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Wednesday, September 2, 2020
THE DEVIL CAME A KNOCKIN' BY: VIOLET
he's been dropping little seeds, in hopes that he could sow...
For many years we have seen the gradual removal of God from our country. From our schools and our homes. We have replaced it with idols from sports, music and entertainment. For those of you who were raised in a family that believed in God you understand that what you fill your heart with is what you will display in your character. What have you allowed your child to fill their heads and hearts with? Have you been to school and listened in your child's class? Probably not. It's most likely that you just get so busy, right? No one understands any better than I that you have to work and provide for your child. Yet, if you really looked at what you're doing, you'd have to admit you could have taken or could take more time. Children need your time more than they need things. Always remember that.
He showed upon the door step of that which brings us peace
Now anger, rage and violence does not appear to cease.
Looking at our young adults in our streets we see the results of what we have allowed our young people to fill their heads with. They have become desensitized because daily throughout their young lives they either heard words from songs about killing cops and raping women or played games of violence where shooting people was rewarded. They became a group of people who no longer valued the core of morals and values. Many do not even know what that means. The idea that those young people can not comprehend empathy is scary and yet we see it with our very eyes.
I saw him in the corridor of where our children play
and while lurking all around them, they never learned to pray
And the leaders we have somehow allowed ourselves to follow is frightening. There have been times when a cold chill made the hairs of my arms rise as they looked into our televisions and lied like we were too naïve to realize that they were doing so. And now we see a man running to become our greatest leader using a website of a group specifically named after a terrorist group to get to his website. And an Hungarian man by the name of George Soros has supported this cause by paying this group to destroy cities and frighten people. Who do we blame for this disaster unfolding before us? We blame ourselves. We blame ourselves because we CHOSE not to instill these morals and values we knew and understood to be good, we wanted to give our children choices and we really didn't have time for them so... we allowed the village Hilary Clinton said you needed to raise them to do so.
The leaders came together to let the devil in
And stood before the people promoting dreadful sin
We are now looking into possibilities of Our Country becoming something it was never intended to be. Something the bloodshed of our American soldiers would make in vain. We will see people standing in line for food rations being grateful for slothfulness, their pride will take them to destruction without realizing it before it's too late, while others envy those who work to own luxuries they struggle to destroy them. Some fill their slothful days with gluttony, attempting to eat their way to happiness, their greed to have the items in stores overtakes their sense of decency and they, rob steal and destroy. Prostitution is legalized and promoted, with no policemen in our streets women and men are subjected to sexual cruelties one can not imagine. We visibly see the wrath in the streets of the many hearts at unrest.....the chaos YOU brought them by inviting in technology to form your child's thinking. Perhaps the schools and universities have had a hand in the change of their hearts but the greatest role should be played by you. Stop blaming everybody and everything.... your child's behavior begins with you. You can not change the path they take as adults but you are the beginning, you are where they create what life should be like....what are you teaching them?
The devil came a knockin' for souls that lost their way
And he will win the battle if we don't start to pray
Thursday, August 20, 2020
$6 MILLION DOLLAR LOAN AND A NEW TAX? Is Gloucester, Va. Heading In The Right Direction?
The Gloucester County public school system, county administration, the School Board and the Board of Supervisors are pushing for a new 1% retail sales and use tax. The final decision about this tax will be made when the citizens of Gloucester vote on November 3rd. Many Gloucester citizens have been led to believe this tax is needed to prevent future real estate tax increases related to renovating and or constructing new Gloucester public school buildings. The same real estate tax insinuation was also used when the powers in control entered the landfill contract with Waste Management and when the Commonwealth started the lottery. They are also expecting to get our consent to borrow nearly $6 Million on September 1st. Remember, Silence is Consent.
Before deciding whether to consent to more borrowing or voting for or against the new tax, everyone should ask themselves; are those people really being responsible with the money they already get from us? It is my hope that I can open more citizens’ eyes to some, not all, of what they use our tax dollars for.
As you know, we have two public libraries. Some years back the powers in control decided to abandon our two libraries and began to rent spaces for them. It now costs us over $270,000 per year in rent payments alone. This has been going on for more than 20 years. That $5 million could have gone a long way towards building two libraries on land the County/School system already own.
Several years ago, we began renting our Public Health Department space after the powers in control vacated a building we already owned. Now we are paying over $86,000 per year in rent alone. The state reimburses us for that expenditure, making it appear like a good deal on the surface. But remember, federal money, state money, County money, it’s all the People’s tax money; right? What most people don’t realize is, when we previously owned our own space, the state was renting it from us, not from the Main Street Preservation Trust through us. Owning our own space again would generate enough long term revenue to maintain the space and offset some of the 45% Health Department cost share the County pays to the state or offset the cost of the department’s phone service; which annually are more than $450,000 and more than $10,000 respectively.
Several years ago, the powers in control of our County and Schools began to focus on building a new transportation facility for our School System. (Well, if the truth be known, they were factually focusing on vacating the bus garage and old Page properties to satisfy an adjacent landowner, but that is another story.) When an analysis was done of the County’s and the School’s existing transportation facilities, the County’s repair garage that was located at the intersection of Providence Road and Route 17, was finally publicly exposed to be in extremely poor and non-OSHA compliant condition. Instead of consolidating our County and School System transportation and repair facilities by renovating and expanding the existing bus facilities, the powers in control have decided to build a new School System transportation facility next to the new Page Middle School and the County now rents garage space from Bay Transit.
We currently pay for two finance directors: one in the School System and one in County administration. Their combined base salaries alone cost us over $235,000 in 2020.(See SlideShare below) The school system does not write checks or pay bills and all our tax money flows through the County finance office and the Treasurer’s office. Wouldn’t it be more economical if the School System and the County combined financial services at the County level instead of paying for two directors? The same type of consolidation could occur with information technology, facilities maintenance, grounds maintenance and transportation. Consolidation of County and School System services would save well over a million tax dollars annually.
To some, Animal Control is a wonderful department, to others it is an overreaching arm of our local government. No matter what side you are on, I hope we can all agree that we do not need Animal Control employees patrolling our roads and streets looking for infractions or unreported loose animals. It should be a reactionary department, not a policing agency. We certainly do not need an Animal Control employee driving a taxpayer vehicle to Gloucester Point Beach twice a day to walk out on the pier far enough to view the people laying out and then driving around the swimming pool at the Gloucester Point Yacht Haven on his way back to Route 17. This has been going on for at least four years that I have witnessed. Wouldn’t we save tax dollars if the County Administrator reined in such wasteful behaviors?
We currently have a County department called “Community Engagement and Public Information”. (It was previously titled “Community Education”). This department’s budget is currently $575,591; $530,381 of that is nothing but salaries and benefits. This department performs functions normally performed by the School System, County administration, social services and I.T. They produce the Beehive printed newsletter and the Gloucester County Town Crier online newsletter. This department also acts as the Freedom of Information Act facilitator. Seven employees from this department facilitate community use of seven of our nine school facilities. The department also facilitates connecting the community with various nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations. Close to a half million dollars could be saved annually if this department were dismantled and the functions they perform returned to where they belong; the School System, County administration, social services and I.T. As for a Freedom of Information Act facilitator, there is no state or other code requiring such. Department heads and County administration could receive and respond to such requests.
Between 2018 and 2020, the budgets for the following County
departments increased by the amounts shown. (See SlideShare below)
County Administration, $210,000.
Human Resources, $213,000.
Real Estate Assessment, $79,000.
Financial Services, $185,000.
Planning and Zoning, $128,000
Community Engagement, $41,000.
Engineering, $96,000.
Building Inspections, $109,000
From 2017 to 2021 the Gloucester Schools Superintendent’s salary increased by nearly $55,000. (See link below to 2017 news article referencing the Super’s pay and the SlideShare below)
There were other, less significant increases and a few
decreases. The most significant decreases are as follows.
Geographic Information System (GIS), $18,000.
Animal Control, $8,000
Economic Development, $75,000
Information Technology (I.T.), $75,000
As we see, our local government keeps getting bigger and bigger and costing more and more of our hard-earned dollars. Now the powers in control want us to a submit to paying for a $6 Million loan and another 1% increase in our local retail sales and use tax: all for our School System. We must not forget, former Governor Terry McAuliffe made Gloucester part of the future Historic Circle (Currently known as the Historic Triangle). Once that transformation is complete, Gloucester will be added to the Tommy Tax localities. That will be at least another 1% tax added to our local retail sales and use tax. When will it stop? Not until we say enough is enough.
They are telling us part of the $6 Million loan is to build a
new bus loop at Abingdon Elementary School. What they are not telling us is the
contract for the bus loop was awarded back in February for $541,599.08 and is
almost finished. (See SlideShare below.) In the loan information they are
saying it will cost $790,000. (See SlideShare below) Why are they borrowing
money for something that is nearly finished and why are they saying it will
cost more than the contract price? At-Large Supervisor Ashley Chriscoe had this
to say:
“The Achilles bus loop was started with the intent we would Need
to do this borrowing to pay for it.”
Well, §15.2-1238 of the Code of Virginia states:
Except in emergency, no order for delivery on a contract or
open market order for supplies or contractual services for any county
department or agency shall be awarded until the chief financial officer has
certified that the unencumbered balance in the appropriation concerned, in
excess of all unpaid obligations, is sufficient to defray the cost of such
order.
If they knew they were going to have to borrow money to pay for it, how could they award the contract seven months before having a Public Hearing to get our consent to borrow the money? Something stinks here and may very well be the reason our County Chief Financial Officer abruptly resigned. The Public Hearing is scheduled for September 1st. Comments can be submitted at the following link and will be read into the record during the Public Comment part of the hearing. ClickHere to submit your comments.
On November 28, 2016, I and less than 70 people attended an open house and viewed a film at Gloucester High School. It was our School System’s kickoff of their promotion to renovate GHS or build a new one. It was also the unveiling of a new education platform that is being implemented in our and many other school systems where the communities gave consent by silence. A platform where communism indoctrination is portrayed as a positive education experience. Where everyone gets a participation trophy and other collectivism traits are instilled. Page Middle School was designed to facilitate the platform and so are many of the construction related changes planned for GHS. A lot of the money they are asking for is to fund the ongoing transformation of our public schools and to fulfill the desires of a handful of greedy people who want the old Page and bus garage properties vacated.
Do we really want to give our School System a blank check for $100 Million in construction money from a new tax, on top of the $6 Million they want us to consent to borrowing on September 1st? The time to voice your opinion on the loan is during the Board of Supervisors’ Public Hearing on September 1st and the new tax will be decided at the ballot box on November 3rd. Most of all remember, Silence Is Consent. Please don’t be silent……………….
Written By: Kenny Hogge, Sr., Gloucester Point, Va.
Link to article about School Superintendent pay:
Link to Online Public Hearing Comment Form:
Link to Gloucester's Adopted 2020 Budget:
Link to Gloucester County Board of Supervisors' contact information:
https://www.gloucesterva.info/1091/Board-of-Supervisors
Link to Gloucester County School Board's contact information:
https://gets.gc.k12.va.us/school-board
Saturday, August 8, 2020
Who Is Joe Biden Really? By: Violet
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Blue Cities Riot: Coincidence or Not?
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Meet The People In Va. Trying To Run For The U.S. House of Representatives
Monday, February 3, 2020
In State Constitutional Convention Court, Part 8, Time Frame
We want to act pretty fast here folks. Part of the intention of getting this going is to stop all the crazy new laws coming out of Richmond. We want this event to happen before July 1st, 2020. This way we can put injunctions or stays on all the new codes until they can be checked against both the Commonwealth's Constitution as well as the Federal Constitution to ensure there are no violations to the unalienable rights of the people which we all know there are plenty.
That is why I keep pushing this idea on a daily basis. It is far easier to fight and maintain our unalienable rights than it is to lose them and have to fight to try and get them back. Once lost, the rights are no longer considered rights. We can't use the regular courts for multiple reasons as already discussed to include that the courts are way to slow. Voting these folks out is also way to slow and the rights will already be gone. The chances of bringing in all new people and hoping they will reverse these insane codes is a pipe dream that may come true, but I am not willing to bank on it. Plus as stated, the unalienable rights will be gone and are no longer rights. At best they will be brought back as privileges that can be taken away at any time.
Sunday, February 2, 2020
In State Constitutional Convention, Part 7, Oath Not To Touch Underlying Constitution
The risk is to great. Once the politicians start on a convention, they will destroy what is there.
Slow down. There will be an Oath administered before the Convention even begins. WIthin that Oath will be a provision that each delegate will swear to that will ensure the underlying Constitution can not be touched for any reason and everyone is going to know that it's not the intention of the Convention to even consider. The only area that will be open is a chance to create an amendment to the present Constitution that will make it very easy to remove any politician from office if they break any area of our Commonwealth Constitution or our Federal Constitution and any of our Bill of Rights.
They will have to prove that what they are proposing does meet the intention of the Constitution. That will be it. There will be absolutely no tolerance for anyone breaching the Oath administered. Besides, the way the plans are starting to come together, there will not be time for that anyway. The intention is to keep costs down so the meeting schedule will be very tight. Plus, I do not believe for a minute that our local representatives to the convention would want to even try to take that on.
We need your help. Get these posts to your local boards and have them put this on the agenda for the public to vote on. It's much easier to maintain our unalienable rights than to have to try and fight to get them back. Voting them out does nothing to reverse the destruction that will be caused and many of the new codes can be killed here, but once put into play, will be nearly impossible to reverse. You can hope and pray that they get reversed, but many are not likely to.
Now is the time for action. Don't sit and hope someone else does this for us. We have that opportunity now. Take advantage of this.
Gloucester County, Virginia Public Schools 2020 Staff Salaries
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Saturday, February 1, 2020
Meet The People Trying To Run Against Mark Warner In 2020
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Blaine Dunn
Omari Faulkner
Roger Franklin
Thomas Speciale
Victor Williams