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Hood Richardson said:
( July 16th, 2022 @ 2:59 pm )
It is Waters and his liberal buddies who keep us in the continuation budget mode. Just add to last years budget. Never cut. Waters believes commissioners do not know enough about government to make decisions. According to Waters we should allow staff to run things. Spending goes up every year along with the size and luxury of county vehicles. Any idiot can do a continuation budget, I guess that is why continuation budgets appeal to Waters and his buddies.
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Fiscally conservative budgeting involves techniques like zero-based budgeting. The Langley - Waters coalition use big spending techniques to keep spending and taxes high. The county commission has two conservatives, Deatherage and Dunn running and two big spending liberals, Waters and Booth, for three seats. We need to elect both fiscal conservatives, and defeat one of the big spenders, and it really does not matter whether that is Booth or Waters.
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Thanks CT for the credit for coining "'Center /Left Coalition' of the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners," which occurred shortly after Rebholz joined the Board of County Commissioners after he was selected as the so-called "best replacement" for the departed Gary Brinn by the Beaufort County GOP.
And RINO Hunter, yes, Frankie Waters is a classic RINO; really a Democrat in Republican cloaking, just begging to NOT be found out. Why any self-professed "Conservative" would vote for that fool is a wonder to me. Maybe, the continuing education that good media sources provide, like this one, are lost on those that continue to know very little about so much. |
The RINO kingpin on the commission is clearly Frankie Waters and he is up for election this year. Waters needs to be replaced by someone who at least thinks like a Republican since Waters is in bed with Langley.
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We do not need to elect commissioners if all they can do is increase our "continuation budget" by the amount of inflation. The lack of intellect among three of our Republican commissioners is devastating to the people of Beaufort County. The two Democrats take them for a ride every day. By the way, Rebholz does not seem to know how to select the denominator when figuring percentages.
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"Center-left government"? I never thought about it that way, Stan, but that is a very apt description of what Beaufort County has in office. Frankie Waters and Jerry Langley are almost joined at the hip in the way they vote. In this election, there is not a dime's worth of difference between Frankie Waters and Ed Booth on issues. Waters changed his party registration on paper a short time before he ran for commissioner, but he has never changed his tax-and-spend mentality. Waters has been pulling the wool over the eyes of Republican voters for far too long.
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Beaufort County Commissioner John Rebholz: Bidenflation is destroying many hardworking American's way of life, which speaks directly to the fact that Democratic Socialist policies are bad for those of us who truly pull the freight here in Beaufort County.
Locally, with the proud Center /Left Coalition of the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners ruling at the behest of Beaufort County's bureaucracy, you, as a county commissioner of that coalition, are part of the problem, where Democratic Socialist policies are accepted as today's inescapable mode of governing in Washington, DC and Beaufort County. If Leftist governing is truly the full reason behind Bidenflation, then it stands to Right reasoning that only more able Conservatives' measures will work to STOP this aberration of the proper common sense allocation of the People's money wisely and well. This is a prime example of your governing by measures to accommodate Bidenflation in Beaufort County, which is decidedly destroying my constituents way of life, while your Center /Left Coalition of the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners have long governed and will continue to govern by your stated pride in such grand "bipartisanship" on this seven member board that seats only two Democratic Socialists and five "Republican" board members of these 7 seated commissioners. Can you NOT understand how 'this (5"R" to 2D split) math' just doesn't work for this Real Conservative - Beaufort County Commissioner Stan Deatherage, R (a real R)? |
Increasing the number of county employees at a time that the county is losing population according to the census is nothing but spendthrift policy. The most blatant is the hiring of a spin doctor, a "Communications Director" for $95.000 a year. That is nothing but pure waste of taxpayer money.
Raising government spending in the face of inflation is the same policy as Biden and it just causes more inflation. Obviously, to the extent the county government buys fuel and food, those line items need to increase, but much of what was added was just fluff like that Communications Director. |
Unfortunately Hood's math needs some help. A $5.6 mil increase of a $67.5 mil budget is 8.3% not 14.3%. Note, inflation is now running 9.1% and county government is not exempt. Energy, fuel, materials and all other costs are subject to inflation also. Taxes were not increased. Also note that almost 1/3 of our budget is just a passthrough from the State to the Department of Social Services and the Health Department.
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