{"id":95,"date":"2007-09-20T12:36:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T19:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/20\/wheres-the-beef\/"},"modified":"2007-09-20T13:17:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T20:17:59","slug":"wheres-the-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/wheres-the-beef\/","title":{"rendered":"where&#8217;s the beef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/ecn_trw_9_20_07_a.jpg\" title=\"TRW_9_20_07_a\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/ecn_trw_9_20_07_a.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"TRW_9_20_07_a\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/ecn_trw_9_20_07_b.jpg\" title=\"TRW_9_20_07_b\"><\/a><font face=\"TimesNewRoman\">The group who attend each planning commission meeting to lobby against development and growth, yet who never manage to persuade the planning commission or the BOCC to see things their way, should consider why they are ineffective in stopping growth.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>There are only two reasonable explanations.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Either they are, in themselves, poor representatives, or they in fact, do not represent a majority of citizens.\u00a0<\/font><font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/ecn_trw_9_20_07_b.jpg\" title=\"TRW_9_20_07_b\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/ecn_trw_9_20_07_b.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"TRW_9_20_07_b\" \/><\/a><\/span>These periodic laments in the local fishwrap reinforcing a self-image of heroic victims of the money-grubbing enviro-stomping capitalist development nightmare, may comfort some people, but this position leads to only one conclusion \u2013total obstruction.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Cobbles of \u201csmart\u201d to growth, \u201chealth and well being\u201d to environment, \u201cunique\u201d to Elbert County, and \u201ccommitment\u201d to the future, all make nice sound bites, but from a bunch of folks with self-proclaimed vision, I would expect a little more discussable content.<span>\u00a0 S<\/span>logans are just not persuasive.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group who attend each planning commission meeting to lobby against development and growth, yet who never manage to persuade the planning commission or the BOCC to see things their way, should consider why they are ineffective in stopping growth.\u00a0 There are only two reasonable explanations.\u00a0 Either they are, in themselves, poor representatives, or they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}