Good place for bad folks
Calling all bad contractors. Come to Cherokee County, N.C.
Job requirements: Be a smooth talker, overwhelm your victim with fast talk, complimenting their home.
Promise a great job, cheaper than others. Tell them you will work up an estimate, and follow up with giving a price and saying you need half down for materials. Come that night, even if late. Get the check, tell them you will start Monday.
Start the excuses. Your vehicle breaks down, your ol’ lady is sick. Do a crappy job and keep promising you will be there tomorrow.
Eventually, your victim will tire of your crap and tell you not to show back up.
Move your residence, but don’t follow the 60-day rule of updating motor vehicle information. It’s oK, no one is following up on you.
When your victim spends $126 to file in small claims court in the county where your vehicles are registered, your victim will find out you don’t live there.
Now if your victim does find out your real address and spends another $126 on court fees in the county where you live, no problem!
Get a court date, the victim will tell their side of the story. Show up late so you didn’t hear what was said. The magistrate of Cherokee County will let you say whatever you want, even if everything you say had nothing to do with what the victim said.
Both you and the victim will get the decision by mail. It will simply say, pay the court fees. No worries, you will never have to pay them unless your victim pursues!
You can continue to do your shady business practices in Cherokee County and have no fear of any judgment that would affect your ability to ever get credit until the debt is satisfied.
Alice Miller, Murphy
Still looking for Darlene
A real close friend turned his life around and started worshiping God and created a Christian-based rehabilitation program. So I volunteered.
Eventually, I got some credibility back. I could get a job looking through the local newspaper. I found a hopeful. Just a mile away. I got a job there.
So, the boss liked me and one day says, T.J. this job is done. You said, maybe you’d try to get at this factory. So I got a job there.
My new boss’ name was Darlene. We fast became friends, then we became lovers.
I wish I could find her. I love her still.
Timothy D. Johnson, Murphy
P.S. I would be obliged to help someone write a letter or poem that might them get their love life back.
2nd annual Sock Drive
We are proud to announce that the Mountain Lakes Board of Realtors has collected 2,487 pairs of socks.
We would like to thank all of our Realtor members, First Citizens Bank, Nantahala Bank, Murphy United Methodist Church and Dr. Edie Spence for help collecting socks. We could not have done it without all of you.
We have delivered more than 400 pairs of socks to HAVEN Children’s Advocacy Center, Reach of Clay County, the Hurlburt-Johnson Friendship House homeless shelter, Reach of Cherokee County, Church Mouse Ministries and Appalachian Angels.
Kathy Vetten, Murphy
The writer is president of Mountain Lakes Board of Realtors.
Perplexing inflation act
The 2022 bill dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act” passed by Democrats in Congress is a travesty because the bill betrays promises to support everyday, hard-working Americans.
The name is a subterfuge.
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi celebrated the act at the same time the market was crashing. Contrary to Democrat Party claims by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) that this bill will:
- “Reduce inflation;” there is no credible evidence it would do so.
- “Displace dirtier products;” it subsidizes electric vehicles, which emit more pollution over their lifespans than normal cars.
- Will bring “good paying energy and manufacturing jobs back to America;” it enriches green energy investors while neglecting workers and harming the manufacturing sector.
- “Lower energy costs;” it enacts a form of stealth spending to subsidize green products that are far more costly than other options.
- Not raise taxes on “families and small businesses making less than $400,000 a year;” it enacts hidden taxes that fall on Americans of all income groups.
- “Lower the cost of health insurance;” it makes taxpayers pick up the tab by forcing them to pay Obamacare subsidies for people with incomes above 400 percent of the poverty line.
- “Lower the cost” of prescription drugs; it simply shifts more of those costs onto working Americans.
- Ensure people “making less than $400,000 and small businesses will not be targeted” by the IRS “because they are already paying their taxes;” the bill allows the vast bulk of tax dodgers to continue cheating honest taxpayers of America.
Manchin’s press release decries “the severe threat of inflation and the consequences of unprecedented domestic spending,” but this bill increases spending on a host of categories.
Far from a course change, Democrats now voted for “taxing and spending” instead of mere “spending.”
Terry Payne, Marble
Poem: ‘Time is running out’
This world is changing every day.
Nothing is here to stay.
We spend our times on earthly things,
In which there is no gain.
All our life we have heard people say,
Jesus is coming back some day.
Although there are people who still don’t believe,
But soon and very soon we will see.
For non-believers it will be too late,
You will enter into hell’s gate,
And it will be the choice that you made,
For saying no to Jesus along this way.
But right now there is still time,
Please don’t be left behind.
Jesus died for all your sins,
And He is calling please come in.
Cynthia Pinkerton, Murphy