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“I Am Here from the Government and I’m Here to Help You”. Never Mention, It Was Government That Screwed Things up in the First Place.

September 15, 2022 Skip

“Veto Day” Political Machinations – and out of touch with Founding and NH GOP Platform Principles Once again, our solons have failed to learn from history – Davy Crocket (scroll more to the bottom). Posting is low for me today – just one of those sleepless nights again. However, this came in over the email … Read more

Maggie Hassan’s Latest Ad Says She’s Fiscally Responsible – That’s a Big A** Lie.

July 21, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Maggie Hassan has approved a new “message” with which to interrupt my television viewing. That’s not why, though I’d be flattered. No, the purpose of the ad is to lie about her record on spending and taxes.

Well, It Only Took 15 Years But I’m Finally Right About The National Debt – A Spiral Is About To Happen?

July 2, 2022July 2, 2022 Skip

When a nation’s citizens and its leaders decide that money is no object, money will have no value. For YEARS, while on my town’s Budget Committee, that which cannot be sustained, won’t. Stop taking the “free money” and start being self-sufficient – priorities will sharpen and the “strings attached syndrome” will go away (in which “free” becomes “we will pay MORE over the years for taking the free money than what the free money was worth”.

‘We the People’ Are the New, Permanent Underclass in America

April 13, 2022 Op-Ed

This is financial tyranny.

The U.S. government—and that includes the current administration—is spending money it doesn’t have on programs it can’t afford, and “we the taxpayers” are the ones who must foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity.

Crime

March 16, 2022 Steve Earle

An interesting item in the news on Monday: Amazon announced on Friday it is relocating its employees from downtown Seattle due to “rampant violence” (their words).

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Bail Me Out New Hampshire

January 26, 2022 Op-Ed

Keene had its annual legislature meeting Monday which included city counselors, the mayor, state reps, and a few others. A who’s who of the Democrat Party locally.

NH Lowers Another Tax And Raises More Revenue

December 29, 2021 Steve MacDonald

While Democrats whine about tax cuts for the rich and lowering local tax burdens, New Hampshire Republicans cut business and rooms and meals taxes and raised revenues. Again.

The Federal Government Spent $4.5MM to Torture Ferrets

December 26, 2024December 29, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Senator Rand Paul has released his annual Festivus report on wasteful government spending. Along with torturing ferrets to test Covid vaccines, the government also spent money to find out that eating junk food makes kids fat, to do bad art in New York City, and to pay schools for students who didn’t attend those schools.

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Even Republicans Think We’re Imbeciles and Incapable of Self-Care: The COVID

December 25, 2021 Skip

I recently got the following from a NH Republican House Legislator (who asked for anonymity) lamenting our “political elite” on both sides of the aisle. You know, like NH State Rep Kris Roberts (D): “Government has to protect us from our own stupidity.” However, this is about the Republicans.

School District is Wasting Over $153,000 a Year on a Director of Diversity

October 19, 2021October 19, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Anyone serious about cutting local property taxes has to look at school spending. Administrative overhead, the unproductive labor part of the budget, is killing your rates and is probably already out of control. A problem to which districts like to add with every budget cycle.

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Nashua Isn’t Nashua Anymore

October 11, 2021 Burt Janz

I moved into Nashua in 1982 the week after I was honorably discharged from the US Navy. It was still a relatively small “city” just north of the Massachusetts border. Main Street had a movie theater, there were practice soccer fields on Amherst Street, and the only mall was just off Exit 6.

Quick Takes – Hat Trick

October 3, 2021 NITZAKHON

Within I pick three topics upon which to discourse, but not worth a full-length examination as a standalone piece on their own.

Democrats’ Spending

October 3, 2021October 2, 2021 Op-Ed

The Democrats are pushing to spend more money than most Americans can truly conceive. The Senate, with the help of some Republicans, signed off on what is called the “Infrastructure Bill” for about 1.2 trillion dollars.

Money, Disasters and More Money

September 13, 2021 Steve Earle

Here is something to consider. Rep. Brian Mast (R) on the House Foreign Affairs Committee made a very strong case saying Biden should be removed, and charged with Treason. He offered three primary crimes:

So Nashua is Trying to Pull the Financial Wool Over Your Eyes (Again!)

August 21, 2021 Laura Colquhoun

If any Nashua residents really want to hear what our elected officials think of residents, they must listen to the media post of the Joint Board of Public Works and Committee on Infrastructure of August 10, 2021.

More Attacks on Alderwoman Lu – Mayor Donchess Fires Down

August 17, 2021 Laurie Ortolano

The August 10, 2021 Board of Aldermen meeting was laced with more curt comments from Mayor Donchess towards Elizabeth Lu. This is reminiscent of Attorney Bolton’s vile interruption of Ms. Lu in the June 22, 2021 Board of Aldermen meeting.

They Don’t Want a Republic. They Want a King.

August 14, 2021 Burt Janz

Let’s face it: the “process” is now totally corrupt. Members of Congress, both in the House of Representatives and the Senate, are now considering a bill to pay for “infrastructure.”

The Hits Keep Coming – Part 3

August 8, 2021 Op-Ed

If you are keeping count, this is the third in the series of posts outlining the problems which continue in Belknap county.

The county administration for 2018 has taken a more low-profile strategy in their attempts to take control of appropriating authority. On July 17, 2018, at the Executive Committee review of the budget, a little problem popped up.

The Hits Keep Coming – Part 2

August 7, 2021 Op-Ed

The 2017 sprinkler scam fell apart pretty quickly so for 2018 the Belknap county commissioners tried a more stealthy plan to snatch a few bucks from the contingency fund.

The Hits Keep Coming

August 7, 2021August 5, 2021 Op-Ed

As the ink was still drying on the 2017 Belknap county budget a crisis arose which would require dipping into the county’s contingency fund.