President Obama is trying to put our nation on the fast track to socialized health care, and on June 24, the ABC network will help him sell this bill of goods to the American people.
Next Wednesday, ABC News will transform the White House into their newsroom for what has been described as an unabashed infomercial promoting the Democrat agenda—more specifically, government-run health care.
I guess we’re in the 24% that didn’t decline. Or, at least, that’s what our tax assessor’s office thinks. I wonder how much they increased the value of their property.
What I hate the most is that the school district will waste my hard-earned money while I struggle to make my mortgage payments.
Doen’t it seem that we are getting less for more?
I had a phone conversation with Representative Matlock last week. I had sent him several e-mails expressing my opposition to some bills going through the state legislature and with the stealth gasoline tax increases that he is associated with.
I also discussed the following topics with him:
the Shaw Ferry Road/Highway 11 traffic signal Seems the promise of all that stimulus money overwhelmed the Department of Transportation and they had to pull people from existing projects to get information together for the feds. Also, because there was not enough existing right-of-way there were prerequisite things that had to be done like securing additional right-of-ways and environmental studies, blah, blah, blah. Luckily no one has died in the interim.
Random drug testing of students It’s like talking to a damn wall. Am I the only adult in Loudon County who finds it offensive that the government wants to drug test our children? What happened to innocent until proven guilty!? The fourth Amendment? The Fifth Amendment? They teach our kids how to use a condom, whether we like it or not. Now let’s teach them the proper way to piss in a cup while fully-dressed adults watch.
All I can say is some Supreme Court justice must have gotten a lot of wedgies when he was a child, because they always cite changing in locker rooms as the basis for their “expectations of privacy” claim. Personally, I hated that part of sports. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be forced to give a urine sample as a kid. We don’t need a tea party. We need a tea riot.
Wow, ol’ George Orwell was only off by a couple of decades.
If this Congress keeps on its present course, it no longer be true that we don’t have a right not to be offended. What’s next, the freaking thought police?
Compare this legislation to quotes from George Orwell’s novel 1984.
“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”
Only thing ol’ George got wrong is that thay can see you in the dark.
Van Shaver has a pretty good explanation of the Loudon County tax rate.
Yippee skippy, our taxes didn’t go up but, like last time, it won’t be long before the esteemed members of county council will start that same old noise about how we have one of the lowest tax rates in the state. The hue and cry will probably be led by the David Meers, the principal at Highland Park Elementary.
We have too many school officials on county council.
