Taxpayers holding bag
Getting $151,000 to quit! Really? What kind of chicanery is this? Based on the Cherokee Scout’s excellent reporting on this matter, this reeks more of a non-discloser agreement.
As reported by the Scout: “Whether a $151,615 payout for an attorney who asked to be fired is in the best interest also remains unanswered.”
How are we to take the Scout’s reporting that, “Bryant said Brown advised that it would be in the county’s best interest to fire him.”
Mr. Brown’s contract states if he “is terminated at any time while the attorney is ready, willing and able to continue to perform the duties of county attorney then, in that event, the county agrees to pay unto the attorney …” so on and so forth.
Can it be said that holding true to his contract, he was ready, willing and able to perform his duties and that the problem lies elsewhere?
To the best of my knowledge, Mr. Brown has yet to comment on the matter. In any event, the taxpayers are holding the bag for what happened in private.
Ron Gaynor, Murphy
Americans are suffering today
Most Americans are suffering financially. The middle class is disappearing. About 70% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Your daughter complains her shoes are tight, your wife’s toothache is getting worse and you’re wondering if the gas in your tank will make it to payday. It keeps you up at night.
Many Americans believe the government can fix the economy. It can’t. Most Americans don’t understand economics and the government lies, promising it can fix it.
President Donald Trump’s tariffs are a tax. The exporter doesn’t pay this tax. We were lied to. It’s paid by the importer, who passes this tax on to you, the consumer.
The Federal Reserve, the Zio-international banking cartel, controls our economy. Their massive quantitative easing policy inflates the currency supply, resulting in the inflation of everything. The dollar becomes worth less until it eventually becomes worthless. Prices are up because the dollar is worth less.
Trump’s war with Iran has resulted in high gas prices, and we ain’t seen nothing yet. The Brent crude oil price is now $107.00 and climbing. This war has stopped 20% of the export of crude oil and LNG, 45% of sulfur, and 1/3 of the world’s urea (fertilizer). Less fertilizer and sulfur, less food.
About 40% of farming costs are spent on diesel fuel. Delivery trucks run on diesel. Third World nations will soon experience a “scarce food” famine. In a few months, the United States will produce less food, but America’s famine will mainly come in the form of high prices. The food will be on the shelf, but you won’t be able to afford it. You will wish you had March food prices.
In the book of Revelation, the second seal is world war. The third seal is famine. Prepare mentally, physically and spiritually. Keep the faith. Christ is King!
Mary Mason, Murphy
‘Reprobates’ belong in jail
Dear President Donald Trump, please do not endorse John Cornyn. He is a RINO along with Collins, McConnell, Thune, Tillis and a host of others who call themselves conservative Republicans. They are not. They are as bad as, or worse than Nancy Pelosi and the whole communist Democrat Party.
We the people know better. We work hard to support this gang of thieves. Our kids eat peanut butter, while Congress sets in their palace and eats lobster tail.
They get elected by lying to the voters. They go in as middle class and before the next election, they’re millionaires. They think the public is too stupid to know. We hear of all the crimes they commit, but no one ever goes to jail.
When will justice prevail?
Please, President Trump, we love you. We trust you, we are with you 100%. You attack Iran, as you should. We pay a higher price for fuel but don’t complain because we are with you. Please take a hard look at the garbage that occupies Capitol Hill. They are as guilty as the now-dead supreme leader of Iran.
This bilious gang of reprobates belong in jail.
Ed Huber, Copperhill, Tenn.
U.S. stuck in the mud
The worst is to not talk about the real things. Me thinks we’re a bit better off than we were in the 1960s: further away from Hitler’s war, nuclear blasts, the dead ‘50s; but what’s definitely worse is the hugely expanded number of us, from 3 billion in 1960, to 8 billion of us today. Big problem: devaluing life, degrading our worlds.
Our divinely guided light remains the same. Our constant hope resides in seeking the good, through all our actions. But we keep getting stuck in the mud off the side of the road, burning oil, gas and even coal, electing Donald Trump as president twice, along with his unimaginable graft.
It’s like we’ve entered a numbing, ignorant fog, losing our way. With everything real, and good, and genuine, going quiet.
I fear the massive amounts of dust that would come with global destruction, permanently plunging our eyeballs into
darkness.
Harry Holdorf, Blairsville, Ga.
Traditions on Palm Sunday in Holy Week
This coming week will be marking Holy Week commemorating Jesus Christ’s entry into Jerusalem with traditions centered on blessings and waving palm branches, with processions, and weaving palm fronds into crosses.
Common global customs include church services with palm processions, carrying palm leaves home for protection and in some traditions burning the palms to create ashes for the following year’s Ash Wednesday.
In many Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox churches, congregants receive blessed branches, which are used in a procession to re-enact Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem. Many believers weave their blessed palm branches into a cross and then take it home as a symbol of faith and protection.
In Poland, people create tall decorated artificial palm branches using tissue paper flowers and ribbons.
In Philippines, palm fronds are woven into complex ornate shapes known as Palaspas.
In the Netherlands, children take part in a procession carrying decorated sticks and crosses.
In Italy/Europe, in addition to palms, olive branches are exchanged as a sign of peace and reconciliation.
In Ukraine, willow branches are used instead of palm branches. They are associated with new life with a custom of gentle tapping one another to represent the willow bringing Easter. We wish you all a new life in Ukraine and pray for peace.
The phoenix is the mythical bird associated with Ash Wednesday, acting as a powerful symbol of resurrection, renewal and rising from the ashes. The ashes of Ash Wednesday symbolize the transition from death to new life through Christ, turning mortality into resurrection and hope.
God bless everyone.
Happy Easter!
Shelley Dietrich, Murphy
Play actors are all evil
The Romans placed supreme power in the hands of two political bodies – the Assembly and Senate. The Assembly included all male citizens of military age. It was basically a ratifying body and as such had an absolute veto on executive decrees in matters of war, peace and justice.
The Roman Centurions provided necessary stability to the entire Roman system (about 6,000 men). When a Army commanded heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching that he would come and heal his servant, which Jesus does; the Senate was “Italian” (another was the “Imperial” or “Augustan”).
However, Pilate saith unto them, take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him (John 19:6 KJV). The chief priests answered, we have no king but Caesar (John 19:15).
The United Nations. does not represent their own nations, but are bound by the charter to serve as international public servants. One of the chief architects, Franklin D. Roosevelt, along with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Moscow, Tehran, China, Soviet Union, Iran, Iraq, India and delegates from 50-plus countries – approved the charter.
The council is given the authority, if all attempts at a peaceful settlement fail, to call upon the members of the United Nations, who are pledged to make forces available to the Security Council for land, sea and air forces to use in “blockades” or “other operation” against the people or nation whose action is threatening the peace of the Den of Thieves.
The United States has fallen prey to the welfare system and leeches who are living off others to ensure their own survival without working, who have rejected common sense and the word of God. The U.S. Supreme Court, big business and churches will go along withe the den of thieves.
Cotton Allen, Brasstown
It’s someone else’s word
From a dry ridge on Pine Log to the banks of Tusquittee, innocent people have been jailed, lives ruined, even murdered because documented facts were, well, fictional.
I believe in God and heaven. God’s words are documented in the Bible; some believe the Bible, some believe it fictional. Once again, you are the juror. Documented or not, unless you saw it with your own eyes or heard it with your own ears, you are taking someone else’s word for the truth.
While there are many types of crime, the word has only one meaning – wrongdoing. The crime-ridden cities, to me the statistics demonstrate causation – cause the Democrats either won’t or can’t properly run their cities.
This is evidence enough to know why 27 out of 30 of the highest crime-ridden cities are run by Democrats. There are criminals running loose today that the law knows is guilty, but today don’t have the proof, given time, truth usually prevails. A secret is a secret if only one person knows it.
Political Democrats are not rooting for America. They are rooting for the failure of President Donald Trump, without a doubt. They have proven this time and time again. No cost is too great.
There were two protesters killed in Minnesota by ICE agents, the Democrats cry get rid of ICE. There were 32,000-35,000 protesters killed in Iran by their government, namely Ali Khamenei, who thankfully is deceased along with many other would-be leaders.
Democrats in D.C. want to stop Trump and Operation Epic Fury. Do you remember that bully in school? His/her name was Iran. The bully should have been dealt with 47 years ago. If you think Iran would not nuke America if given a chance, I’ll leave it at that.
If you think the mid-term elections are not important – think twice. No vote, no complaints.
Perry Reece, Hayesville