The Patriot's Flag

Today I am flying the 9 Bar Sons of Liberty flag.  I fly this flag when liberty and freedom is lost. In this case, lost to pure socialism and redistribution of wealth.  If you think it was just media hype, look at the example below. It is real, it is happening and YOU AND I are paying for it directly. Here is an excellent example of your tax dollars “at work.”  It is also an excellent reason for you to contact your representatives and tell the NO on the “jobs bill” (Stimulus II) that is coming next!  S.T.O.P. it!!!

Liberty LO$T

Free Republic Post Wednesday, February 24, 2010 1:15:37 AM by Jet Jaguar

Wateree Community Actions, Inc

• An Empowering Facility in the Community
• It builds, rehabilitates and weatherizes houses for clients.
• It introduces its clients to the political process.
• It brokers for clients to help them gain access to services and information.
• It sponsors employment training, hands-on work experience, and does job development for clients
• It teaches clients self-help and life skills to become self-sufficient.
• It exposes to clients opportunities available to them
• An Economic Enhancer in the Community, an Added Value
• Annually it brings into the area over 11 million dollars, which translates into forty-four million dollars after turning over four times more. These dollars impact lives of citizens, taxes, governments and businesses of the community.
• A Helping Hand to the Poor
• It provides and helps clients get food, clothing and shelter.
• It helps them buy prescriptive drugs.
• It helps them pay utility bills and house rent.
• It provides books, educational supplies, health screenings, and developmental opportunities for youth and children.
• A Spawning Ground for Leaders of Tomorrow
• Young children are tomorrow’s leaders in the making. The pre-schoolers of the Head Start Development Program are our youngest clients. Our emphases with these future leaders are sociable and cognitive development, nutrition and health care, family service and parent involvement in the life of their children.
• A Source of Information and Referral
• It collects, complies and disseminates printed information and informs the public.
• It displays information exhibits to teach, educate, and instill appreciation
• It coördinates and collaborates with other community entities to exchange and share ideas and resources.
• A Source of Inspiration to those Involved
• It has inspired many clients, employees, and volunteers to acquire career credentials and job advancements.
• Several board and advisory council members have been inspired to private and public office on local and state levels. Their first exposure to the large picture of community needs was through involvement with Wateree Community Actions.

In Summary:

• Wateree Community Actions is a necessary unequivocal asset to this community.

However:

• According to the Recovery.gov website, Sumter, S.C. received $15,827,385 of our tax money. According to the same site, this money was credited with creating or saving 4.91 jobs.

$15,827,385      for     4.91 jobs!

Were did the money go?

• The county of Sumter got $62,400. The city of Sumter got $253,828.
• The Santee-Wateree RTA got in excess of $1,000,000.
• The Santee Lynches regional Council of Governments got $3,103,434 for one grant and another $112,017 for a second.

Then it gets interesting.

• Wateree Community Action Inc is awarded $700,000.
• Then awarded $1,076,865.
• Then awarded $6,435,805.
• Then awarded $429,049.
• Then awarded $244,800.
• Then awarded $2,073,186.

Sumter County has one of the highest unemployment rates in S.C.

• Where is Wateree Community Action, Inc?  MAP HERE
• Congressman Jim Clyburn’s 6th Congressional District  MAP HERE
• The numbers are from the Recovery.gov.
  • We just spent $18,000,000 to update this website so the numbers must be correct.
  • HERE is just one entry from Recovery.Gov on Wateree Community Action, Inc
    • $13,106,816,
    • 8 Recipients
    • 2 jobs “created or saved”
    • however the project has “not started”

Remember … the Stimulus was to create jobs. Our point here is we are showing millions of dollars given out to specific recipients and hardly any jobs to show for it. Until the jobs “show up” from the first stimulus, we shouldn’t be contemplating a Stimulus II, er “Jobs” bill!  Wateree is just a tiny example of a BILLION$ of dollars problem! We need proof the first stimulus worked before we try it again, (regardless of what we “name” it!).  There is a fear that those of us paying taxes are going to have the money taken from our needs and given to people who are not paying their taxes. Giving out documented millions to “stimulate” jobs that don’t appear only heightens that suspicion.

Why is this man, on the right, smiling? His name is Congressman Jim Clyburn, he is the United States Congressman from the 6th District of South Carolina. Mr. Clyburn is the majority whip for the US Congress. The Wateree Community Action, Inc is within his District, so the tax dollars (sans jobs!) we are questioning went to his district, so he should be smiling. He has brought value to his district.  Perhaps he should also be looking into why so much money could come into his district and only create so few jobs. I’m sure as Majority Whip, he can get to the bottom of this for us.

Why is this man, on the left, smiling? This man is Mr. Willie Bethune, the reported Executive Director of Wateree Community Action, Inc. He is probably smiling because as the reported Executive Director of the group that got the money, money that only created 2 to 4 jobs. I don’t blame Mr. Bethune or his Community Organization for taking the money. If your organization was offered $13 to $15 million “free,” (i.e. no real accountability), you’d probably take it too.  I’m betting everybody on the BOARD of DIRECTORS is smiling as they do their work.  I’m betting most of the 10-19 employees of the organization are  all smiling too. Everybody seems happy.

But Why am I Not Smiling? Some of those tax dollars were MINE and I pay my FULL TAX BILL every year … always have.  I don’t mind giving to people who need my help, and I do so often, but I do mind OTHER people giving MY money to someone without asking MY permission.  It takes all the pleasure of giving away from me, and it makes me feel a little like someone took my money … without my permission … and gave it to their friends … so those friends would support them in the next election.  Do you suppose all the employees of WCA, Inc., who are residents of the 6th Congressional District, would vote for Mr. Clyburn in the next election?  I am very suspicious MY tax dollars are buying votes for people who are committed to taking even MORE of my money to “distribute the wealth.” And I think the data at Recovery.gov certainly helps prove the point.  I would like to come away from this “Stimulus” experiment smiling too. After all, it’s my money they are using.

Go to the RECOVERY.GOV interactive map. Click on your state on the map. It comes up with dots on it each representing WHERE the money went and how many jobs it created.  Click on a dot and you get how much money was given and how many jobs were “created or saved.” The above information is just one very tiny example … the entire program is BILLION$. Once you find the dollars, look at the people who “voted” to allow those dollars to be given away with such poor return on investment.  And ask, “Are they giving the money to secure the votes?”  And, don’t just look under the rocks for Democrats … there are plenty of Republicans up to their ears in this payback also!  First, use the interactive map at Recovery.Gov to find the money. Next let the interactive map show you the DISTRICT it is in, then find out who represents that district. There’s the person with whom you should have a terse conversation … be it only for a few seconds in a voting booth next November. It might even be somebody you voted for!

What’s in your back yard? Go to Recovery.gov and when you are on your state, click on the dots looking at how many of your tax dollars were GIVEN and look at the jobs “created or saved”.  The data shows the Stimulus had NOTHING to do with jobs and everything to do with GIVING AWAY MONEY.  This is the purest form of  The “RE-distribution of Wealth.”  In this tiny example,  only $13,000,000 to $15,000,000 (out of  BILLIONS of tax dollars) was given to other people to create jobs …  and the good it did? “Jet” found 4.91 jobs, I found 2.  How many jobs could you create if you were given a few million dollars?  Now, take a look and see what they’ve buried in YOUR back yard. Go to Recovery.gov and begin your own local search for the truth. Then …

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