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More on the Mallalieu Grasshopper

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It’s a time for genuine thought.                        August 23, 2011

Directors re: the Mallalieu church and the Center for Excellence…can we take a deep breath and have a sensible, logical discussion?  This church involvement has been going on for a decade plus…what is your hurry now?

Questions:
1.    How did the city obtain the Mallalieu church?
2.    Was money exchanged?
3.    If so, how much and where did it go?
4.    Was there a CDBG grant?  If so, how much?
5.    Were there other parcels of land bought and/or sold adjacent to the church?
6.    From fragmented information it appears the city, that’s us, will spend over ½ million to deconstruct the church, accompanied by clean-up efforts…is this correct?
7.    Does the city leadership plan to give the Mallalieu real estate to Chancellor Beran & UAFS?
8.    If so, what is the legal precedent that enables the city to give away taxpayer land to another government entity?
9.    You’ve said that Chancellor Beran and his enablers are planning to build a school complex on the Mallalieu real estate.  By what authority?

Schools, regardless of their intentions, must be approved, in this case, by the Arkansas legislature and the State Board of Education.  What is their position regarding this proposed school?

Are the public school teachers offended by Beran’s arrogance and secret involvements regarding his vision of Academic Excellence?  Who are Beran’s enablers and what is the real reason for this proposed endeavor?

Nowhere are there finite details as to where specifically the funding will come from to create this project and certainly no specifics regarding the cost to develop and to maintain.  Ultimately we citizens will be the end source of funding if we allow Beran’s self-serving motives to reach fruition.  Make no mistake, this proposed project is huge and very costly.

Speaking of funding, note in todays Times Record, that the budget for the coming year for the operation of the Fort Smith school system is $165.66 million.  Do you not think this is more than enough to levy taxpayers for education in Fort Smith, even though in some quarters it could be described as a failed process?

As was explained in an earlier piece, entrepreneurship is an inherited pre-disposition; likewise mental acuity.   An individual who is lucky enough to have been born with a keen mind will in most cases rise from the ashes of childhood—be it poverty, broken homes, etc.  In most circumstances, you cannot hide the light of intelligence.

Beran is a fundraiser/politician, nothing more, nothing less.  Certainly not an academic.  There appears to be no regard for our present failing economic circumstances.

Again, Directors, it would be in everyone’s best interest if a civil discourse was initiated regarding the proposed Mallalieu endeavor, not only for yourselves but your constituents.

Joe McCutchen

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More Takers taking from the Makers

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To the Fort Smith City Mayor & the City Directors:                August 14, 2011

The city of Fort Smith, Arkansas—a puny 10 yr. 6% growth rate, a C-/D+ on its Economic Report Card, involved in any number of non-governmental pursuits stifling the taxpayers and the city itself, e.g. Food Tax issue, the Marshall’s Museum, West End, Ben Geren Park additions, Convention Center, and in all likelihood any number of downtown involvements.  All of this coupled to the incremental shuttering of what was once the shining flagship of Fort Smith—Whirlpool, Inc.

Enter the pseudo academic expansionist Chancellor Paul Beran of the Univ. of Ark. Fort Smith with another very expensive cockeyed “vision”.  Reference the “Mallalieu Center for Academic Excellence” described as a “Church of Reason serving the intellectual leaders of the next generation”, so says Beran.  Could Chancellor Beran define for us…what is a church of reason & who are the intellectual leaders of the next generation?  Are we to believe that will be the case when his project’s partakers are the “at risk” dropouts, illegals, ne’er do wells, incorrigibles? Beran’s initial “vision” inculcates a plaza and a library to begin with.  Initially the city, that’s us, will spend $300,000 for the church demolition which will result in the creation of a ninth street façade.  Ultimately “The vision” if allowed to come to fruition, would create another notorious private/public partnership—which is more government expansion with the government as the CEO.

The question now, in view of the city’s miserable Economic Report Card, puny growth rate, the tepid state of the economy, why in heaven’s name would the mayor and Directors even consider such an outlandish scheme?

It is not in the purview of city government to restore decaying churches, that is for the church’s congregation and/or whoever has an interest in said structure.  This again is another example of a bureaucrat, in this case Chancellor Paul Beran, to run economically roughshod over taxpaying citizens.  The UAFS is overfunded and Beran has plenty of work to do to create UAFS as a Center of Academic Excellence.  Regarding his numerous state, national & global travelling, it would be appropriate for him to land and closely examine the spending habits of UAFS, e.g. small example, advertising UAFS on electronic billboards within the city & primetime spots on television.

Another case of the Takers planning to take more from the Makers.
                                    August 15, 2011
Denouement:  
The Fort Smith city government can beneficently be described as incompetent and inept. Today’s Times Record reports that Marshal’s Museum Director Jim Dunn is back at the trough for another 100K.   For What?   Another “pie in the sky vision” the museum was billed as a PRIVATE undertaking.  At this point it appears the only cash for this project has come from the taxpayers.  Recall that in early 2010 Richard Griffin, Ken Pyle, Jim Dunn & other mischief makers went to Miami to sack up something called “New Market Tax Credits”…a taxpayer subsidized government program being roundly abused. Is this what Griffin is using to subsidize his new Garrison Ave. liquor store?

What was Dunn’s reason for accompanying Griffin to Miami?  Who paid for his trip? 

The F.S. city government has no business plan and these two items listed in this piece make the leaders of this city sound as if they auditioned for Circus, Circus.

What in the world is going on inside the city government?  Please, get back to the proper role of government and get these Takers off our backs.

Joe McCutchen
www.fortsmithtruth.com  
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Forced Fluoridation

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Delta Dental—the Arkansas Dental Association (ADA)—Arkansas Medicaid—and follow the money.
 August 3, 2011

The Arkansas legislator/legislators that introduced and passed Act 197 which requires selective cities in the state to fluoridate their water exceeded their authority and violated the Constitution and their Oaths of Office, along with explaining why they felt fluoride was needed in drinking water and in this case Lake Fort Smith which now is undoubtedly the finest drinking water in the state, this is subject to change if fluoride is dumped into the lake.   The legislator or legislators had no regard for the citizens by the fact they are forced to self-medicate by drinking water that contains by-products from industrial waste.

  The arrogance of the Arkansas state legislature which takes away individual responsibility to determine what medication citizens take.  This is a micro-Obamacare.

Who or what ordered them to make such a law and what did the legislator/legislators get in return for their corrupt actions?  Let them come forward and defend themselves.

Let’s examine some motives that Delta Dental & the ADA have for pushing such a heinous bill.  Delta Dental is a dental insurance company whose involvement is to allegedly fund start up procedures to fluoridate city waters. The question here becomes somewhat murky. Do they have contracts with the Arkansas Department of Human Services that pay Medicaid claims and/or do they insure productive citizens?  It becomes patently obvious that by mass fluoridation reducing the number of dental caries in their clients increases their bottom line substantially.  The ADA is being overrun by welfare recipients (Arkids 1 & 2, Medicaid, & WIC recipients) who reduce the dentist’s bottom line.
Fluoridation of water is nothing more than an economic maneuver to produce more revenue for Delta Dental and dentists in Arkansas with taxpayers ultimately having to pay for the monthly salting of our waters with toxic fluoride, accompanied by increases in water bills and no regard for the vast majority of citizens who have indicated they do not want to be self-medicated by force. It is called freedom of choice.

No regard given to the long-term health issues and citizen concerns by forced ingestion of the poison sodium fluoride, i.e. bone structure, thyroid and brain considerations, to name a few.

Who is the legislator/legislators who unleashed the vile Act 197 and are the Board of Directors blithely going to continue to pursue the unconstitutional and immoral tragedy?  Don’t these power brokers even care about their own and their family’s health?

Joe McCutchen
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Globalism on the local level=big bucks for some

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Please read & think—your individual freedoms & property rights are at stake                July 24, 2011

Government—government—and more government, all made possible by practitioners of opportunism. Why isn’t private enterprise flourishing as opposed to the metastasizing government at all levels which creates nothing but debt and destruction? Look no further than Fort Smith.

New Market Tax Credits—the rich take from the poor.

Is there a relationship between the United Nations’ Agenda 21/Sustainable Development and its bevy of bastard babies and their relationships to Sebastian County and the Fort Smith city government and their relationship to private developers and their relationship with the New Market Tax Credits?
The U.N. Agenda 21 has given rise to Sustainable Development, Smart Growth, Quality of Place, MPO (Metropolitan Planning Organization), ICLEI, Metro 1313, Providence Communities, New Market Tax Credits, New Urbanism, and the list goes on & on. MPO’s are federally established.  Fort Smith is already a participant in any number (?) of the bastard babies.  What citizen rights have been usurped?

U.N. Agenda 21 is generally known in counties across America as Sustainable Development. Sustainable policies are now pursued in every county in the United States.  U.N.  Agenda 21 is the globalist program designed to achieve the step-by-step abolition of private property, to educate for a global citizenship, and to control human actions in toto—transportation, diet, concentrated living quarters (stack & pack ‘em), walking trails, containment of worksites, i.e. the whole of our lives. Included in U.N. Agenda 21 is a written objective to reduce population by 85%–sobering! The question remains, what method or methods will be used to remove populations if Americans continue to slumber? 

Again, every county in America has adopted its own Sustainability programs…citizens, are you aware of this?   How many of these programs have Sebastian County and the city of Fort Smith implemented? What is the price for membership, and why have elected & appointed officials not made the citizens aware, e.g. Judge David Hudson, the Justices of Peace, local legislators, Fort Smith City Manager Ray Gosack & the City Board?  What freedoms have we citizens lost by their participation?  Do the aforementioned know the goals of Agenda 21 in its traitorous endeavors?  If so, they are complicit. If not, they are incompetent.

In addition to the MPO’s its companions are non-elected Councils of Government (COG’s).  Research has shown that MPO’s and COG’s are Soviet-style organizations.  These organizations hold ultimate power and are not elected. Notice the vast number of unelected commissions, task forces, study groups, etc. which as previously noted, are nothing more than self-serving power cabals with no oversight, accompanied by their lobbying efforts.  The Advertising & Promotion Commission is an excellent example.
U.N. Agenda 21 is fully embedded in American government, business, and educational systems, e.g. F.S. public schools & Univ. of Ark. @ Ft. Smith are graphic examples.

Sustainability is defined as the three E’s: Equity—establish a Collectivist society that reduces everyone to a common denominator (Obama and the Democrats); Economics—the international redistribution of America’s wealth (Obama & the Democrats) and converting the free enterprise system to what government calls Public-Private Partnerships (better described as economic Fascism, or Corporatism & government is always the CEO):  Environment—nature comes before man. 

We have seen the first two E’s manifest themselves in America, and the third E is now taking place, orchestrated by the Bureau of Land Management, Forest Rangers, etc.  Example, the San Juan and other mountain ranges surrounding Cortez, CO. have been taken over by the federal government. (Look no further than the Ouachita’s in Arkansas)  Many roads in & out of these mountain ranges have been locked and gated.  It is estimated that 50% of America’s land mass, plus buffer zones will be off-limits to ordinary people and will prevent extraction of resources.

The battlefield for Sustainable Development has become local, implemented by City Directors, County Boards, Water Boards, Fire Boards, School Boards, etc. Note again, that most are non-elected boards and the bastard babies of U.N. Agenda 21 are implemented by proliferating unelected boards which serve as the pilots for America’s destruction.

One of the largest of the bastard babies is an outfit called ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives). Many writings have alluded to the international cancer known as ICLEI.  Over 600 cities or county governments pay dues and have treasonous contracts with this NGO (Non-governmental Organization).  It is extremely important to note here that No. Little Rock Mayor Patrick Hayes is the CEO of this unconstitutional organization…the U.S. Division.

On to the local scene, the Fort Smith Times Record has topically reported on one of the bastard babies known as New Market Tax Credits.
The Act was supposedly not designed for high-end developers and opulent buildings and now goes totally against the intent of the New Markets program. The Act was designed to refurbish impoverished areas, but as all government programs, no matter the good intentions, they are ultimately corrupted.

New Market Tax Credits theoretically dole out federal subsidies to neighborhoods that have a 26% poverty rate.  By today’s standards, many if not most neighborhoods would qualify.  One brief example regarding the abuse of New Market tax credits involved the revered Blackstone Hotel in Chicago (where else but Chicago?).   The Blackstone, through nefarious deals orchestrated by Prudential Financial, Inc. ,  J.P. Morgan Chase, U.S. Bancorp’s, received $116 million renovation subsidies and divvied up between the aforementioned.

Enter the Fort Smith Housing Authority board of directors.  Citizens, did you know that the F.S. Housing Authority (HUD) board of commissioners arrive at political positions that the F.S. city government cannot overturn, another unelected economic cabal.   HUD czar is Richard Griffin.  In early 2010 Griffin, Ken Pyle, Steve Clark of credit card fame abuse, & Norm McLoughlin, a legal & financial consultant, and Jim Dunn (Marshall Museum executive director) attended a seminar in Miami to learn the ins & outs of New Market Tax Credits. 

Regarding the F.S. Marshall’s Museum, Richard Griffin, Commission Chairman, is quoted “if not us, who?” And further expanded his quotation “is it getting out of the box of housing? Yes.  At the end of the day, it’s a grant” (taxpayer money) It must be remembered that the proposed museum was to be endowed by private funding. It’s quite apparent that Griffin and his followers are intent on using HUD money (our money) to attack the private sector.  Today HUD owns 11,049 properties in Fort Smith according to their website, which is breathtaking, and at present HUD is in a pre-foreclosure & foreclosure on 77 properties. More failed & expensive government projects, and just how did they obtain 11,049 properties? Every expansion by HUD, New Market Tax Credits, and the rest of the bastard babies are closing the door on private enterprise and giving the United Nations a leg up.  Griffin’s quote “getting out of the box of housing? Yes.” Is indicative that the HUD board, Griffin, Pyle, etc. anticipate using HUD structure to further compete with private enterprise using citizen taxpayer dollars.

Was Griffin’s admission related to using New Market Tax Credits to fund the Marshall’s Museum and if not why did the museum Executive Director Dunn travel to Miami with Griffin, et al and who paid for Dunn’s trip and the rest of the attendees?  What is the ultimate payoff for each of the Miami participants?
So at the real end of the day, does Griffin plan to follow the Blackstone Hotel abuse example?  He and the F.S. Housing Authority can apply for federal New Market Tax Credits, at which time Griffin can sell the tax credits to investors. Will there be a local banking institution involved in this venture, e.g. First National?
Is Griffin using New Market Tax Credits to fund his impending Garrison Ave. projects– a Quickie, liquor store, service station and the remodeling of the New Theater?

All the above information was compiled & written on or before July 21, 2011.  Some of the following data was published in Friday’s edition (7/22/11) of the Times Record.

 More development and expansion by Griffin/HUD/financiers, all at the expense of middleclass taxpayers, e.g. Agenda 21 to the fore.  Executive Director of the Fort Smith Housing Authority Ken Pyle is quoted as saying “we are really feeling good”. Notice more Agenda 21 from the New Market Tax Credits…a $60 million food processing plant (why?), a regional food bank (why?), a social services campus for the Homeless (why?). This is a working example of Collectivism.  It is another example of an extension of Agenda 21 and its bastard babies, expanding government, enriching insiders, attacking free enterprise, and controlling citizens.  Not one question by Times Record reporter Ben Boulden regarding the why & who of this explosive revelation, particularly the $60 million food processing plant. The audacity of Pyle hustling for a “social services” campus.  In reality only 4% of citizens cannot fend for themselves. Their every need is already taken care of. The remaining 96% on the dole are deadbeats and so choose to be. Pyle apparently thinks using the word “campus” cleans up the sordid mess & stench to make it palatable to citizens.  Pyle and other “concerned” citizens can fund it and leave the beleaguered Makers (private sector taxpayers) alone and by the way, where are the churches in this production…not just an occasional grocery hand-out?

New Market Tax Credits=Takers take from the Makers.
Of extreme interest to all freedom loving citizens was an article titled “Housing Authority Collects Redevelopment Funds”.  Note the vulgar amount of money collected by the Fort Smith Housing Authority–$235 million in investment commitments. Remember, this commitment comes directly under the aegis of the New Market Tax Credits.  Further, as shown in the earlier part of this piece big time financial institutions have joined in the taxpayer subsidized economic scam; JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Keegan, US Bancorps… these bailed out by the Obama “stimulus” package, followed by Stephens, Inc., locally First National Bank of Fort Smith (no surprise here), Bank of the Ozarks, Arvest, and possibly others.  It should be noted that the CEO of JP Morgan Chase is a board member of the NY Federal Reserve & JP Morgan Chase received $67 billion of Obama’s stimulus loot and here we find Morgan Chase stealing more taxpayer largesse, compliments of the New Market Tax Credits.

The first part of this piece alluded to the opulent spending on the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago and here again, JP Morgan Chase, US Bancorps divvied up $116 million in renovation subsidies.
New Market Tax Credits operating on the backs of middleclass Americans and further edging toward bankrupting America by subsidizing land, building owners, raw land development, contractors, all with huge tax write-offs, compliments of the U.S. Treasury & the IRS…all by design.

We are witnessing the resurrection of Urban Renewal 2000 style— government theft on a grander scale, coupled with the usual scurrilous opportunists.

Historians declare that America’s Declaration of Independence is man’s greatest achievement.  This achievement is now being buried under the United Nations Agenda 21’s global attack.  
Let this be firmly ensconced in your brain: every time a politician or bureaucrat creates a commission, study group, task force, retreat, etc. be aware you are about to lose more of your hard earned money and freedom.

It’s all about global citizenship, the death of sovereignty…and it is here. Agenda 21 is in our town, Fort Smith, Arkansas.  Are the “leaders” sell-outs or just plain ignorant?

Joe McCutchen

www.fortsmithtruth.com
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Spare us your EXPENSIVE “Visions” !

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Another Vision, accompanied by no logic, compliments of Madam Times Record Editor and Madam City Director                    July 17, 2011

Madam Editor, regarding your observations, you state we are in three “armed hostilities” (commonly known as Wars).  Madam Editor not 3 wars but SIX wars soon to be SEVEN, orchestrated by the fools we have sent & continue to send to D.C.  The last undeclared war—Libya, unilaterally implemented by the Marxist-Communist President Barack Hussein Obama in violation of the U.S. Constitution & the War Powers Act.   Remember his words in March?  Obama calls this a “humanitarian” effort while missiles rain down on innocent, helpless Libyan citizens and he stated this will last days, not weeks.   Perhaps Obama has forgotten how to count?  16 weeks later……

Madam Editor, you speak of venom being directed against Board members and their families…be specific.  Citizens questioning officials is not venom, but it is frustration from no answers.  After all, it is their money being squandered!

Madam Editor, you failed to note that a ½ % sales tax would have generated more than enough revenue to satisfy the needs of the Convention Center, so what’s with the other ½ ?  Voila, another “vision”…visions of sugar-plum fairies danced in their heads… C.C. manager Claude Legris had a “vision” called the “Opportunity Fund” to run festivals, etc., & continue to subsidize the embryonic Marshall’s Museum, which was billed as a private endeavor—enter New Market Tax Credits.  What is needed in this city is transparency and honesty.  Note the ridiculous cost of political “visions”!

Please tell us Madam Director Weber if the Advertising & Promotion Commission is not a government entity run by an unelected commission with no accountability?  So why did you suggest the A & P should be the ones in charge of the Convention Center? Recent legislation rewarded Legris & the Commission special tax advantages in running the C. C.
Madam Editor, you posed the question “will we build a community of mutual respect, or will we tear down what we’ve accomplished in lonely fear”….and what the hell is lonely fear?  Attempts to demonize questioning citizens are what are fearful & alarming.  Are you advocating there be no questions asked and at this juncture there have been no answers to any of the legitimate questions posed to the Board of Directors and absolutely no transparency?

 The Board of Directors has refused to address any number of questions dating back to former city manager Harding who was alleged to have been involved in any number of irregularities, i.e. drug treatment, alcoholism, car wrecks, etc. (by the way, who paid? ), leading up to the present, e.g. the mayor receiving $20,000 per month to be spent at his discretion, which is absolutely absurd & thievery; the inordinate growth of the police department & their AR 15 weaponry, SUV’s (why is this? ); the command post at the old N.G. armory; show of police force in Board meetings, uncashed water utility checks, etc. etc. Back in the day there was the inside trading Lee Creek fiasco.

Since the forced retirement of Jack Moseley there has not been one iota of investigative reporting done by this newspaper. An occasional softball editorial.  Did Warren put the handcuffs on you folks? 

Madam Editor, you list any number of critical problems that our country, state & cities are burdened with & yet have the grand audacity to demand more tax obligations while laying yet another financial load on business owners. You concluded “the people in NW Arkansas are willing to pay their bills”.  Madam Editor seems to be saying…shut up, pay the bills, & government will tell what is good for you”. Spending others’ money is easiest job in the world.

 Please, no more Visions!  Citizens are looking for logic and accountability.

Joe & Barbara McCutchen   
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More Collectivist Visions

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More faux Visions from government Visionaries            July 1, 2011

Much like the debilitated Civic Center, UAFS Chancellor Paul Beran and cronies are now in the business dedicated to breathe new life into the failed “Entrepreneurship Center”.

The story appeared in the Times Record, Thursday June 30, 2011, accompanied by the normal amount of bureaucratic jargon, e.g. Beran has “hopes of creating synergy with other outreach offices”.  Beran went on to say “people with good ideas but no college education are uncomfortable going to campus for help” ….more about this statement in a sec.    Beran asked his cronies to focus on 3 primary questions:

1.    What is community looking for from the I.E.C.?   No definition of I.E.C. but it is the Entrepreneur Center. None.
2-3.  What kind of support is there in the community for the IEC and what do you want from the IEC? None.

It turns out that the Blue Ribbon Commission on Entrepreneurs is Craig Rivaldo, president of a local Arvest Bank; Jim Partridge, president of a Bancorp South & Chairman of the F.S. Regional Chamber of Commerce (the outfit that champions open borders & cheap illegal alien labor).   Followed by Ivey Owen, Director of Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority, Ray Gosack, City Administrator and of course, Beran.

This embryonic program is all about expansion (UAFS), funding, and government indoctrination.   None of Beran’s cronies, nor himself, have ever created nor sustained a job…they are all Takers, not Makers (entrepreneurs)
Government does not and cannot create entrepreneurs.   Entrepreneurs are born with the innate belief that they will own a business or businesses and it begins at a very early age.  Entrepreneurs are willing to cast their lot on their own ambitions—no “angel fund”, they are bankrolled by a persistent toughness, desire, no course deviation, and the excitement coupled with their gambling spirit.  If the aforementioned bureaucrats had these qualities they would not be working for or influenced by government. Government’s goal is to impart a doctrinaire socialist manifesto, i.e. “Public-Private-Partnerships”.

On the flip side, what kinds of individuals seek bureaucratic-type advice on starting or maintaining a business?  Those looking for a free handout…those looking for something for nothing…unearned largesse. Entreprenuers are Makers, not Takers.  Why would a rational person based in fairness want to take money forced from producers? The Moochers, socialists, collectivists, opportunists, those seeking unearned respect and/or largesse are happy to Take it.

True entrepreneurs will make their own way, and the taxpayer carrot of subsidizing them will not play. Do you know of any government success stories?…of course not.

Joe & Barbara McCutchen

P.S. Isn’t Beran the same guy who wants to get funding for the old Mallalieu Church to form an academy for “at risk” students?  Back in the day, “at risk” meant town toughs, thugs, slugs, ne’er-do-wells, and now, illegal alien gang-bangers.  Today, only the description has changed.

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Government has no shame, or limits it would seem

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Government has no shame, or limits it would seem

More extravagance by the Takers                                                             June 13, 2011

Government at any level has no shame.   Two examples:

The United States Postal Service last fiscal year ran a deficit of $7.5 billion. One of the many sordid instances of government arrogance and waste is not only the fact they advertise in all numbers of sporting events and a vast array of other types while they’re forced to hire Fed Ex, UPS and any number of transportation services to distribute the mail.  Why should any government agency advertise?  If a government service cannot meet the demand of the public without advertising they should be shut down forthwith and allow private enterprise to fill the gap.   

The Postal Service’s recent conduct demands an investigation into the fact they are economically subsidizing the “London (England) Festival Symphony”.

Locally, consider the University of Arkansas Fort Smith and another example of elitist foolishness.

The UAFS is advertising on city traditional and electronic billboards.  A rational thought that any potential student for a university experience residing in the city of Fort Smith would be intelligent enough to know the school exists.   If not, one must conclude that the potential student is stupid and Chancellor Paul Beran and his administration have obviously given no objective thought to this expensive silly waste.  Other forms of advertising include bus station benches, magazines, broadcast media, etc.

The UAFS is engaged in a host of Taking stupidly dispensed forced-redistribution taken from the Makers.  Chancellor Beran has compiled a very impressive list of foolish spending, none of which the Makers were or are aware of.  An inspection of the Chancellor’s travelogue includes numerous trips to the Orient, and a plethora of other international and interstate trips.  Now the trip to Belize.

Our Republic in the throes of a national depression, yes depression, the victim of massive unemployment, some food shortages, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, etc. etc.  Chancellor Beran sends a number of student nurse practitioners to Belize for whatever the reason—more Taking.  Wonder what the cost of that sortie will be? While folks in Clarksville, Joplin, ad infinitum are desperate for medical and related help.  With all this in mind, Beran sends these young students off to Belize on an expensive busman’s holiday.

The likes of Beran, accompanied by other bureaucrats and politicians, have bankrupted our former preeminent Republic as the size of government increases.

Are citizen Makers witnessing the second coming of slavery without firing a shot?  Are you aware that 47% of U.S. citizens pay no income tax?  Government (Takers) is a parasite which subsists on the blood-money of the Makers.

Oh yes, Gov. Beebe sees fit to advertise on primetime TV, radio and print media to beg the folks (legal & illegal) to enroll in an Arkansas welfare program (compliments of Huckabee)  known as Arkids 1st.

And then there is the matter of Fort Smith’s government spending asininities…and the beat goes on.

Kindest regards,

Joe McCutchen

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More downtown shenanigans

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Allegiance, subpoenas, & $10,000 worth of “togetherness”                         June 1, 2011

With an unprecedented hard core dedication to implementing an unwanted prepared food tax by the Terrible Four—Directors Good, Merry, Tyler, Weber, one must wonder where their allegiances lie.  They certainly are not dedicated to the wishes of the people, i.e. a vote. 

Could it be they have aligned themselves with the downtown insiders, that would be Sammy Sicard, Richard Griffin, & Bennie Westphal, et al?  Citizen taxpayers have given their hard-earned dollars to the 2000 style of Urban Renewal in downtown Fort Smith for years.  There are no doubt other possibilities, but the question remains…why is the Terrible Four hell-bent on violating the constitutional wishes of citizen taxpayers? 

The aforementioned four Directors are the ones who should be subpoenaed to determine why they refuse to do the will of the people, not those exercising their rights to obtain petition signatures. 

Now to the matter of two very expensive “togetherness” (retreats) for the Mayor, City Mgr, & Directors led by a consultant… $5,000 per session, plus all they could eat.

All involved should be ashamed to admit they had to hire some former big government Bozo from Texas to teach them how to prioritize projects. Did they not seek their positions based on their ability to do the job?  Note all the doublespeak emanating out of their mouths right out of big government Agenda 21/Quality of Place. 

Absolute transparency and attention to detail is desperately needed NOW!  Are Manager Gosack, Mayor Sanders and the four Directors up to the job?  Presently they are failing…e.g. observe the inordinate expenditures and what they are going for.

Kindest regards,

Joe McCutchen

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The Makers & the Takers

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The Makers & the Takers                                                                           May 25, 2011

Hardly a day goes by that some expansionist politician or bureaucrat isn’t busy dreaming up some government growing scheme. 

For instance, observe the world traveller UAFS Chancellor Beran aligning himself with a Monte Wilson and a Scott Hathaway.  In short, the three of them (the Takers) want the citizen taxpayers (the Makers) to pay for a nebulous creation called The Mallalieu Center for Academic Excellence.  The proposed creation, now hold on, will be a “church of reason serving the intellectual leaders of the next generation”, so says Beran.   Beran’s description of the “intellectual leaders” and calling them “at risk” students translates into more Taking from the Makers.

The old Mallalieu Church is a condemned building, so the taxpayers would not just have to pay for a new building but for the demolition of the old! Beran and his accomplices (the Takers) are asking the city for $300,000 for the demolition work.  The ultimate cost to fruition of this project will no doubt run into millions, compliments of the Makers.  In the very next breath Beran (Taker) is proposing a new city library next to the Mallalieu site, and not to be outdone most of the City Directors favored the Taker’s (Beran) idea.  

Shades of the “Food Tax”, the “Marshall’s Museum”, “West End”, “Ben Geren Park additions”, all the while Fort Smith gets a C-/D+ on its Economic Report Card.

 Government school systems already provide every service, including welfare, to the ‘at risk” categories, which also includes illegals. Beran wants to expand this Mallalieu welfare program right into UAFS by involving his students in teaching activities, thereby qualifying for huge amounts of Maker funding.

More on the A & P (Advertising & Promotions):  After the Tuesday A & P meeting concluded and the job description was scored (?) for the new Operations Director, Mayor Sanders and Bureau Chief Legris were asked what the new Operations Director ‘s salary would be, and on different occasions both Sanders & Legris could not recall the pay range. So much for transparency.

It is noted that another “retreat” was held this week produced by Ron Holifield, he’s the guy who charged $5,000 for a past one day retreat.  He runs an outfit called “Strategic Government Resources” which instructs Takers (predators) on ways to skin the Makers (taxpayers).  His credentials are: he is a former government employee.

On his first appearance he named our Directors “Creators”, “Advancers”, “Refiners”, “Executors”, and “Flexors”.  Can you imagine grown adults participating in this type of infantile behavior? 

The question now becomes, what did Holifield charge and what was his “strategic” message to our enlightened Directors at Lake Fort Smith Monday evening?

The following phrases show up on a regular basis in the Times Record and elsewhere and should we conclude that our homegrown city government created the doublespeak, or should we rather believe that the phrases originated in the U.N./D.C. cesspool to promulgate Agenda 21 and its many other names. For instance, Sustainable Development, Complete Streets, Quality of Place, Green Jobs, Going Green, Historic Preservation, Wetlands Projects, and new entries, Providence Community, compliments of Ivy Owens, Opportunity Fund from the Bureau Chief, Major Visions Components, Strategic Deployment, Vision 2015, ad infinitum.

These phrases are pulled out of the United Nation’s Socialist Agenda 21 to tighten the suburban corral and lock the gate in the name of globalism in order to better control and fleece the populace.

A conspiracy you say?  Obviously, you have failed to do your homework and that is to the Beran’s & other Takers liking.

The question becomes:  Are we Makers going to continue to let the Beran’s & the Holifield’s (Takers) negatively reshape our lives?

Kindest regards,

Joe McCutchen

arkansasfreedom.net

www.fortsmithtruth.com