Everyone always says there’s no harm in asking – which is exactly what the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in downtown Greensboro did this year.
Museum leaders requested that Guilford County government give the museum a quarter of a million dollars to enhance the role the museum plays in local tourism and economic development.
Though the museum requested that the county give the taxpayers’ money to the museum, new Guilford County Manager Mike Halford didn’t include the $250,000 in his proposed 2021-2022 fiscal budget.
Halford doesn’t get the final word, however, on the upcoming budget. The final word on the adopted budget goes to the Guilford County Board of Commissioners – which, this year, is a Democrat-controlled board headed up by Chairman Skip Alston, who was one of the founders of the civil rights museum and someone who’s managed to get plenty of county funding to the museum in past years. Sometimes he’s done that at the last minute.
So, when the final Guilford County budget is approved this month by the Board of Commissioners, will the $250,000 be in there for the downtown museum? It may surprise some people, given the dynamics of the situation, but the answer is no. Alston told the Rhino Times that the money the museum requested will not be included in the final budget this year.
The Civil Rights Center and Museum isn’t the only local entity to get turned down for funding in the manager’s proposed budget after making a request. The Green Bean on South Elm Street requested $450,000 that’s not in the proposed budget; Triad Local Firstt requested $100,000 in county taxpayer funds, and the Islamic Society of High Point requested $60,000. None of those requests are currently included in the budget.
Every one wants a piece of that Federal money
Problem is, it’s not federal money. It’s OUR money. The federal government is not just broke. It is 30 TRILLION dollars beyond broke, so it can’t spend or “give away” anything without taking it from someone who already has it. We don’t get money from Washington– Washington gets money from us!
Guess you want to defund the military, stop subsidizing churches, and make all schools private schools with $10,000 a year tuition to balance the budget?
Guess you figured taking the debt from $22 trillion to $30 trillion plus was justified in the last 15 months to respond to Coronavirus with things like unlimited and enhanced unemployment, repeated not-so-stimulus checks, etc.
If the economy wasn’t shut down (like it wasn’t during the 1918 global pandemic), these and business and state bailouts would have been unnecessary.
When you say “it’s not federal money, it’s OUR money”, you seem to imply that federal money is NOT OUR money. It’s ALL our money! Neither the federal government nor state government, nor local government produces ANY money. It’s ALL confiscated TAXPAYER money!
Why do private business think that tax payers should fund their business?
because they will, if you know the right people.
Because the idiots in charge of greensboro have set the example and allow this. Greensboro funding Skip Alstons trust fund.
Pardon the stark reality of my reply, but you’d have to ask a Libtard. They created the whole entitled culture, so maybe one of them could give you a legitimate, although totally messed up answer? Liberals love to print money for made up causes creating and endless deficit for future generations to mop up. They also don’t believe in future generations as evidenced by anything to denounce a straight couple and the sanctity of marriage, even more so if one or both parties should happen to be white.
Yup. It’s all the democrats fault. As explained by the person that describes democrats or people with any ounce of liberal or progressive ideas as a retard. Good – on – you.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/29/tweets/republican-presidents-democrats-contribute-deficit/
You mean farms? Churches? Private defense companies?
Oh you just mean businesses that YOU don’t think are worthy.
THE ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF HIGH POINT…?
Stuff them.
Why?
Why would The Green Bean think they would get 450,000??? Surely this is some kind of joke…..
Did the museum ever repay in full on past loans ? Did we ever get a real answer to missing or mis managed monies in the past ? Did taxpayers pick up those tabs ? NO seems like a given , lets SKIP on last minute poor decisions that leave so many questions and move on to those who provide more solid transparency to our investments and support going forward .
The museum must be the worst offender of taking mint from th city council and not repaying nor offering a viable answer for why the money was not repaid !!! Wouldn’t it be a miracle if King Skip was to come up with that amount of money,I’ve heard stranger things have happened.