(Originally posted on 8/1/2010 7:07:00 PM)

News from Fort Smith, the undocumented sanctuary city.

Applause! Applause!                                                                                    August 1, 2010

Why?

Will tell you why.

Fort Smith City government has dedicated themselves to wiping out the city’s deficit.

Citizens reading this screed are asking where’s the proof?  How dare you question the legitimacy of this duly elected Board? Assistant City Manager Gosack has already proclaimed that the city could utilize grass seed instead of sod and discontinue transporting dead animals to the morgue in order to save money.

Following on the heels of this huge cost cutting suggestion, the City Directors, calling on their economic wisdom, will remove themselves from the taxpayer lunch table twice a month.  Now that is commitment; relieving the taxpayers from funding 14 meals per month!

At about the same time the Convention Center Commission (food tax bunch) will also remove themselves from the taxpayer’s funded table, saving the cost of approximately 8 meals per month. The Convention Center Commission, by their action, has just taken a big slice out of the economic deficit.

On a far less humorous note these alleged city leaders have shown their arrogance in claiming the aforementioned actions are deficit reducing measures.  Obviously this bunch has no intention of removing or reducing the frivolities of city government, e.g. the mayor’s expense account of $20,000 per month, and a multitude of others.

Enter Richard Griffin and his sidekick Ken Pyle with another of the many U.S. Federal Government’s odoriferous programs.  In this case it’s the New Market Tax Credits program to further expand freedom-draining government and exploit citizens. “Those tax credits CAN be sold to investors to offset federal tax liabilities”. (Quotes are from Times Record)  Explanation please.

New Markets is another embryonic government control spin-off from the globalist “Sustainable Development” scheme.  (See Quality of Place)

Question—what kind of double talk is this? Added to that nebulous equation are the following two sentences, which to say the least questions the legitimacy of Griffin Enterprises, e.g. 1. “Money from that sale then CAN be used to fund about 20% (from whence comes the other 80%?) of the cost of an economic redevelopment project”. 2.” New Market Credit funds are INTENDED to incentivize job-creating projects in low-income areas”.    Beware of the words CAN and INTENDED.

Furthermore, the “Homeless” theatrics are beginning to wear thin on the citizens who pay for their productions, Fort Smith Housing Authority, HUD, etc.  The Homeless scam is a 97/3% deal.   3% of the equation cannot fend for themselves physically or mentally and must be taken care of in their totality.  97% of the equation are those who refuse to participate in the arena of life by fending for themselves.  These are precisely the types Griffin, et al cater to, transferring the huge economic expenditures to middleclass Fort Smith and the Republic.

Why should the city be involved in the central government’s scam and opportunistic enablers?  Where are the religious communities and the 501 ©3 non-profits in this matter?  These two entities should be more than willing to satisfy the 3% needs.  A legitimate 501 ©3 or 4 does not depend on or need taxpayers’ funds, and neither do any churches, e.g. Catholic Charities receives billions in taxpayer monies for their sanctuary programs for illegal aliens.  “Faith-based” funding is unconstitutional and immoral.

Back in the day, the Fort Smith Times Record was indeed a worthy newspaper.  Past editors drew much legitimate editorial acclaim.  The 3 who come to mind are Clarence Byrnes, Donald W. Reynolds, and Jack Moseley.   These gentlemen wrote editorials daily and were always substantive.  Not so today.

Since Warren Stephens, owner of Stephens, Inc. took control of the Times; editorials have disappeared in the main.  Occasionally, as is the case today 8/1/10 we get a pabulum infested politically correct editorial, always parroting the “establishment talking points”.

Today’s editorial “State needs to do better for children” is a case in point.  The editor, Byron Tate, who apparently wrote the socialistic blathering is expansive on how terrible the conditions are in Arkansas referencing the children.  In his negative posturing regarding the state of Arkansas children he makes this statement, “It’s equally obvious that the state isn’t doing nearly enough to provide for its young”.  Editor, since when do the young belong to the state?  What are you saying about the mentality of those having babies they can’t afford and neglect?  That makes the rest of us responsible?

Next, Editor Tate mentions Arkids First, a welfare program designed for children and created by that forked-tongued former governor Mike Huckabee and has expanded into servicing adults. Tate now wants to make Arkids First available to pregnant women.   How generous.  Tate fails to inform his readership that middleclass Arkansans are already subsidizing illegal Mexican and OTM pregnant women with Huckabee’s FREE prenatal & postnatal care, which has already produced more than 10,000 Anchor Babies who are awarded welfare to age 21 and they can bring in their immediate family from their mother country.

So much for the dispensing of unearned largesse to illegals and the growing citizen welfare community by politicians, bureaucrats and the castrated media.

AYN RAND, “There is no difference between Communism and Socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: Communism proposes to enslave men by force, Socialism—by vote.  It is merely the difference between murder and suicide”.

SENATOR JAMES WEBB (D) VA.,   “The culture so dramatically symbolized by the Southern Redneck is the greatest inhibitor of the plans of the activist Left and the Cultural Marxists for a new kind of society all together. (In case you were wondering why they hate us).

Kindest regards,

Joe McCutchen