Taxpayer Furniture Marketing
So, North Carolina “needs” to spend $1,600,000.00 MORE of taxpayer money on furniture marketing. No, we just HAVE to. After all, since we already spent $1,000,000.00 on furniture marketing, it only makes sense that we NEED to spend an additional $1,600,000.00, right?
“We need to increase our concentration on international markets and continue to prospect for new categories of buyers”
Well, there you have it. We NEED to sell furniture made in North Carolina so people in international markets will buy it. I’m pretty sure I remember last time I was in Naples, I saw a billboard that just made me really want to buy North Carolina furniture. Or maybe that was just where a dog stopped on the sidewalk, I’m not sure.
The additional marketing money also would help trade show organizers bring more designers to High Point
Oh, well that’s even more important, isn’t it? After all, I’m sure most of the people of North Carolina today are seriously concerned about the lack of furniture designers in High Point. Yeah, that whole gas price thing and immigration debate is nothing when compared to High Point suffering through a veritable drought of furniture designers. We’ve certainly got OUR priorities straight.
“Anytime you have firsttime visitors, they are totally impressed by the magnitude of this event”
Well I didn't realize that the event was impressive. That just changes everything. How can we NOT spend a total of $2,600,000.00 of money people actually worked to earn and give that money to people who just WANT it.
What bastards. These folks, I hate to say it, are true lowlifes. They WANT something, but they don’t want to work for it. Instead, they want to convince government to use it’s monopoly on force to take from from people who work to give to them, so they can spend it. It really is nothing more than that. Oh, sure, they claim they’re “helping the state.” And what else will be done in the name of the all-powerful state? It would help the state to shoot everyone who isn’t paying taxes — are they advocating that, too? No, because that wouldn’t give THEM cash to spend.
High Point Market Authority President Brian Casey — you are a miserable, selfish, evil, lazy thief.
High Point Mayor Becky Smothers, a member of the Market Authority board of directors — you are a miserable, selfish, evil, lazy thief.Popularity: 24% [?]
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The State motto of the Banana Republic of North Carolina: Fraud, Waste & Abuse
Do you dare question your leaders? I think that’s a hate crime.
Mister Ogre, you are terrible naive! The High Point Market is a multi-billion dollar economic engine turning a camshaft of North Carolina jobs and prosperity in the dynamic cluster that powers the global home furnishings industry.
Like the airport, the Market is a rare asset requiring public funding as an important investment that returns dividends of jobs and expanded the tax base in organically attracting business to North Carolina.
The Market is a renewable resource.
Your undignified response condemns an industry endemic to the state’s welfare.
Have you attended the Market. Are you aware of its magnitude? Or are you shooting spit wads from your peanut gallery?
http://www.insidefurniture.com
A Truly classic response from another greedy thief.
I just “don’t understand” how “wonderful” it can be. I just don’t appreciate working hard and having my money taken from me to support this industry that’s just the best thing since sliced bread. Well if the Market is so wonderful, why am *I*, personally, FORCED to pay for it? It’s it a “multi-billion dollar economic engine,” why does it rely on welfare to survive?
I’m not opposed to the market, Mr. Cutler, I’m opposed to being literally forced at gunpoint to PAY for the Market. If this thing generates billions of dollars, WHY does it need welfare from the state? I have no problem with furniture or people who sell furniture. I just would rather they did it in a free market, instead of a socialist market.
Mister Ogre, bless your heart.
Your fulsome and wacky response bears an uninformed myopia about a legacy North Carolina institution and industry.
You are more than an anti-tax jibjabber, aren’t you?
Your reflexive libel is unbecoming, puerile and indicative of a roaring and roiling mouth disconnected with reality. One can only wonder where your brain is located in your raging body.
For our state’s general welfare, investing in the Market is the financial equivalent of investing in our state’s common defense: jobs, prosperity for many and validation that global home furnishings creative class is here and not somewhere else.
The Market is not seeking mindless welfare, as you reflexively fulminate.
What’s more: You are not looking down the barrel of gun to invest in the Market, unless you are pointing a self-style weapon of ignorance at your own head.
Again, have you ever attended the Market? What do you really know about this incredible enterprise? Come on down and learn about it.
Come to High Point. Meet that terrible, ”miserable, selfish, evil, lazy thief,” Brian Casey, as you defamed him and High Point Market Mayor Becky Smothers in your bloviation.
If you possess the courage to meet Brian, as well as Mayor Smothers, your preconceived and ill-informed impressions of them and the Market will dissolve into a palpable revelation about the dynamic enterprise that he manages and the city she represents.
The state’s modest investment (as a percentage of the budget) in the Market returns more in tax revenue from the pervasive commerce the Market stimulates.
Are you aware that scores of thousands of people in High Point and Piedmont Triad region depend on the prosperity of the Market and the industry it serves.
In many ways the Market and the home furnishings cluster here act as a fiduciary to assure the benefit of many.
Granted, growing the business development activity of the Market is essential, within a partnership with the State of North Carolina.
So, Mister Ogre, when are you coming to High Point to learn more about an truly unique and powerful institution. you are a
The gracious welcome of High Point is beckoning with, “Ogre, come on over and smell the roses and learn your dog of an argument just won’t hunt.”
Ivan Saul Cutler
http://www.insidefurniture.com
I love it. Thanks for stopping by and providing the view from the other side. Thanks for making fun of me for calling accurate, truthful names by calling me ignorant names in return. That helps to show the true battle of ideas — and your lack of them.
This statement of yours:
is quite telling — you are implying that having people utterly and completely depending on the government for their lives is a good thing. I think it’s a horrible, horrible thing.
Here are some facts that you seem to miss:
I have absolutely nothing against this Market. I do not care one whit whether the Market even exists or not. If it’s wildly successful, that’s great. It may be better than DisneyWorld — that’s wonderful. You seem to think I dislike the market and by seeing it that I will like it. That makes absolutely NO difference at all to the argument. I do not dislike the market at all.
The argument is about freedom.
Another fact: those who take money from people against their will are thieves.
If the Market is wonderful and it’s a great investment, why does it require welfare? And yes, any expenditure from a government to a private entity IS welfare, no matter how wonderful that entity happens to be (or the amount of the money).
In addition, I AM forced at gunpoint to invest in this Market. If I do not give my money to the government to give to the Market, I will be jailed or killed, plain and simple. If you cannot see that, then you do not understand how government works. However, based on your statements, I see you do –
It’s okay to force me to invest in this Market because it’s a modest investment. Government, as formed by the people, according to the US Constitution and the NC Constitution, is not in the business of investing in things. That is NOT the job of government. They should not invest in anything because that’s makes government determine the winners and losers — which is not a free market.
Once again, if it’s such a modest investment, why aren’t there investors lining up to contribute? Heck, *I* invest in various things — I could invest in this Market if it offered me a return on that investment. But I don’t have the freedom of choice to invest. Instead, I HAVE to invest. That’s government control of the means of production — and it’s plain wrong in a free society (which we are no longer).
Feel free to continue to attack me personally and insult me with claims of me being a coward for refusing to meet with extortionists. Continue to call me ignorant because I refuse to deny facts. When you run out of ideas, all that’s left is name-calling, isn’t it?
Mister Ogre: Thank you. I rest my case.
http://www.insidefurniture.com
Thanks for coming by and defending the anti-freedom position and helping to show my readers what the people who oppose freedom actually think.
Oh my.
Hey Ogre, I have a business now. I’m selling blueberry beer and I moved to Maine to do so. The market for this beer isn’t good enough SO….together with other blueberry beer makers we have formed a committee whose main purpose is to tell the state of Maine that one of it’s income producing industries- blueberry growing- MUST be subsidized by the tax payers.Why? Is there a threat to this industry? YES. Of course! At least we think so…and besides, who cares? Maine and blueberries go hand in hand (and illegals hands to boot so there!!) There are very few other opportunities for the people up here to work…blueberries is IT. So the state must protect this. And invest in it- promoting it all over the world (!!) so foreigners might try a sip of this totally American beeah!
Not that the foreigners will care for it of course…after all they have their own specialty drinks to guzzle.
oh and it you don’t believe me come to my blueberry field and see for yourself! It’s beautiful. Has real wild berries and not those cultivated ones you buy at the supermarket. Come see.
You’ll like it! And want the state to inVest.
Well, based on your statements, Raven, I think we should send lots of men with guns to visit Mr. Cutler and take money from him to help your business. After all, he thinks it’s fair to do that to us, so it must be okay to do to him right?
Darn straight. Oh Mr. Cutler? You owe me money now dude. Lots of it. IT’s YOUR responsibility to ensure MY business is promoted. Mine and the other blueberry farmers that is.
Never mind you will never get a penny back on this. Nope thats not a point here. Never mind all this money you give to me is no guarantee my business will stay open- in very well fact it could close up and cease to be next week, or month, or year. If I don’t make a good product it ain’t gonna sell. Period. And the chances of success in another country are pretty slim right now…but PAY UP anyway. It’s your duty. Sir.
Wow Ogre, you caught one hell of a troll there. Obstinate and verbose bastard too. He’ll never understand that government is not supposed to be in the business of propping up business, period. He doesn’t understand true freedom or what our government is supposed to be about, but I bet he can give a long sleep inducing speech on the fine points of some obscure furniture style you never heard nor cared about.
Ya think he talks like that in person? I’d wager he’s a flamboyant poofta…..
Worse, he’s not an actual troll. A troll says things with the sole intention of causing trouble. They’re puerile and intentionally annoying — but that’s all. This fellow honestly believe that he is right and no other points of view are even valid, nor should ever be considered. He appears to believe that the primary function of government is to do what HE, personally likes, period — because he knows better than us common scum.
No, he does not understand the concept of a free people in any way, shape or form.
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