Let's Get Something Clear Referencing The WBOE

For starters, many key statements were made at Tuesday's County Council Meeting that have been conveniently ignored by the Daily Times. I wish I could have delivered this sooner but things have been quite busy around here.

OK, first of all, the WBOE takes up just about 50% of the County's entire Budget. That being said, when the Governor delivers his final Budget for the State, the Board of Education Budget is set in stone, period. NOTHING, and I do mean NOTHING can change throughout the rest of the entire year.

The Teacher's Union supported O'Malley 100% and one thing is for sure, as stated in previous BOE articles we have provided, they got everything they ever dreamed of, (and more) simply because they supported this man O'Malley. That being said, I don't care how much they cut DURING the fiscal year, the balance of the 50%, City/County Employees and other projects get dumped, period and that's ALL they have to work with.

So for those of you wondering and or commenting as to why the BOE isn't being cut, there's NOTHING you or anyone else can do about that. So while there's even recent mention about another SCAM going on within the WBOE right now, (which has been confirmed and Salisbury News will provide an exclusive story on it in the very near future) these people laugh all the way to the Bank while other employees and departments, (ultimately you) take to punches.

Joe Holloway was right when he mentioned that the County must stop all talks on a new Library and Civic Center. Pollitt even mentioned that services like the County Library may even be closed on certain days to make up for the losses in revenue down the road.

Things are more than just tight Folks. I have been telling you for years, this is more serious than anyone ever dreamed and we're living on CREDIT, not what we actually own. Back in the big depression there was no such thing as a Credit Card. Did you ever wonder how entire Towns became what they called back in the day, "Ghost Towns." Well, put on that seat belt Folks because you're going to see that happening once again throughout America and places like the Eastern Shore will get hit hard. There's no real Industry here and there's very little chance anyone is going to invest in this area.

We overbuilt far too fast and we had leaders like Barrie Tilghman, Gary Comegys, Mike Dunn, Lynn Cathcart, who took advantage of government funds through TIF's, Developer Reimbursements, Grants, you name it, they begged and borrowed and used comparisons like Rockville on a regular basis hoping people would believe we could be just as nice.

Well, we don't have the tax base of metropolitan areas like Rockville. We don't have the businesses like Rockville. We don't have the schools like Rockville. We are the Eastern Shore with beautiful landscapes, perhaps like the Patomac USED to be. People like Tilghman, Comegys, Dunn, Pollitt aren't preserving our landscapes. Instead, they have been FOOLING everyone to believe we can borrow all this money and perhaps become something like Rockville and they sold everyone on believing we deserve things like a $14,000,000.00 Fire Palace and multi million dollar Fire Trucks.

Now we deserve new Schools, yet we don't have the money to pay for them. I travel down Rt. 13 to Virginia all the time. I make it a point many times to pull off Rt. 13 and travel the back roads to see what life is like in these little Towns. My God Folks, have you ever done that. Have you ever seen the Schools located in these small Towns. Bennett Middle School is a palace, compared to what I have seen elsewhere.

Mind you, the money has to come from somewhere but when you're blowing 50% of your entire Budget on one thing like education and your taxes keep going through the roof and our own Government allows property values that were $50,000.00 10 years ago to go up as high and $350,000.00 today for that same piece of property, it's no wonder we're in deep trouble, especially on the Eastern Shore!

We're taxed out and many are losing their homes because of this false economy. We raised our property values like we are Rockville, we started building new schools and now we're in deep sh!t financially. It's time we get a Governor in Office who will stand up to the WBOE and say, you know what, the money just isn't there, we're cutting you 25% right off the top. Instead, we allow our Country to be run off of politicians who cut deals with Teachers Unions so they can get elected, (how about ACORN) all so we get get one person into Office.

We need to look at things on a state level and national level and go back to basics. Let every state have a Rockville and leave it like that. If someone can afford to live there, MOVE! However, we ALL chose to come to the Eastern Shore because of the landscape and charm and we must STOP our representatives into brainwashing so many into believing we deserve more and better.

This Blog offers a format that has never been provided before. First of all, articles like this one would never come up in the Daily Times and never even considered for television news. You get the chance to come together and network on ideas and if you don't agree you get to voice your opinion. If you agree, well, for once you get to place pressure on your elected officials to make changes like never before.

Hopefully many of you have read this article all the way through and understand that the majority of the people on the Eastern Shore can't afford any more of this crap. Right now, (IMHO) the main focus needs to be on Crime. Give the Police the resources they need to fight crime because things are NOT going to get any better over the next 5 years. We need safe communities and while we're educating our youth, we need a new Governor who will NOT set the BOE Budget in stone as they need to be more affected than the Police any day of the week. I will personally no longer stand to hear our Mayor state they need to cut ANY MORE funding from the SPD in any way, shape or form.

I could go on forever but I'll stop here and look with great interest to your comments.