Doorbell: Please make sure you thank your kids for letting our elected leaders in Washington steal their future.

Congressional Cowardice: If Howard Coble, Kay Hagan or Richard Burr vote for this crap, they should resign.

"The framework would raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling through 2012,
cut spending by about $1 trillion
and call for enactment of a law shaving another $1.5 trillion from long-term debt by 2021
-- or institute punishing reductions across all government areas,
including Medicare and defense programs...

...a bipartisan congressional super- committee
would be charged with proposing deficit savings of $1.5 trillion
over a decade by late November...

...spending reductions wouldn’t be triggered until after fiscal 2012...

...Republicans dropped their insistence on withholding some of the borrowing authority
until future spending cuts had been made...

...If Standard & Poor’s “sticks to what it said,
it will downgrade” the U.S. debt following the deal...

...The agreement “does nothing to restore household and corporate confidence,
so unemployment will be higher than it would have been otherwise,”

...“Growth will be lower than it would be otherwise.

And inequality will be worse than it would be otherwise.”

Bloomberg

Pay attention Greensboro City Council

"(a) ...no public servant...authorized to perform an official action requiring the exercise of discretion,
shall participate in an official action by the employing entity
...if the public servant ...may incur a reasonably foreseeable financial benefit
...which financial benefit would impair the public servant's independence of judgment
or from which it could reasonably be inferred
that the financial benefit would influence the public servant's participation in the official action.

...(c) A public servant shall take appropriate steps,
...to remove himself or herself to the extent necessary,
to protect the public interest
...from any proceeding in which the public servant's impartiality
might reasonably be questioned
due to the public servant's familial, personal, or financial relationship
with a participant in the proceeding.

§ 138A‑36. Public servant participation in official actions.

"Any officer, department head or employee who has financial interest, direct or indirect,

in any proposed contract with the city

or in a proposed sale of any land, material, supplies, or services

to the city or to a contractor supplying the city,

shall make known that interest and shall refrain from voting upon

or otherwise participating in the making of such contract or sale.

Any officer, department head, or employee who willfully conceals such a financial interest

or willfully violates the requirements of this Section

shall be guilty of malfeasance in office or position and shall forfeit his office or position.

Violation of this Section with the knowledge

expressed or implied of the person or corporation contracting with or making a sale to the city

shall render the contract void."

Sec. 4.131. - Conflict of interest: Greensboro Code of Ordinances, City Charter

I, George Hartzman, challenge two members of the leadership opposed to reopening the White Street Landfill to a public debate

I, George Hartzman, challenge two members of the leadership

opposed to reopening the White Street Landfill

to a public debate

in a venue of their choice,

with a moderator and debate rules of their choosing,

and on any other subject of their choice.

Two on one, time divided equally between three,
meaning George Hartzman will speak one third of the time
advocating for the landfill to be reopened,
while those who support the landfill remaining closed
will control the majority of the time,
the subject matter and the sequencing of rhetoric.

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--TX Gov. Rick Perry blasted Obama for ending America's space shuttle program

--Price of gold continues to soar

--MSNBC has given Al Sharpton his own show

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Sal Leone, At-Large Greensboro City Council Candidate

"Sal Leone, At-Large City Council

"I want to take on the incumbents.

I want to put pressure on them.

Win or lose, I want them to know they are accountable"

Sal Leone, At-Large City Council

...he said he would like to put attention on property crimes,

which he sees happening all over the city.

Amanda

"As a society we’ve accepted that.

We shouldn’t accept crime.
We should be going after crime."

Sal Leone, At-Large City Council

Guilford County Chairman Skip Alston is Muddying up the Redistricting Process for a Losing Proposition

UPDATE: looks like this post is null and void according to Mark Binker from New and Record with a few post out today
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Guilford County Chairman Skip Alston is trying to muddy up the waters with the talk of referendum and also having a 9 member map turned into the Department of Justice(DOJ) along with the 8 member map at the same time.

In the High Point Enterprise on July 26, 2011 this is what was said:

"County Attorney Mark Payne reminded the committee that commissioners can work on 2 tracks. "If there are two plans we should send them at the same time". "

 Here is the problem. When the state made the law to make Guilford County a 9 member board with 8 districts and 1 at large and that they needed a clearence from DOJ in this bill there was no mention of sending any other plans for them to consider. During the Guilford County Redistricting Committee meetings we have been hearing that Skip Alston wants to also send a 9 member map with 2 at large to the DOJ if the citizens of Guilford County will approve a referendum to by pass what was done and to go back to a 11 member board .

I think this talk of a referendum will come up during the August 4th meeting to have them put the referendum on the November election. There is one huge problem in that the City of High Point has their elections in even years and if Skip Alston wants to put this losing proposition on the ballot in November you will probably see plenty of citizens in High Point and also the unincorporated Guilford County not like this one bit going to the polls to vote on one item. I am sure the DOJ will not like this referendum and a City with over 100,000 will only be going to the polls to vote on this one item. What is the cost for doing this?

If we are talking about referendum then let's talk a 7 board member for Guilford County put that on the ballot as well.

From the quote above it seems like they want to completely mess with the process to also add these other maps to the mix where no one has seen or even talked about a 9  plus 2 member map.County Attorney wants to send them both at the same time but to me it needs to be a complete separate avenues for the DOJ and if they do send them together then you will see some objections from me and plenty of other people in this county.

Here is a link to all the maps that have been turned into the Guilford County Legal Department
CLICKHERE in regards to the redistricting process that will have a public hearing tomorrow at the Guilford County Courthouse starting at 5:30pm

Public Hearing Notice - Thursday, July 28 at 5:30 p.m.

The Redistricting Committee of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners hereby gives notice of a public hearing to receive public comments in its efforts to adopt a redistricting plan pursuant to the requirements of the General Assembly in Session Law 2011-172 as well as N.C.G.S. 153A-22. The public hearing shall be held on July 28, 2011 at 5:30 P.M. in the Commissioners Meeting Room located at the Old County Courthouse, 301 W. Market Street, Greensboro, NC.

Guilford County Redistricting Map Turned in by ME to Hopefully Bring A Simple Map That Makes Sense

Guilford County Commissioners 2011 Redistricting Map for 8 District by Keith Brown


also here is a link to the statistics on the 8 member 1 at large districts CLICKHERE
The Guilford County Commissioners are in the process of redistricting every single voter in this county. At the last redistricting meeting Commissioner Kirk Perkins wanted all maps be turned in by today 7-6-2011 to the redistricting meeting at 3:30pm.But during today's meeting he extended the deadline till Friday 7-8-2011 so if you want to get your map in please hurry. Jordan Green at Yes! Weekly will help you in the process if you want help here is a comment by him on that CLICKHERE

As you will see i your humble blogger turned in a map along with statistics on each of the 8 districts under the new state law in regards to having a 8 district and 1 at large map for Guilford County. To make a long story short without getting into all the statistics details here is a synopsis below.

.Let's start with district #1 which is one of the voting rights act district mandated by federal law. This district stretches from High Point through Jamestown and into Greensboro. I am not a fan of splitting municipalities but in this case Jamestown needed to be split because the minority voters in High Point did not reach the 50 % plus 1 level and needed to pick up some of Commissioner Alston's precincts. It was a tough one to draw but hopefully it is ok.

District #2 is one of the faster growing in population areas of Guilford County which is the eastchester drive area of High Point going all the way west to the county line.

District #3 runs from Oak Ridge and down to Jamestown

District #4 mainly runs in the Greensboro area being one of the 3 voting rights act areas of Guilford County

District #5 is the last voting rights act areas which stretches on the eastern side of Greensboro.

District #6 is a big area in regards space in Guilford County and is one of the growth areas that i see in future on where development is going in eastern Guilford County. One aspect that i see happening on plenty of maps is that the town of Pleasant Garden is split between 2 commissioners but under my map they actually are together as one commissioner. Right now 2 commissioners reside in this area but in my making this map i didn't take into consideration where the incumbents live because it should not be a part of the process.  This process of redistricting every 10 years should not be a incumbency protection act in regards to a map.

District #7 is where there is a lot of growth and the representation of Summerfield and Stokesdale along with some northern guilford county residents needed to have representation and i think having this district as you see on the map is good and feasible.

District #8 is made up of a  Greensboro district .

Hopefully you like this map and can say to the Guilford County Commissioners that Keith Brown's map is good and i like it.

If you would like to send a suggestion to the Guilford County Attorney in regards to this please let Mark Payne know you like this map. Here is his e mail,  mpayne@co.guilford.nc.us

or

Public Submission for Proposed Maps Redrawing Commissioners' Districts Being Accepted

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UPDATE MORE FROM JORDAN GREEN CLICKHERE

If printing money didn't work to pull the US out of economic contraction, should the government let the economy find an organic bottom so we can start growing again?



"The hope for a continued recovery has grown dim lately as many of the economic indexes are moving towards contractionary territory. "

http://advisorperspectives.com/dshort/guest/Lance-Roberts-110726-Recession-Forecast.php



June Durable Goods: If the US economy could lose about 2.3 million more jobs in the near term, what should happen to durable goods orders going forward?

http://advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/Durable-Goods-Orders.php

If North Carolina’s State Government is going to layoff about 11,000 employees,

not counting city and county reductions,

and about 20,000 public sector jobs get eliminated in NC over the next six months,

x 50 other states,

could the US lose at least 1,000,000 job losses in the near term

causing even higher budget deficits across the board?

If the fed debt limit deal, which could be 3 to 4 trillion over 10 years,
cuts about $100 to 250 billion in the first year,
because they will most likely back load most of the most painful cuts,
and every $100 billion cut probably eliminates about 1.3 million more jobs,
could the US lose another 2.3 million jobs inside of 12 months
not counting multiplier effects from businesses dependent on other people’s income?

New Home Sales: Does this look like an economic recovery to you?

"The inventory of completed homes for sale fell to 60,000 units in June. The combined total of completed and under construction is at the lowest level since this series started."

The US Federal Government Tax and Spending Problem: If we reduce spending, which will retard receipts even more, why is who saying not to increase revenue?

http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2011/07/data_spending_a.html

Why would Dianne run for mayor knowing she couldn't win?

The more captured opposing pieces the less risk, and vice versa.

If all the players return to a new beginning after any given game,
but can return as a Pawn, Knight, Bishop, Rook, Queen or King,
in another concurrent game,
why not take a momentary fall
for a long term win?

Should you do to others what you would want them to do to you,

unless you need not to?

What do you do in a battle in which you die if you don’t fight or lose?

If it can be good to find what not to think, unless you’re wrong,
and an offensive move doesn’t look advantageous,
should defenses be reinforced instead?

You are so intent that you believe only what you believe that you believe,

that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe

without believing that you believe it.

Orson Scott Card

Why would Robbie want Dianne on the ticket, opposite what many may believe to be two "actual" conservatives?

Do some football running backs fake left and go right

to intentionally mislead the defense

into committing energy and mass in the wrong direction?

If nothing doesn’t change, you can’t start over.

If an opponent’s position can be used against them

and the pinnacle of vulnerability is the moment of assault,

should attack commence from defended positions?

Are chances better

for players who more accurately calculate probabilities the farthest into the future?

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.


Napoleon Bonaparte

If every move is followed by a counter move,

and every cause, action or winner has an effect, reaction or loser,

can one bad move erase a hundred good, and one good one win?

Why would Dianne want to knock Robbie out of the race?

If some falsely told they were to receive more pain than they actually did
described more than administered,
and others given more pain than led to expect thought it was less,
can some of what you believe to be true, be true to you, until you think otherwise?

You’ll benefit from contributed causes, or be deterred by imposed effects.

If not thinking isn’t,

and it’s not about what could’ve been or what may someday,

is it about what you think and do now?

Yvonne Johnson

If you choose not to know something,

especially if that something is something you should know,

you are morally blameworthy.

Robert P. Lawry

Director of the Center for Professional Ethics

.
White Street Landfill Flashback: Johnson and Perkins

Questions for Keith Holliday, Goldie Wells, Yvonne Johnson, Carolyn Allen,
Kirk Perkins, Carolyn Coleman and T. Dianne Bellamy-Small on the Landfill

Jordan Green and Yvonne Johnson

Are Guilford County, the 1/4-Cent Makes Sense Steering Committee
and endorsing organizations misleading voters?

Why is the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
supporting the quarter cent tax increase?

Bribes or Kickbacks
Greensboro City Council Member Zack Matheny Talks Trash in Paper

Crony Capitalism and Local Developer Roy Carroll

Who did Greensboro’s Landlords Association PAC donate campaign cash to in 2009,
and who do they want to castrate RUCO?

Why did Yvonne Johnson’s campaign accept donations from MacArthur Sims,
Mike Winstead and the Realtors PAC after the pre-election filing deadline?

Pigs, Poultry and Kiss The Ass
of the Triad Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition

What could Bellamy-Small be Thinking?

Some of what you know, you don’t know you know.

What you don’t know you don’t know is more than you think.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant

I could hardly stand to have the old man around.

But when I got to be 21,

I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

Is chess non-violent war?

Do some football running backs fake left and go right

to intentionally mislead the defense

into committing energy and mass in the wrong direction?

All warfare is based on deception.

…when able to attack we must seem unable,

when using our forces we must seem inactive,

when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far…,

when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

Sun Tzu

Are chances better
for players who more accurately calculate probabilities
the farthest into the future?

If opponents don’t begin with pieces of the same number and value,

and players can think they’re winning when losing,

can influencing others’ thoughts enhance results, and vice versa?

Statements by high officials are practically always misleading,

when they are designed to bolster a falling market.

Gerald M. Loeb

Can observation alter the observed?

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--Americans have been suffering through a heat wave

--Obama got his own birthday wrong

--Hillary Clinton returned from trip to Greece, India, and China

--Obama admitted at a town hall that it's not obvious to everyone he's had a successful presidency

--Obama's policies have finally succeeded in closing the "borders"

--Steve Wynn blasted Obama's economic policies

--Jane Fonda said she never did anything to hurt her country

--Officials in New York are warning of rolling blackouts


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World Oil Supplies

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Some Economic Geopolitical Debt Ceiling and Europe Thoughts from George Hartzman’s Brain

If North Carolina’s State Government is going to layoff about 11,000 employees,

not counting city and county reductions,

and about 20,000 public sector jobs get eliminated in NC over the next six months,

x 50 other states,

could the US lose at least 1,000,000 job losses in the near term

causing even higher budget deficits across the board?

If the fed debt limit deal, which could be 3 to 4 trillion over 10 years,
cuts about $100 to 250 billion in the first year,
because they will most likely back load most of the most painful cuts,
and every $100 billion cut probably eliminates about 1.3 million more jobs,
could the US lose another 2.3 million jobs inside of 12 months
not counting multiplier effects from businesses dependent on other people’s income?

If the US hasn’t sold any new debt since mid May 2011,

and the Federal Reserve stopped printing to buy Treasuries in June 2011,

what could happen to interest rates

if the US Treasury needs to sell more than $750 billion more debt,

or about $150 billion of new debt per month in the last five months of 2011,

on top of what the rest of the world wants to borrow?

If Federal, State and Local Governments cut spending by $1 trillion,
and our nation’s GDP is about $14 trillion,
which could cause at least another $500 billion less spending elsewhere,
why wouldn’t the US suffer about a 10% fall in GDP
as Europe does the same thing at the same time?

How can Germany, France, Italy and Spain continue to bailout Euro zone countries

if Italy and Spain need to be bailed out?

Tom Phillips on the White Street Landfill

...the current governing body...badly mishandled the landfill issue, he said.

Agreed.

With the uproar over future use of the White Street Landfill.
"We're doing a whole lot of damage to our community,
and I don't think we need to do that," Phillips said.

Agreed.

...the city should try to develop a long-term regional solution to solid waste.

Agreed.

...Phillips said he would not seek to expand the landfill
and would consider using current capacity for household garbage
only in an emergency.

How is the city going to buy in to a regional solution

without saving enough to pay for it?

Doug

John Mauldin's selection of quotes with a little comment on the European Greece Deal

… the sixth time in 18 months European leaders

have announced a definitive solution to the Euro crisis.

Should this version of the final bailout be taken any more seriously

than the first and second solutions to the Greek crisis in May and September 2010

or the Irish bailout of December 2010 or the Portuguese rescue package of March 2011

or the breakthrough vote in the Greek parliament of last month?

The supposedly good news for markets

was that the -21% haircuts to be imposed on Greek creditors

...were less than half those suggested a few days ago.”

"A 21% haircut is a bad joke.

If you assume that Greece can afford to spend
10% of their revenues just to pay the interest,
which is what they will need to be able to do to get out of their crisis,
then the haircuts look more like 75-80%.

Sean Egan, the most credible credit analyst in the country,
estimated this week that the eventual haircuts on the Greek debt will be 90%."

...Here is what it really says:

We are going to keep throwing good money after bad

and work as hard as we can to transfer the debt that is on the banks to the ECB

and European taxpayers as long as the voters will let us.

This first tranche will be another €109 billion.

That will last a few years,
and Greece will only have to pay about 3.5% on that debt and the rollover debt,
and people who expected to be repaid in that period
will see payment extended to either 15 or 30 years.

You can call this what you like, and they call it “selective default,”
but it is a default.

There will be government guarantees on the debt,
so the ECB can take it from the banks."

...First, notice that the plan claims haircuts will only be 21%.

But that assumes you can sell the new bonds at a 9% interest rate.

If the interests rate demanded by the market are 15%, which is closer to reality,

the haircuts are closer to 67%, after what appears to be an initial 20% cut.

Will any institution not immediately

try and get those bonds into the hands of the ECB?

This is just ugly.

John Mauldin

German central bank chief Jens Weidmann and Mike "Mish" Shedlock on the Greece Bailout.

"German central bank chief Jens Weidmann was openly critical of the package,

saying it shifted risks onto taxpayers in countries with stronger finances

and weakened incentives for governments to keep their finances under control.

"This weakens the foundation for a currency union

based on fiscal self-responsibility," said Weidmann,

a European Central Bank policymaker...

Given that nothing has been solved,
the climax of this saga has still not yet been seen.

The deal still requires every member nation to approve changes to the Maastricht Treaty,
which may not happen.

Moreover, Greece is just the first of many nations to test the system.

Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and Italy are waiting on deck.

Finally, will German taxpayers
go along with a plan their own central bank is highly critical of?"

Mike "Mish" Shedlock

Karl Denninger on the debt limit and what both sides are doing, that the Mainstream Media isn't telling anybody about

"NO domestic spending cuts whatsoever.

NO material changes to entitlement spending ($25 billion/year on Medicare is pointless.)

NO other mandatory spending cuts.

Anywhere.

Remember, the deal was supposed to be about $2 trillion in total - $1.2...,
and then $800 billion in "revenue increases" (tax hikes.)

...We're talking about chicken**** here folks - these "cuts" are not real,
they are all "reductions in planned spending increases.

Boehner and McConnell are both a lying sack of crap
- there are NO actual spending cuts on the table by either party.

The entire R...party is a bunch of damned sell-outs.

It is time for primary challenges
for each and every one of the alleged "limited government" liars and frauds.

Every one of them - fire them all.

Tea Party and "limited government" my ass."

Karl Denninger

Why would Guilford County's Commissioners approve a "grant" for Robbie's project that was already underway?

...Commissioner Cashion asked Mr. Brown if construction had begun on the project
and he said yes.

Mr. Brown indicated the weather was bad the project is 30% complete at this time.

...Vice Chairman Arnold ...described the investment policy as an across-the-board tax cut.

He said the Board cannot offer rebates because it is illegal under North Carolina law
but they can offer grants.

http://www.co.guilford.nc.us/commissioners/granicus/
March 3, 2010

Did Guilford County's commissioners know they gave Robbie Perkins a sweet tax break?

Guilford County Commissioners Meeting Minutes, March 4, 2010
http://www.co.guilford.nc.us/commissioners/granicus/

VII. PUBLIC HEARINGS

1. Held Public Hearing on the Guilford County
Commercial Investment Policy and approved the following actions:

a.) Approved a commercial investment grant for Granite Church Street, LLC

...The investment grant for this project based upon applicant’s information
is estimated to be $41,504 per year (an estimated total of $124,504 for three years).

...Betty Garrett, Interim Planning Director,...said the projected real investment for the project
...anticipated new job creation of 164.

Proponent Chester Brown...said construction began in October 2009
and completion is estimated for August 2010 and urged the Board to support the request.

...Chairman Alston made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Cashion
on to approve the request.

Commissioner Gibson ...said the number of jobs has decreased significantly
from the original request...

Commissioner Gibson said he does not think the commercial investment policy
will benefit small businesses and he will not be supportive of the request.

...VOTE: Motion carried 8 to 2.
AYES: Commissioners Alston, Arnold, Cashion, Davis, Parks, Gibson, Shaw, Yow.
NOES: Commissioner Perkins and Coleman.
ABSTAINED: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Winstead.

How does the Hondajet deal compare to Robbie Perkins' incentive tax break for The Shoppes at Gunter’s Crossing? Fec, Joe Killian, Richard Barron and Scott Yost

Greensboro City Councilman, Robbie Perkins,

is a partner in Granite Church Street, LLC.

Fec

...some county commissioners are questioning the effectiveness
of a relatively new grant program designed to foster more growth in the local tax base.

The program, adopted in October, offers grants to businesses
for the amount of county taxes it paid on any improvements to real property
— a new construction or building expansion, for instance — for three years.

It was hoped the program would spur new construction
and help small businesses improve and expand.

Is Robbie Perkins suggesting Guilford County give him a tax break?

So far, however, only one property has applied for a grant:
a shopping center already under construction in the 5800 block of North Church Street.

Did Robbie Perkins receive a tax break from Guilford County

as 65 jobs serving the poor, emergency services and libraries were eliminated?

...Granite Church Street, the company behind the shopping center,
would have built it there anyway, regardless of the incentive program.

Joe and Richard

Greensboro City Councilman, Robbie Perkins,

is a partner in Granite Church Street, LLC.

Fec

It’s illegal for the county to give tax rebates,
so the county has to call the rebates “commercial investment grants,”
and the first public hearing for the program was for a project by Granite Church Street LLC,
which is constructing a shopping center on the 5800 block of North Church Street.

Greensboro City Councilman, Robbie Perkins,

is a partner in Granite Church Street, LLC.

Fec

...Gibson added that the plan was meant to help small businesses,
but that Granite Church Street was a large business.

Greensboro City Councilman, Robbie Perkins,

is a partner in Granite Church Street, LLC.

Fec

“I don’t think you are a mom and pop business,”
Gibson said to Chester Brown, who was making the presentation to the commissioners.

Brown is with Brown Investment Properties.

Scott Yost

The developers are applying for a grant of $41,504 per year,
or $124,512 over three years.

...Dan Lynch, president of the Greensboro Economic Development Alliance,
said the business recruitment group supports the tax incentive plan.

Who would have thought?

Policies in the past have not typically granted incentives for such projects
as the Church Street development, with its emphasis on retail.

Retail jobs, he said, offer lower wages
and are not the solution to this region’s employment problems

...Incentives should be targeted toward more lucrative jobs.

...The concept of incentivizing construction of already overbuilt sectors of the market,
whether commercial or residential, is not economically wise and sustainable...

Commissioner Kirk Perkins said
“When you take a class of property owners
and say we’re going to give you a pass on taxes for three years,
that’s not helping.”

In a year that’s already seeing county employees furloughed and laid off,
Perkins said he can’t see the logic in forgoing revenue from businesses.

Joe and Richard

John Hammer on Robbie Perkins, Mayor Knight, Jim Kee, Small and the White Street Landfill

"...The sad reality is that this is an election year and Council member Robbie Perkins,
who is opposed to using the landfill,
has announced that he is running for mayor against Knight.

The worse Knight looks the better it is for Perkins.

During breaks and after the meeting
you could see Perkins huddle with the people who were disrupting the meeting.

Are those who huddled with Perkins

the same who gave him a pass on RUCO?

Do Goldie's constituents know about Robbie's RUCO play?

Where was Goldie Wells on RUCO?

...When the audience at the City Council meeting
misbehaves continuously during the meeting it makes the mayor look weak and ineffectual.

So it is a huge benefit to Perkins
to have all of these people misbehave at meetings.

Is it not amazing that Mr. Perkins draws his support

from some of Greensboro's African American leaders

that didn't bother to lift a finger for RUCO?

...The owner of Nealtown Estates,
a private development on Nealtown Farm Road across the street from the landfill,
said that he had not sold a house since the issue of using White Street again had come up.

Who approved zoning permits for a housing development

next to a landfill?

Whose fault is it,

that an owner of a housing development across the street from a landfill

is not selling more homes?

Bellamy-Small went into a long tirade and ended by saying,
"I hope every registered voter in Greensboro rises up and puts this entire council out of office."

Agreed.

That got a loud cheer from the audience
and Bellamy-Small responded, "Yes, That's what I'm talking about."

It is somewhat odd for a sitting council member to call for the people to rise up
and put the entire council out of office.

It's surprising that her two cohorts on the council, Perkins and Kee, didn't complain."

John

"A total of 17 positions were eliminated within the Heart of Carolina Region..."

http://www.news-record.com/content/2011/07/20/article/red_cross_to_cut_costs_consolidate_chapters

Allen Johnson: "Honda, the tea party and incentives"

Honda, the tea party and incentives

"Rapid Increase in Demand for Utility, Rent,
and Mortgage Assistance" - Time for us to step up.

Bread Lines

NC is going to lay off about 11,000 workers, not counting local governments.
.
Hondajet Math

If life needs sustenance and a temperate climate, is want everything else?

Is attachment suffering?

If non-material want can provide a high quality of life,

while material want doesn’t necessarily create happiness,

is it better to be miserable with a high standard of living than unhappy and poor?

What do you do in a battle in which you die if you don’t fight or lose?

Are chances better
for players who more accurately calculate probabilities the farthest into the future?

Should strategy be merciless

if a pawn can become a queen, weakness can become and overcome strength,

and defense is offense?

Should you do to others what you would want them to do to you,
unless you need not to?

"Rapid Increase in Demand for Utility, Rent, and Mortgage Assistance" - Time for us to step up.

Date: July 19, 2011

Over the past several months, Greensboro Urban Ministry’s Emergency Assistance Program
has seen a dramatic rise in the demand for emergency financial assistance,
particularly since the beginning of July
when Guilford County Department of Social Services
outsourced its county financial assistance program.

Please drop off some canned goods or make a donation. 

All of Greensboro Urban Ministry funding for emergency financial assistance
comes from private sources such as local congregations,
Duke Energy Foundation, Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation, other foundations,
and concerned individuals.

Please drop off some canned goods or make a donation.

No city, county, state, or federal funds are used.

Which means it is up to the community to support those in need.

In April, our Emergency Assistance Program provided $33,447 for 112 families
...in May, $40,996 for 153 families; in June, $47,580 for 199 families.

So far this month through July 18, $19,745 for 86 families has been spent.

Every morning this month long lines of people have lined up for services...

...unfortunately, many of the people coming to us are in long term crisis with no income.

For these people, the solution is to find a living wage job.

Such jobs are in very short supply.

If you think your current situation is difficult,

volunteer for a day at the Urban Minitstry.  

...Close relationships have been developed with the new Interactive Resource Center (IRC)
and with Goodwill Industries as they accept referrals to help people become job ready.

Please help.

Contact: Rev. Mike Aiken, Executive Director, 336-553-2639

Do the right thing when no one is looking

Tyra Clymer, Emergency Assistance Director, Urban Ministry, 336-553-2659

Leave others better off for having known you.

Leave the world a better place than you found it.

Should there be headlines in the paper about local religious groups helping out?

Please help.

NC is going to lay off about 11,000 workers, not counting local governments.

Let's say 20,000 jobs get cut in NC over the next six months.

x 50 other states = at least 1,000,000 job losses in short order?

How can the housing market recover as job losses mount?

Then add in the fed debt limit deal, which could be 3 to 4 trillion over 10 years.

If 3 trillion, that's maybe $150 to 250 billion in the first year,
because they most likely will backload many of the most painful cuts.

For each $100 billion cut, that's probably about 1.3 million more jobs lost.

So it looks like we could lose another 2.3 million jobs inside of 12 months.

Not counting any multiplier effects.

Thoughts?

Hondajet Math

400 Jobs x $50,000 per year per job = $20,000,000 new income for the Piedmont Triad Annually

$520,000 x 2 (Greensboro and Guilford County) = $1,040,000 local incentives

$1,040,000 / 400 = $2,600 per new job

5% of $20,000,000 into local taxation every year for 10 years = $10,000,000

Cost of the new jobs over 10 years = $260 each

$10,000,000 / 400 jobs = at least $25,000 for each new job
injected into the local economy over 10 years

$260 / $25,000 = a 99% potential return in 10 years

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Guilford County Chairman Skip Alston's Gerrymandered Bottlenecks on Redistricting Embedded Pictures

Guilford County Chairman Skip Alston's Gerrymandered Bottlenecks on Redistricting

The above embedded pictures will show you the exact areas that the Chairman Skip Alston is playing this gerrymandering game with the voters in Guilford County in his jig saw puzzle version of a map. Below is the circled red dot areas for these aerial views above.

Chairman Skip Alston Redistricting Map on Precinct Overlay 2011

Then below you will see my map for Guilford County and look at the difference.
Guilford County Commissioners 2011 Redistricting Map for 8 District by Keith Brown

to see all the map and also spreadsheets on the statistics CLICKHERE

Revised Proposed Congressional Dumps 13th in Guilford County and Adds More to 6th in Rep. Howard Coble

Revised Proposed Congressional District 6 NC

Today 7-19-2011 the North Carolina Redistricting Commission came out with a revised Congressional districts and the embedded map above will show you that the 6th district which is now represented by  Rep. Howard Coble will be more up in the northern part of North Carolina. The first round of maps had Guiilford County split between 3 congressional districts and now we see that it is down to 2 congressional which is much better.

If you would like to see all the statistics on the congressinal districts which is now called Rucho-Lewis Congress 2 CLICKHERE

There is also a interactive map which can go down to the street level to see whop is in your district and for the new congressional map please pick the rucho lewis congress 2 plan CLICKHERE

Below is a map of the whole State of North Carolina with the revised Congressional Districts

If Robbie Perkins was actually for RUCO, why did he vote to eliminate inspections?

"Donna Newton, advisor to the Greensboro Neighborhood Congress,
said proponents of the city’s Rental Unit Certificate of Occupancy, or RUCO program
had already compromised two years ago.

Which Robbie Perkins voted for.

“We have already compromised when we went from full-on inspections to sampling,” she said.

Which Robbie Perkins voted for.

“A ‘trust-me’ system – ‘we’re going to do everything right,
and everything’s going to be fine’ – is not believable.”

Jordan

Justin Catanoso at The Business Journal: "Question on solar farm: Is the project worth it?"

"North Carolina...’s sweetest deal is the one that is least known by local governments.

In 2008, ...the N.C. General Assembly passed a law that exempts “solar electric systems”
from 80 percent of local property taxes.

...Dan Lynch, who leads industry recruitment in Greensboro,
was surprised to learn about the 80 percent local tax break...

...For the last several weeks,
Lynch has been hustling to see how he can cobble together 4,000 acres of land i
n smaller increments in the Triad to accommodate a start-up Florida company
called National Solar Power,
which claims to want to build the largest solar farm in North America
— a 400 megawatt project that is said to cost $1.4 billion.

Lynch confirmed that National Solar executives,
in a meeting with Greensboro officials last week,
backed away from their original estimate that their solar farm,
when built out, would create 120 permanent jobs.

Chances are, the project would generate just a handful.

So if there are few new jobs
and very little local new property tax revenue to realize,
why bother with this project?

...“If we can do this project in increments of 40 to 200 acres,
we might be able to make it work,” Lynch says.
“It all depends on what they are willing to pay for land.”

...“We can still get 20 percent (of the possible tax revenue generated),
and that’s better than nothing,” he says."

Justin Catanoso

Alternative Map to Double Bunking Sen. Phil Berger with Sen. Don Vaughan in Guilford County

Alternative Guilford NC Senate Districts


The North Carolina Redistricting Commission came out with their maps for the Congressional House , N.C. Senate and the N.C. House districts all over the state.  Here is a link to the N.C. Redistricting CLICKHERE

We know that Guilford County in regards to the ideal population of the senate seats are sitting on 2.5 senators . It is not close enough to justify having 3 senators solely in Guilford County but as we know now they did a "Double Bunk" with 2 very high profile names in the senate side in Majority Leader from Rockingham County Sen. Phil Berger and Guilford County Sen. Don Vaughan being in the same district #26. Link to map CLICKHERE .

Above you will see a alternative map for Guilford County with a little different approach. First it would not double bunk either Sen. Phil Berger or Sen. Don Vaughan. It would put Berger's district on the northern end of Greensboro then go north to get one area of Stokesdale then go to the eastern side of Guilford County in a area where he already has in his district right now. Then it goes south to the rural area of Guilford County which has a lot in common with the rural areas of Rockingham County. This area ends at the Jamestown area.This would be the Senate District #26.

Now we see the Voting Rights Act(VRA) area in District #28 this is mandated by existing outdated law that needs to be revised or done away with all together, but that is another day and a lot of issues to be dealt with. In the map above we have the sitting Senator Gladys Robinson in the 26th district but as we see from what the commission did is they went down into precinct PG1 to take in her home to be a part of this new district #28 which to me should never happen in regards to redistricting and splitting precincts because so much confusion can be had when you start splitting precincts.Having this (VRA) really makes for some confusing contortions all over this state and in Guilford County. All anyone needs to do is look at our famed Congressional District #12 and #6 which made the Top 10 in worse gerrymandered districts CLICKHERE , thanks for that dubious honor from the past. We might have our own in this new senate seat for N.C. in #27 for such an honor.

We now see that the N.C. Redistricting Commission has made a new Senate seat for Guilford County in #27. Here is a link to the map CLICKHERE . In a nut shell this is one ugly fish hook for Guilford County. If you were to campaign for this district you would have to start in the Northeast corner of Guilford County go all the way to the southern border of this district all the way west to the farthest corner of Guilford County  pass the Voting Rights Act district #28 up through High Point N.C. go towards the Airport then go due east back into Greensboro N.C. This district does not make any sense whatsoever. This map of the new District #27 is not good. Whoever came up with this plan needs to go back to the drawing board.

But as you see above there is a reasonable map that puts Jamestown in with High Point along with Oak Ridge and the western side of Greensboro including Sen. Don Vaughan. This map above is more compact . It actually makes more sense and maybe someone will see this post and talk to your North Carolina Representatives to say to them that i have a alternative to the Senate Districts in Guilford County.

High Point Enterprise on Guilford County Commissioners Redistricting

Guilford County Commissioners 2011 Redistricting Map for 8 District by Keith Brown

High Point Enterprise has a article titled "County Officials Unveil District Maps", CLICKHERE

High Point is part of what Keith Brown, who contributed a map for Triad Watch, calls a fish-hook” strategy making a district that links to Greensboro to form a minority-majority district.

“The Alston plan creates a district that runs from High Point through Jamestown and into Greensboro,” Brown said. “We don’t like that.”

Brown’s plan, and the two other county maps, also take the same district path, but Brown claims his treatment is not as severe.
Read more: High Point Enterprise - County officials unveil district maps


Let me explain a little bit further with this scenario. We have a district that needs to be majority minority because of the voting rights act. In High Point you can only get 44% majority minority and need to be over the 50% plus 1 this means that this district that was in High Point needs to add more people. So the feasible way to go is east to get precincts through Jamestown and into Greensboro.

Doing this from High Point into Greensboro opens the door for the map makers to go under this majority minority district to make a fish hook looking area where some of the southern part of High Point remain in another area for the "High Point Hook" as i call it to happen.

As you see in the map that I turned into the Guilford County Commissioners you do not see me allow this High Point Hook. But if you see plenty of the other maps CLICKHERE it does especially the chairman Skip Alston plan.

Say no to the High Point Hook around the voting rights act majority minority district in High Point

Dan Lynch, Richard Beard, Crony Capitalism, "Incentives" and Taxpayer Money

"Numerous sources say Honda Aircraft will ask the city and county
for an undetermined incentives package
as the company prepares to begin production of the long-awaited HondaJet next year.

“In this economy, anybody that is creating new jobs and new investment
...we need to encourage that,” said Richard Beard,
a partner in ...a commercial real estate firm.

“We cannot continue to hide behind the 'they’re-coming-anyway’ mentality.

“Plenty of communities are taking the opposite approach.

They welcome any increase in jobs or tax base, whether it is an existing or new company.”

Is this the same Richard Beard who profited greatly from the AMEX Data Center

marketed by the Greensboro Economic Development Alliance

right before AMEX fired about 1,500?

“This is one of our crown jewels for the future,” Beard said.

“This is something we can grow around as a community.”

Beard anticipates that Honda wants to do more than grow its employment base.

“When somebody says they are going to expand,
I think of jobs and capital investment,” Beard said, “but it could be just jobs.”

What is Crony Capitalism?

In 2007, when Honda broke ground on its world headquarters
at Piedmont Triad International Airport, state and local governments
offered the company an incentives package worth about $8 million.

The Greensboro City Council and the Guilford County Board of Commissioners
have executive sessions scheduled on Tuesday and Thursday, respectively.

Dan Lynch, president of the Greensboro Economic Development Alliance,
declined to talk about the purpose of the executive session.

Is this the same Dan Lynch who showed a number of undisclosed locations to AMEX

before AMEX "decided" to buy Richard Beard and Roy Carroll's properties

right after both donated to Linda Shaw's commissioner campaign

which was filed late after the election?

Linda Shaw Campaign Finance Filing Posted in Truancy:

Roy Carroll and Richard Beard Contributors

The prospect of an incentives requests for the city and county
has been in the works for more than a month.

Both local governments announced executive sessions for June
to consider an economic development matter.

Don

Tom Terrell on the Solar Farm Deal: Are Skip Alston and Dan Lynch

getting rolled by out of town carpetbaggers on the Solar Farm?

Is the Solar farm deal now looking at 40 acre lots, instead of 200?

"The propagandist seeks to change the way people understand an issue or situation"

"The propagandist seeks to change the way people understand an issue or situation
for the purpose of changing their actions and expectations
in ways that are desirable to the interest group.

Propaganda, in this sense, serves as a corollary to censorship
in which the same purpose is achieved,
not by filling people's minds with approved information,
but by preventing people from being confronted with opposing points of view.

...Propaganda is generally an appeal to emotion, not intellect.

It shares techniques with advertising and public relations,
each of which can be thought of as propaganda that promotes a commercial product
or shapes the perception of an organization, person, or brand.

..."Propaganda is a form of communication
that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position.

As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense,
presents information primarily to influence an audience.

Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission)
to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages
to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented.

The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience..."

Wiki

Didn't the News & Record run an editorial and a matching news story last mid July, when High Point Road was up for more taxpayer money, just like now for Honda Jet?

HondaJet production nears

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Editorial: Air advantage
Sunday, July 17, 2011

Honda Aircraft seeks aid for growth
Sunday, July 17, 2011
.
.
.
More High Point Road Propaganda from the Greensboro News and Record?



Socializing losses? The GN&R Editorial Board and Taft Wireback on High Point Road

Remember the middle of last July, when the Greensboro News & Record appeared to pitch public money for High Point Road, just like they look like they are doing for Honda Jet this year?

"Housing is part of plan for reviving seedy road

Despite its decline over the years, High Point Road remains one of city government’s richest veins of tax revenue.

Socializing losses?
The GN&R Editorial Board and Taft Wireback on High Point Road
Sunday, July 18, 2010

If they fail to reverse the tide, city officials risk local property taxes of more than $1.8 million a year, the amount paid annually by Koury Corp. for holdings along High Point Road and by General Growth Properties, owner of Four Seasons Town Centre.

So if taxpayers don't cough up millions
to preserve the tax values of privately owned properties
that ended up in the wrong side of history,
their tax values will fall to $0?
.

“There has to be a recognition (of High Point Road) as a real benefit to the city,” said Ron Mack, Koury Corp. vice president.

To be recognized with taxpayer money?

...Greensboro officials hope to get things going with a mix of public and private investments aimed at bringing new homes to nearby neighborhoods and new types of commercial projects to the street itself.

"a mix of public and private investments"?

...Fine points are still being worked out by a steering committee led by people who live near the corridor or have business interests there.

Who is on the committee?

The basic concepts emerged from a series of public meetings that started several years ago, backed by recommendations from outside consultants and an earlier committee of residents and business owners.

Who was on the earlier committee?

“This has not been us going in there and telling them our ideas,” said Carol Carter, the city’s lead planner on the project.

“It’s been them telling us their ideas and then we worked to fit those ideas into the plan.”

Like the RUCO taskforce?
.
Koury, TREBIC and RUCO: What could Regulatory Capture look like?
Friday, July 16, 2010

They...anticipate about $7.5 million in improvements to the streetscape aimed at creating a less harsh, auto-centered atmosphere.

$7.5 million more debt for Greensboro's taxpayers?

...About $34 million in public money already has been spent or committed to projects or land purchases, including the $19 million Greensboro Aquatic Center scheduled for completion next year at the coliseum. The coliseum also is building the ACC Hall of Champions set to open in 2011, using $2 million from state government.

Is the Greensboro News and Record Editorial Board
saying it’s OK for community leaders to lie to the public?
January 19th, 2010

In addition, Greensboro taxpayers spent $5.3 million for two High Point Road properties in late 2008, $2.1 million for the run-down Coliseum Inn that has since been demolished, $3.2 million for the former Canada Dry bottling plant.

...It envisions the former bottling plant’s distinctive architecture restored as a future sports or entertainment complex linked to the coliseum.

To be paid for with more public money?

...The swimming center and ACC hall could be real game changers in reviving High Point Road, said Henri Fourrier, president of the Greensboro Area Convention & Visitors Bureau.

The same Henri Fourrier
who sold Greensboro’s electorate on an Aquatic Center
with a non-independent, non third party “hypothetical”
that will most likely cost Greensboro millions
in principal, interest, operating and maintenance costs?

Why would the “Consultant”
who created a $14,337,210 hypothetical economic impact “projection,”
say only debt free competitive swim centers work?
December 3rd, 2009

...“When the economy turns around, we’d like to complete Four Seasons Station,” said Koury Corp.’s Mack, referring to vacant retail acreage around the multiplex. “But it’s hard to do, hard to justify, without a show of commitment on the city’s part.”

Taft Wireback
Greensboro News & Record, July 19, 2010

A democracy will continue to exist
up until the time that voters discover
that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury

From that moment on
the majority always votes for the candidates
who promise the most benefits…
with the result that every democracy
will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy…

…nations always progressed through the following sequence

From bondage to spiritual faith
from spiritual faith to great courage
from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance
from abundance to complacency
from complacency to apathy
from apathy to dependence
from dependence back into bondage

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