{"id":3567,"date":"2013-08-27T09:31:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/27\/bocc-toe-k-i-s-s-i-n-g-first-comes\/"},"modified":"2013-09-05T07:40:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T14:40:52","slug":"bocc-toe-k-i-s-s-i-n-g-first-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/bocc-toe-k-i-s-s-i-n-g-first-comes\/","title":{"rendered":"BOCC &#038; TOE, k. i. s. s. i. n. g."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the three theological virtues that Christians uphold is hope &#8211; hope for all things religious to exist and turn out for the best in eternity.  That&#8217;s my layman&#8217;s take on the virtue; a theologian would probably say it differently.  Without a doubt, most Americans are raised in a Christian ethical framework.  Just as faith, hope and love infuse our theology, those virtues contribute to every other American milieu.  One raised in America simply cannot avoid them.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is a long way around of saying that when I go to a night meeting of the leadership of the two most powerful governing bodies in Elbert County, I attend with a measure of hope.<\/p>\n<p>Now, my detractors will claim that I hope for a train wreck, that I bring my video camera out of a prurient interest to capture scenes of liberals with their figurative pants down around their ankles.  That&#8217;s not true.  No one needs to see those flowery liberal undies.  I&#8217;m programmed to hope for the best.  Train wrecks make me uncomfortable.   I bring the camera because it&#8217;s far more accurate than my memory, and I value accurate history.<\/p>\n<p>As a former small businessman in Elbert County, one of my keen interests is jobs and economic growth.  I always hope for talk about these things.  This night, jobs and economic growth got crowded out by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>need to kill the deer inside the town limits of Elizabeth<\/li>\n<li>need to scrape money off of oil &amp; gas development to build county water projects<\/li>\n<li>need to write more grant proposals<\/li>\n<li>need to have a county-wide bike path<\/li>\n<li>need to have a county-wide horse trail system<\/li>\n<li>need to get more shoppers to come to Elizabeth from Franktown<\/li>\n<li>need to have eco-tourism out in the Bijou because it&#8217;s so like going to the mountains<\/li>\n<li>need to build the 2nd Running Creek crossing at the south end of Main Street<\/li>\n<li>need to raise taxes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My hopes for real economic proposals turned to despair.  I don&#8217;t think any of the people running the two most powerful organizations in Elbert County have a clue about how to set conditions favorable to private sector growth and job creation.  If they do, they sure didn&#8217;t mention it tonight.<\/p>\n<p>B_Imperial<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B8T6z7o2EAQ\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"300\" width=\"530\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the three theological virtues that Christians uphold is hope &#8211; hope for all things religious to exist and turn out for the best in eternity. That&#8217;s my layman&#8217;s take on the virtue; a theologian would probably say it differently. Without a doubt, most Americans are raised in a Christian ethical framework. 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