{"id":371,"date":"2010-07-27T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=371"},"modified":"2010-07-27T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T21:01:00","slug":"the-big-smell-of-local-efforts-to-globalize-fort-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"The Big Smell of local efforts to globalize (Fort Smith)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Fort Smith and the Big Smell.                                                     July 26, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n

The economic toxic smell emanating from the Fort City Government is intensifying. Government expansion, expansion, expansion, no matter the conditions. <\/span><\/p>\n

Deputy Administrator Ray Gosack is the guy who stated he was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153too busy to determine if the businesses hired by the city were hiring illegals\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhile a state law dealing with the hiring of illegals goes unattended, and he already has the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153prepared food tax\u00e2\u20ac\u009d spent should citizens be simple-minded enough to pass said tax.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Marshall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Museum was sold as a private donation endeavor, however: Sebastian County has already provided $115, 071 in taxpayer monies to the embryonic civil rights museum.   The museum Director has made a request for $100,000 in cash (?) from the city of Fort Smith and an ongoing $250,000 per year provided the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153prepared food\u00e2\u20ac\u009d tax passes (a slush fund).   It appears that this nearly $500,000 taxpayer \u00e2\u20ac\u0153contribution\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to the museum is to subsidize the so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153private\u00e2\u20ac\u009d endeavor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s SIX fundraisers\/employees. <\/span><\/p>\n

So much for honesty. <\/span><\/p>\n

Enter Richard Griffin and his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sustained Development\u00e2\u20ac\u009d government program operating under the aegis of the Ft. Smith Housing Authority\/New Market Tax Credits, which is one of numerous federal government endeavors to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153stack \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem & pack \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and curtailing citizens\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 freedoms while Griffin and his minions benefit economically from government exploitation. What percentage of the population benefits from these grandiose edifices, and how many would willingly donate their money for such endeavors? <\/span><\/p>\n

Not to be left out is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153economic dog\u00e2\u20ac\u009d called the Ft. Smith Convention Center, a loser by any standard. Privately owned venues are aplenty throughout the city.  As citizens understand and letters to the editor attest, if there is to be a Marshall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Museum let it occupy the Civic Center and pay rent. The question then becomes, are there insider deals that would prevent the above from becoming a reality? <\/span><\/p>\n

You boys just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to be able to get it through your self-serving skulls, we are in a depression and in the midst of the above you have allowed our city to become an undocumented sanctuary city for illegal aliens. Would you boys like to tell us the cost of their presence in the matter of healthcare, food, incarceration, translators, education, Anchor Babies?\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6you get my drift.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Fix the streets and sewers, get off the taxpaying producers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 backs and leave the street tax alone!<\/span><\/p>\n

Kindest regards,<\/span><\/p>\n

Joe McCutchen<\/span><\/p>\n

Fort Smith<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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