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January 12, 2016

Are “we the people” being snookered another time by the Fort Smith city establishment?

Something does seem to be agog.

A year or two ago, without warning, citizens were told by various members of the city establishment that the police & fire retirement funds were in short supply. All these utterings showed no signs of concern or emotion. These same sentiments have been put forth on any number of occasions without a modicum of explanation. Were the funds misspent, allocated to other departments, or gross incompetence?

Then comes an edict from the Nationalist government, more commonly referred to as the Federal Government, that orders the city of Fort Smith to spend at least $600 million to upgrade its sewer and waste water systems, accompanied by a $300,000 fine, all of which should have been accomplished 2 decades ago and the funding was available. Followed on the heels of these travesties and almost in unison, no explanation by appropriate officials, the prompt exodus of decades old employees City Manager Ray Gosack followed by City Financial Director Kara Bushkuhl.

After a year or so, still no explanations from the City Directors or Mayor pertaining to the Fire & Police Pension Funds! Publicly, there have also been no reactions from Police Chief Kevin Lindsey & his band or the City Fire Chief and his crew. If there really is a shortage in the two retirement funds, why are the victims so composed?
Maybe, because there is no shortage.

You see, the city of Fort Smith and all cities are for-profit corporations. In the case of Fort Smith insiders will exclaim that Fort Smith is not a for-profit entity and remember citizens all local governments are controlled from on high, in this case Little Rock, D.C. & the United Nations, e.g. Lindsey and his band of merry men belong to 2 international policing organizations who set the protocols for the FSPD, not we the people who pay their salaries & perks.

Pension fund accounting (and others) are required by government to project out 35 years ( government safety net) to satisfy all projected payments to participants (in this case police & fire) with what they will be paid at TIME OF RETIREMENT. They use Max-projections.

Example: employee making $50K today at retirement, after pay increases, projected inflations, etc. will be making $185K, additionally: governments DO NOT ACCOUNT for the projected income for the fund out 35 years in full. They redact much.

Here’s the crux: based on the new accounting, the pension fund that may have been 150% funded today, in the snap of a finger, could now be adjusted to being 60% funded (40% underfunded). City governments may project whatever financial position referencing pension funding they wish. Additionally, they use Liability Accounts, Enterprise Ops & NGO’s.

It appears the city has not prepared a financial statement since 2011.

Most local pension funds/systems are strictly Participatory. What that means is the employee does not own ONE CENT of the retirement fund; they just have a ticket to ride under the contract terms.

The local government owns 100% of the FUND BALANCE. Now if the employees owned 100% of the balance, what the accounting used by local governments would be 100% fraud and an indictable offense.

If the employees owned all their retirement funds (and they should) when they retired they would receive hundreds of thousands of dollars and most of these funds are so huge there would never need to be any more contribution.
The Fort Smith city government is a pay/play pal like the Fort Smith City School Board where the transparency window pane has been blacked out.
Notice: when you ask a City Board member, a State Senator, a School Board member they always plead ignorance (“I don’t know”), which some don’t, but that’s their crude way of being evasive, i.e. not answering the question.
So you must know that Lindsey and all the rest know there is no real pension shortfall, but perhaps they do not know the devils in the details.
More reasons to impose term limits on all politicians and bureaucrats.

More pertaining to the Fire & Police Pension Funds: Times Record 1/11/16…Acting City Manager Dingman, “Our particular issue is based on the amount of funding we haven’t put into the past”. An open honest statement that past & present City governments failed to recognize the oncoming pension shortages, demonstrating gross incompetence or ………???

Now our alleged “public servants” are pushing for issues & taxes that have been previously turned down by the voters. The Board and others are assiduously exerting effort to resuscitate the moribund Civic Center & the “prepared food tax”, and no doubt increase their bloated administrative numbers.

I have written rather extensively on at least 2 occasions that the only means to subdue this tax eating piranha is to implement Zero Budgetry immediately.

If you do not understand the mechanisms involved in implementing the accounting measure of Zero Budgetry log on to the website arkansasfreedom.net and search the term.

One of the finer points of Zero Budgetry is that it demands each government department head indelibly justifies & anticipates every expense of his or her department each and every year for their upcoming budget. Some departments could actually show profits. A loose governmental budgeting process is the formula that allows government to make tax pincushions out of citizens…raising taxes. Zero Budgetry is a must.

Examples of non-essential spending: Trails; sharrows; quid pro quo softball complex which could & should generate hundreds of thousands of dollars for taxpayers; a strict bidding process for city equipment; $777,000 for Convention Center; cancel Delta Dental’s bribe of F.S. officials to mass fluoridate pristine drinking water; cut all financial assistance to the stated private enterprise project known as the Marshal’s Museum; terminate downtown Urban Renewal for private property owners; utilize competent negotiators in construction projects, e.g. the recent $2 million cost overrun in the Waterpark; reduce the bloated F.S. city work force by eliminating duplication & non-essentials; discontinue taxpayer subsidized services to illegals and numerous 501c3’s, 501c4’s, & NGO’s like Frontier MPO; The city’s lavish spending on multi-ladder fire trucks, high dollar SUV’s, pickups, flatbeds, etc.

The Fort Smith School district is spending 10’s of millions on programs for illegals that range from infants to able-bodied adults. Gov. Hutchinson, this past week, made another one of his self-serving political statements regarding the newly minted 220,000 Arkansans presently enjoying Obamacare, i.e. the Private Option, compliments of the producing taxpayers. Hutchinson fails to identify these 220,000 as mostly young, unmarried, unemployed males. Notice these faux compassionate souls are most always on the tax teat, i.e. welfare/government check themselves. In Hutchinson’s case he is recipient of at least 6 welfare/taxpayer checks in his mailbox monthly. Remember when he had compassion for illegals when he was the U.S. Drug/Border Czar and “worried about illegals ability to sleep for fear of deportation”, similar to Superintendent Gooden referring to illegals when he said “we’ll take all we can get”. Never mind the cost to our beleaguered middleclass and the destruction of our language, borders and culture.

The principal constitutional functions of the city are fire, police, streets, water, and waste water sewerage control, not entertainment.

It seems the city’s priorities have long gone astray for the benefit of a few.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

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Government slush funds & no accountability

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Fort Smith city government, taxpayer distribution money policy.
November 2, 2015

It appears they have no policy except tax & spend, never a “make do” policy.

Re: City Manager Dingman stating to the TR last week that the Board was not to use this year’s General Fund remaining balance in calculating the new budget. Why? At the very least an obfuscation and lacking in ethics

Therefore: EXACTLY HOW MUCH TAXPAYER MONEY IS LEFT FROM THIS YEAR’S GENERAL FUND, THAT THE MAYOR & CITY BOARD ARE PROPOSING TO LEAVE, UNACCOUNTED FOR (HOW MUCH?) IN THE GENERAL FUND AND NOT TO BE USED AS A START FIGURE IN NEXT YEAR’S BUDGET.

On whose authority did this directive originate –Dingman, the Board, the City Treasurer or the City Attorney, or…..?

This type of misconduct always sets the stage for more taxes. Whatever the amount, $1,000 or millions, it needs to be accounted for in next year’s budget, to the penny & taxpayers made aware of the exact amount of the surplus.

Last week I posed a number of questions related to depositing this year’s budget surplus into the General Fund and what makes this act even more sinister is the horrific debt this government has incurred due to malfeasance, misfeasance, etc. The article can be found at arkansasfreedom.net.

Another matter pertaining to tax dollars—thievery at worst.

The Arkansas General Assembly empowered themselves several years ago with a bank account known as The General Improvement Funds (GIF) which has most recently been shown some interest by the FBI. Wonder what got their attention?

This year the legislature set aside $20 million for Gov. Hutchinson to use as he sees fit, and another $20 million for the General Assembly members to use as they see fit.

More ethical corruption and political thievery. If the legislators policy is to give 35 members of the Senate and the 100 Representatives equal amounts, that would be $150,000 each, but I believe state senators receive considerably more. This is nothing more than a vote buying, power buying, corrupt scheme.

I’m sure Senator Jake Files will come forth and relate to his constituency how he has divvied up his shares over the years he has been in the legislature, as a Rep and a Senator.

What would you bet that Files has dumped in thousands to the so-called “private enterprise” (huge lie) known as Griffin & Sicard’s Marshal Museum and to the financially bloated UAFS? Sooner rather than later, if the MM is completed the taxpayers will inherit it in toto.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

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Government logic = 3 Monkeys

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Byline: CONVENTION CENTER ESTIMATED ECONOMIC IMPACT $40 M

(Times Record…October 28, 2015)

Executive Director Claude Legris begins this exercise in typical government bloviating nonsense.
That followed by arrogant ineptitude by the actions of the Mayor and City Board.

First in glowing terms, Legris says how well the Convention Center is doing financially. Followed by the admission the failed institution is continuing to be subsidized to the tune of $770,000 taxpayer dollars per year.

Now the kicker: our city “leaders” (in this case the Mayor & City Board) want to divert the Convention Center’s allowance of $770,000 per year to the defunct Fire & Police Pension fund (where did the money go?), mostly due to the departed City Manager Ray Gosack & this and other Mayors, City Boards and City Managers.

And now the blockbuster, in typical government thuggery, the City Board & the Mayor to cover-up their ineptitudes want to enact a ½ % Sales Tax to be awarded to, you guessed it, Claude Legris and the rest of the overpaid Convention Center crowd.
Only in government can this kind of mentality not only survive, but reign supreme!

The Ft. Smith City government and the Ft. Smith Public School Superintendent Benny Gooden along with the School Board can only leave you shaking your head and asking what in the hell is going on?

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

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Forced Multiculturalism for Profit

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It must be true. (Reported in today’s Times Record) October 21, 2015

While on his hands & knees Richard Griffin’s new bag man Mitch Minnick speaking to the Fort Smith Mayor & Board of Directors was “begging”….”Please pass the Capital Improvement Plan” worth $1.1 million. Of course, the CIP is HUD.

Minnick continued speaking & claimed the Housing Authority has a mission mandated by the State Constitution to provide housing for those in need.

Tell us Mr. Minnick, in what Article & what Section the Arkansas State Constitution mandates housing for “those in need”? Since the Mayor & City Board did not question Minnick’s Constitutional claim, are they complicit or ignorant?

“The Ft. Smith Housing Authority is in some type of partnership with the city of Fort Smith”. “Some type” of partnership certainly deserves some detailed questioning. The city of Fort Smith has way too much money and in fact if there is a shortage in police/fire pensions, $500 millions in EPA federal demands to rehab the sewer department, $300,000 in fines, etc. it is all due to gross misapplication of funds.

Now the crux of the matter: HUD, (in this case to be enforced by Richard Griffin & his new man Mitch Minnick) recently finalized a rule that will force local communities to build “evenly distributed neighborhoods based on income and race”. Translation: the goal is impregnating predominantly white neighborhoods with minorities, which is HUD’s & their players’ “multicultural, politically correct dream”, i.e. destroy Western Civilization for profit.

In 2012 HUD dispersed about $3.8 billion of these grants to almost 1200 cities. Question: Did the Fort Smith city government take some of the HUD bait? If so, our city government will now need federal approval so they will meet government’s racial guidelines.

The question was asked, “What about local jurisdiction over zoning matters?” HUD’s answer was “Forget about that”.

Another forced takeover of private property rights by the ever corrupt federal government. The above has nothing to do with housing discrimination, which has been illegal since the 1960’s.

Not everyone can afford to live in every community due to high demand for housing in certain areas. Home values are determined by market forces, not racism.

Every evil act by government involves three classes of people sucking up welfare…minorities and deadbeats on the low end, politicians & bureaucrats on the high end. Nothing being done to protect and save the rights of middleclass America who are the foundation of this nation and create 67% of jobs. Yet we continue to allow these avaricious slovenly takers to destroy our freedom and property rights.

Joe McCutchen
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Sellouts by the numbers October 16, 2015

Fort Smith Superintendent of Schools Benny Gooden’s sellouts appear to be complete…at least at this point.

Before the explanation, let it be said that if honorable, legal results are to be obtained, Gooden and his legal/political entanglements may come to haunt him.

First off: His purge of Southside High School’s Southern icons and all things Southern occurring in secrecy and the excommunication of the Rebel mascot was never voted on to this day and the purging of Dixie & Johnny Reb never had a full vote of the Fort Smith School Board.
Gooden’s egregious acts occurred without any notification to “we the people” of Fort Smith, AR.

Gooden’s purge was built on a 4 word phrase “It was my perception”. His explanation is fraught with corruption.

In a supreme show of financial arrogance he now proposes a $300,000-$500,000 expenditure for the Southside Mascot makeover.

The Fort Smith School Board can only be described as a collection of Gooden enablers, with Dr. Deanie Mehl at the helm acting as the second-coming of the despised Yankee carpetbaggers (she is a Yankee) with a full bag of venom. For what reason, who knows?
The phony name change committee under the direction of Gooden came up with the name Maverick. The name being derived from a So. Carolina/Texas slaver.
The name Maverick was probably funneled to Gooden many months ago at the behest of the downtown cabal composed of Richard Griffin & Sammy Sicard, etc. to further their economic downtown activities, in this case, the behemoth known as the proposed Marshal’s Museum.

Griffin & Sicard, when introducing the proposed MM stated that it would be a “private endeavor”, i.e. funded by private investors…they lied. Millions of taxpayer dollars have been channeled into this endeavor through the actions of corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, New Market Tax Credits, Grants, cash disbursements from the county, the city, the state, and another corrupt entity, the federal government.
They will now market the MM by using the Southside mascot and logo in pursuing their economic and political interests.

October 15, 2015 a news story appeared in the Times Record that demonstrated the political muscle maneuvering & deception that the Central Business District uses to accomplish their goals by utilizing their influence to prevent a citizen from putting a car dealership in one of the abandoned buildings (why?) that Griffin & Sicard label “Lower Towson Ave.” Obviously the term “Lower Towson Ave” is a takeoff on Charleston, SC use of the phrase “Low Country”. (Oops, something Southern again)

Towson Ave has obviously become the new hallowed ground for Griffin & Sicard and the question becomes how much of the property do the two control between Garrison and Sparks Hospital?

Historically, Confederate battles were fought in this area (Backbone Mountain–Greenwood, Massard, Prairie Grove, Pea Ridge, etc.) and region no matter how hard they try to revise it. And it was Southern culture/civilization which transformed a wild town on the edge of the “Badlands” into a center for rule of law and justice.

Honest promoters would have used this unique combination to enhance and entice. True Grit and Southern manners, culture & heritage melded into a rare commodity. Instead, politically correct, myopic “leaders” try to eradicate the South and then destroy the Western part with obscene murals on historical buildings downtown.

All those involved in these despicable actions are to be vilified, certainly not congratulated or admired.

Gooden, Griffin, & Sicard are using a public institution, Southside High School, if the mascot name Maverick prevails, must surely have some legal ramifications. Is there no limit to their greed? After all, it is not their own money being spent; it belongs to “we the people”.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

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The Civilized World is Drowning in Pathological Altruism via P.C.

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Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, GOP Chairman Doyle Webb, and the Holly See.
September 26, 2015
What evoked some of this piece was the response of Gov. Hutchinson & Doyle Webb pertaining to four low level Democrat politicians defecting to the Republican party, at which time Hutchinson and Webb proclaimed it was because of Republican “values, conservatism & small government”. I am sure the Democrat switch had nothing to do with vote buying, just a change in political philosophy, don’t you think?

Republicans believe their political souls have been cleansed by emoting the bunkum that the Republican Party is the party of “conservatism, values & small government”. When Hutchinson & others state the Republican Party holds conservatism & values in high esteem…the question becomes and has been asked for years—what are those values and produce any evidence that Republican political actions have been conservative & constitutional since 1861…name one.

The past legislative session (Hutchinson’s first year as Governor) Hutchinson and the General Assembly created under the guise of the Private Option (Obamacare) 300,000 new Arkansas welfare addicts. More theft by big government, Hutchinson & the Arkansas General Assembly.

The state Republicans have brazenly bragged that 72% of the public schools pupils are receiving free food, free healthcare, English as second language, free pre-natal for illegals, and the list goes on & on. How disgusting. Growing government. The majority of the costs are paid by the vanishing breed—middleclass Arkansans. Hutchinson is part & parcel of another welfare class, which includes politicians & government employees. Hutchinson hauls in at least 6 taxpayer subsidized checks monthly from the various government agencies he has been a part of, accompanied by no successes on behalf of “we the people”.

The Republican Party, the war Party of Lincoln, under orders of former President G.W. Bush (international war criminal) initiated an ongoing 14 year reign of terror, orchestrated & fought under the aegis of “the war on terrorism”. Bush is recognized by many as an international war criminal. These wars (“to keep us safe”) against mideastern countries who were no threat to the U.S. and most were thriving. The U.S. now is at war with 7 countries in the Mideast which have been demolished, recently overthrew a democratically elected government in Ukraine & presently laboring to overthrow the Assad government in Syria, a safe haven for Christians, who by the way is battling against ISIS.

Aside from a million or so deaths & tens of thousands of casualties on both sides, what has the corrupt American government achieved besides implementing the Wolfowitz doctrine? (“We shall have no rivals in the quest for global hegemony”) The U.S. is about to be invaded by millions of so-called refugees from around the globe. The Republican dominated House & Senate, now & before has refused to secure our borders, deport, and send out a mandate we will not accept one of these malcontents, not one. Due to the actions of Criminal Bush, Western Civilization is about to be massively challenged by unchecked invasions and the politicians and pseudo-religionists—“we must accommodate in the name of Altruism”.

The EU and the U.S. are now the recipients of another major invasion, this time by Muslims & other recently created sects that is designed to wipe out Western Civilization, i.e. whites, by 3rd & 4th world savages. Again, no accident.

Western Civilization and our American heritage in on the cusp of being destroyed—on purpose! It was whites that settled Europe and the U.S. , and whites that have sustained them both while achieving living standards, scientific accomplishments beyond our wildest dreams, and now being savaged by a plethora of 3rd world invaders using PC to bring our advancements to a standstill. None of these wonderful accomplishments were created by blacks, Hispanics, Orientals, Arabs, etc. So why are presidents & ruling legislative bodies allowing our republic to be overrun by massive 3rd world invasions and more to come, destroying the civilization that whites have created and no empirical evidence that those accomplishments can be sustained or improved upon by 3rd world nesters?

These men & women, who we the people have elected are treasonous traitors and if we, the white Founding stock and others do not wake up quickly to the destructive attacks being waged against us the Republic that the Founders envisioned will no longer survive. The U.S. & state electives & appointees run self-serving bunko squads which are nothing more than self-serving protection rackets.

An example regarding corrupt politicians: In the case of senior Arkansas Senator John Boozman, the Senator is aroused only when the RNC establishment needs a vote to take away another American freedom. When sleepy John casts another vote against the middleclass he is free to go back to sleep, need proof? Here are some of his votes that scuttle the First, Fourth & Tenth Amendments to the Bill of Rights. Voted twice for the Patriot Acts, for the Military Commission Act, to nullify Habeas Corpus & Posse Comitatus, National Defense Authorization Act, the Radicalization of Homegrown Terrorist Act…in addition to the above takeaways, these acts allow for torture, sniping, murder of Americans & others on orders of the President, droning, and on & on. Sleepy John is just a symptom of the cancers that have seized this once vaunted nation.

If you are one of the many who continue to believe that, for example local government officials work for local citizen interests; you should join the Sleepy John crowd. For example, Ft. Smith Chief of Police Kevin Lindsey, F.S. School Superintendent Benny Gooden, County Judge David Hudson, Sheriff Bill Hollinbeck, et al labor totally by & for the edicts laid down by the DC establishment and international bodies…all these entities have union affiliations at multiple levels. The FS Police Dept. belongs to two international organizations that develop the protocols that city police departments must abide by and we the people pay to undergird our own destruction. THEY ALL BELIEVE WE ARE THEIR SUBJECTS.

Government is the enemy of the middleclass and the middleclass is the enemy of government, e.g. the Superintendent, the Sheriff, & Chief of Police.

Enter the Holy See, unfortunately.

This man, the Holy See, has the audacity to contemptuously come before the U.S. Congress and demand more mass legal & illegal immigration into the United States, a practice in which the Catholic Church has been involved in for decades in violation of U.S. laws. Actually, the Catholic Establishment is an enemy of the state.

Here’s why: U.S. citizens have long subsidized in its totality the so-called Catholic Charities. The funds they extract from U.S. governments (taxpayers) is injected into their programs which help create Sanctuary Cities across the U.S. that flaunt U.S. laws (8 USC), while increasing the illegal population that has ballooned into an admitted 25-35 millions.

The cost of maintaining these outlaws over time has reached Trillions of dollars, all the while the DC establishments refuse to seal our borders, deport the invaders, & protect our sovereignty. Democrats for voters, Republicans for cheap labor…both corrupt to the core.

Arkansas Bishop Anthony Taylor openly advocates violating US law pertaining to mass illegal immigration and admits he needs illegals so the Catholic Church will survive in Arkansas. It’s IN YOUR FACE, American citizens of Arkansas.

My admonition to the Holy See…as President Reagan once said…”tear down those walls!” In this case, the Vatican City Walls and invite all those Syrian and other so-called refugees created by the U.S & NATO preemptive wars to bed down there, and when that is accomplished, give Col. Stephen M. Marks, Commander of the U.S. Army Garrison Italy a call & demand he send a contingent of U.S. Army trucks to transport all the ill-gotten Catholic wealth residing in the Vatican– gold, silver, & art treasures to other locations for international redistribution—then he will be a man of his word, and only then. Let him practice what he piously preaches.

Governor Hutchinson, acting as national Border Czar, was so concerned about Mexican illegals who couldn’t sleep at night for fearing they would be caught by ICE. Illegal Mexican & OTM’s came out of the shadows and made & are making outrageous social & economic demands that our cowardly government awards them.

Now is the time for white American citizens to come out of the shadows and do whatever is constitutionally necessary to take back our republic from the corrupt political scoundrels at all levels & the invaders that have all but destroyed our culture and sovereignty.

We teeter on the precipice.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

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With No Accountability, There is No Hope!

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“City Studies Revenue Sources” Headline Times Record, September 23, 2015

There is a solution to “shortfalls”, but not with this City Board of Directors running things, they are equally as incompetent as is the Fort Smith School Board.

So where did the money go, and Gosack/Bushkul? More than ample funds have always been readily available for legitimate & crucial spending purposes, such as streets, sewers, pension funds, etc.

The Board must immediately lay out in dollar terms just what the yearly costs are for funding the police/fire pensions, how much the city is in the arrears pertaining to said pensions and what the approximate dollar amounts will accrue in the next 20 years.

The Board’s solution, as with all government operations, is for more and more new tax burdens to be saddled on city residents instead of dealing with problems created by this & past administrations
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Here is a recent example of the gross incompetence and/or stupidity of the Arkansas State & Ft. Smith city governments. During the month of August, 2015 there were created in Arkansas 2,885 new jobs, 1,885 of the new jobs were government jobs. This is exactly what citizens have come to expect from corrupt governments. For those who are victims of the Benny Gooden School of logic, that’s approximately 2 government jobs “created” for every one job created in the private sector. Who pays? This exemplifies all government entities.

The obvious immediate first step is to take an economic machete to pensions and all other 30+ city departments—every one of them.
It is printed daily in the Times Record that the Directors are having “study” sessions dealing with the shortages in Fort City government, e.g. a $500 million EPA mandate, a $300,000 fine, $770,000 yearly bankrupt Convention Center, $250,000 yearly vulgar giveaway to the Mayor, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, dropped into projected Marshall’s Museum, Homeless Campuses, bikeways, non-profits, ad infinitum. Notice while millions in “shortfalls” are being decried, there are countless new projects being proposed; Trails, Sharrows, Wayfinding Signs, et al.

Government budgets have 3 basic purposes: to mollify the sheeple, to separate citizens from their property, and to raise taxes. With that said budgets are mind games, meant to bring in additional revenue.

Politicians and bureaucrats are big on words & phrases used to lure non-thinking citizens into government economic tax traps, e.g. “choose to publish”, “generally accepting”, & “so on”. Using some of Gooden’s recent phrases pertaining to his $4.2 million budget INCREASE for next year in addition to his $150 million budget…he describes as “unremarkability”, “ordinary”, “public good”, and always “it’s for the children”.

THERE IS A SOLUTION to government pillaging of we the people’s private property, it is called ZERO BASED BUDGETRY”.

ZERO BASED BUDGETRY…means every government department, e.g. fire, police, streets, parks, libraries, sheriff, county judge, et al. DOES NOT BEGIN WITH A BUDGET WITH BUILT-IN INCREASES YEAR AFTER YEAR, IT MEANS EVERY SINGLE EXPENSE HAS TO BE ANTICIPATED AND ACCOUNTED FOR THAT YEAR AND THAT EACH SUCCEEDING YEAR BEGINS WITH REDUCING THE OUT-GO. WITH COMPETENT MANAGEMENT THERE ARE SOME DEPARTMENTS THAT COULD ACTUALLY INCREASE REVENUE. (SOME DEPARTMENTS ARE CERTAINLY NOT NECESSARY WITH DUPLICATION OF DUTIES & PERSONNEL & SOME CALLED ASSISTANT, DEPUTY, & VICE MUST GO.) Every official asking for increased taxes should be recalled.
The Fort Smith city government is in the process of laying more unbearable tax burdens on city residents. Something is desperately wrong inside this behemoth. It is either corrupt to the core, incompetent or any number of other unsavory possibilities.

Unfortunately F.S. City Mayor and Board of Directors do not have the political will or courage to open up the city financial cancer for public review and corrective action

As long as citizens remain politically disengaged the condition will exacerbate.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

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The more the revisionists attack the South, the more truth is seeping out.

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September 13, 2015
February 1, 1861 Texas was the 7th state in the Confederacy to secede by a vote 166-8. Was the vote for slavery or independence?…do the research.

Were you ever apprised of the fact in your public school experiences that a black man was the largest slave owner in South Carolina during the period of 1858 to 1865 with over 200 slaves? He was only one of many black slave owners. Are Gooden & the Fort Smith teaching community aware of these facts or are they members of 154 year old Lincoln cover-up—neither position is acceptable.

Just to cite two little known historical facts.

Superintendent Gooden, in a veiled threat admonished teachers to vote for the two incumbents running for reelection for positions on the Fort Smith School Board.

One can only conclude that Gooden feels very comfortable that these two and the rest of the sycophants on the Board will continue to carry out his jaded agenda, and maybe more than jaded.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

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Liberty Snuffed

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September 12, 2015
The dictionary defines Dictatorship as a “form of government where political authority is monopolized by a person or political entity, and exercised through various mechanisms to ensure the entities power remains strong. A dictatorship is a type of authoritarianism, in which politicians regulate nearly every aspect of the public and private behavior of normal people. Dictatorships and totalitarianism generally employ political propaganda to decrease the influence of proponents of alternative governing systems, as is the nature of nationalism of any governing system.”

Sound familiar? It should, because that is indeed what we have here in the cities, counties, states & federal government of the USA. Examples? Must pay for government licenses/fees/taxes to drive a car, to “own” a car or a house, to possess firearms, to use your property, to subsidize public schools (even though you have no child in school), whether or not you can utilize rain water, dictates deadly “smart meters” & fluoride, how much water in your toilet, what kind of light bulb you may use, wearing of seat belts, forced subsidizing of illegal aliens… the dictates are much too long to list, but you get the picture. Liberty snuffed.

The point is simply this, the government and most influential institutions are run by Cultural Marxists of varying degrees (whether they acknowledge it or not) who are choking the life out of any semblance of rugged individualism, merit, honor, self-reliance, hard work, truth, facts, courage, etc. because those are values held by Western Civilizations which are an anathema to Collectivism. Collectivism in all its forms (Fascism, Socialism, Communism/Marxism) relies on dependence, despises merit, worships egalitarianism, idolizes central government (Santa Claus with a machine gun) that robs the makers to give to the takers (politicians, bureaucrats, deadbeats, etc.), appeals to those seeking unearned rewards, rules through fear of force (weaponry & the “justice” system) and thereby controls every aspect of individual citizens lives.

“IT” utilizes many methods to attain its goals…the Cultural Marxists invented the most reliable, diabolical, successful philosophical method of all—much better than rifle barrels—infiltration of all important institutions with what they called “Critical Theory/Political Correctness” which simply means to vilify, criticize, demean all unwanted Western virtues through the inventions of Sexism, Feminism, Racism, Ageism, affirmative action, quotas, “hate” speech, pitting faction against faction, race against race, ad infinitum… all meant to break down every aspect of Western Civilization…attack, attack, attack.

The recent rampages, looting, and savage behavior are a direct result of the use of racism accusations against whites meant to enrage ignorant, exploited blacks. The lack of real justice only serves to fuel the fires of racial divide and violence.

Normal hard working, taxpaying citizens are being flushed down the toilet of Totalitarianism. They are not consulted by their “public servants” about decisions affecting their everyday lives and pocket books. They are treated as peons, used & abused…and there is no recourse because of the circle the wagons protection racket in which the “leaders” have refuge…no one in government will hold any of their “own” accountable or punishable. Observe objectively your own community, state, nation.

Turn out the lights, the party is indeed over.

~Barbara McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

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The Socialist Establishment VS. We the People

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September 11, 2015
The Fort Smith, Arkansas School Board election, upcoming Tuesday 9/15/15 will be revealing in any number of instances.

It is my opinion this election will serve as a microcosm of the whole of the United State with reference to knowledge, the quality of public education, transparency, and the money spent absent accountability and liquidity.

It will reveal if F. S. citizens put ethics, morality, transparency, truth above self-service, expediency, suppression of new ideas, inside trading coupled to fear and force.

Simply put, will the vote come down to those with arms besides their hips or those with arms extended with palms up, i.e. the producers vs. the takers?

Another thought: why did Superintendent Gooden send out emails, along with other members of the establishment, blatantly telling school teachers to vote for the two incumbents who have been willing participants in subverting public knowledge, speaking untruths, and refusing to conduct themselves along with the rest of the Board according to Robert’s Rules of Order? Intimidation?

Question: The State Board of Education endorsed recommendations for improving education (how so?) by increasing pay for teachers & administrators, making breakfast part of the school day, making summer meals available, and increasing funding for after-school & summer programs. The more that’s done “for the children” the more irresponsible & dependent parents become. Who pays?—the citizens with their arms hanging down.

This is a government hoax having nothing to do with education which was long ago raped/revised, while increasing government control over our kids with conditioning & indoctrination in all the principles of Socialism & destruction of our natural individual rights.

Have you ever spent a few minutes in deliberation regarding another question, how long will it be before government goons are in the delivery room seizing your infants to institute their immediate corruption/mind control?

The election Tuesday will graphically demonstrate the mindset of F.S. residents, are they savvy or are they stupid? We shall soon see.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net