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Posted: Jul 21st, 2007 12:08 am |
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Posted: Jul 21st, 2007 12:09 am |
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| Sorry Grits, but no pass on that one. Our town is currently spending more than it takes in. There is an implied tax increase in the future, based on their current spending habits..
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Posted: Jul 21st, 2007 12:10 am |
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| and what is it?
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Posted: Jul 21st, 2007 12:11 am |
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| What is what?
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Posted: Jul 21st, 2007 12:13 am |
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| The implied future tax hike that you speak of.
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Posted: Jul 21st, 2007 12:15 am |
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Shamu, one of the things you will learn if you hang around here on the NWO Forum long enough, is that there are several anonymous posters who spout off and spew the 'company line' to defend, apologize for and otherwise try to prop up their relatives on the Summerfield Town Council who are guilty of the very things you and BreBre are discussing. That is why they post anonymously, so they can try and make it appear those rascals have more support from the community than reality dictates. Hang around here long enough, and you can and will figure them out.
As the old Latin phrase says (especially true in Summerfield politics): Let The Buyer Beware.
I agree with you Shamu that several candidates running in Summerfield this election cycle fit the bill of the very definition that BreBre has defined, and in the days ahead, the voting public needs to discern the conservatives from the tax and spend crowd.
A new day is coming, and it is NOW.
There is great truth in the old adage: The guilty dog always barks first. Watch who protests (the truth of) this post and the rest and the relationships should be easy to figure out.
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Posted: Jul 21st, 2007 12:22 am |
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Here's an analogy. You have $1000 in the bank and you earn $100 a month. This month, you've spent $250 on some stuff you want. And you are buying some things that are going to cost you money to maintain.
And you also have a wish list of more stuff you want.
I would love for candidates to pledge they will not take our coffers any lower, and not raise taxes. I think that's a fair request. Some people complain that we shouldn't have a budget balance in the bank. I disagree. It is a source of income, and a sign of financial prudence.
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Posted: Jul 21st, 2007 12:35 am |
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Jim Flynt wrote: Shamu, one of the things you will learn if you hang around here on the NWO Forum long enough, is that there are several anonymous posters who spout off and spew the 'company line' to defend, apologize for and otherwise try to prop up their relatives on the Summerfield Town Council who are guilty of the very things you and BreBre are discussing. That is why they post anonymously, so they can try and make it appear those rascals have more support from the community than reality dictates. Hang around here long enough, and you can and will figure them out.
I choose to be anonymous, and this Forum allowed folks to post under anonymous names. Therefore I am operating within the rules. If the rules change, then I will make a decision if I want to change.
And I DO NOT have any relatives on the council. Good Concerned Citizen tactic Jim, how long have you belonged?
If you do not like the gamerules here Jim, it is YOU who don't belong, go play in another sandbox. Have been reading many of your pontificating posts, and must say I do not share your high opinion of yourself.
Shamu, don't assume Jim speaks for Summerfield's voters, he's in one of those other cities.
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Posted: Jul 21st, 2007 12:38 am |
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Gestalt wrote: Good Concerned Citizen tactic Jim, how long have you belonged?
I don't live in Summerfield. I don't vote in Summerfield. I am not a CC.
My 'tactics' (generally shared by most political consultants) are my own.
I simply speak truth as I know it. In this case, I do know it with regard to the relative connections between incumbents and anonymous posters.
I can abide the rules. I am not trying to change the rules. I was merely pointing out the conflicts of interests that so many of the anonymous Summerfield posters have in trying to prop up or defend incumbents who are actually their relatives. I more or less sort of figured that you were already smart enough to see that Gestalt without my suggestions for other more recent posters.
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Posted: Jul 21st, 2007 12:41 am |
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| Gestalt, I sort of like the anonymous aspect too. Do you have an opinion regarding possible conservative candidates for Town Council?
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Posted: Jul 21st, 2007 12:42 am |
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Jim Flynt wrote: I simply speak the truth as I know it.
Thought you called the "truth" a "value judgement"? forget that post?
I doubt you are the sole source of "truth" in these Northwest Towns.
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Posted: Jul 21st, 2007 12:47 am |
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Gestalt wrote: I doubt you are the sole source of "truth" in these Northwest Towns.
I don't recall having ever laid claim to that proposition, which of course, would be ridiculous.
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Posted: Jul 21st, 2007 01:20 am |
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Shamu wrote:
Here's an analogy. You have $1000 in the bank and you earn $100 a month. This month, you've spent $250 on some stuff you want. And you are buying some things that are going to cost you money to maintain.
And you also have a wish list of more stuff you want.
I would love for candidates to pledge they will not take our coffers any lower, and not raise taxes. I think that's a fair request. Some people complain that we shouldn't have a budget balance in the bank. I disagree. It is a source of income, and a sign of financial prudence.
Over in Stokesdale we have a TC with money in the bank, running the town on interest from that money, providing a water system for part of the town (with plans to expand the service area) and additional law enforcement without charging taxes, yet they get criticized for that.
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Posted: Jul 21st, 2007 01:27 am |
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Shamu wrote: What a great definition of conservative that is Bre-Bre. I can assure you there are candidates that will fit that bill!!
I can't wait to see who that is 
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Posted: Jul 21st, 2007 01:28 am |
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Jim Flynt wrote: Shamu wrote: What a great definition of conservative that is Bre-Bre. I can assure you there are candidates that will fit that bill!!
I agree Shamu and Bre Bre.
While I normally think of myself as being fairly 'liberal' mostly in terms of civil rights, civil liberties, and equality for all, I assure you I embrace fully the definition which you have laid out and support those candidates who constitute conservative values as you have established by your definition.
Thanks Jim
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