{"id":982,"date":"2008-10-03T13:23:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T20:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/03\/poverty-of-the-left\/"},"modified":"2008-10-04T05:26:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T12:26:22","slug":"poverty-of-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/poverty-of-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"poverty of the left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RE: <a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/gopstrategy.pdf\" title=\"abe21.net GOP Strategy\">abe21.net GOP Strategy<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<span class=\"textstyle0\">Our water resources are under siege. The Master Plan is being made irrelevant by BOCC policy moves. No prospects, no jobs, no leadership. Elbert County Republicans have risen to the occasion by coming out with three uninspired candidates with no detailed platform to solve our problems.&#8221; <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lets look at this lament.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Water resources are under siege by who?\u00a0 The Left who want to regulate water resources in Elbert County.<\/p>\n<p>The Master Plan is advisory and when the BOCC moves to clarify this fact in county regulations, who complains?\u00a0 The Left.<\/p>\n<p>Who have stonewalled and fought all economic development in Elbert County for as long as anyone can remember?\u00a0 The Left.<\/p>\n<p>Who thinks they can plan and design the best solutions for Elbert County?\u00a0 The Left.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We need candidates who will shrink government, reduce and remove regulations, and prevent government from impeding the private sector in doing what it does best &#8211; capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>To the Left, capitalism is the &#8220;C&#8221; word, never to be uttered in polite company.\u00a0 Candidates who do not exhibit signs of totalitarian tendencies are &#8220;uninspired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Left got exactly what they fought for &#8211; a stagnant local economy that is hardest on the middle class (the poor don&#8217;t stand a chance here.)<\/p>\n<p>Elbert County must move beyond the Left&#8217;s failed country-in-county utopia and embrace a prosperous future.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve reached a dead end with the Left&#8217;s empty visions.\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to admit that mistake and dump the Left&#8217;s failed ideology with all the prejudice it deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RE: abe21.net GOP Strategy &#8220;Our water resources are under siege. The Master Plan is being made irrelevant by BOCC policy moves. No prospects, no jobs, no leadership. Elbert County Republicans have risen to the occasion by coming out with three uninspired candidates with no detailed platform to solve our problems.&#8221; Lets look at this lament. [&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":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economics","7":"category-politics","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}