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Time to raise the TAXES because nothing is free.
ReplyDeleteElena Russo is smokin hot!! Wow!!
ReplyDeleteThey can look all they want at the data and public ally say they will do this or that, but it translates into more spending, more work for teachers, and less money for help in the classrooms.
ReplyDeleteThey are raising taxes but they still can't cover the structural deficit. Bottom line is you can't get blood from a beet! Somerset residents need to accept change and bring in new industry and business. The Great Bay Wind project alone would have brought in more tax revenue than the proposed 13% tax increase! The same people who objected to it are protesting the solar project AND are trying to regulate out the poultry industry. This is after costing the county thousands of dollars in a frivolous ethics probe that found nothing.
ReplyDeleteSorry but the Great Bay Wind project would have lowered property values and increase electricity costs for residents. These costs would have exceeded the amount our county coffers were going to receive.
ReplyDeleteThe ethics commission recognized severe flaws in our system and is working to correct them.
I guess you did not read the editorial in yesterdays paper either. Wise up dumbass!
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ReplyDeleteWhy did you feel you had to end your comment in such a degrading manner? Do you somehow feel superior for your revelation that this individual is not as smart as you presume yourself to be? I thought your point was right on mark until the end. Be a leader, someone that un-educated people can look up to, without making them feel that they are less then you are. Just follow the golden rule.
While I am quite comfortable with both my intelligence and level of education, neither is the problem in this debate. All the work is done! There is plenty of scientific research done on every aspect of wind energy. Any seventh grader can find it and understand enough of it to make an informed opinion. The problem is the lack of integrity. People with an agenda who will only accept what they want to hear. For instance over a million property transactions evaluated by respected research institutions like Berkeley that show no decrease in property values from turbines. Or our own grid operator's study that shows using wind energy to meet EPA mandates will save Maryland hundreds of millions of dollars. They use the relatively few studies that raise the possibility of health concerns to smear the zoning bd, accusing them of ignoring them for personal profit, when they ignore all the studies that show no health concerns, such as the Health Canada study which even looks at physiological factors. They even ignore all the Literature Reviews of all studies on wind energy such as the ones from Mass., Ontario, New Zealand or Australia that dismiss all health concerns. Yes the zoning board was smeared by SFS because they agreed with the vast majority of the scientific community. They smeared Jerry Boston because his son in law is one of many partners on a property with a lease. Jerry is the commissioner who nominated the leader of SFS to the zoning bd and then voted to send the ordinance back to the zoning bd for review when they had a perfectly reasonable ordinance in line with industry standards. If Jerry and the rest of the commissioners had sold out to Great Bay why would they do that? It's lack of integrity when a retired Medical Doctor wants turbines around his own house but when he is rejected testifies that they are a health problem. Or how about the SFS member who is against turbines when he is not eligible but signs a lease with GB for Solar. Or how about the SFS leader on the zoning bd insisting that the turbines have a 32dba noise limit when she has a poultry house 30' from the road making over 100dba. The same SFS leader who smeared commissioners and zoning bd members for having in laws with leases has an in law with a lease and served on the zoning bd. Not only that it was recommended by the zoning bd. attorney that she recuse herself as leader of the opposition but she refused to do so. If anyone involved had any ethics violations it was her! Now then getting back to my original point, Somerset cannot solve its budget problems or address its crumbling infrastructure or lower its unemployment and poverty levels without new business and industry. We need to get leaders who will stand up to the thugs like SFS who resist all change. This is exactly what happened to Detroit! They had people who had always depended on the same old industries and did not want anything new. While we are not much better off then Detroit it is my hope we can still turn things around with new industry and give the next generation something better.
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