{"id":1788,"date":"2011-07-08T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/you-cant-borrow-yourself-into-prosperity-irony-from-vlcia-board-member.html"},"modified":"2011-07-08T11:12:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:12:01","slug":"you-cant-borrow-yourself-into-prosperity-irony-from-vlcia-board-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/you-cant-borrow-yourself-into-prosperity-irony-from-vlcia-board-member.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You can\u2019t borrow yourself into prosperity.&#8221; &mdash;irony from VLCIA board member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Member of big-borrowing business board bashes borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>\nA David Rodock story in the VDT 5 July 2011<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/local\/x652257449\/Tea-Party-members-rally\"><br \/>\nincluded this quote:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/local\/x652257449\/Tea-Party-members-rally\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/php\/include\/govt\/vlcia\/Norman.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nIncluded among the guests was George Bennett, Valdosta-Lowndes County<br \/>\nIndustrial Authority board member.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI think it\u2019s time we hold the elected officials accountable, whether<br \/>\nthey are Democratic or Republican,\u201d said Bennett. \u201cYou can\u2019t<br \/>\nborrow yourself into prosperity. We need to talk with the legislators<br \/>\nat the national level and get them to come around do what America is<br \/>\nall about.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing this was G. Norman Bennett.<br \/>\nAnyway, that&#8217;s quite the irony coming from a director of an organization<br \/>\nthat raised $15 million in debt<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\non top of its $3 million a year in taxes<br \/>\nand got Lowndes County to hastily agree to <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/06\/how-did-lowndes-county-approve-a-contract-with-vlcia-that-could-force-raising-taxes.html\">a contract that forces the county to raise<br \/>\ntaxes if necessary to cover VLCIA&#8217;s profligate borrowing!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWhile I do recommend VLCIA<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/06\/andrea-shuijers-opportunity-john-s-quarterman.html\"><br \/>\nsell off some of its hoard of wasteful acres<\/a>,<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think that<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/07\/biomass-plant-land-offer-industrial-authority-board-meets-this-morning.html\"><br \/>\nselling it for use as a biomass plant<\/a><br \/>\nin the latest of a long series of surreptitious<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/06\/w.html\"><br \/>\nspecial called meetings<\/a><br \/>\nis the best way to go about it.<\/p>\n<p>\nHow about local legislators such as the appointed VLCIA board come around to what the local community wants, which is jobs through <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/06\/renewable-sustainable-energy-network-vlcoc.html\"><br \/>\nrenewable and sustainable energy?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of big-borrowing business board bashes borrowing. A David Rodock story in the VDT 5 July 2011 included this quote: Included among the guests was George Bennett, Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority board member. \u201cI think it\u2019s time we hold the elected officials accountable, whether they are Democratic or Republican,\u201d said Bennett. \u201cYou can\u2019t borrow yourself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,120,14,178,4122],"tags":[8749],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-economy","category-vlcia","category-vlcia-8-july-2011","tag-vlcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}