Mr Carpenter, is the LTE about petty bickering?
Another pie-in-the-face to Columbia Countians -- driving the roads to Thomson and observing McDuffie County workers energetically burying miles of large, blue water pipe to every last remaining rural road in eastern McDuffie County.
Yes, those unsophisticated bumpkins over there are determined to provide needed county services for all of their citizens, while our own brilliant oligarchists concentrate on soccer fields, effete stainless-steel statuary, vanity projects, more Washington Road tire stores, and how to siphon additional tax revenues from independent Grovetown and Harlem.
Let's concede the county's lobbying success in emancipating those 125 Columbia County households who suffered for generations under the foreign mantle of Thomson mailing addresses. We are grateful to receive our mail at 5:30 p.m. now instead of 11 a.m.; however, the true measure of commission indifference to "rural" Columbia County involves the abject failure to pave roads whose costs were approved and collected specifically for that purpose through bond issue referenda more than five years ago! That is an unaccountable disgrace.
As tiny McDuffie County is busy running water lines along and paving every last deer trail they can find, I propose a referendum to cede all the Columbia County territory north and west of William Few Parkway to a responsible county, such as McDuffie, whose stewards are more interested in serving their rural constituents than simply increasing and collecting their property taxes yearly.
Rick Carpenter, Appling
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Mr Carpenter, is the LTE about petty bickering?
Waa, waa, waa. Don't go away mad, just go away. You're right for once PT.
And if you think it's better in Thomson, move there, it ain't!
Obviously, you've never tasted McDuffie County city water. It's awful. Forcing people to drink swill is progress?
Were you in a mood when you wrote the above letter because Hillary is losing? Come to your senses!
Columbia County has alot going for it, but the leadership there sometimes is questionable. There are always going to be some problems though when an area tries to grow as fast as they want CC to grow.
The racial undertone of this letter is disgusting.
Rick Carpenter, when you are right, you're right!
Mr. Carpenter,
I understand your point, but at what cost to the citizens of McDuffie County where I live presently. You can be discouraged with your own local government and praise or insult others, but to call the people "unsophisticated bumpkins" is rude. Maybe that is why people like me prefer to live in McDuffie Co. instead of Columbia Co., we are good people, nice folks. Or should I use hillybilly, yokel, or yahoo so you will comprehend. Before using the phrase "unsophisticated bumpkins" to describe your neighbors maybe you should first look up the meaning.
It is a derogatory term to refer to the stereotype of unsophisticated country people. In America, is commonly used as a derogatory term for someone from the rural South; the word is almost synonymous with Bumpkin.
That is rude as I see it. I don't mind being called a hillbilly, I am originally from the NW Ga Mountains. But the way you use it is disappointing. The only pleasure I get is that if said meaning above is correctly interpreted, it means, you too, are of the "unsophisticated bumpkin" type. Later Neighbor. BTW, my water sometimes has a clorox type taste, if you keep it in a "jug" in the "icebox", it's alright.
Cinhin, taken in the context of the LTE, I interpret the author's word
choice as quite complimentary to those living in McDuffie County.
Wouldn't you rather be a bumpkin who has managed to create an entire
county wide water system through perseverance and talent, or would you
prefer to be considered an elite urban sophisticate whose choice of
elected officials only seem able to erect statues, build monoliths, and
name roads after each other? Get real, I'll take successful bumpkin
any day. Pass the water.
Fema,
If you read my post, you will see that I agree with Carpenter's point. I even said I don't mind being called a Hillbilly. He wrote it as though we were a lesser people and yet, we have more progressive action in our local government, which is positive. I just think he could have made the point without using the words he chose to describe McDuffie Co. citizens. It's no big deal to me, just a point that your not just writing to Columbia and Richmond Co.'s, we also read this online paper.
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