Sorry if you have not been able to read this blog lately

So I succumbed to the almighty dollar and did what any money-hungry American capitalist would do, I tried to add advertising via blogger and Google and almost immediately people reporting having trouble connecting. So I will stay poor, keep the ads off, and realize the readers are the most important thing about this blog.

What is going on you ask? Charlie Brooks called to ask me about the taxpayers revolt. I only know what I have heard from the Neal Boortz show and have heard that the new tea parties are primarily the unfair tax people rebranding their attempts at populsm.

Meanwhile the Oconee County Board of Commissioners led by chairman G. Melvin Davis are continuing their moronic path toward an unnecessary new courthouse in Watkinsville. The white elephant that is a large lot of the Williams brothers have razed behind the jail in the latest location infatuation for Miss Vinnie and the Enterprising crowd. Personally I cannot think of a bigger boondoggle than this study of a courthouse we do not need. Why waste $600,000.00 on a study for something I can look at and tell you flat out it is a waste of taxpayers money.

We do not need a new courthouse. We do not need to waste money studying the need for a new courthouse. We do not need to pay architects for a design study for a new courthouse. We could expand on the current location. We can do better and we will. Already there are calls for a Recall Election if the current Board of Commissioners continue to crowd us down this path we do not need to go down.

Let our Board of Commissioner members know we do not want a new Courthouse or study for one. There are much better ways to spend our money.

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