Remember local control? We NH folk used to be in favor of it. A couple of excitable state representatives NOT from Concord decided that local control was for ....NOT them the other night at a Concord City Hall meeting. This picture shows Rep. George Lambert (short guy in far right (!) corner with red tie) and next to him, Rep. JR Hoell, the taller one with the blue blazer, peering over the shoulders of the Concord City Councilors.
Lambert is from Litchfield. Hoell is from Dunbarton. Neither of them represent the City of Concord.
This was an open meeting, and the Council was gracious enough to hear a great deal of testimony from people who aren't from Concord. Other state reps said their piece and went back to their seats. Not these two. They hovered, desperate to hijack the hearing.
Hoell was updating his Facebook page while hovering. An excerpt:
Local control be damned, Concord! State Rep. JR Hoell (from Dunbarton) thinks you have issues, and you need to replace your City Council! Who needs local control when you've got Hoell?
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It stopped being about local control when money outside of Concord is being used to purchase the vehicle, ie federal taxpayer money
That's an interesting point of view, Anonymous.
Are you really saying that any city or town that accepts any sort of federal monies surrenders all local control? Will outsiders come in and run the city/town now? Must the local officials step down? Who is in charge? And why has this never happened in the past?
Oh - I know. Because it's bullshit.
The City of Manchester got federal grant money to build an access road to the airport a few years ago. Mayor Gatsas has yet to step down. The federal gummint hasn't stepped in to run Manchester.
Grant money helped build the new bridge in Portsmouth. I'm not holding my breath waiting for city officials to resign en masse. It's still Portsmouth, and it's still locally controlled.
Staying anonymous was a wise choice in this instance.
That's all you've got? Nothing about the expanding Police State? Don't forget, NH has Regional Tactical Teams and this Tactical Assault Vehicle could be used in a number of locales....
Wow. Who's the idiot that wrote this piece?
If it was "local" control we wouldn't have a BEARCAT. Would Concord buy one of these with their own money? No. If you could follow a logical train of thought it's that simple.
Back to Grok with you sparky. You've missed the point completely.
Anonymous #3 - what a devastating takedown that is.
Anonymous# 4. Please work on your reading comprehension skills before you come back. The point just zoomed right over your heedless head.
It would be a wonderful precedent if towns that took money from other towns, counties, states had to face public scrutiny from those actually funding their projects. But, alas, your are right, money is fungible and everybody does it so why should we care in this instance.
That actually isn't the point, anonymous. In a civilized country, we share resources. That's why NH money went to help people recover from Hurricane Sandy. Just as NJ money came up here after Hurricane Irene to help northern NH rebuild.
Taking a loan doesn't make the federal gubmint responsible for the city of Concord, any more than borrowing $5 from your next door neighbor puts him in charge of your checkbook.
I'm not sure if I understand fully the Annonymous comments above. I say this because if folk do NOT want, in any shape or form, money from other taxpayers, which is US, all U.S. taxpaying citizens (which of course translates to all tax funded projects),then we should have established at STATE LEVEL, a system for being self supporting and self sufficient. We have NOT. We won't and that's the end of that. The large question that individuals such as the above are NOT asking, is this. Americans must start making up their minds about what kind of system they want - a purely Capitalistic system which is what we have or one that is more encompassing, engaging and inclusive of all citizens. What we have now is a system where anything goes. Capitalism cannot be regulated. This is the point of pure Capitalism. We take what we get good and bad (mostly bad) and suck it up. JOBS? What a joke. The pure philosophy of Capitalism is job destruction and creation cyclically and continually. This is Econ. 101. To those whack jobs who demand air in the form of fantasy self sufficiency, I suggest they go off into their own mental wilderness and live in a land that has never been touched by the white man (there isn't one) and continue fantasizing. We can do without idiots like these who have nothing positive and worthwhile to contribute.
Keep the good stuff coming Susan.
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