When you don’t have any money, do you go on vacation? When your home is in foreclosure, do you go buy some new jewelery? So why in the midst of the worst recession since the 1930’s Great Depression is Hall County Government putting a library or a park on every street corner? (Don’t give me any crap about this money has to be spent because it is in the budget blah, blah, blah.) They furlough prosecutors, cops, and firemen to save a dollar, but God forbid that we don’t a spend bundle to put a library miles from the nearest town and (that is going to require employees and maintenance forever and ever Amen). Tightening your belt means STOP SPENDING MONEY and making hard choices about priorities. Cops versus library? Simple answer. Public safety comes first. It is a basic function of government. Library? Wait until better times. The Commissioner from that district was opposed to it. The lone Democrat on the Board supported it. See a pattern? Hello? Is this thing on….
According to my good friend Craig Lutz, (http://vote4lutz.com/blog.htm) the Commission urged passage of SPLOST IV in part to purchase property to put a library in Clermont. SPLOST VI narrowly passed. Now the Commission is going to leave the property fallow in Clermont and put the library in the boondocks. So has the Commission opened up themselves to another lawsuit over a broken promise? No matter the promise, now is not the time to build a new anything except on an emergency basis.
Next time vote NO for any SPLOST or any other tax. The only way to limit government is to limit government income. The more they have, the more they want.
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Ok. I know that some people believe that alcohol (and the drinking thereof) is a sin (meaning if you drink any alcohol you will be damned to an eternity in the fires of Hell tormented by Satan after you leave this earthly plane). I guess those same people believe that when Jesus turned the water into wine (at his mother’s request) that he really turned water into grape Kool-Aid or that he turned the water into wine only to tempt those wedding guests with the fires of Hell. If so, they picture a different Jesus that I do. While acknowledging those beliefs, I don’t agree with them and don’t think a majority of people do either. We are just too polite to say anything about it for fear of having a “scarlet letter” placed on our forehead.
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We had a good turnout at the 8-9-08 Conservative Forum where Rep. Doug Collins was the featured speaker. Doug is heading to Iraq as an Air Force Chaplin. Our prayers go out to him for taking The Lord to that country and coming back home safe. Doug gave a rousing talk about duty, honor, and County (my words not his). Doug also expressed the need for our party to constantly change to get better and move forward.
Sen. Hawkins, Rep. Mills, and Rep. Rogers all discussed legislative issues. Carl reported that Diversion Center will be converted to a “day reporting” facility not closed as previously reported. James talked aoubt the need for poof of citizenship to register to vote. Currently no birth certificate is required to register. No telling how many fraudulent voters we have recently registered in Georgia. You have to show you birth certificate to play soccer with other kids–I don’t think showing the certificate to vote is such a big deal (unless you are a fraud of course). James also talked about the need to collect money from deadbeat homeowners who seem to have been able to keep $8M.
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