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Willie Nelson promotes Hemp to be used for fuel, oils, building supplies and many other things this country uses petrol and forests for…

And it’s Wal Mart stores that is killing the local businesses.

I just had to respond to this article. I could respond to more of it but it wouldn’t do much good.

And regarding this weeks Poll…

To vague, not enough choices for answers.

‘Should the state offer incentives to attract businesses’?

Yes, No…. Don’t know.

I can’t answer with these choices. The answers are much more involved…

What I think?

Have a look at other states to learn what they are doing. I’m sure we do this anyway so what do we see as we look to other states to learn what they’re doing to stimulate their state and local economies?

What if the answer is in “not stimulating” the economy for a while?

I have a unique idea. It won’t be considered but what the heck? We have not much else to lose so here’s my ideas. Radical at best but who cares?

What if housing developers just stopped developing? What if North Carolina decided to take the good advice of living within it’s means? What does this mean?

What if NC just stopped stripping and tearing out our landscapes? Will this force the populations to get settled into available existing places? As a result, would we witness a leveling off of our populations as existing houses and apartments fill up? When there are no more vacancies, the general populations will have to move on to another area, to another state even.

Have we progressed beyond our means? Why do we want to? If we continue to cut and scar the land to build more and more affordable housing, for example, what are we then expecting/encouraging? We’re expecting to receive more and more people into the state.

How many people can a state support? I wonder what will happen when lets say, Davidson County stops allowing developers to build new buildings? What if Davidson County placed a moratorium on new housing developments and limited projects to improvements of what we already have? What if Davidson County makes it more difficult to walk away from the buildings that exist now?

Lets face it! We all would agree that North Carolina is a beautiful state. People are moving here from the north south and west by the grove. What if we just STOP this madness of growth growth and more growth and begin to care for what we already have?

Why not consider a change in attitude and realize that we North Carolinians have much to be thankful for and maybe we’re going about things bass ackwards? We’ve taken on the attitude of the rest of the country that we build more and stimulate more and more and more, but that attitude isn’t working at all levels. Maybe it’s time to take a radical new look into how we can forestall the present economic condition and prevent our condition from becoming a disparate one?

Good advice to all is to live within our means. When will the State take this great advice and Just STOP spending money we DON’T have and wait it out. What? Stop spending what we don’t have? LOL what a ridiculous idea, you say? The burden is on the state and it’s taxpayers so it’s the state’s responsibility to devise ways to curb this never ending and I mean Never to be Satiated desire to have more and be more. This can’t continue in the households so it can’t continue within the state.

What if we all operated our homes and families the way Government presently does?

Our homes would become unhealthy. If we moved more and more people into our homes, and added more and more Stuff in with them, it would very quickly become an unhealthy place to live. Well?

To the general public, I say…

1. Use what’s presently available.

2. Lift the standards..

3.Consider the ramifications for being caught up in bigger, better and more, more more. Maybe North Carolina could become a test state and initiate the new Old idea of cleaning up and putting things away for a few years or decades. Make use of what’s already here. Slow down on the ideas that development is the answer. Development comes with a hugh appetite that takes lots of resources for it’s upkeep.

What am I saying?

I’m saying that given the wonderful state we live in and all it’s beauty, it’s our responsibility to take measures to insure that we support and maintain NC and at the same time, prevent further erosion from occurring. Think of governing the land, resources, life and vegetation. Use the information regarding sustainability and apply it to our economic planning and evolve into an exclusive State. If we love this state then lets start taking care of it and respect it. Until we do, no one else will.

Like the adage; We don’t need more laws, just enforce the ones we have.. (we have too many)… “We don’t need more buildings, lets use the ones we now have”.

It may sound selfish but we have to draw a line somewhere. We have to either use what we already have or we’ll risk losing everything. At some point we have to realize that we can’t continue to encourage growth growth and more growth. Populations are gathering in choice states, like NC, to the point of crowding. It’s time to discourage the crowding of our state. Tend to what we have. Manage growth and we’ll witness a leveling off and what follows is that our state’s economy will stabilize.

What cha think?

How long can we continue to absorb the immigrant populations, for example? Not just from other countries but other states as well?

As radical as it seems; What if NC severely cut back on urban sprawl? Does NC have guts to live within it’s means?

Can NC become the Model state, finding new Old ways to preserve this wonderful place we live in?

I don’t believe it will happen state wide but maybe Davidson Countians could consider in theory what options they still have if we simplify rather then complicate our economic condition
to limit the housing development and to continue the focus on attracting industry and recreational/ cultural attractions.

So, "what if"?

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