tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post1920601647942811704..comments2024-03-22T13:06:27.366-05:00Comments on WataugaWatch: Where’s the Fat?J.W. Williamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17694324792688711136noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-1019285488228696832011-05-16T07:49:43.887-05:002011-05-16T07:49:43.887-05:00"WCS, not even close. It's hard to take y..."WCS, not even close. It's hard to take your comments seriously when you continue to overblow your "facts.""<br /><br />It would be if the other Anonymous had over blown the facts. the problem is they are understated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-66390407948898622132011-05-15T19:16:21.887-05:002011-05-15T19:16:21.887-05:00"Top heavy, huge, and demanding education bur..."Top heavy, huge, and demanding education bureaucracy." Once again, a Teapublican bringing national issues to Watauga County. I find it hard to believe that anyone can call Watauga County Schools a top heavy, huge, and demanding education bureaucracy. Charlotte-Meck schools, yes. WCS, not even close. It's hard to take your comments seriously when you continue to overblow your "facts."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-9385863397859011272011-05-15T15:38:21.855-05:002011-05-15T15:38:21.855-05:00Jerry, I hope you post this.
Anon, you are delib...Jerry, I hope you post this. <br /><br />Anon, you are deliberately missing the points. <br /><br />The unvarnished truth is that the previous BOCs and some county officials put this county in unprecedented huge debt with their long term land-buying spree and an outrageously expensive and unnecessary high school, and their earlier rosy projections were exaggerated, if not, totally false. <br /><br />The last public hearing was a deliberate attempt to usurp the proposed sales tax referendum in favor of a top-heavy, huge, and demanding education bureaucracy. And no matter what the economy, this bureaucracy always demands more and more funding.<br /><br />I hope the BOC majority has enough backbone to not allow this spoiled bureaucracy to intimidate them, and the BOC majority cuts even more of that enormous and insulting initially proposed County budget.<br /><br />Also, Anon, you and your colleagues are conveniently forgetting the previous NC legislatures over the last two decades and their continuously increasing spending sprees over those years. If those legislators had just halted their spending increases and kept spending at the same level for just a few years, NC's fiscal situation would be in much better shape. But no, they kept increasing their spending. <br /><br />And as for Deb Greene and Don Bolster, I doubt very much if Mrs. Greene would identify with such a neo-con like Bolster.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-87534956585097853382011-05-15T12:31:02.621-05:002011-05-15T12:31:02.621-05:00Let's take a bet: Soucek will continue to fol...Let's take a bet: Soucek will continue to follow his lord and provider (Art Pope) and continue to cripple public education. Then he will pull his children out and either homeschool them or stick them in a private school. What are the odds? I say 65-35 they leave.<br />I agree with you. I think the Commissioners are scared to death to hurt the schools as bad as they probably wanted to. I think the public hearing put a bit of a scare in them, and we know how impressionable the 3 stooges are (isn't that right Deb Greene and Don Bolster lol).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-75722461891174030082011-05-13T21:09:05.553-05:002011-05-13T21:09:05.553-05:00Well, I'd love to say a few things at the meet...Well, I'd love to say a few things at the meeting on the 17th, but I really do feel like our local leaders are doing a much better job of trying to reduce spending without going overboard than our state level representatives. It seems that the elected officials in Raleigh are the ones doing the most damage, while our county commissioners are trying also to reduce spending where possible while dealing with the increased needs created by these proposed state cuts. I just want our commissioners to understand the direct impact that the cuts will have on all of our students. I am flabbergasted at the actions of our state reps - what is Dan Soucek thinking? He has to have a clue about how this will impact his own children's education. If he succeeds in slashing the funding to public schools, then I hope he has the integrity to keep his own kids there next year to suffer through the huge classes & combinations like all the other children in our county.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-47152611651931807122011-05-13T13:41:32.409-05:002011-05-13T13:41:32.409-05:00Yes, can we get something organized for the 17th? ...Yes, can we get something organized for the 17th? I'm tired of sitting and watching as our elected officials at both the state and county levels continue to cut education while doling out tax breaks right and left.Not Reallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-79334111598445566412011-05-12T13:06:25.365-05:002011-05-12T13:06:25.365-05:00i ask the question is GOV.benevolence "FAT&qu...i ask the question is GOV.benevolence "FAT"?<br /><br />YES!!!<br /><br />Maybe if some of you went to church (although this is not necessary), you might have some compassion for your neighbors. <br /><br />Keeping people on entitlement programs to insure they vote Democrat is not benevolent. It is slavery.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-68392979193074190262011-05-12T08:00:41.920-05:002011-05-12T08:00:41.920-05:00america over the last 40 yrs has moved in the dire...america over the last 40 yrs has moved in the direction of asking GOV. to pay for everything to help people rather than people helping people,its easyer to say just use Taxs to pay for it. out of sight out of mind. But over time as people figure out how to pay less Taxs or none at all,the Benevolence side of city,county,state,and Fed budgets have to take big hits every yr.people feel better when they pay the Gov.to help people,but in public most people would never give a dime out of pocket to help a neighbor eat.some people call Gov. benevolence "Fat".so i ask the question is GOV.benevolence "FAT"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-49676516838289454362011-05-11T07:53:23.980-05:002011-05-11T07:53:23.980-05:00HIJACK IT!!! lol...Who cares if it "hurts&quo...HIJACK IT!!! lol...Who cares if it "hurts" the commissioners' feelings...Now is not the time to be quiet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-76545748173185238112011-05-10T20:10:40.548-05:002011-05-10T20:10:40.548-05:00Where's the fat? There is no fat. Two grade le...Where's the fat? There is no fat. Two grade levels are already forced into one classroom for one teacher to "deal with." (I hope that wasn't a direct quote from Dr. Hemric, as "deal with" isn't quite the verb I would use to describe it.) There is nowhere left to cut. I really hope people start to realize that, although it seems like it's too late to make a difference. Would attending and/or speaking at the meeting on the 17th help at all, or would the county commissioners feel "hijacked" again?SBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194583.post-30528066102962154742011-05-10T11:38:16.451-05:002011-05-10T11:38:16.451-05:00This is an interesting matter of semantics. Can t...This is an interesting matter of semantics. Can the unneeded debt the previous commission created and that we are obligated to repay be called fat? Does cutting everything possible in order to reduce this unneeded debt count as cutting fat?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com