards. These various episodes have only been a prelude to her next abuse of the taxpayers of […]
In North Carolina, it is a new political day. The Republicans take over and promise cuts, but they will find some proposed changes will be thwarted by court rulings and will find it is illegal to cut some areas of the budget. No longer do we live in an independent state, but in one of […]
Mr. Kojo Nantambu, head of the local NAACP chapter, calls for a boycott of Charlotte. Boycott: To refuse to have dealings with, in order to force acceptance of certain conditions. Extort: To obtain from a person by intimidation. Let us be clear: a boycott is legal extortion. Mr. Nantambu recommends extortion because he’s not getting […]
A mentally unstable man kills six, injuring more and, no surprise, the left wing uses the ‘crisis’ to write and shout that it is the fault of the right wing. The list of those making such attacks is extensive. It makes one suspect collusion. I hate to join in the fray, but it needs addressed. […]
The New Year is here and revaluation lurks. If county commissioners are serious about producing a “revenue-neutral” tax rate, as they have indicated is their desire, it would mean cutting the existing tax rate of 0.83 cents per $100 valuation to 0.59 cents, according to analysis of information provided by county staff. “Revenue neutral” meaning […]
What is it about the Tea Party that is so objectionable? The attacks are too regular and varied to require recounting. It appears the Tea Party is a movement back to our anti-federalist origins; a movement advocating the restrictions on government found in our Constitution. If that is true then the attacks are from those […]
Why should the state of North Carolina own the hydroelectric plants that Alcoa built? Environmental groups want control of the plants and believe state ownership is a step in that direction. But what exactly do environmental groups want? Certainly they are varied in their goals, but they all seem to lead to less instead of […]
One of the methods of the left is to question who funds which advocacy group. The assumption is that if it’s a business or someone of fiscally conservative politics, then they are automatically suspect and shouldn’t be allowed to speak or write. This is a broad assumption based on many anecdotes of stories where some […]
