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Institutionalized Ignorance Perpetuated

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July 26, 2015
Ignorance alone is a sad thing, but ignorance being sanctimoniously glorified is disgusting and disturbing.

H.L. Mencken, Will Rogers, Mark Twain—satirical humorous writers in the past would see the delicious irony in a school board & superintendent so ignorant and ill/mis-informed regarding history that they would equate a symbol of liberty/independence with one of slavery/bondage. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, that appears to be the case in the Fort Smith School Superintendent & School Board’s desire to remove/replace Southside High School’s 50+ year Rebel Mascot & all things Dixie. There’s never even been a protest of any size whatever of which I am aware.

Here we have the paragons of educational excellence, leaders of scholarly endeavors, who don’t hesitate to meet in secret, falling immediately into the trap set by the Cultural Marxist Political Correctness tactic of divisiveness=-pit one race against another in order to damage/destroy the white founding stock, i.e. Western Civilization (the ultimate goal). Do they even have a clue? Doubtful, likely just a knee-jerk response to be compliant with the politically correct “offense” du jour.

The goal is being accomplished by using the fictitious Union victors’ version of what happened and why in War of Northern Aggression—a perfect conduit to induce PC “white guilt”. The perpetrators knew most folks are too lazy to seek the truth, especially if it is the opposite of what they have been taught by teachers they trust, who themselves only know what is in the “official” textbooks. A perfect setup for manipulation & subjugation.

Which brings us to the questions…does the School Board./Superintendent know the truth & trying to hide it for nefarious reasons, or they’ve swallowed the tales told by government schools, or don’t really want to acknowledge the truth, or just arrogant defiance of inconvenient truths & desire to punish dissenters? It was not a Civil war; it was a war for independence from a tyrannical government.

In a rational honest world these people would be laughing stocks and expelled from any authority over the education process…but alas we live in a pussified age where no one is to be “offended” (real or imagined), that is no one except those who do not accept government as god, who do not believe everything it does is right, much less moral or rational, especially if they are white.

There is little doubt how this frontal attack on all things Dixie/Confederate will go. The insidious, pious PC Kool-Aid has been consumed in huge quantities by government worshipers and parasites who are feeling their oats (empowered)……besides there’s money to be generated & looted! The bloated gloat is impossible to resist by too many.

The best of our Founders envisioned an enlightened, knowledgeable citizenry who cherished individual rights and responsibilities; unfortunately what they have gotten is an intellectually lazy mass of malleable automatons who feed at the government propaganda & money trough.

Hence, it will probably be goodbye to heritage of honor, independence, & courage & hello to arrogant pandering cowardice and perpetuated institutionalized ignorance.

“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, And producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak,
Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies,
So that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, Because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing,
Or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
– Aldous Huxley’s lecture to The California Medical School in San Francisco in 1961


~Barbara McCutchen

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Incumbency breeds arrogant corruption

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All governments will have their way—be damned with, “we the people” & the Constitution—the Constitution is supposed to be the government but is filled with so-called Public Servants who unfortunately & in actuality are self-servers. July 22, 2015

Incumbency breeds arrogance, corruption, crime, and force, but you would never know that by the institutionalized ignorance of the voting public’s record on incumbency and double down re: bureaucrats. Actually, there is no difference between a bureaucrat and a politician; I note this for I.D. purposes only.

Before the matter of this screed, is it ironic; is it coincidental; or some other reason that former City Manager Ray Gosack and the Director of Finance Kara Bushkul resigned within days of one another other? Did their hasty departures have any bearing on the $1/2 billion EPA mandate, the $300,000 EPA fine, or the shortage of the Police & Fire Pension Fund, the 30 year $600 million misapplication of monies specifically dedicated to streets & sewers? Note the current pitiful condition of streets & sewers.

Now, back to the topic at hand: examples of government having its way—be damned with the people.

I. The cowardly, deceptive Issue 3, initiated, orchestrated & passed in the Arkansas General Assembly principally by Republican legislators that extended term limits under the guise of an “Ethics” bill. What a disgusting collection of palookas.

II. This same bunch, the Ark. Gen. Assembly, this year in another cowardly deceptive maneuver insured we the people would be burdened with Obamacare until the state/nation collapses under the financial weight of such stupidity, but not limited to.

III. Fluoride—Sodium fluoride is a drug/medication/poison that requires a physician’s prescription for human use. Additionally, mass medication of the poison sodium fluoride is an existential threat to the long-term health of human beings. What is the authority for the Governor, the legislature, and the F.S. city government to practice medicine without a license? This is only a thumbnail description of fluoride.

The Delta Dental insurance company and the Ark. State Assembly of 2011 passed an illegal, unconstitutional legislation. When any legislation is passed that is unconstitutional or poses a threat to the quality of life of a citizen in any manner, they are in no way obligated to adhere to any part or the whole of the legislation. On this chord public officials swear to uphold the Constitution.

Law is a weapon, law holds only value to those who create it to extort and control.

Fort Smith city voters, as has been reported many times, turned down the issue of fluoridation twice, in the 1970’s and 1992 but have contemptuously failed to resonate with the current F.S. City Board of Directors.

Former Fort Smith Manager Ray Gosack, the Board of Directors, & the Mayor cut a contract with Burns & McDonnell for $249,000 for fluoride engineering services and a $1.5 million with Goodwin & Goodwin for fluoride feed services. These exorbitant expenses came after Delta Dental Insurance bribed, coerced or made a quid pro quo deal that sent $2 million to the Board of Directors…all in the face of the glaring alleged financial deficiencies in the city of Fort Smith.

What was the source of the $1,749,000 that the F.S. City Board paid for the above services?

Of course, city government will bloviate that it’s Arkansas state law and they have to abide. The Board’s defense is a Constitutional lie, followed by the fact that they did not have to accept Delta Dental’s $2 million bribe.

IV. More corruption guided by Ft. Smith’s Superintendent Benny Gooden, undergirded by his compliant F.S. School Board.
Five members of the F.S. School Board, accompanied by Gooden, in a secret pre-planned meeting to produce unanimity (the fix) to purge all references to the Johnny Reb Mascot, the beautiful song Dixie, and all things Southern without any knowledge or conversation with Fort Smith citizens, more specifically those who have had a relationship with Southside High.

Then there is the matter of cost, which certainly no citizen knows and is doubtful the administration knows, but for sure it will be 6 figures at least. All the while, Gooden is pushing for a $70 million tax increase.

Incumbency breeds ownership in the minds of the occupants of any given political/public service institution. Incumbency is a political curse and in all cases “we the people” are considered nothing more than a collection of pinheads by incumbents. For instance, Gooden has been around for 30+ years and Board member Rick Wade for 20+ years. Coercion and force is the name of their game, as with all pols.
Public School Superintendent Benny Gooden and Police Chief Kevin Lindsay to name two, are wards of national and global unions and other special interests, while citizens have long since been excised from the equation. There is no “local” control.

V. Days after Fort Smith voters turned down a 5% shell for a Trail System came a clamor from 2 NGO’s (Non-governmental Organizations) and the newly hired Parks Director whining “we need more trails” and oh yes, more funding! Never do they abide by the wishes of “we the people”.

VI. Urban Renewal revisited—the downtown renovation society, that would be Sicard, Griffin, and others, have reinvented & reignited the 1960’s Urban Renewal program. Urban Renewal simply defined: taxpayers fund the redevelopment of private property in urban and downtown areas.

Are any of the aforementioned statistics relevant to the taxpaying citizens of Fort Smith or will it continue to be “business as usual”?

Joe McCutchen
P.S I recall Mayor Sanders marveling in the Times Record what a wonderful job former City Manager Ray Gosack had done.
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The Lincoln lies must be exposed.

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Can facts & truth ever overcome the 155 year old Lincoln cover-up: all built on ignorance and untruths? July 18, 2015

Two of the members of the Fort Smith School Board have indicated by their stated positions they are the two principal spokespersons for the Board.

They have shown that they are more than willing to carry and promulgate the now 155 year old brutal Lincoln cover-up.
These two women bill themselves as educators of children, when they shamelessly participate in perpetuating lies, distortions, revisions, omissions, indoctrination and political correctness in the government school classrooms, all orchestrated by the varied entities of all government.

It is quite obvious that these two representatives of public education, as is the case with all government, that they are either ignorant of U.S. history, specifically speaking of the time frame 1858-1868, or complicit in the Lincoln 155 year cover-up.
The public (government) school systems, in the past 155 years, have made every effort to denigrate, debase, berate, and deride the whole of the South and its institutions, i.e. heritage, culture, independence, and individual responsibility. And now, working their will to erase every vestige of the War for Southern Independence and anything Southern.

I will offer here just a speck of President Abraham Lincoln’s sins…who are the real RACISTS?

I. Abraham Lincoln, FIRST LINCOLN/DOUGLAS debate, Ottawa, Ill. , Sept. 18, 1858, in THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, vol. III, pp. 145-146
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people…I as much as any man am in favor of the superior position assigned to the white race”.

II. Lincoln’s first 13th Amendment that passed both Houses of the Congress and controlled by Republicans in 1861, but was never ratified.
“No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any state, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said state”.

Lincoln played a huge role in writing and the passage of the first 13th Amendment and endorsed it in his first Inaugural Address and in his letter to the Governors. The Amendment was known as the Corwin Amendment. The Corwin Amendment would have prohibited the federal government from ever interfering with Southern slavery.

The first 13th Amendment was also identified as the “slavery forever” Amendment.

Doris Kearns-Goodwin, certainly no Southerner, in her new book “Team of Rivals” praises Lincoln for his pro-slavery Amendment because it held the Republican Party together.

III. As president, Lincoln allocated millions of dollars to a project that would “colonize” American blacks in Liberia. His statements pertaining to colonization were recorded in “Address on Colonization to a Committee of Colored Men” Aug. 14, 1862
Lincoln’s war had been underway for over 2 years before he issued the “Emancipation Proclamation”. 8 months after the Proclamation no slaves were freed that were under Union Army control.

IV. Think carefully of Lincoln’s words to the Virginia Compromise Delegation in March, 1861, well before the war began. When asked “Why not let the South go in peace?”
Lincoln’s response, “I can’t let them go. Who would pay for government? And what then would become of my tariff?”

Dr. Deannie Mehl is President of the Fort Smith School Board & spokesperson for Dr. Benny Gooden and his proposed overthrow of the Southside mascot and all things Southern. No doubt there are other factions behind the scenes directing this misplaced adventure.
They all appear to be ignorant or complicit in the 155 year Lincoln cover-up, and all have their political agendas, while continuing to short circuit the minds of children as they keep on masking the truth and the revision of history, and their weapon du jour is lying & hurling the race card.

Dr. Mehl has never witnessed the poverty, the heartache, the sufferings, and derision brought on the South by Northern interests during the 155 year painful charade by both black & white. The sufferings by both black & white through the war and into the ongoing infamous Yankee Reconstruction that devastated even further the South which did not recover until the 1980’s. Most industry located in the south is still controlled/owned by northern enterprises.

Yet this woman, Dr. Deannie Mehl who appears to be a new age carpetbagger has not experienced Southern discomfort and heartache, has the audacity to come South and exhort Southerners, particularly Fort Smithians, as to what we should do with the Southside mascot—“IT’S TIME FOR JOHNNY REB TO GO”. She and the rest of the city’s quasi-educantists would serve our city and state best by learning and teaching the unvarnished truth about U.S. conflicts from 1858 until 1868.

There are multitudes of blacks who are well versed on the facts that evolved during Lincoln’s war, but for whatever the reason they refuse to disseminate their knowledge to the brothers. For instance, many blacks owned slaves and bought & sold their own. Also many blacks & Native Americans fought for the Confederacy.

No other American President has practiced mass fratricide except Lincoln.

Letting the light of truth enter instead of the U.S. government cover up, lies and conditioning must somehow prevail to preserve our Republic.

Joe McCutchen
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P.C. efforts to wipe out true history

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July 15, 2015
Ignorance alone is a sad thing, but ignorance being sanctimoniously glorified is disgusting and disturbing.

H.L. Mencken, Will Rogers, Mark Twain—satirical humorous writers in the past would see the delicious irony in a school board & superintendent so ignorant and ill/mis-informed regarding history that they would equate a symbol of liberty/independence with one of slavery/bondage. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, that appears to be the case in the Fort Smith School Superintendent & School Board’s desire to remove/replace Southside High School’s 50+ year Rebel Mascot & all things Dixie. There’s never even been a protest of any size whatever of which I am aware.

Here we have the paragons of educational excellence, leaders of scholarly endeavors, who don’t hesitate to meet in secret, falling immediately into the trap set by the Cultural Marxist Political Correctness tactic of divisiveness=-pit one race against another in order to damage/destroy the white founding stock, i.e. Western Civilization (the ultimate goal). Do they even have a clue? Doubtful, likely just a knee-jerk response to be compliant with the politically correct “offense” du jour.

The goal is being accomplished by using the fictitious Union victors’ version of what happened and why in War of Northern Aggression—a perfect conduit to induce PC “white guilt”. The perpetrators knew most folks are too lazy to seek the truth, especially if it is the opposite of what they have been taught by teachers they trust, who themselves only know what is in the “official” textbooks. A perfect setup for manipulation & subjugation.

Which brings us to the questions…does the School Board./Superintendent know the truth & trying to hide it for nefarious reasons, or they’ve swallowed the tales told by government schools, or don’t really want to acknowledge the truth, or just arrogant defiance of inconvenient truths & desire to punish dissenters? It was not a Civil war, it was a war for independence from a tyrannical government.

In a rational honest world these people would be laughing stocks and expelled from any authority over the education process…but alas we live in a pussified age where no one is the be “offended” (real or imagined), that is no one except those who do not accept government as god, who do not believe everything it does is right, much less moral or rational, especially if they are white.

There is little doubt how this frontal attack on all things Dixie/Confederate will go. The insidious, pious PC Kool-Aid has been consumed in huge quantities by government worshipers and parasites who are feeling their oats (empowered)……besides there’s money to be generated & looted! The bloated gloat is impossible to resist by too many.

The best of our Founders envisioned an enlightened, knowledgeable citizenry who cherished individual rights and responsibilities; unfortunately what they have gotten is an intellectually lazy mass of malleable automatons who feed at the government propaganda & money trough.

Hence, it will probably be goodbye to heritage of honor, independence, & courage & hello to arrogant pandering cowardice and perpetuated ignorance.

“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, And producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak,
Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies,
So that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, Because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing,
Or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
– Aldous Huxley’s lecture to The California Medical School in San Francisco in 1961


~Barbara McCutchen

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Government working its will against the people.

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Fort Smith School Superintendent Benny Gooden, the downtown oligarchs, & a few of their hat tricks.
July 6, 2015

Politicians and bureaucrats speak incessantly about their “visions”, i.e. con games—more control, more spending, more self-service.

Fort Smith citizens have been blistered for months by city government stating that police & fire pensions are in financial disarray and there must be budget reductions, i.e. cuts. Nothing about new spending increases & proposals, absent restraints, as witnessed by one of the sponges and one wanna be. That would be two fellows named Reinert & Merry, but not limited to, who are campaigning for huge new spending menus, e.g. bike lanes, multi-use rail trails, river taxis, fishing pavilions, community centers and on—more bread and circuses for a majority of the masses.

It was only weeks ago that Fort Smith citizens rejected the city’s vigorous financial plea for more trails (Agenda 21), but in typically corrupt politicians’ mind-set, they did not accept the will of the people, they just keep coming back to work their will; case in point, Dianne Morrison, resident Marxist and Certified Planner, e.g.” Placemaking, Public Participation, Local Government, Transportation Planning, Community Development, Comprehensive Planning”, (for whom?) and the beat goes on.

Government Planners are the enemy—the enemy of the people, the enemy of freedom, the enemy of free movement, taker of responsibilities of elected government officials and a huge sponge for tax dollars. Observe the multitude of NGO’s & MPO’s and multiplying all by design.

Society should demand the concept of letting things evolve naturally and not planning our lives by government acolytes.

Another example of same: Superintendent Benny Gooden getting quashed by Sammy Sicard & Richard Griffin & other downtown oligarchs, on his proposal for a new $75 million high school. Gooden comes back days later with a new plan for a $78 million spendathon, allegedly to be applied to his existing Taj Mahals. Nothing was said about this proposed $78 million spending spree prior to the new high school proposal. Does this mean Gooden not only wanted $75 million for a new school but also $78 million for existing schools? Remember, Gooden is a federal government union man (President of the National Superintendents Union) and he carried out the Fed’s & downtown oligarchs’ edict to implement their and his Southside coup d’état by removing, surreptitiously (no prior public discussion) the school’s Rebel mascot and anything relating to Dixie. The fix was and is in. This certainly was not a one man hit job.

Gooden would dare not carry out a plan of this magnitude that destroyed Johnny Reb, the fight song Dixie, the Dixie Belles, etc. without political heavyweights directing & backing his massacre. Think, if you will, what Gooden & the enabling Board did without consultation or discussion with Fort Smith citizens, all the while impugning and besmirching the good character of Fort Smith Southerners and the multitude of Southside alumni.. All done in secrecy (against the law) before the official Board meeting that evening and only later did he favor the city citizens with a July 27 hearing that will allow the people to comment. The fix is in. Gooden and the Boards’ behavior was/is despicable.
Ms. Mehl appears to be the spokesperson for the coup d’état.

And to the matter of trails and other Agenda 21 pursuits, resident Marxist Diane Morrison, Chief of the NGO, i.e. The Frontier Metro Planning Organization’s 2040 chimes in with an absurd statement, “there’s no money involved, so dream big while you have the chance”. (Translation please!!…more government doublespeak/lies.)

Now back to the citizens and the shortages in the police & fire pensions. Where did the money go? Probably the same places the 25 year $600 million 1 cent street & sewer tax went.

All the while, not a word from the FSM City Manager & Board about plans, if any, for the payment of the EPA’s hefty fine of $300,000 and the $500 million or more EPA demands to fix the sewers over the next 12 years.

Fort Smith City Administrator Ray Gosack asked the police department to shave their budget, allegedly to bailout the police/fire pensions.

If Gosack was an effective CEO he would have demanded the Chief of Police to cut his budget, Lindsay would not have been simply “asked” . The same command should go out to all department heads in the Fort Smith city government—CUT!

Where is Gosack’s “vision”, why did he and Director of Finance Kara Bushkuhl not see all these financial deficiencies coming years ago, as well as the City Board, or did they spend pension funds on some other so-called “projects”. In that vein Fort Smith city streets are a disgrace. Enough about visions.

The Mayor & Board of Directors appear to have no moxie, and are just a collection of political wanderlusts spending millions to keep the bread & circus crowd appeased.

The Fort Smith city government, and all governments for that matter, will never function efficiently until citizens’ demand that all departments introduce ZERO BASED BUDGETRY—means every department 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, and that each succeeding year begins with reducing the out-go. With proper management there are some departments that could actually increase revenue. Without such a plan, bureaucrats & politicians will continue their insatiable pillaging. The City Manager, the Mayor & Board and all their NGO’s have proved to be grossly improvident.

The American Institute of Planners comes under the heading of either “progressive, socialist, communist, Marxist”…take your pick. Both Democrat & Republican parties & the governments they create are responsible for these destructors of freedom.

Government Planners are an anathema to a free society! (i.e. CONTROL OF THE PEOPLE)

Joe McCutchen

P.S. Consider: this is the 3rd request directed to any official in the F.S. city government to provide the amount of liquid assets immediately available, that means any financial instrument that can immediately be used as cash…cash, bonds, stock, etc.

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The Road to Serfdom

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WE THE PEOPLE…MARCHING DOWN THE ROAD TO SERFDOM. June 11, 2015

Police & Fire pay raise.

Facts state all government entities are paid far more than equivalent employment in the private sector and every government entity is represented by a union & all joined inextricably at the hip.

Government salaries of comparable positions should never be higher than the private sector which subsidizes them.

Ray Gosack & Richard Jones are quoted in the T.R. June 10, 2015, three, at the very least two, disingenuous statements. Jones, “Since 2006 Fort Smith’s pay for police & fire has lagged behind comparison cities”. Jones, “In 2014 Fort Smith’s pay was nearly 13% behind”. Jones, everything & everybody are not equal.

Gosack,” Without cost of living or market adjustments (oh wow), our pay plan stays stagnant while other cities around us, we’re comparing to, are moving their pay plans along”. Just what is a pay plan??!!

“Comparing” is the same dishonest psychology that politicians & bureaucrats use to make We the People feel guilty for not sacrificing ourselves for more government & its employees.

What Gosack & Jones are doing is trying to compare apples to oranges. Here’s the Marxist mentality again—every city in this case is equal, with no regard for demographics. Additionally, because city claims they need a raise is no foundation for the city to be automatically given one—try that with your boss in the private sector!

Demographics must be the determinate—population size, sex, age, marital status, numbers of children, education levels, economic factors, and a series of others, none of which are being considered by Gosack & Jones. And local private sector salaries should specifically thrown into the mix.

Who exactly is Jones comparing Fort Smith with? Here are the comparison cities Jones cited and their populations.
1. Little Rock—198,000
2. Springfield, Mo—160,000
3. Tulsa, OK—617,000
4. Okla. City, OK—399,000
5. Hot Springs, AR—35,000—since the 1940’s Hot Springs has grown by 3,000. Fort Smith’s population is 89,000. Hot Springs is a tourist city and both residents and visitors are taxed to the hilt.

Note the disparity in population numbers. There is no commonality whatsoever between the cities. It is absurd and slaps the taxpayers of Fort Smith trying to use this mechanism for an excuse for a pay raise.

Divulge to the citizens and let us observe the following areas regarding pay and perks of city employees. List each pay grade beginning with the entry level up to the highest, citizen contribution to their healthcare and the cost of their healthcare, same for dental, pensions, pay allowances, paid time off, paid vacations & length, sick days, holidays, free days, and not to mention, government employees have 100% job security—as opposed by the private sector.

Gosack & Jones offer no justification whatsoever for any type of pay raise. Government employees are not an endangered species. Let them absorb the same standards that are observed by the private sector and if they are not happy there are always those willing to fill their slot.

Joe McCutchen

P.S. Still waiting to hear what the cash reserves are for the city of Fort Smith!

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Government Gall: 30 year tax misapplied, So pay up for 10 more!!!

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WHY BOTHER?—BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO BE SAID AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE. May 3, 2015

Why would a voter (citizen) cast a yes vote to continue the 30 year 1 cent Sales Tax, formerly & officially known as the 1 Cent Street/Sewer Tax? The official legal title was surreptitiously dropped by city government for the new name (1 Cent Sales Tax) for political cover in order to allow City Manager Gosack and Board of Directors (past & present) to loot at will as if the tax were a General Funding tax.

A vote to continue the street/sewer tax, absent historical facts and specific questions addressed & answered is indeed foolish; particularly when the 30 year street & sewer tax was not applied as it was ordained. An ironclad legal guarantee in writing by the City Manager, the Mayor and the current Board should state every “rolling penny” must be spent on streets & sewers and should be demanded by citizen voters. At this juncture, why would any sane citizen presume to think the Fort Smith city government will change its present dubious & perhaps criminal conduct in their spending of the street/sewer taxpayer millions, if extended for another 10 years, and it will be?

A letter appearing in the Wednesday April 22 edition of the T.R. written by Scott Stuart stated in eloquent fashion why money should not be diverted from the 1 cent street/sewer tax to fund trails. However, Mr. Stuart, in his letter, unfortunately did not use the official name of the tax, i.e. THE 1 CENT STREET/SEWER TAX.

What Mr. Stuart fails to point out in his letter “vote no to the proposed diversion of money from an already inadequate street/drainage tax”. Absolutely not inadequate, if the 30 year street/sewer tax had been applied as so ordered by citizens. The City Directors & Manager refuse to answer how the 1% Street/Sewer Sales Taxes were spent. Simply put: the 30 years earmarked 1 cent street/sewer tax has generated $600 million…$20 million per year, and has been and is being misappropriated and diverted, and again, there could possibly be criminal involvements. All City Directors, Mayors, & City Managers from 1985 to the present have been involved in tawdry practices, whether they know/knew it or not. What makes one think anything will change unless citizen legal force is exerted? The city of Fort Smith is awash in tax dollars and in this regard, the Arkansas Times reports “Arkansas is 48th in government services provided”. “In spite of being in the top ten in what we pay to state and local government, we are in the bottom three in terms of what we get from state and local government”.

If the 1 cent street/sewer tax had been properly applied from say 1985—1995 the sewer/drainage systems would be perfectly functional and the streets in excellent condition. We would not now be faced with a 12 year $500 million federal directive, numerous fines, and new problems with sewers & streets occurring weekly. City Manager Ray Gosack should be fired and investigated immediately.

Residents are now faced with double taxation, rising rates, the streets a shamble, putrid sewers, numerous fines, all due to Fort Smith city government’s ineptness, coupled with other deficiencies. During the 12 year EPA mandate, the $500 million federal edict could easily balloon to $750 million. Recall, Gosack has been embedded in city manipulations for 22 years. Why continue to bestow $20 million per year on such a dysfunctional & questionable entity, accompanied by self-serving insiders?

April 15, 2015 I posed the question to City Directors Catsavis & Lau—What is the dollar amount of cash and convertible assets (bonds, C.D.’s, royalties, insurance, etc.) that the city possesses at this time, as opposed to the city’s fixed assets (buildings, equipment, etc.)?
No response. I believe that neither of these gentlemen have the foggiest idea what the fiscal assets of the city are, and if they did they would probably be fearful to divulge the dollar numbers even though it is a citizen right to know. In all likelihood the city has millions stashed away as is the case with most cities. Two questions must be directed at the City Board—should the 1% street/sewer tax be continued, if so WHY? Just how much does the city have in cash reserves?

History and evidence indicate the fix is in: if serious citizen analytic consideration was applied to the 1 cent tax matter, does anyone believe there are not ample funds to satisfy the alleged police/fire pension deficits? If there is doubt that pension funds are not available, police & fire unions would be screaming. Same scenario (is money in fact presently available?) for the promised (undeserved) raises for the 900 city employees. The appearance of a bait & switch operation. The day after the election or soon afterward, the above deficiencies, in all likelihood, will rapidly disappear.

If there is an actual shortage of pensions for police & fire, the City Manager as already stated should be fired and the current Board resign en masse.

The misplaced focus of city government, enabled by city elitists, e.g. Griffin, Sicard, & the Chamber, etc. have dual purposes. One is to enhance the property values & future incomes of said elitists, much of which is being subsidized by city, state, & federal taxpayers, while at the same time, the city government and the elites are playing to the ignorant (absent facts) Bread & Circus crowd through their new & proposed entertainment venues, e.g. trails, walkways, bike paths, sharrows, et al.

In this case, less than 50 well-placed F.S. residents are being used to influence, through indoctrination (mostly untrue), the thought processes of 89,000 residents and perhaps 250,000 in the 3 county propose alliance.

Then to the proposed Marshal’s Museum, taking a larger & larger share of the taxpayer pie to subsidize what initially was billed as a private enterprise project. Griffin & Sicard are the prime movers and if it reaches fruition they will divest their financial responsibilities and it will be quickly inherited by one or more government agencies.

A little fatigue by the self-serving insiders’ use of the penny, “IT’S ONLY A PENNY” & “KEEP YOUR PENNY ROLLING”, but very successful, after all, that little penny generates $20 million+ per year and allows the Fort Smith city government to continue its lavish spending and financial diversions while the city deteriorates.
One would be led to believe, in view of recent alleged city monetary deficiencies and fines, all embarrassing, and very expensive, that said government would make a gentleman’s agreement demanding the 1 cent street/sewer tax would be spent on exactly that, city streets & sewers.
Instead of engaging in the proper functions of city government, entertainment has seized the F.S. stage.

Why the sudden push for 87 miles of trails? Laying a plotter on a map, 87 miles would translate into a distance from Van Buren, AR to Henrietta, OK. Is this not pause for objective thinking? The push for extensive networks of trails in all communities is not a recent phenomenon, part of Agenda 21’s grand plan.

Therefore; what is the Grand Plan? Is there more to the trail systems than meets the eye? Absolutely!

Appearing in the T.R’s edition of 4/28/15 was a letter to the editor signed by Drew Linder, the Chairman of the F.S. Trails Commission. Spewing the company line, Linder made some outlandish, unsubstantiated claims designed to indoctrinate. To whit:

1. “Citizens told our committee that continuous trails are a priority”. By what authority? Why are trails a PRIORITY? How many citizens attended the 4 regional meetings? About 50, most self-servers, e.g. owners of bicycle shops, etc. and a 501c3 NGO (Frontier) run by a Marxist sympathizer.
2. “Tax will continue to go toward (?) streets and bridges”. Either Linder is ignorant or prevaricating. As previously pointed out, the 30 year 1 cent tax was specifically earmarked for streets & sewers, and the tax for the most part, was and has not been applied to streets & sewers. Nowhere was it a bridge tax. The streets are as rough as the Appian Way and the sewer system stinks.
3. “Many reports demonstrate the economic benefits in cities that have extensive trail systems”. There is not one shred of empirical data that substantiates the above claim.
4. “They are (trails) especially attractive to young people like M.D.’s, engineers, etc.” So what does that prove? More nebulous utterings promulgated by city government & NGO’s.

Trails are a small part of the global governance commitment. The ultimate use of the 87 mile trail system in Fort Smith & across the nation is simply designed to ultimately restrict & restrain various modes of transportation and movements of people, while concentrating residents into high density central locations—stack & pack.

The Bread & Circus crowd marches merrily along, subsidizing their own demise/loss of freedom through the many taxes they/we are forced to pay. REDISTRIBUTION.

Will the 1 Cent street/sewer tax be extended? Absolutely! Replete with a new name. Will the 3 county (Crawford, Leflore, Sebastian) trail system be authorized? Absolutely!

Gosack and his consummate enablers will celebrate another of their tax victories by clanking their champagne glasses behind closed doors while the Bread & Circus crowd will celebrate in the streets by Callin’ them Hogs!

Manipulated and subverted powers by government, enabled by the Bread & Circus crowd who are more than willing participants are glad to go along for the ride.

We, the Republic, have long since descended into a totalitarian morass called COLLECTIVISM.

Joe McCutchen arkansasfreedom.net

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An off-the-wall Times Record editorial published Friday April 5, 2015, titled “Increased Sewer Rates Inevitable” April 13, 2015

Quotable statements by Madam Editor, City Manager Gosack, Mayor Sandy Sanders & Director Mike Lorenz were mind-boggling.

The year 1989, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a Consent Decree to immediately upgrade various components of the Fort Smith city sewer system.

Recall 4 years in advance of the initial EPA edict, in 1985 citizens voted for a 1 cent sales tax that was specifically earmarked, designating one half for streets and one half for sewers. During the ensuing 30 years the 1% sales tax generated $600 million, and obviously was misapplied, misappropriated, diverted, or all of the above.

2014 the EPA issued its final verdict that directs the city of Fort Smith to spend $480 million over a 12 year period to revamp its sewer system and also accompanied by a $300,000 fine. Any fool can readily understand that in 12 years there will be inflationary concerns, cost of doing business, cost overruns, ad infinitum, and in all likelihood reaching an ultimate cost of $ 3/4 Billion, meaning the residents of Fort Smith will pay for sewer upgrades that will cost well over twice the 12 year, $480 million EPA demand, that is if the city government had followed the city’s vote & trust along with the initial EPA decree. Then there is the sorry state of affairs pertaining to streets, also neglected.

The year 2014, City Manager Ray Gosack & his entourage were summoned to go to Dallas by the EPA. Returning from the meeting in Dallas, Gosack proclaimed like a conquering hero, that the deal HE (not the EPA) cut was a great deal. The arrogance of Gosack’s words is revolting.

Since the initial 1989 EPA mandate was ordered, Fort Smith has had 7 City Managers that have willfully disregarded the ‘89 demand by the EPA, couple that with all the City Boards who have been elected during the past 25 year period, and certainly applies to the present Board.

Gosack has been a key player in city government for 22 years. The present City Board, absent Director Pennartz, has been in power 35 years cummulatively….so why did the T.R. give the present Mayor, Board, & City Manager a pass? Did they have to wait for an invitation from the EPA before enacting what should have been done & completed and was voted on 30 years ago?

The following quotes expressed in the Times Record by Gosack & others are the height of absurdity and express in a woefully deceptive manner that the incompetence’s (massive debt & possible criminality) the residents are now facing are recent occurrences rather than the 25 years of actuality.

Madam Editor…”These are the guys who, almost literally, are cleaning up the mess left by earlier Boards”. These “guys” are a part of the mess. Madam Editor, City Manager Ray Gosack has been buried in this diversion for 22 years, it’s not a “mess” it is a financial calamity. The City Board had no other option but to accept the $480 million decree and a $300,000 fine, most of which Gosack bears the blame. Why are you not calling for the immediate resignation/firing of Gosack and an independent audit of city finances? Why did it take another EPA demand to force the present Board to comply with past decrees?

A quote from Gosack, “If a Consent Decree had not been approved by the city the Federal Government would have sued the city in Federal Court”. Some revelation by Gosack. Why did Gosack, accompanied by some past City Boards, put the city in these fiscally debilitating circumstances? Why didn’t Gosack think of that 22 years ago?

Trying to placate both sides, Madam Editor wrote “on top of that there would have been another $1.5 million for legal services, waiting longer to raise rates only would have increased the price and perhaps added new fines to the total”. More brilliant deduction and never does the editor or any of her reporters ask the question “Where did the earmarked $600 million go?” If city government will not obey the federal government demands, they certainly will not obey city voter demands.

Similar asinine statements were made in the editorial by Director Mike Lorenz and Mayor Sandy Sanders, but never an apology or even an excuse for their part in blowing the dedicated $600 million Street/Sewer tax from all the above.

Finally, Madam Editor states, “So we congratulate this Board for doing the dirty work”. Congratulating a City Manager, City Board & Mayor who had part in misapplying, misappropriating and diverting $600 million of taxpayers hard-earned money is an abuse of the word congratulate and a hard slap in the face of citizens, they are the problem.

The time is rapidly approaching when the ringing plea will be heard “KEEP YOUR PENNY ROLLING”. (Slogan to encourage votes for continuing the tax) Financed in large part by Griffin, Sicard, the F.S. Chamber of Commerce, & other self-serving interests.

The Bread & Circus crowd indoctrinated with Pavlov’s dog’s experiment will rush to the polls to “KEEP YOUR PENNY ROLLING”, producing millions for trails, bikeways, sharrows, signs, Marshall’s Museum, Water Park, Softball Fields, fluoridation, while at the same time, allegedly not having the capacities to fund Fire & Police pensions, proposing across the board 8% raises for all city employees, terrible streets, a $300,000 fine and the $480 million Consent Decree………and the beat goes on.

Joe McCutchen

P.S. Ward #1 Director Keith Lau, in Sunday’s edition of the T.R. seems to be expressing a desire to reintroduce transparency in city government, an extremely huge advance in transparency could be made in this Tuesday Board meeting by he or one of the other Directors asking City Manager Gosack publicly why he was one of the major instruments in diverting the 30 year $600 million. Furthermore, Director Hutchings, asking for less time on citizen appearances at Board meetings is laughable due to the fact that he is a preacher, and I personally take umbrage at any attempt to squelch citizen input.

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Censorship, the enemy of freedom.

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Byline: Times Record 4/12/15…..”DIRECTOR SAYS FIVE MINUTES TOO LONG TO ALLOW SPEAKERS”.

Think about it folks. Not that long ago the City Board meetings were televised and citizens were allowed to speak/ask questions/give input after most meetings. Those unable to attend could watch the proceedings on their televisions. After the Board was challenged on some issues the TV camera was ejected (too expensive they said), in spite of the fact that private citizens offered to pay for it.

Not long after that, after being questioned and challenged again, the Board barred citizen input except on “special occasions”. Now we have Director Don Hutchings encouraging further censorship by saying 5 minutes is just too long to give citizens to express themselves!

This censorship is an idea expressed by a self-described “conservative” pastor. Sound familiar? (think Patriot Acts, NDAA, et al) Might make one wonder if this is his version of “Do unto others”?

This country was built on free expression/speech, and citizen input is vital to a transparent, healthy governing body…if such a thing is possible, especially these days.

Governing bodies have become arrogant, belligerent, defiant, and self-serving. Any such entity that blocks or ignores the taxpayers’ wishes and concerns is a rogue body, out of control and obviously willing and able to misuse their authority and the taxpayer monies put in their trust.

Once upon a time, discussions & debates could go on for hours, sometimes days in order to come to reasonable, fair conclusions. But now 5 MINUTES is simply too much to ask of our elected & appointed “leaders”.

Is it any wonder taxpaying citizens have zero trust in governing bodies? Why should they when they are told to shut up and sit down, or else. All the while they are the very ones funding the politicrats and their activities. What a tyrannical concept.

If “officials” can’t take the heat, why would anyone want them in the kitchen?

The lights are going out all over the world and another one just went out in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

~Barbara McCutchen
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Why would non-essential trails trump essential sewer/flooding crisis?

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A SYNOPSIS AT THE END IS FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT LIKE TO READ AND DEAL WITH THE FORT SMITH CITY GOVERNMENT’S DUBIOUS FINANCIAL ISSUES. January 25, 2015

THE RACE TO MAY—THEY ARE OFF & RUNNING! MANY QUESTIONS, NO REAL ANSWERS

They are off & running—the real owners of the Fort Smith City Government, City Manager Ray Gosack, F.S. Chamber of Commerce, F.S. Times Record/Warren Stephens, and the echelon of political high fivers.

The race officially began Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015 with an editorial salvo from the Times Record titled “Taxpayers Must Pay Bills, More”. Translation: Taxpayers; Suck it up, Shut up, Pay up.

The full court press continued: Times Record Jan. 12, 2015, 2 front page stories. Drew Linder, 1st National Bank employee and cheerleader for the unelected Bikeways & Trails NGO, in a blaze of bravado is leading a 6 person delegation of insiders advocating for 87.59 miles of trails. Linder paints a beautiful (at least in his mind) picture of what he believes eventually, if completed, the trails will look like. Linder claims the Trails will only cost the taxpayers a mere $17 MILLION. This is the estimated start-up cost.

Never mind the $500 million, 12 year EPA demand pertaining to the overhaul of the Fort Smith city sewer & surface water systems that has already been paid for at least once & mathematically could be more than once in the previous 30 years by the earmarked 1% street/sewer taxes which were misapplied and diverted. Now City Manager Gosack, Mayor Sanders & the Board are asking the citizens to foolishly vote for another 10 year extension of the city’s fun & gun spendathons.

The real owners of the Fort Smith city government, their enablers, and the compliant F.S. City Directors have staked-out their position by asking taxpayers for another 10 year renewal of the city’s two 1 cent street/sewer taxes, which by the way, city government, past & present, have surely obfuscated, misrepresented, misappropriated & diverted the 30 year/$600 Million tax monies, which could possibly be $1.2 billion that has been generated from the aforementioned two 1% street & sewer sales taxes. The city’s website and past Directors state there is a 1% sales tax for streets and a 1% sales tax for sewers.
http://www.fortsmithar.gov/newviews/Files/2012%20Sales%20Tax%20Election%20Presentation.pdf

Why did some of the city administrations present & past not discharge their sworn obligation to citizens and remedy the sewer debacle in a timely manner?

THE 1% STREET/SEWER TAXES WERE VERY SPECIFIC FOR 30 YEARS. THEY DEMANDED THAT THE REVENUES GENERATED WOULD BE APPLIED EQUALLY TO STREETS & SEWERS—NEITHER HAPPENED. WHAT GUARANTEES ARE IN PLACE THAT GOSACK, SANDERS, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND/OR OTHERS WILL ABSOLUTELY, UNEQUIVOCALLY SPEND ALL THE MONEY ON STREETS & SEWERS? AND WHAT ARE THEIR POLITICAL GUARANTEES WORTH?—NOTHING. ABSOLUTE PROOF THAT GOSACK AND HIS ENABLERS HAVE DIVERTED THE SEWER TAX FOR AT LEAST 25 YEARS IS THE EPA’S $500 MILLION RECENT DIRECTIVE TO THE CITY AND THE OUTRIGHT $300,000 FINE. THE CITY IS NOW FEVERISHLY CAMPAIGNING FOR WHAT THEY HAVE NOW RE-BRANDED AS A 1% STREET TAX WITH NO SPECIFICS.

MORE IMPORTANTLY NO MENTION OF AN OMISSION OF THE SEWER TAX. WHERE DID THE MONEY GO & THE AMOUNT FROM THE 2ND 1% TAX? THE TIMES RECORD IS NOW CALLING THE FORMER 1% STREET/SEWER TAX , THE 1% STREET TAX. THESE FACTS INDICATE THE F.S. CITY GOVERNMENT IS AN OLIO OF CONUNDRUMS, OBFUSCATIONS, DIVERSIONS AND MAYBE MUCH MORE.

If voters approve the 10 year extension it will generate a minimum of $250 million by one of the 1% taxes, but what about the second 1% tax, what happens to it?

The downtown insiders have closed ranks and their battle cry is “we must educate Fort Smith citizens”, i.e. program, indoctrinate & obfuscate. Government’s golden rule.

The main subject here is the upcoming May election to renew or reject what has been a 30 year 1% street/sewer tax that generated $600 million which specifically demanded every penny be used equally for renovation of sewers & street improvements, resulting in citizen taxpayers having little to show for a remake of streets & sewers. The tax tally could have reached $1.2 billion during the 3 decade long period.

The present and some of the past city governments for the last 30 years have diverted, misapplied, & misappropriated the $600 million to $1.2 billion and have no qualms about unctuously asking for another $250 million to $500 million replete with no guarantees (same as the previous 30 years) on what & how they would spend the upwards to $ ¼ BILLION to $ ½ billion. “Trust us”, again.

The question continues to be Where Did The $600 million to $1.2 billion Go? Certainly not on streets and sewers.

Back in the day, 25 years ago, city government, the Chamber of Commerce, & perhaps others ran a successful campaign to get the 1 Cent street/sewer sales taxes passed, all wrapped up in sweet promises.

Observe the present day condition of streets & sewers.

The campaign was a simple one, but effective. Citizens were besieged daily with the written and spoken phrase “It’s only a penny”. The proponents of the well financed 1 cent tax campaign featured their media ads with a 1 cent copper penny with Abe’s image sunny side up.
Citizens bought into it in 1985, bought into it again in 1995, and again in 2005 and now the question is will citizens be willing to get stiffed again for the 4th time, with the city’s battle cry “Great streets & no more flooding for only a penny”? That worthless little copper created somewhere between $600 million & $1.2 billion in 30 years and disappeared with no explanations from the “officials” the taxpayers elected to protect their purse and property. WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?
Fool me once, shame on you…fool me 4 times, shame on me.

What clever, surreptitious media blitz will the city & their enablers come with this go-around?

SYNOPSIS:
A FACTUAL REVELATION OF THE CONDUCT OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF FORT SMITH, AR REVEALS AT THE VERY LEAST ITS INCOMPENTENCY OR AT ITS WORST CRIMINALITY.

Tuesday night’s official Board Meeting Jan. 20th : In view of the Environmental Protection Agency’s leveling a $ ½ billion demand against the city of Fort Smith, coupled to an outright $300,000 FiNE, why would the Board’s major topic of discussion be centered on Agenda 21’s 87.59 miles of unfunded Trails? The startup costs given by unelected NGO Parks Commission Chair Lorie Robertson would be $17 million, this without available funding. She states the Parks NGO will demand 20%, not the 10% the TR reports as their part of the newly named “1% street tax”.

Major shortfalls continue to plague F.S. city government, e.g. deficits in Fire & Police pensions, accompanied by unfunded across the board 8% pay raises for city employees (4% increase in healthcare costs, 1% cost of living, up to 3% for step/merit increases, & the unfunded fluoridation of the people’s water supply). Yet Trails occupy center stage in official Board Meetings. All mum on the payment of the $ ½ billion EPA demand!

Facts support that one of the 1% street & sewer taxes have generated about $600 million dollars in its 30 year history. These taxpayer funds have been misapplied (who knows for what) and diverted.

In view of the diversion and misapplication of taxpayer funds, absent explanations and/or apologies to taxpayers, city government is now calling on voters to approve another 10 year 1% tax, replete with no specificities, as if they would be honored. And the other 1% tax?

The Times Record & the Fort Smith City Government have re-branded the name of the one of the two taxes to the 1% street tax, blatantly leaving out sewers. Why is that? According to the Fort Smith city government’s website there are two taxes, 1% for streets & a 1% for sewers, therefore why is the Times Record & city government now only talking about a 1% street tax in light of the $ ½ billion EPA mandate plus the $300,000 fine. This smacks of major deceptions aimed at the taxpaying citizen.

There’s no avenue for thinking citizens to comprehend & understand the circuitous maze of deception precipitated by city government. Again, there are TWO 1% taxes—a 1% tax for streets & a 1% for sewers. Why would the Times Record, always without questions, continue to alter the name of the official 1% street/sewer tax?
http://www.fortsmithar.gov/newviews/Files/2012%20Sales%20Tax%20Election%20Presentation.pdf

There is also the matter, and it smacks of bribery, having to do with the for-profit Delta Dental Insurance company’s subsidizing the start-up costs of $1 million to initiate the fluoridation of the F. S. water supply. Fluoridation has been turned down by voters on multiple occasions. Fort Smith sewers are not the only thing that smells.

It is noted that newly elected Director Don Hutchings was a past member of the F.S. Board of Dire

The F.S. City Government’s spendathon continues by subsidizing a plethora of entertainment venues, some government and some private, e.g. the Marshal’s Museum, the motorcycle rally, etc. all in full view of hundreds of millions in shortfalls.

The undeniable & indisputable foundation for this article and synopsis is based on facts that the present and past Fort Smith city governments have manipulated, misapplied and diverted somewhere between $600 million and $1.2 billion of taxpayers’ dollars as witnessed by the 25 year repeated demands made by the EPA on the city of Fort Smith for the correction of sewer/drainage problems. All the while the FS city government turned a 25 year blind eye to the EPA and the very real problems of raw sewage, flooding, etc. yet there were millions of taxpayer dollars readily available for revamping the sewer system/flooding problems. The EPA’s final demand was and is essentially a $ ½ billion demand fine & an additional $300,000 fine. The hubris that City Manager Gosack has shown, accompanied by various city Board members, shows arrogance and disrespect for F.S. taxpaying citizens.

Joe McCutchen

P.S. Notable supporters of Agenda 21 Trail systems, i.e. Lorie Robertson, Drew Linder, Bryan Merry (all unelected NGO members), and Bill Hanna & Casey Millspaugh—All are of the opinion that the Trails are “game changers”, “job creators” & would “draw industry” to the area.
Those are touchy, feel-good opinions directed at voters, perhaps self-serving, and that is all. There is not one shred of credible evidence and no empirical data that would support any of the above.

Did Whirlpool, et al leave because there were not enough Trails? Is that why Mitsubishi never occupied their enormous facility?

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