by Neil Johnson
Montpelier professes to be for the downtrodden to help a fellow Vermonter when they are down. In times past we all worked together in small communities, all living close to the bone, knowing full well that we should be grateful for our blessings and welcome to our neighbors. We build a very modest home if our lifestyle was modest, there were no issues. Life had and still does have many simple pleasures for us all to embrace but we’ve strayed.
Times have changed. Our priorities have changed.
Reading Vermont Digger recently, to catch up on what is going on in our state. VTDigger an online newspaper, to which nobody can comment on, a completely censored and curated organization, receiving millions of free dollars to operate, desperately in search of truth, but only producing propaganda; to which we gleefully eat up like a Hostess Twinkie followed by a Diet Coke, the later cancelling out any of caloric transgressions and we call ourselves righteous, good neighbors, good stewards of our state, but are we? Look how concerned we are about the housing situation! What are the actions of Montpelier? How do they spend our time and money?
Having been to the Golden Dome on several occasions I got to witness some things, interesting things. On one occasion there were many people clamoring for more money for the blind. The place was filled with people struggling from physical issues that many will never experience, one could not but have a heart for their fellow man and their plight.
They shouted the Blind Association (forget which one) hasn’t had a budget increase for over 10 years, we need more money! Who would want to keep money from a needy blind person? Yet in another breath they spoke about needing raises. Of course, this is where the money was going. This is the new breath in Vermont Government, money for them but not for you.
There is a super majority Montpelier that claims to be for the underdog, they are more for their own pocketbooks. Listen to this story from the “brave little state”, here is another article from VT Digger about the housing,
Is Vermont’s motel program a ‘magnet’ for out-of-staters experiencing homelessness?
Motel Program Restrictions Mean 100 People in Washington County To Be Ousted
Highly crafted, well written but do they speak the whole truth? Do they even cover the truth?
In one article they talk about how our housing problem is like a marching game around the room and saying everybody sit down when the music stops. 10 chairs for 10 people, everybody has a seat, no problem. Then they speak about how our problem today is like we play the same game and when it starts, we take away one chair and now when the music stops there is somebody chair-less, homeless, but it’s not from immigrants out of country, that we know for sure. Yet we housed how many refugee families? So who took the chairs????? We seem to be missing at least 10 million chairs, huh.
Vermont has had a housing issue my entire real estate career, we have been unaffordable for 40 years! Vermont citizens are always last!
In recent times we have spent massive money on many pet projects:
$10,000 to get people to move to Vermont, literally a GLOBAL advertising campaign
We bring people from foreign countries and when they have transportation troubles we offer to buy them entire busing system for 100 people, insanity.
We spend millions of dollars for bike paths
We spend millions of dollars for grant projects that no sane person would spend their own money on.
We give massive amounts of tax dollars to non-profits of all sorts
We give 3-year double digit wage increases in Government health care
We raise massive tax bills across the state
We raise massive school budgets across the state
We find it necessary to replace all Vermont schools because for some reason these are the only buildings not fit for our students to use, all the others are ok, but not our schools.
We find massive money for all sorts of solar panels, free money.
We fund all sorts of people to buy Tesla’s
We fund all sorts of controversial municipal projects
We fund all sorts of TIF projects, pet real estate projects, for those connected in Government
We build what is supposed to be reasonable housing at a higher price than luxury ski slope condominiums.
We make it impossible for private sector to build, own and manage rental properties with our regulations
We raise the transfer tax on properties across the state, to an amount reaching and exceeding real estate commissions.
We’ve had a massive influx of out-of-state transplants, not taking one house, but thousands of homes. Why so many? Why now?
And if you need a special walking or biking bridge over interstate i-89, we can find money for that surely…..we wouldn’t want to inconvenience your casual bike ride in South Burlington with an already existing road and sidewalk, that is just too inconvenient!
Yet somehow, there is never any money left over for Vermonters that are truly in need of some assistance. Nope, no money for you. Are you feeling their neighborly love? In times past, we could build a house like our fore fathers, but that is no longer allowed! Montpelier now has complete control.
Where is the VTGOP? The amount of waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer money is so staggering in Montpelier, nobody could truly comprehend. The average person could not fathom how cruel, unjust and wasteful our Vermont government truly is. They have no idea what is going on in Montpelier because the four sources of “news”, VTDigger, Front Porch Forum, 7 Days and of course VPR all run cover for Montpelier. They all have very close ties and funding from all those under the golden dome or national “friends and family” of controlled media.
This is a Marxist reality, in the book Animal Farm, some pigs are more “equal” than others. This is why socialism always fails. Karl Marx flitted around the world, living high of the hog, dining with the rich while his family starved to death at home. This is how the founder of Marxism lead, this is how Marxism works, this is how Montpelier works, it’s not a coincidence. This is why Vermont is failing. We are failing our neighbors and family. We need to change our ways. We need a massive change in Montpelier.
First step – we need to love our neighbors, not spend all their tax money on wasteful self-serving projects.
In the same article they say we have 1100 homeless, but we need 25,000 new homes in the next few years. So why do we need 20x more homes, just asking for a friend. Montpelier math doesn’t add up, the homeless and the taxpayers know this very well. Time to look under the hood in Montpelier.