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Paulding does a pretty good job vetting candidates almost down to how many times their toilet flushes. Nobody is perfect you can usually find something if you go back far enough in someones past. I have always felt that this commission was very well balanced especially when you look at their backgrounds. I like having men on it that have their own businesses, they are use to making the hard decisions in real life,and they are use to responsibility. For the most part they have made their mistakes and learned. They are not perfect and you won't like everything they do. Quite honestly as long a

Our economic development is is barely 2 years old. I am not sure what if anything was happening as far as recruiting companies to the airport or anywhere else in the county before that. Many times companies looking to relocate may spend up to a year or more looking at prospective locations. After that it can take 6 months to a year to hammer out the paper work and up to 2 years to complete a facility. I can tell you that the counties prospective industrial sites are being shown to different companies multiple times a month sometimes. Companies look at what you already have also, how well

Are you talking about public officials saying that we are going to put the 4 lane here so if you have the money go buy all that from so and so before we build the road so you can get rich. Were the land owners forced to sell, where they not suspicious when from out of nowhere someone was offering for the property?

It really is not that big of a secret who went. The airport is part of the overall plan for economic development. There is a lot of travel involved, so what. Corporations pay their people all the time to fly. We have companies flying their reps here every week to look at our industrial parks and airport. What is sad is we don't have a 5 star hotel in town for them to stay at or a limo service. Paulding is moving to a much higher level of economic development. We are dealing with companies whose assets are in the billions. Somehow this just reminds me of the CC receipt that show the commis

I know a lot of the families owned a lot of land. I doubt seriously that many of them came by it through any bad deeds. My grandfather and many of his generation put land above all things. They would often buy it every time they had money saved and found a piece at a good price. There is no reason that they or their descendants should not profit. Many made money by selling or building subdivisions. Others became community leaders and got funds for roads and commercialized their property. This is pretty much the intention of our grandfathers that bought, they wanted their descendants to benefit

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My heart goes out to you. Unless you have chi's as companions it is hard to understand how deeply they effect you. Their entire lives revolve around you. They are in your lap or at your feet every moment. They were bred to be lap dogs meaning they prefer humans over dogs. They generally will only share that with other chi's. The attachment is like what you feel for a child because you protect and nurture them. They really are quite helpless and tiny if someone or something is determined to hurt them. Trust is a very big deal to them. My daughter said that when they do trust and love you it ma

I heard the rumor early in the summer,the rumor was that the republicans were going to stop every single entitlement plan period, not just welfare and food stamps, but SS and medicare. I of course did the eye roll. Now it looks as though this was planned and there was some type of pact made to not give in no matter what. This won't end well if they stick to it. On the other hand it is a dose of reality. I know that a lot of people think they will be perfectly safe and because they are the good guys they won't suffer much.

I had my last child in private school. When you pay that kind of money they respond to your complaints. If they don't agree with your issues they almost always have a long waiting list if you decide to leave. Public schools and buses are pretty good for teaching kids and parents about the real world. There is competition in the real world and every time you leave your house for school or a job you are at about the highest risk you will ever be for injury or death. Sports and games teach kids critical thinking skills and motivate them to use their brains to avoid injury and pain. It is a dos

It is my understanding that we have a local citizen that video tapes almost every open board meeting in the county, sort of like a watch dog. It is my understanding that this person taped the open airport authority meeting. I could be mistaken, but I am wondering if that person might share the video of that meeting and why they did not.

Economic development is very competitive. Communities with economic development in place compete fiercely for large industrial corporations. If they can find out what a community is offering a corporation they will one up it to get them back. The reaction by the Mayor of Atlanta is exactly the reason that this was kept quiet. They have a lot of pull and it there is a lot of money to be made they want it in their coffers. They of course reacted after the press release and there is less they can do to block our plans to grow our airport. There is simply nothing to be done about the secrecy i

We set a cut off year once you begin the program, after that year we will help you with one child, but you will never see a penny more for additional children. If families hit rough spots we base assistance on work records, no work record no help. Quite frankly I suspect that we pay out about a hundred thousand per child for 18 years when you look at all the entitlements. So any number under that saves the taxpayer a lot of money.

The problem is this, people have found a way to get rich off of the poor. It has become acceptable for the poor to be consumers because our economy is dependent on it. Now you and I don't make anything off the poor unless it is simply an overall part of a robust economy. The bottom line is that we are quickly running out of taxpayers because those that get rich off the poor are very greedy. Before you start pointing fingers at a political party you need to look around and see how many actually profit. Your next door neighbor who has a section 8 house or a small convenience store. Some folk

I have suggested many times that taxpayers money should be used to purchase fertility of anyone over the age of 18. It is completely voluntary, the people that we don't want reproducing will probably be the first in line. The drug users, those whose biggest ambition in life is to have a large screen tv will probably sell it for about 5 thousand.

Todd has a reputation of listening to his constituents and bringing up their concerns to the commission. He has the reputation of being the go-to man if you don't like something going on. He does take the time to explain why he votes for things even if some don't agree. He is openly critical at times, and I have no issue with that. The airport is in his district and it is a magnet for hard feelings and grudges in this county. Some of it with good reason. He has constituents that if they learn anything about the airport are on the war path. Some of them have valid reasons. The decision to

My understanding is that multiple aerospace companies have been pitched to from almost day one of the airport being constructed. Along the way it was discovered that the wagon was put before the horse when it came to a fuel farm and water tower. This was an issue that laid solely on the airport authority and finally was resolved. The commissioners can only trust the airport board to know how to conduct proper airport business. Non the less they took heat for it any way. Smart people would have had plan A, B, C, D, and on and on to stop the bleeding of taxpayer money at the airport. Mayb

I know what they say. I have many friends that are strictly conservative. They are my age, own their own business. Some have children with issues, some have their own health problems. They simply can not pay 1000's a month for coverage. Medical bankruptcy is a crime. So much could have been done before we got to this point. I know people think because you own a business you are rich. We are certainly treated that way by utility, water, internet phone, ect. We are charged almost double what residential pay. You get your white pages listing for free. The same listing, name, address, number

I shared this one with a friend last night. I have always been a little twisted in that I find the expression on people's face when they are scared hilarious.

Now we are getting down to the real issue. How do you go into office worth about 500,00 and come out with 5 million? How can you leave office be working for a lobby for a million a year? They will not create laws that keep them honest it was tried here in Georgia by the Teaparty and because some Democrats supported it, the Republicans turned on them. The jerks will use anybody or anything for personal gain.

I envision small corporate jets that carry CEO' of local industry,movie folks, weekend hobbyist, flight school and charters. Hopefully industry that repairs and experiments small jets and airplanes. That was what the airport was envisioned to do. I have no idea how many residents we have that have an income that allows for charter, hobby or flight lessons. My guess we are not looking at thousands. There is some odd chance that we could become another LaGuardia but I seriously doubt it. I will be blunt, people have families they need to feed and care for. They need jobs, good jobs. We have

At this point there is no way to know how many people support expansion of the airport. Many voted against it in the beginning, now it s here there is no way to vote on it's commercial growth. My understanding is that Gwinnett did not send them packing. Propeller got a good look at how they do business down there and decided they wanted no part of it. Quality of life? 1-2 hour commutes coming and going to work. Spending the bulk of disposable income on the wrong side of the county line. Small business owners struggling due to the money spent on the way home in other counties. People need g

It was suggested to us. My son is what they use to call medically needy. He is in no way disabled, but his continued good health is dependent upon his meds and strict diet. The issue for us was he could not be privately insured. The reason I have never applied for SSI for him is I don't want him to be given a check every month. I have seen intellectually normal kids that can function get them. They settle for that check and see it as a sort of independence. My youngest DD got it for a year after her dad died we had some of the same issues. If you don't absolutely have to do it, if you really

The question is will the government investigate everyone of those clients to confirm they are eligible. I seems that once you get it that is it.

Generally people with lawyers get it quicker. People over 50 are filing for it in droves because it is so difficult to get hired these days. Many of them have some normal aging issues that a good lawyer can get them qualified for like arthritis. Most of these people are willing to work and have tried repeatedly for years. It would seem that employers see age as a disability so they leave many no choice.

I listened to him for years. Then he started in on the working class basically saying they didn't deserve anything from safe working conditions to overtime. I worked in shipping and recieveing at a local plant, they had a job that involved rollers they were threaded by people standing on rolled material until they fed in a roller. You had to be extremely careful, a lady slipped and had her foot crushed and amputated that night. I had been the first on the scene to help her. A few days later Rush was on a rant, people like that should basically be pushed out and find some way to survive. I coul