Home: Where My Heart Is

There is a small town just outside the Great Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina.  It is near and dear to me for more reasons than I can say.  But there are things going on here that need to be addressed.

Somehow we have difficulty maintaining talented people in the county government.  We simply can not keep them.  One reason is because they are shut out.  Ignored.  Not invited to meetings.  The local boy network (local girls, too).  No different than Congress.  If you are threatening, you are out!

The other reason, and I am simplifying this, is because you are just too talented for this non-progressive community.  Locals matter more than talent.  Awful, but true.  Fortunately, not in every case.  Things go on here which aghast me regularly.

We lost a talented economist who was repeatedly left out of meetings, ignored and lied to.  We lost a planning director because elected government officials and a business manager and another department head didn't do their job.  Either!  They forget who is paying their salary.  The business manager is directed by a former commissioner and does their biddings.  Illegal? It should be.  This nitwit needs to be fired and brought up on charges.  It isn't politics - it IS criminal.

Another department head is a good ole boy.  Panders to whomever he likes.  He needs to be fired, too.

Enter the local commissioners.  Now they are considering paying $50,000 of taxpayer money to hire an auditor in the code enforcement area to evaluate the flow of work.  Excuse me while I vomit.  It is well nigh time they do their jobs.  All of them.

I cancelled my television subscription to a satellite company.  I go on Fb less and less.  Few people want to expose this.

And another thing.  The bridge connecting our two towns is rated a GRADE THREE.  Yet no one has the ***** to write about it.  Fear of losing business, classified ads, etc.  

I am so over this.  I will stay on my knoll where the view is beyond words.  I don't plan to ride on a bridge that is about to collapse.  I do not plan to re-elect any of these characters.  Unless I see some adult behavior.  Soon.

Off to enjoy my view.