Author: Stan Deatherage | Published: April 14th, 2010

    Like all good comedies, the Candidate's Forum for the Commissioner Candidates at the Community College presented its high points and its low points. These are my opening and closing remarks.

Opening Remarks

    Good evening.

    Margaret Thatcher once spoke, "The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." This pretty much sums up our future in today's political America, where our federal government is spending 25% more than it is projected to collect in revenues ... and that does not include the burgeoning debt service, which at present, is incalculable.

    How does that effect Beaufort County and our local government? Simply speaking ... it all flows down hill, and we are the catch basin. Now that the Democrats in Washington, DC have taken our nation, inarguably, in a socialist direction, we too in Beaufort County will feel the effects. And now that this move has been made, and before the Democrats trade in their symbol of the jackass for the red hammer and sickle, we must form a line of defense to save America for us, and future generations.

    How is the Beaufort County involved with this simple-minded approach to governing?

    The issues: Health care reform; the county owns the local hospital, we provide what mental health service that is available, and we manage the allocation of Medicaid, and until recently, we have paid more than our full share ... The protection of our national borders; the Federal Government makes a half-hearted attempt to protect our borders, and consequently, Beaufort County spends over 2 million dollars a year to provide mandated services to illegal aliens ... Education; almost every new administration rotating into service in Washington, DC believes that they know best how to educate our youth, when, prior to the Lyndon Johnson administration, this was the constitutional domain of state and local governments. This is the saddest consequence of the heavy handed and simple-minded liberal policies circulating out of Washington, DC. We are losing the intellectual resources of generations of our collective youth.

    As a county commissioner: Setting policy and running the county is simple. What is difficult is cleaning up the wrong-headed policies of liberals, and I just will not lie down for that. I respect the United States Constitution, and furthermore, I am so sick and tired of the Socialists, ruling from Washington, DC, trampling that document, and using our money to do it - until, of course, "they run out of it."

    Closing Remarks

    In all reality, in governing ourselves, some folks have to pull the wagon while others ride. That's just the way it is. And the problem at this juncture: The Democrats / Socialists in Washington, DC and Raleigh are inviting way too many to ride so they will continue to vote Democrat in all elections. In effect, they are buying their votes, with your tax dollars, and at this level of their redistribution of the wealth: This is Socialism.

    And the cruelty of Socialism: It not only robs the wealth from the productive citizen, It also robs the incentive for a purposeful life from generations of people, who could sustain a productive existence, and therefore, be a benefit to their local communities. This is patently wrong.

    Those of you, who have paid attention over the last 13 plus years, know my endeavors as your Beaufort County Commissioner have been that I have voted consistently conservative as I governed this county. In fact, no one on this dais has, or will ever have as conservative a voting record as I have employed as your commissioner.

    I want you to ask yourself, with more and more folks climbing aboard the Socialist wagon, can you afford to lose that voice as your commissioner.

    Thank-you.

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