Another nail in the Republican-built coffin of "smaller government."
Monday, June 24, 2013
Boone's Water and Republican Power-Madness
Another nail in the Republican-built coffin of "smaller government."
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If the Republican-controlled General Assembly in Raleigh can force the city of Durham to extend water service to a mega-development outside its city limits -- which is exactly what the Republican-controlled General Assembly is threatening to do (the bill has already passed the NC Senate) -- then why on earth should Boone spend millions to develop a new source of water from the New River, when the Republican-controlled General Assembly (and our local reps Jonathan Jordan and Dan Soucek) will be only too happy to grab it and give it without compensation to Watauga County, which has no development regs to deal with it and a history of vindictive hatred for the town of Boone?
Another nail in the Republican-built coffin of "smaller government."
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- J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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3 comments:
Republicans don't really believe in "small government." If someone can get rich off government tax breaks or in a situation like this water business, they're all for it. They'd love to control what we read, what we drink, how much sex we have, etc.
Why should they be compensated for infrastructure that allows them to steal water from out side their corporate limits?
There you go again, Anonymous.. perpetuating your "stealing" meme. Please point us to a law or regulation that says that towns or cities must obtain water from inside their corporate limits. There are many cities in NC that obtain water from outside their city limits. If the town buys land and lays pipe out to the river, you think it's ok for the county to grab that without compensation????
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