E. Paul Stanley.Com

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.

Americans don’t like being told what to do.  Period.  Dimocrats want to tell others what to do because they think they know better than the poor proletariat what is good for “the people.”  RINOs want to tell others what to do because they forget they are supposed to be Republicans and they still think like Dimocrats (see above).  The Obamanation wants to tell everyone what to do because he thinks he is God (or if he prefers, Allah) and is omniscient.   Health care “reform” is just another way to tell Americans what to do with their personal medical care.  Now Independent and Democratic voters have had their say.  The voters have handed Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat to a Republican.  Ted Kennedy?!  The Dimocrat of Dimocrats?!  The king of health care.  It looks like the most Dimocratic state in the nation just said NO to being told what to do.  I guess now Ted is turning in his grave (and maybe Mary Jo Kopechne can finally rest.)  And Hillary is laughing….

The question of the day is whether the Dimocrats will listen or not.  The next question is whether the RINOs will pull their heads out of the Washington hog trough and start acting like Real Republicans.  The most important question then is whether the few Real Republicans will become a part of the surge and lead a Washington takeover or whether they will recede into obscurity, be replaced, or both.  You don’t have to be a prophet to see that the future holds problems for those that do not listen and learn.

Just when you think it was safe to go back into the water, another whiner shows up.  The “do nothing” crowd is large.  And RINOs charge when threatened.  Unlike in the wild, Hall County RINOs run in heards.

I keep reading about people “saying” and “asking” and “telling” me lots of things in public forum(s).  I read about things “said” and “done” at our own executive committee meetings.  The only problem is:  almost all these things were not actually said, asked, told, or done.  These reports are like a tabloid–all rumor and gossip.  Apparently the sayer, asker, teller, and doer was ashamed or afraid to say, ask, tell, or do anything to my face.  (The lone exception was former GOP Chairman P. Martin Ellard who was upset about the State Court Judge race.  I’ll give Martin his props for being man enough to come to me directly with his concerns.)

For all othe other gripers and carpers (who whine and mutter under their breath from a safe distance) I have the following quote for you:

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

Oh and at the top is a picture of what a big set looks like.