Democrat Spending Is Out Of Control
Dear Editor,
Let’s do a quick review of how the Democrat controlled Greensboro City Council, the Democrat controlled Guilford County Board of Commissioners and the County School Board are spending your taxes.
The school board had almost $1 million dollars left in the bank at the end of September. Did they spend it students? Of course not. They handed out bonuses to all of their employees.
Voters recently approved a $300 million bond but that was not enough, according to Skip Alston and the Democrats who control the county board. Now they want to borrow $2.66 billion (including $760 million in interest) for the schools.
Greensboro Mayor Vaughan and the Democrat controlled City Council want to borrow $50 million for housing. The city rejected $250,000 of free federal money but gave away $80,000 to a developer to upgrade his landscaping.
You simply can’t make this stuff up. This was all reported in local newspapers.
You voted to put Democrats in charge so don’t complain when your taxes increase to pay for all this new debt. Democrats waste money and raise taxes. Republicans control expenses and lower your taxes. Next election, throw out Democrats. Vote for Republicans.
Ken Orms
Good luck with this electorate. The only solution is to leave the county.
Matter of fact, without family or good friends, I would leave the country. So I’m here for my duration. Worry doesn’t make anything better, so we are supposed to hunker down and get on with it. Enjoy life while we are here.
Grumpy in Greensboro
We had a good situation with Republicans in charge of the commissioners group.There were no tax increases for 8 years ,schools were funded on an ongoing basis. Even in a year of surplus the school administration passed out the money as if they had plenty more in the till. Wouldn’t it be great if Slo Joe would pick the Superintendent of our co for his cabinet. Can’t wait. Why do so many people that already pay to much taxes vote for people who are going to add more taxes. You have to be ‘gluttons ‘for punishment.
The burden of more taxes to spend on over-priced projects and programs is one more reason why people are moving to the suburbs like Oak Ridge, Stokesdale, and even up into Rockingham County or down in Randolph County.
The City and County should be focused on how much money they can save their citizens, not how much more they can tax and spend. Yvonne Johnson (and probably others) has had public funding of her organization for years, and the question is “Why?” It’s like the “Hat” museum that keeps getting funding by the city and maybe the county, for one of our politicians. A “hat” museum which does not pay rent.
People may not want to move to the suburbs. Greensboro is about to somehow fund a $30,000,000 to $50,000,000 water and sewer line extension to the incorporated Town of Summerfield — at the request of a private citizen Summerfield developer. He has had private meetings with the Commissioners and Council and more meetings — without public input — are occurring soon. Many citizens in Summerfield do not want the water or sewer and do not want to become Greensboro. Other developers in the County may now follow suit and ask for the same perk. So, suburbs are becoming an extension of Greensboro, as our leaders seem to want to help developers.