Our beautiful and bucolic Martin County is changing, but is it doing so smartly and responsibly?
That depends on what the goal is. Our BOCC seems to approve any and all costly suggestions from the County Staff, the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council (extra cost, loss of local control), the multiple Chambers of Commerce, the Crony supporting Charities, the Commissioners personal pet projects like County golf courses, water parks and beach hot dog stands. Each of these costly boondoggles and services increase costs and act as an incentive for more of the “dependent class” to occupy Martin County. This approach feeds off the productive class and working poor subscribing all the Martin County taxpayers to fund those who consume vs those who contribute. This BOCC seems to be taking the “if you build it, they will come” approach to increasing MC government services. It is no wonder our MCSD is around 40% full of undocumented students. Our roads resemble Broward and Palm Beach County. Our taxes are rising to PBC level and our quality of life is decreasing. That’s their legacy, no matter how they try to spin it on those slick and expensive video messages they have produced to manipulate public perception. Sorry BOCC, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time”.
Then there are their cronies; MCFR, Waste Management, the Chambers of Commerce and their pilot fish “charities” or 501c3s. They all make up a tax funneling eco-system that coerces and redistributes the ever-increasing tax revenues collected from us. I have seen this before and I’m sure many of you have too. Perhaps you escaped it from points north and south, only to find it here too. The “It” is Statism/Progressivism (the big Government redistribution of wealth), and it is undeniably here in our local political parties and in our county government. No longer can we vote straight down R or D party lines. Principles have been traded for the opportunist pragmatist (those who trade the promise of security over our liberty) and look where that’s gotten us.
After 9 months of attending or watching all our BOCC meetings two things are quite obvious. 1) Martin Co. is not a small government, fiscally conservative, individual liberty, Republican BOCC, but one full of “registered Republicans” (RINO’s) only doing so to pander to the myth that Martin County is Conservative. 2) We have a radical conservationist, a NY Progressive, an opportunist career seeking “Republican” politician, a free agent receiver of funds from MC Fire & Rescue union and a confused county sub-contractor crony. The current make-up of this BOCC is insulated by a County Administrator that is happy to intimidate and enforce like a petty tyrant where there are no oaths to “protect, support and defend the US Constitution including the Bill of rights”. They all took the oath of office but seem to have forgotten it. I was in disbelief while witnessing acts and maneuvers that our County attorney takes to assist in running interference for such questionable tactics and actions of favoritism and cronyism by this BOCC. It is at best an appearance of impropriety, but I think it’s something worse, standard operating procedure.
What can we do and why should we do it? The only thing we can do is vote them out and support their replacements, leaders who value and govern via individual liberty and the US Constitution. They must be replaced since they are more loyal to County power and coercion instead of the individual (and our liberties).
The current make-up of Commissioners, Admin and Attorney see us as mere revenue generators for them to spend and create more dependency on their “products or services” obligating us to financial freedom killing debt. Just like Bernie Sanders and A.O.C they are pushing the “common good” at the expense of the individual. VOTE THEM ALL OUT!
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