To the Editor,
The poor economy is affecting everyone.
I sat at my desk the other day looking over my property tax bills. If I am not mistaken, Robeson County and the city of Lumberton have some of the highest property taxes in the state. Along with the tax bills comes the articles concerning the discretionary funds and salaries of our county commissioners.
I am very concerned about how our taxes are being allocated and spent. Our schools are in great need, teachers are having to work even harder with larger classes, no assistants, and limited books and supplies. I am well aware that most teachers spend several hundred dollars of personal money in order to equip their classrooms.
To think that we give each county commissioner $40,000 a year to hand out without oversight is appalling. To add to that, their salaries and expenses are reported to be some of the highest in the state. Most counties in the state do not give out discretionary funds at all. Right now, as reported, our county commissioners have $389,773 of our tax dollars in their discretionary funds.
How many teachers would that allow us to hire? How many taxpayers could use a cut in their property taxes? My belief is that tax dollars, each and every one of them, should be treated with the respect that the earners deserve. Tax dollars should never be spent without careful planning and agreement from our elected leaders that they are being spent wisely.
I am sick to death of our leaders from the county to the federal government thinking our hard-earned dollars are slush funds for them to buy votes, attend lavish conferences, give to those that don’t deserve, etc., etc.
It is time to vote out any politician who sees fit to waste even one tax dollar,
Evelyn Smith
Lumberton
We need to stop looking for politicians and look to individuals who have worked hard to build a family, and community life, did something in their own community and church to make a difference before seeking a political office. We the People also need to look at the self made person and not just educated folks who have their own hidden agendas. I am asking all voting and non voting citizens of this county to go to your local court houses and spend time watching the way honest citizens are being treating by the leadership who are suppose to be protecting us. I have been in three courtrooms and was applaud at what I saw. The judges gave out all the rules of what they would not allow in the court room. I sat their and watch the disrespect of the bailiff, district attorney lawyers and judge all chewing gum, laughing at citizens,talking harshly and disrespectful to hard working and law abiding citizen. We the people pay all those folks salaries who demand respect, but yet do not give any back. The money being spent in those courtrooms to pay attorney fees for people who are guilty of the crimes, against honest and law abiding citizen is ridiculous. Until WE The People clean out every political office starting in Robeson County then move across the state and nation "We The People" will never see any change. I am shouting out to WE the People of Robeson County lets stand together for something or we will continue to fall for anything which is what we have NOW. I am Beverly Collins-Hall and I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE haha
Our side a few good men: God, Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, Ross(me), John Wayne... get it?
The history of the Democrat Party is one of racism and oppression of minorities. The founders of the KKK were Democrats. Democrat Woodrow Wilson proudly showed "Birth of a Nation" at the White House. Jim Crow laws were all imposed by Democrats. The fire hoses and dogs turned on black people in the South were on orders of Democrat governors. Planned Parenthood was founded by Liberal Progressive Democrat Margaret Sanger to control the black population.
The Great Society promoted by LBJ was a change of tactics. Outright oppression and persecution through segregation and lynching was not working. The new plan became breaking up minority families by having government welfare replace the father. With the breakdown of the family, minorities became dependent upon the government and the Democrats who promise more and more handouts. This has created willing slaves who give the Democrats a bumper crop of votes in exchange for meager food and housing (which plantation owners provided their slaves as well).