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(3981, 1, '2019-04-06 08:21:47', '2019-04-06 12:21:47', '<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3387" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-300x256.jpg" alt="" width="339" height="289" /><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley was arrested November 30, 2018 by the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old student at Carver Middle School in Laurinburg, North Carolina. This was Stanley’s first year of teaching with the school district where she taught seventh grade science.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3388" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-scotland-county-teacher.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="328" />The fact is more than 400 female teachers have been convicted nationwide of similar offences during just the past two years. It appears such behaviour is rapidly becoming the new normal.</p>\r\n<p>What''s driving this epidemic? Professionals lay the blame at the feet of ubiquitous electronic technologies that allow instant communications between teachers and students, including the sharing of explicit messaging and photos.</p>\r\n<p>Certainly, there is truth here, but there''s more to this story.</p>\r\n<p>Children are sexually active earlier than ever due to the presence of Estrogen mimickers in our drinking water, food supply, packaging materials and clothing. Such chemicals cause the early onset of puberty.</p>\r\n<p>Children are also being exposed to a constant barrage of sexual messaging through advertising, social media, gaming and subliminal messaging.</p>\r\n<p>Students interact with teachers on a regular basis so it''s only natural that sexual relationships will develop, but isn''t it unnatural and unholy for adults to have a sexual relationships with minors as young as twelve?</p>\r\n<p>A law enforcement official spoke at a real estate conference requesting that association members be required to report agents who may be engaging in or likely to engage in ''inappropriate'' sex with minors.</p>\r\n<p>When the speaker finished, the association''s president thanked him and recommended the association adopt law enforcement''s proposed new rules.</p>\r\n<p>Before that could be done, a well known, respected broker stood up among the crowd, and with a booming voice began presenting an opposing point of view.</p>\r\n<p>The job of law enforcement he said was to enforce the law and the job of real estate professionals was to sell real estate. He questioned whether agents were competent to make decisions that could end up damaging or even destroying the reputations and careers of fellow agents, regardless of how well-intentioned, and questioned whether unscrupulous agents might even go so far as to falsely report competing agents in order to gain an unfair advantage.</p>\r\n<p>He pointed out that sexual coming of age was a fluid concept that was constantly evolving and offered his grandparents up as an example.</p>\r\n<p>They married at twelve and had their first of ten children at thirteen, all of whom grew up to be productive, law abiding citizens. By today''s standards his grand parents would be convicted sex offenders, and his grandfather a statutory rapist.</p>\r\n<p>The broker ended by recommending the association reject law enforcement''s proposed new rules and received a rousing round of applause. Thankfully, that was the end of that.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers having sex with students, is this a good idea? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Should such behaviour be condoned or overlooked? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers have a responsibility to act responsibly and school districts have the right to set standards, policy and disciplinary action as necessary.</p>\r\n<p>Legislators also have the right and responsibility to set standards through legislation, but let us bear in mind that most legislation is passed without ever having been read by those who introduce, promote and vote for it, as it is largely drafted by well paid corporate and NGO lobbyists on behalf of those who have bought and paid for our legislators with donations, bribes and blackmail. It''s incumbent upon each of us, especially law enforcement and the judiciary, to question and carefully weigh the applicability and wisdom of legislated solutions.</p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley''s job and career have been destroyed, and what''s left of her youth could very well be spent behind bars.</p>\r\n<p>America already has more citizens locked away in jails and prisons than any other nation on earth, and American prison sentences are the most lengthy of any civilized nation. We imprison ten times more of our citizens than Europe does.</p>\r\n<p>Law enforcement and District Attorneys are now making prodigious use of a tool called <strong>''Stacking''</strong> to make sure our prisons, especially our privately owned prisons, stay full.</p>\r\n<p>With so many laws now on the books, it''s estimated that each American commits at least 3 felonies a day, that''s 21 felonies each week. When you''ve pissed off the wrong person(s) it''s easier than ever for the system to come up with reasons to arrest you. Once arrested, they don''t just charge you with one crime, say tax fraud, they charge you with a whole host of related crimes, like conspiracy to commit tax fraud, unlawful use of a bank account to commit tax fraud, conspiracy to unlawfully use electronic communications (a phone) to commit tax fraud, etc.</p>\r\n<p>In theory you have the right to demand a trial before a jury of your peers, but ''stacking'' makes that right virtually impossible to exercise. In addition to the original charge of tax fraud which carries a five year sentence, when all the other charges are stacked on top of it, you''re now facing 400 years in prison.</p>\r\n<p>The District Attorney lets you know that if you force him/her and the court to go through the expense of a trial, they will ''throw the book at you'' by demanding you be sentenced to the maximum (400 years)... but if you plead guilty to the charges, they will only seek a sentence of twenty years.</p>\r\n<p>This places defendants in a tight spot. Should you demand a jury trial and lose, you could spend the next 400 years in prison. If you agree to plead guilty, you will only spend twenty years in the slammer (despite that fact that you may be innocent). Our jails and prisons are full of individuals whose only crime was to be in the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/how-easy-it-is-to-end-up-in-prison-for-a-crime-you-didnt-commit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>wrong place at the wrong time</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p>This is the very situation Brianna Nicole Stanley now faces. Does she have the financial resources to adequately defend herself against the virtually unlimited resources of the District Attorney? Will Brianna be forced to accept an onerous, unjust plea agreement in order to avoid doing serious time in prison? What would you do in her position?</p>\r\n<p>Is Brianna Nicole Stanley just an average American girl, like most, having grown up with faces glued to cell phones and other electronic devices, sharing their every thought, fantasy and desire on social media? Was the supposed victim really a victim or just another willing participant?</p>\r\n<p>How many of today''s parents are themselves poorly educated, uninformed, self centered, immature social media junkies and video gaming zombies whose children are essentially forced to raise themselves? Are you aware that numerous studies indicate Social Media causes mental illness? Do you know that many Social Media developers do not allow their own families to use their products because they know all too well the damage they do?</p>\r\n<p>What about our teaching colleges and universities? With over 400 female teachers having been convicted of sex crimes with students in just the past two years, can it be said that Brianna Nicole Stanley''s educators properly informed and instructed her regarding what is and isn''t acceptable sexual behaviour with students?</p>\r\n<p>Did Scotland County''s school system''s ''intake and orientation program'' for new teachers adequately explain its policies and expectations to Brianna?</p>\r\n<p>150 years ago a twenty three year old teacher could reasonably be expected to be a mature, responsible adult. Can this really be said today when children are for the most part being raising by social media, burned out parents and failing schools?</p>\r\n<p>Should Brianna Nicole Stanley receive a ''Get Out of Jail Free'' pass? Of course not. She is of legal age and, like it or not, will face consequences for her poor decisions. We can only pray, that when our judicial system dispenses its ''justice'', The Punishment will befit the Crime.</p>\r\n<p>While this young woman''s life hangs in the balance, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper hangs out and parties with a known, convicted sexual offender. <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-governor-cooper-attends-gala-hosted-by-sex-offender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Here''s the story</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Ask yourself, What would Jesus do?</strong></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/05/scotland-teacher-racks-up-14-sex-charges-including-child-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Lady Liberty 1885</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/e-cigarette-makers-frantically-targeting-your-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">E-Cigarette Makers Frantically Targeting Your Children</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/incredible-high-school-valedictorian-commencement-speech-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Incredible High School Valedictorian Commencement Speech (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/why-do-bullies-bully-bullying-among-youths/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Do Bullies Bully – Bullying Among Youths</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Brianna Nicole Stanley - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3356-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-06 08:21:47', '2019-04-06 12:21:47', '', 3356, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3356-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3982, 1, '2019-04-06 08:35:56', '2019-04-06 12:35:56', '<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3387" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-300x256.jpg" alt="" width="339" height="289" /><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley was arrested November 30, 2018 by the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old student at Carver Middle School in Laurinburg, North Carolina. This was Stanley’s first year of teaching with the school district where she taught seventh grade science.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3388" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-scotland-county-teacher.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="328" />The fact is more than 400 female teachers have been convicted nationwide of similar offences during just the past two years. It appears such behaviour is rapidly becoming the new normal.</p>\r\n<p>What''s driving this epidemic? Professionals lay the blame at the feet of ubiquitous electronic technologies that allow instant communications between teachers and students, including the sharing of explicit messaging and photos.</p>\r\n<p>Certainly, there is truth here, but there''s more to this story.</p>\r\n<p>Children are sexually active earlier than ever due to the presence of Estrogen mimickers in our drinking water, food supply, packaging materials and clothing. Such chemicals cause the early onset of puberty.</p>\r\n<p>Children are also being exposed to a constant barrage of sexual messaging through advertising, social media, gaming and subliminal messaging.</p>\r\n<p>Students interact with teachers on a regular basis so it''s only natural that sexual relationships will develop, but isn''t it unnatural and unholy for adults to have a sexual relationships with minors as young as twelve?</p>\r\n<p>A law enforcement official spoke at a real estate conference requesting that association members be required to report agents who may be engaging in or likely to engage in ''inappropriate'' sex with minors.</p>\r\n<p>When the speaker finished, the association''s president thanked him and recommended the association adopt law enforcement''s proposed new rules.</p>\r\n<p>Before that could be done, a well known, respected broker stood up among the crowd, and with a booming voice began presenting an opposing point of view.</p>\r\n<p>The job of law enforcement he said was to enforce the law and the job of real estate professionals was to sell real estate. He questioned whether agents were competent to make decisions that could end up damaging or even destroying the reputations and careers of fellow agents, regardless of how well-intentioned, and questioned whether unscrupulous agents might even go so far as to falsely report competing agents in order to gain an unfair advantage.</p>\r\n<p>He pointed out that sexual coming of age was a fluid concept that was constantly evolving and offered his grandparents up as an example.</p>\r\n<p>They married at twelve and had their first of ten children at thirteen, all of whom grew up to be productive, law abiding citizens. By today''s standards his grand parents would be convicted sex offenders, and his grandfather a statutory rapist.</p>\r\n<p>The broker ended by recommending the association reject law enforcement''s proposed new rules and received a rousing round of applause. Thankfully, that was the end of that.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers having sex with students, is this a good idea? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Should such behaviour be condoned or overlooked? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers have a responsibility to act responsibly and school districts have the right to set standards, policy and disciplinary action as necessary.</p>\r\n<p>Legislators also have the right and responsibility to set standards through legislation, but let us bear in mind that most legislation is passed without ever having been read by those who introduce, promote and vote for it, as it is largely drafted by well paid corporate and NGO lobbyists on behalf of those who have bought and paid for our legislators with donations, bribes and blackmail. It''s incumbent upon each of us, especially law enforcement and the judiciary, to question and carefully weigh the applicability and wisdom of legislated solutions.</p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley''s job and career have been destroyed, and what''s left of her youth could very well be spent behind bars.</p>\r\n<p>America already has more citizens locked away in jails and prisons than any other nation on earth, and American prison sentences are the most lengthy of any civilized nation. We imprison ten times more of our citizens than Europe does.</p>\r\n<p>Law enforcement and District Attorneys are now making prodigious use of a tool called <strong>''Stacking''</strong> to make sure our prisons, especially our privately owned prisons, stay full.</p>\r\n<p>With so many laws now on the books, it''s estimated that each American commits at least 3 felonies a day, that''s 21 felonies each week. When you''ve pissed off the wrong person(s) it''s easier than ever for the system to come up with reasons to arrest you. Once arrested, they don''t just charge you with one crime, say tax fraud, they charge you with a whole host of related crimes, like conspiracy to commit tax fraud, unlawful use of a bank account to commit tax fraud, conspiracy to unlawfully use electronic communications (a phone) to commit tax fraud, etc.</p>\r\n<p>In theory you have the right to demand a trial before a jury of your peers, but ''stacking'' makes that right virtually impossible to exercise. In addition to the original charge of tax fraud which carries a five year sentence, when all the other charges are stacked on top of it, you''re now facing 400 years in prison.</p>\r\n<p>The District Attorney lets you know that if you force him/her and the court to go through the expense of a trial, they will ''throw the book at you'' by demanding you be sentenced to the maximum (400 years)... but if you plead guilty to the charges, they will only seek a sentence of twenty years.</p>\r\n<p>This places defendants in a tight spot. Should you demand a jury trial and lose, you could spend the next 400 years in prison. If you agree to plead guilty, you will only spend twenty years in the slammer (despite that fact that you may be innocent). Our jails and prisons are full of individuals whose only crime was to be in the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/how-easy-it-is-to-end-up-in-prison-for-a-crime-you-didnt-commit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>wrong place at the wrong time</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p>This is the very situation Brianna Nicole Stanley now faces. Does she have the financial resources to adequately defend herself against the virtually unlimited resources of the District Attorney? Will Brianna be forced to accept an onerous, unjust plea agreement in order to avoid doing serious time in prison? What would you do in her position?</p>\r\n<p>Is Brianna Nicole Stanley just an average American girl, like most, having grown up with faces glued to cell phones and other electronic devices, sharing their every thought, fantasy and desire on social media? Was the supposed victim really a victim or just another willing participant?</p>\r\n<p>How many of today''s parents are themselves poorly educated, uninformed, self centered, immature social media junkies and video gaming zombies whose children are essentially forced to raise themselves? Numerous studies indicate that Social Media causes mental illness. Many Social Media developers do not allow their own families to use their products because they know all too well the damage they cause?</p>\r\n<p>How many believe Facebook offers it''s services for free out of the kindness of their heart? What about Santa Klaus and the Easter Bunny? Truth is FB and other SM sell your personal information to corporations, government agencies and foreign governments for Big Bucks. There simply is no ''free lunch''.</p>\r\n<p>What about our teaching colleges and universities? With over 400 female teachers having been convicted of sex crimes with students in just the past two years, can it be said that Brianna Nicole Stanley''s educators properly informed and instructed her regarding what is and isn''t acceptable sexual behaviour with students?</p>\r\n<p>Did Scotland County''s school system''s ''intake and orientation program'' for new teachers adequately explain its policies and expectations to Brianna?</p>\r\n<p>150 years ago a twenty three year old teacher could reasonably be expected to be a mature, responsible adult. Can this really be said today when children are for the most part being raising by social media, burned out parents, failing schools and corporate/government propaganda?</p>\r\n<p>Should Brianna Nicole Stanley receive a ''Get Out of Jail Free'' pass? Of course not. She is of legal age and, like it or not, will face consequences for her poor decisions.</p>\r\n<p>We can only pray, that when our judicial system dispenses its ''justice'', The Punishment will befit the Crime.</p>\r\n<p>While this young woman''s life hangs in the balance, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper hangs out and parties with a known, convicted sexual offender. <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-governor-cooper-attends-gala-hosted-by-sex-offender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Here''s the story</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Ask yourself, What would Jesus do?</strong></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/05/scotland-teacher-racks-up-14-sex-charges-including-child-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Lady Liberty 1885</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/e-cigarette-makers-frantically-targeting-your-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">E-Cigarette Makers Frantically Targeting Your Children</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/incredible-high-school-valedictorian-commencement-speech-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Incredible High School Valedictorian Commencement Speech (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/why-do-bullies-bully-bullying-among-youths/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Do Bullies Bully – Bullying Among Youths</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Brianna Nicole Stanley - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3356-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-06 08:35:56', '2019-04-06 12:35:56', '', 3356, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3356-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3983, 1, '2019-04-06 08:45:34', '2019-04-06 12:45:34', '<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3387" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-300x256.jpg" alt="" width="339" height="289" /><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley was arrested November 30, 2018 by the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old student at Carver Middle School in Laurinburg, North Carolina. This was Stanley’s first year of teaching with the school district where she taught seventh grade science.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3388" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-scotland-county-teacher.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="328" />The fact is more than 400 female teachers have been convicted nationwide of similar offences during just the past two years. It appears such behaviour is rapidly becoming the new normal.</p>\r\n<p>What''s driving this epidemic? Professionals lay the blame at the feet of ubiquitous electronic technologies that allow instant communications between teachers and students, including the sharing of explicit messaging and photos.</p>\r\n<p>Certainly, there is truth here, but there''s more to this story.</p>\r\n<p>Children are sexually active earlier than ever due to the presence of Estrogen mimickers in our drinking water, food supply, packaging materials and clothing. Such chemicals cause the early onset of puberty.</p>\r\n<p>Children are also being exposed to a constant barrage of sexual messaging through advertising, social media, gaming and subliminal messaging.</p>\r\n<p>Students interact with teachers on a regular basis so it''s only natural that sexual relationships will develop, but isn''t it unnatural and unholy for adults to have a sexual relationships with minors as young as twelve?</p>\r\n<p>A law enforcement official spoke at a real estate conference requesting that association members be required to report agents who may be engaging in or likely to engage in ''inappropriate'' sex with minors.</p>\r\n<p>When the speaker finished, the association''s president thanked him and recommended the association adopt law enforcement''s proposed new rules.</p>\r\n<p>Before that could be done, a well known, respected broker stood up among the crowd, and with a booming voice began presenting an opposing point of view.</p>\r\n<p>The job of law enforcement he said was to enforce the law and the job of real estate professionals was to sell real estate. He questioned whether agents were competent to make decisions that could end up damaging or even destroying the reputations and careers of fellow agents, regardless of how well-intentioned, and questioned whether unscrupulous agents might even go so far as to falsely report competing agents in order to gain an unfair advantage.</p>\r\n<p>He pointed out that sexual coming of age was a fluid concept that was constantly evolving and offered his grandparents up as an example.</p>\r\n<p>They married at twelve and had their first of ten children at thirteen, all of whom grew up to be productive, law abiding citizens. By today''s standards his grand parents would be convicted sex offenders, and his grandfather a statutory rapist.</p>\r\n<p>The broker ended by recommending the association reject law enforcement''s proposed new rules and received a rousing round of applause. Thankfully, that was the end of that.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers having sex with students, is this a good idea? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Should such behaviour be condoned or overlooked? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers have a responsibility to act responsibly and school districts have the right to set standards, policy and disciplinary action as necessary.</p>\r\n<p>Legislators also have the right and responsibility to set standards through legislation, but let us bear in mind that most legislation is passed without ever having been read by those who introduce, promote and vote for it, as it is largely drafted by well paid corporate and NGO lobbyists on behalf of those who have bought and paid for our legislators with donations, bribes and blackmail. It''s incumbent upon each of us, especially law enforcement and the judiciary, to question and carefully weigh the applicability and wisdom of legislated solutions.</p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley''s job and career have been destroyed, and what''s left of her youth could very well be spent behind bars.</p>\r\n<p>America already has more citizens locked away in jails and prisons than any other nation on earth, and American prison sentences are the most lengthy of any civilized nation. We imprison ten times more of our citizens than Europe does.</p>\r\n<p>Law enforcement and District Attorneys are now making prodigious use of a tool called <strong>''Stacking''</strong> to make sure our prisons, especially our privately owned prisons, stay full.</p>\r\n<p>With so many laws now on the books, it''s estimated that each American commits at least 3 felonies a day, that''s 21 felonies each week. When you''ve pissed off the wrong person(s) it''s easier than ever for the system to come up with reasons to arrest you. Once arrested, they don''t just charge you with one crime, say tax fraud, they charge you with a whole host of related crimes, like conspiracy to commit tax fraud, unlawful use of a bank account to commit tax fraud, conspiracy to unlawfully use electronic communications (a phone) to commit tax fraud, etc.</p>\r\n<p>In theory you have the right to demand a trial before a jury of your peers, but ''stacking'' makes that right virtually impossible to exercise. In addition to the original charge of tax fraud which carries a five year sentence, when all the other charges are stacked on top of it, you''re now facing 400 years in prison.</p>\r\n<p>The District Attorney lets you know that if you force him/her and the court to go through the expense of a trial, they will ''throw the book at you'' by demanding you be sentenced to the maximum (400 years)... but if you plead guilty to the charges, they will only seek a sentence of twenty years.</p>\r\n<p>This places defendants in a tight spot. Should you demand a jury trial and lose, you could spend the rest of your life in prison. If you agree to plead guilty, you will only spend twenty years in the slammer (despite that fact that you may be innocent). Our jails and prisons are full of individuals whose only crime was to be in the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/how-easy-it-is-to-end-up-in-prison-for-a-crime-you-didnt-commit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>wrong place at the wrong time</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p>This is the very situation Brianna Nicole Stanley now faces. Does she have the financial resources to adequately defend herself against the virtually unlimited resources of the District Attorney? Will Brianna be forced to accept an onerous, unjust plea agreement in order to avoid doing serious time in prison? What would you do in her position?</p>\r\n<p>Is Brianna Nicole Stanley just an average American girl, like most, having grown up with faces glued to cell phones and other electronic devices, sharing their every thought, fantasy and desire on social media? Was the supposed victim really a victim or just another willing participant?</p>\r\n<p>How many of today''s parents are themselves poorly educated, uninformed, self centered, immature social media junkies and video gaming zombies whose children are essentially forced to raise themselves? Numerous studies indicate that Social Media causes mental illness. Many Social Media developers do not allow their own families to use their products because they know all too well the damage they cause.</p>\r\n<p>How many believe Facebook offers it''s services for free out of the kindness of their heart? What about Santa Klaus and the Easter Bunny? Truth is FB and other SM sell your personal information to corporations, government agencies and foreign governments for Big Bucks. There simply is no ''free lunch''.</p>\r\n<p>What about our teaching colleges and universities? With over 400 female teachers having been convicted of sex crimes with students in just the past two years, can it be said that Brianna Nicole Stanley''s educators properly informed and instructed her regarding what is and isn''t acceptable sexual behaviour with students?</p>\r\n<p>Did Scotland County''s school system''s ''intake and orientation program'' for new teachers adequately explain its policies and expectations to Brianna?</p>\r\n<p>150 years ago a twenty three year old teacher could reasonably be expected to be a mature, responsible adult. Can this really be said today when children are for the most part being raising by social media, burned out parents, failing schools and corporate/government propaganda?</p>\r\n<p>Should Brianna Nicole Stanley receive a ''Get Out of Jail Free'' pass? Of course not. She is of legal age and, like it or not, will face consequences for her poor decisions.</p>\r\n<p>We can only pray, that when our judicial system dispenses its ''justice'', The Punishment will befit the Crime.</p>\r\n<p>While this young woman''s life hangs in the balance, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper hangs out and parties with a known, convicted sexual offender. <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-governor-cooper-attends-gala-hosted-by-sex-offender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Here''s the story</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Ask yourself, What would Jesus do?</strong></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/05/scotland-teacher-racks-up-14-sex-charges-including-child-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Lady Liberty 1885</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/e-cigarette-makers-frantically-targeting-your-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">E-Cigarette Makers Frantically Targeting Your Children</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/incredible-high-school-valedictorian-commencement-speech-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Incredible High School Valedictorian Commencement Speech (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/why-do-bullies-bully-bullying-among-youths/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Do Bullies Bully – Bullying Among Youths</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Brianna Nicole Stanley - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3356-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-06 08:45:34', '2019-04-06 12:45:34', '', 3356, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3356-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3984, 1, '2019-04-06 08:52:20', '2019-04-06 12:52:20', '<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3387" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-300x256.jpg" alt="" width="339" height="289" /><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley was arrested November 30, 2018 by the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old student at Carver Middle School in Laurinburg, North Carolina. This was Stanley’s first year of teaching with the school district where she taught seventh grade science.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3388" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-scotland-county-teacher.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="328" />The fact is more than 400 female teachers have been convicted nationwide of similar offences during just the past two years. It appears such behaviour is rapidly becoming the new normal.</p>\r\n<p>What''s driving this epidemic? Professionals lay the blame at the feet of ubiquitous electronic technologies that allow instant communications between teachers and students, including the sharing of explicit messaging and photos.</p>\r\n<p>Certainly, there is truth here, but there''s more to this story.</p>\r\n<p>Children are sexually active earlier than ever due to the presence of Estrogen mimickers in our drinking water, food supply, packaging materials and clothing. Such chemicals cause the early onset of puberty.</p>\r\n<p>Children are also being exposed to a constant barrage of sexual messaging through advertising, social media, gaming and subliminal messaging.</p>\r\n<p>Students interact with teachers on a regular basis so it''s only natural that sexual relationships will develop, but isn''t it unnatural and unholy for adults to have a sexual relationships with minors as young as twelve?</p>\r\n<p>A law enforcement official spoke at a real estate conference requesting that association members be required to report agents who may be engaging in or likely to engage in ''inappropriate'' sex with minors.</p>\r\n<p>When the speaker finished, the association''s president thanked him and recommended the association adopt law enforcement''s proposed new rules.</p>\r\n<p>Before that could be done, a well known, respected broker stood up among the crowd, and with a booming voice began presenting an opposing point of view.</p>\r\n<p>The job of law enforcement he said was to enforce the law and the job of real estate professionals was to sell real estate. He questioned whether agents were competent to make decisions that could end up damaging or even destroying the reputations and careers of fellow agents, regardless of how well-intentioned, and questioned whether unscrupulous agents might even go so far as to falsely report competing agents in order to gain an unfair advantage.</p>\r\n<p>He pointed out that sexual coming of age was a fluid concept that was constantly evolving and offered his grandparents up as an example.</p>\r\n<p>They married at twelve and had their first of ten children at thirteen, all of whom grew up to be productive, law abiding citizens. By today''s standards his grand parents would be convicted sex offenders, and his grandfather a statutory rapist.</p>\r\n<p>The broker ended by recommending the association reject law enforcement''s proposed new rules and received a rousing round of applause. Thankfully, that was the end of that.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers having sex with students, is this a good idea? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Should such behaviour be condoned or overlooked? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers have a responsibility to act responsibly and school districts have the right to set standards, policy and disciplinary action as necessary.</p>\r\n<p>Legislators also have the right and responsibility to set standards through legislation, but let us bear in mind that most legislation is passed without ever having been read by those who introduce, promote and vote for it, as it is largely drafted by well paid corporate and NGO lobbyists on behalf of those who have bought and paid for our legislators with donations, bribes and blackmail. It''s incumbent upon each of us, especially law enforcement and the judiciary, to question and carefully weigh the applicability and wisdom of legislated solutions.</p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley''s job and career have been destroyed, and what''s left of her youth could very well be spent behind bars.</p>\r\n<p>America already has more citizens locked away in jails and prisons than any other nation on earth, and American prison sentences are the most lengthy of any civilized nation. We imprison ten times more of our citizens than Europe does.</p>\r\n<p>Law enforcement and District Attorneys are now making prodigious use of a tool called <strong>''Stacking''</strong> to make sure our prisons, especially our privately owned prisons, stay full.</p>\r\n<p>With so many laws now on the books, it''s estimated that each American commits at least 3 felonies a day, that''s 21 felonies each week. When you''ve pissed off the wrong person(s) it''s easier than ever for the system to come up with reasons to arrest you. Once arrested, they don''t just charge you with one crime, say tax fraud, they charge you with a whole host of related crimes, like conspiracy to commit tax fraud, unlawful use of a bank account to commit tax fraud, conspiracy to unlawfully use electronic communications (a phone) to commit tax fraud, etc.</p>\r\n<p>In theory you have the right to demand a trial before a jury of your peers, but ''stacking'' makes that right virtually impossible to exercise. In addition to the original charge of tax fraud which carries a five year sentence, when all the other charges are stacked on top of it, you''re now facing 400 years in prison.</p>\r\n<p>The District Attorney lets you know that if you force him/her and the court to go through the expense of a trial, they will ''throw the book at you'' by demanding you be sentenced to the maximum (400 years)... but if you plead guilty to the charges, they will only seek a sentence of twenty years.</p>\r\n<p>This places defendants in a tight spot. Should you demand a jury trial and lose, you could spend the rest of your life in prison. If you agree to plead guilty, you will only spend twenty years in the slammer (despite that fact that you may be innocent). Our jails and prisons are full of individuals whose only crime was to be in the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/how-easy-it-is-to-end-up-in-prison-for-a-crime-you-didnt-commit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>wrong place at the wrong time</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p>This is the very situation Brianna Nicole Stanley now faces. Does she have the financial resources to adequately defend herself against the virtually unlimited resources of the District Attorney? Will Brianna be forced to accept an onerous, unjust plea agreement in order to avoid doing serious time in prison? What would you do in her position?</p>\r\n<p>Is Brianna Nicole Stanley just an average American girl, like most, having grown up with faces glued to cell phones and other electronic devices, sharing their every thought, fantasy and desire on social media? Was the supposed victim really a victim or just another willing participant?</p>\r\n<p>How many of today''s parents are themselves poorly educated, uninformed, self centered, immature social media junkies and video gaming zombies whose children are essentially forced to raise themselves? Numerous studies indicate that Social Media causes mental illness. Many Social Media developers do not allow their own families to use their products because they know all too well the damage they cause.</p>\r\n<p>How many believe Facebook offers it''s services for free out of the kindness of their heart? What about Santa Klaus and the Easter Bunny? Truth is FB and other SM sell your personal information to corporations, government agencies and foreign governments for Big Bucks. There simply is no ''free lunch''.</p>\r\n<p>What about our teaching colleges and universities? With over 400 female teachers having been convicted of sex crimes with students in just the past two years, can it be said that Brianna Nicole Stanley''s educators properly informed and instructed her regarding what is and isn''t acceptable sexual behaviour with students?</p>\r\n<p>Did Scotland County''s school system''s ''intake and orientation program'' for new teachers adequately explain its policies and expectations to Brianna?</p>\r\n<p>150 years ago a twenty three year old teacher could reasonably be expected to be a mature, responsible adult. Can this really be said today when children are for the most part being raised by social media, burned out parents, failing schools and corporate/government propaganda?</p>\r\n<p>Should Brianna Nicole Stanley receive a ''Get Out of Jail Free'' pass? Of course not. She is of legal age and, like it or not, will face consequences for her poor decisions.</p>\r\n<p>We can only pray, that when our judicial system dispenses its ''justice'', The Punishment will befit the Crime.</p>\r\n<p>While this young woman''s life hangs in the balance, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper hangs out and parties with a known, convicted sexual offender. <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-governor-cooper-attends-gala-hosted-by-sex-offender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Here''s the story</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Ask yourself, What would Jesus do?</strong></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/05/scotland-teacher-racks-up-14-sex-charges-including-child-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Lady Liberty 1885</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/e-cigarette-makers-frantically-targeting-your-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">E-Cigarette Makers Frantically Targeting Your Children</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/incredible-high-school-valedictorian-commencement-speech-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Incredible High School Valedictorian Commencement Speech (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/why-do-bullies-bully-bullying-among-youths/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Do Bullies Bully – Bullying Among Youths</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Brianna Nicole Stanley - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3356-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-06 08:52:20', '2019-04-06 12:52:20', '', 3356, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3356-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(3985, 1, '2019-04-07 12:47:27', '2019-04-07 16:47:27', '<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-3507" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/gibson-town-commission-at-work-300x90.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="168" /></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Gibson North Carolina 28343 is dying, not because that is its destiny, but rather because its elected officials are weak, lazy, ignorant, easily manipulated and corrupted.</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="font-size: 20px;">Gibson Town Commission - A Sad Excuse for Governance</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>The LE''s recent <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>article</b></a></span> ''Chavis resigns seat on Gibson board'' started out by saying: <b>"Town of Gibson commissioners will have an important decision to make at their upcoming monthly meeting..."</b></p>\r\n<p><b>Fact is, the Commission''s decision to leave Belton Chaviz'' position open until the November election will go down as one of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the least important decisions ever made on planet earth</span>.</b></p>\r\n<p>If Gibson Commissioners can be counted on to do one thing, it''s to vote on whatever is put in front of them with zero knowledge, understanding, discussion, comment or concern. Commissioners routinely come to meetings completely unprepared. They are nothing more than a rubber stamp for the Mayor Ronnie Hudson, Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker and Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, so much so that it really doesn''t matter who is on Town Commission or even if there is a Town Commission.</p>\r\n<p>Commissioners think nothing of approving contracts and agreements with state and federal agencies and private vendors that in some cases run hundreds of pages in length without any discussion whatsoever, openly admitting that not one of them even bothered to read the document. While they think it''s funny, the truth is it''s been a dream come true for grifters looking to scheme, scam, flim-flam and take advantage of townies.</p>\r\n<p>In one instance the salesman pitching a FEMA contract admitted he himself had no idea what it was about, but nevertheless offered that: <em>''every other community [he] had presented it to had approved it''.</em></p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3529" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Broken-Glass-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="212" height="283" />Imagine Gibson approving a 300+ page contract on the basis that other lemmings had already jumped off the cliff! Does this sound even remotely responsible? Is it any wonder <strong>Gibson has become an open sewer (literally) full of vacant, vandalized, burglarized structures, broken glass and For Sale signs?</strong></p>\r\n<p>Attorneys advise <u>never</u> to sign any contract, document or agreement without having first read it and making sure you understand every word, including the punctuation. Despite this, Gibson''s Town Attorney routinely sits silently at Commission meetings as contracts are presented and approved without uttering so much as a peep.</p>\r\n<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3530 alignright" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Water-Tower-257x300.jpg" alt="" width="257" height="300" /></p>\r\n<p>Ever wonder what all those strange looking devices are on top Gibson''s water tower? The Town Commission would have us believe these are harmless cell and broadband communication antennas and repeaters. This is incorrect. Had the Commissioners bothered to read the contract they would know better.</p>\r\n<p><strong>T</strong><b>his array is an extremely powerful military grade ''Frequency Pulse Weapon'' that will in due course be deployed against the people of Gibson </b>as part of <strong>''NWO Agenda 2030''</strong>.</p>\r\n<p>Yes, dear gentle reader, there are forces beyond your knowledge, understanding, comprehension or imagination at work. When Jesus said: "Pick up your cross and follow me", he wasn''t kidding. There is much work to be done, starting right here in Gibson.</p>\r\n<p>According to Agenda 2030, <strong>Gibson is overflowing with ''Useless Eaters''</strong>, those who consume more in government services than they produce in government revenue, and therefore won''t be needed as part of the New World Order that is currently being rolled out.</p>\r\n<p>Useless eaters include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The Infirm.</li>\r\n	<li>The Disabled.</li>\r\n	<li>The Unemployed.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving Welfare, SNAP, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.</li>\r\n	<li>Those receiving the ''Earned Income Tax Credit''.</li>\r\n	<li>Those engaged in agricultural pursuits and consuming more in USDA subsidies than they produce in net revenue to the government.</li>\r\n	<li>Pensioners. When pension systems fail, the last thing ruling elites want is a bunch of whiny, panicked cry babies stampeding the rest of the Sheeple.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>The contracts Gibson Commissioners sign with complete abandon abrogate our rights, freedoms and liberties, and reduce or eliminate the sovereignty of our municipal corporation (Town of Gibson), allowing the implementation of dangerous, lethal technologies that can and will be used against us... all in exchange for a few ephemeral baubles and trinkets. <strong>This is not only short sighted but downright treasonous</strong>.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson and Scotland County desperately need public officials willing and capable of fulfilling their responsibilities.</p>\r\n<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><em><strong>Gibson Town Hall – Satan''s little workshop.</strong></em></span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/22661/chavis-resigns-seat-on-gibson-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Related Articles:</strong></p>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who''s Spying on You?</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-smart-grid-is-the-new-world-order-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">5G Smart Grid IS the New World Order (video</a>)</span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/5g-dangers-lies-of-the-media-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">5G Dangers – Lies of the Media (video)</span></a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Gibson North Carolina 28343 Commits Municipal Suicide (Part 1)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3504-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-07 12:47:27', '2019-04-07 16:47:27', '', 3504, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3504-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3986, 1, '2019-04-07 12:54:02', '2019-04-07 16:54:02', '<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3387" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-300x256.jpg" alt="" width="339" height="289" /><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley was arrested November 30, 2018 by the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old student at Carver Middle School in Laurinburg, North Carolina. This was Stanley’s first year of teaching with the school district where she taught seventh grade science.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3388" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-scotland-county-teacher.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="328" />The fact is more than 400 female teachers have been convicted nationwide of similar offences during just the past two years. It appears such behaviour is rapidly becoming the new normal.</p>\r\n<p>What''s driving this epidemic? Professionals lay the blame at the feet of ubiquitous electronic technologies that allow instant communications between teachers and students, including the sharing of explicit messaging and photos.</p>\r\n<p>Certainly, there is truth here, but there''s more to this story.</p>\r\n<p>Children are sexually active earlier than ever due to the presence of Estrogen mimickers in our drinking water, food supply, packaging materials and clothing. Such chemicals cause the early onset of puberty.</p>\r\n<p>Children are also being exposed to a constant barrage of sexual messaging through advertising, social media, gaming and subliminal messaging.</p>\r\n<p>Students interact with teachers on a regular basis so it''s only natural that sexual relationships will develop, but isn''t it unnatural and unholy for adults to have a sexual relationships with minors as young as twelve?</p>\r\n<p>A law enforcement official spoke at a real estate conference requesting that association members be required to report agents who may be engaging in or likely to engage in ''inappropriate'' sex with minors.</p>\r\n<p>When the speaker finished, the association''s president thanked him and recommended the association adopt law enforcement''s proposed new rules.</p>\r\n<p>Before that could be done, a well known, respected broker stood up among the crowd, and with a booming voice began presenting an opposing point of view.</p>\r\n<p>The job of law enforcement he said was to enforce the law and the job of real estate professionals was to sell real estate. He questioned whether agents were competent to make decisions that could end up damaging or even destroying the reputations and careers of fellow agents, regardless of how well-intentioned, and questioned whether unscrupulous agents might even go so far as to falsely report competing agents in order to gain an unfair advantage.</p>\r\n<p>He pointed out that sexual coming of age was a fluid concept that was constantly evolving and offered his grandparents up as an example.</p>\r\n<p>They married at twelve and had their first of ten children at thirteen, all of whom grew up to be productive, law abiding citizens. By today''s standards his grand parents would be convicted sex offenders, and his grandfather a statutory rapist.</p>\r\n<p>The broker ended by recommending the association reject law enforcement''s proposed new rules and received a rousing round of applause. Thankfully, that was the end of that.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers having sex with students, is this a good idea? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Should such behaviour be condoned or overlooked? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers have a responsibility to act responsibly and school districts have the right to set standards, policy and disciplinary action as necessary.</p>\r\n<p>Legislators also have the right and responsibility to set standards through legislation, but let us bear in mind that most legislation is passed without ever having been read by those who introduce, promote and vote for it, as it is largely drafted by well paid corporate and NGO lobbyists on behalf of those who have bought and paid for our legislators with donations, bribes and blackmail. It''s incumbent upon each of us, especially law enforcement and the judiciary, to question and carefully weigh the applicability and wisdom of legislated solutions.</p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley''s job and career have been destroyed, and what''s left of her youth could very well be spent behind bars.</p>\r\n<p>America already has more citizens locked away in jails and prisons than any other nation on earth, and American prison sentences are the most lengthy of any civilized nation. We imprison ten times more of our citizens than Europe does.</p>\r\n<p>Law enforcement and District Attorneys are now making prodigious use of a tool called <strong>''Stacking''</strong> to make sure our prisons, especially our privately owned prisons, stay full.</p>\r\n<p>With so many laws now on the books, it''s estimated that each American commits at least 3 felonies a day, that''s 21 felonies each week. When you''ve pissed off the wrong person(s) it''s easier than ever for the system to come up with reasons to arrest you. Once arrested, they don''t just charge you with one crime, say tax fraud, they charge you with a whole host of related crimes, like conspiracy to commit tax fraud, unlawful use of a bank account to commit tax fraud, conspiracy to unlawfully use electronic communications (a phone) to commit tax fraud, etc.</p>\r\n<p>In theory you have the right to demand a trial before a jury of your peers, but ''stacking'' makes that right virtually impossible to exercise. In addition to the original charge of tax fraud which carries a five year sentence, when all the other charges are stacked on top of it, you''re now facing 400 years in prison.</p>\r\n<p>The District Attorney lets you know that if you force him/her and the court to go through the expense of a trial, they will ''throw the book at you'' by demanding you be sentenced to the maximum (400 years)... but if you plead guilty to the charges, they will only seek a sentence of twenty years.</p>\r\n<p>This places defendants in a tight spot. Should you demand a jury trial and lose, you could spend the rest of your life in prison. If you agree to plead guilty, you will only spend twenty years in the slammer (despite that fact that you may be innocent). Our jails and prisons are full of individuals whose only crime was to be in the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/how-easy-it-is-to-end-up-in-prison-for-a-crime-you-didnt-commit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>wrong place at the wrong time</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p>This is the very situation Brianna Nicole Stanley now faces. Does she have the financial resources to adequately defend herself against the virtually unlimited resources of the District Attorney? Will Brianna be forced to accept an onerous, unjust plea agreement in order to avoid doing serious time in prison? What would you do in her position?</p>\r\n<p>Is Brianna Nicole Stanley just an average American girl, like most, having grown up with faces glued to cell phones and other electronic devices, sharing their every thought, fantasy and desire on social media? Was the supposed victim really a victim or just another willing participant?</p>\r\n<p>How many of today''s parents are themselves poorly educated, uninformed, self centered, immature social media junkies and video gaming zombies whose children are essentially forced to raise themselves? Numerous studies indicate that Social Media causes mental health problems. Many Social Media developers themselves do not allow their own families to use the products they produce because they know all too well they are designed to cause both individuals and the herd to make decisions and take actions they would not normally take and are diametrically opposed to their own best interests.</p>\r\n<p>How many believe Facebook offers it''s services for free out of the kindness of their heart? What about Santa Klaus and the Easter Bunny? Truth is FB and other SM sell your personal information to corporations, government agencies and foreign governments for Big Bucks. There simply is no ''free lunch''.</p>\r\n<p>What about our teaching colleges and universities? With over 400 female teachers having been convicted of sex crimes with students in just the past two years, can it be said that Brianna Nicole Stanley''s educators properly informed and instructed her regarding what is and isn''t acceptable sexual behaviour with students?</p>\r\n<p>Did Scotland County''s school system''s ''intake and orientation program'' for new teachers adequately explain its policies and expectations to Brianna?</p>\r\n<p>150 years ago a twenty three year old teacher could reasonably be expected to be a mature, responsible adult. Can this really be said today when children are for the most part being raised by social media, burned out parents, failing schools and corporate/government propaganda?</p>\r\n<p>Should Brianna Nicole Stanley receive a ''Get Out of Jail Free'' pass? Of course not. She is of legal age and, like it or not, will face consequences for her poor decisions.</p>\r\n<p>We can only pray, that when our judicial system dispenses its ''justice'', The Punishment will befit the Crime.</p>\r\n<p>While this young woman''s life hangs in the balance, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper hangs out and parties with a known, convicted sexual offender. <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-governor-cooper-attends-gala-hosted-by-sex-offender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Here''s the story</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Ask yourself, What would Jesus do?</strong></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/05/scotland-teacher-racks-up-14-sex-charges-including-child-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Lady Liberty 1885</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/e-cigarette-makers-frantically-targeting-your-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">E-Cigarette Makers Frantically Targeting Your Children</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/incredible-high-school-valedictorian-commencement-speech-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Incredible High School Valedictorian Commencement Speech (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/why-do-bullies-bully-bullying-among-youths/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Do Bullies Bully – Bullying Among Youths</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Brianna Nicole Stanley - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3356-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-07 12:54:02', '2019-04-07 16:54:02', '', 3356, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3356-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3987, 1, '2019-04-07 12:55:34', '2019-04-07 16:55:34', '<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3387" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-300x256.jpg" alt="" width="339" height="289" /><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley was arrested November 30, 2018 by the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old student at Carver Middle School in Laurinburg, North Carolina. This was Stanley’s first year of teaching with the school district where she taught seventh grade science.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3388" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-scotland-county-teacher.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="328" />The fact is more than 400 female teachers have been convicted nationwide of similar offences during just the past two years. It appears such behaviour is rapidly becoming the new normal.</p>\r\n<p>What''s driving this epidemic? Professionals lay the blame at the feet of ubiquitous electronic technologies that allow instant communications between teachers and students, including the sharing of explicit messaging and photos.</p>\r\n<p>Certainly, there is truth here, but there''s more to this story.</p>\r\n<p>Children are sexually active earlier than ever due to the presence of Estrogen mimickers in our drinking water, food supply, packaging materials and clothing. Such chemicals cause the early onset of puberty.</p>\r\n<p>Children are also being exposed to a constant barrage of sexual messaging through advertising, social media, gaming and subliminal messaging.</p>\r\n<p>Students interact with teachers on a regular basis so it''s only natural that sexual relationships will develop, but isn''t it unnatural and unholy for adults to have a sexual relationships with minors as young as twelve?</p>\r\n<p>A law enforcement official spoke at a real estate conference requesting that association members be required to report agents who may be engaging in or likely to engage in ''inappropriate'' sex with minors.</p>\r\n<p>When the speaker finished, the association''s president thanked him and recommended the association adopt law enforcement''s proposed new rules.</p>\r\n<p>Before that could be done, a well known, respected broker stood up among the crowd, and with a booming voice began presenting an opposing point of view.</p>\r\n<p>The job of law enforcement he said was to enforce the law and the job of real estate professionals was to sell real estate. He questioned whether agents were competent to make decisions that could end up damaging or even destroying the reputations and careers of fellow agents, regardless of how well-intentioned, and questioned whether unscrupulous agents might even go so far as to falsely report competing agents in order to gain an unfair advantage.</p>\r\n<p>He pointed out that sexual coming of age was a fluid concept that was constantly evolving and offered his grandparents up as an example.</p>\r\n<p>They married at twelve and had their first of ten children at thirteen, all of whom grew up to be productive, law abiding citizens. By today''s standards his grand parents would be convicted sex offenders, and his grandfather a statutory rapist.</p>\r\n<p>The broker ended by recommending the association reject law enforcement''s proposed new rules and received a rousing round of applause. Thankfully, that was the end of that.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers having sex with students, is this a good idea? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Should such behaviour be condoned or overlooked? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers have a responsibility to act responsibly and school districts have the right to set standards, policy and disciplinary action as necessary.</p>\r\n<p>Legislators also have the right and responsibility to set standards through legislation, but let us bear in mind that most legislation is passed without ever having been read by those who introduce, promote and vote for it, as it is largely drafted by well paid corporate and NGO lobbyists on behalf of those who have bought and paid for our legislators with donations, bribes and blackmail. It''s incumbent upon each of us, especially law enforcement and the judiciary, to question and carefully weigh the applicability and wisdom of legislated solutions.</p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley''s job and career have been destroyed, and what''s left of her youth could very well be spent behind bars.</p>\r\n<p>America already has more citizens locked away in jails and prisons than any other nation on earth, and American prison sentences are the most lengthy of any civilized nation. We imprison ten times more of our citizens than Europe does.</p>\r\n<p>Law enforcement and District Attorneys are now making prodigious use of a tool called <strong>''Stacking''</strong> to make sure our prisons, especially our privately owned prisons, stay full.</p>\r\n<p>With so many laws now on the books, it''s estimated that each American commits at least 3 felonies a day, that''s 21 felonies each week. When you''ve pissed off the wrong person(s) it''s easier than ever for the system to come up with reasons to arrest you. Once arrested, they don''t just charge you with one crime, say tax fraud, they charge you with a whole host of related crimes, like conspiracy to commit tax fraud, unlawful use of a bank account to commit tax fraud, conspiracy to unlawfully use electronic communications (a phone) to commit tax fraud, etc.</p>\r\n<p>In theory you have the right to demand a trial before a jury of your peers, but ''stacking'' makes that right virtually impossible to exercise. In addition to the original charge of tax fraud which carries a five year sentence, when all the other charges are stacked on top of it, you''re now facing 400 years in prison.</p>\r\n<p>The District Attorney lets you know that if you force him/her and the court to go through the expense of a trial, they will ''throw the book at you'' by demanding you be sentenced to the maximum (400 years)... but if you plead guilty to the charges, they will only seek a sentence of twenty years.</p>\r\n<p>This places defendants in a tight spot. Should you demand a jury trial and lose, you could spend the rest of your life in prison. If you agree to plead guilty, you will only spend twenty years in the slammer (despite that fact that you may be innocent). Our jails and prisons are full of individuals whose only crime was to be in the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/how-easy-it-is-to-end-up-in-prison-for-a-crime-you-didnt-commit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>wrong place at the wrong time</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p>This is the very situation Brianna Nicole Stanley now faces. Does she have the financial resources to adequately defend herself against the virtually unlimited resources of the District Attorney? Will Brianna be forced to accept an onerous, unjust plea agreement in order to avoid doing serious time in prison? What would you do in her position?</p>\r\n<p>Is Brianna Nicole Stanley just an average American girl, like most, having grown up with faces glued to cell phones and other electronic devices, sharing their every thought, fantasy and desire on social media? Was the supposed victim really a victim or just another willing participant?</p>\r\n<p>How many of today''s parents are themselves poorly educated, uninformed, self centered, immature social media junkies and video gaming zombies whose children are essentially forced to raise themselves?</p>\r\n<p>Numerous studies indicate that Social Media causes mental health problems. Many Social Media developers themselves do not allow their own families to use the products they produce because they know all too well they are designed to cause both individuals and the herd to make decisions and take actions they would not normally take and are diametrically opposed to their own best interests.</p>\r\n<p>How many believe Facebook offers it''s services for free out of the kindness of their heart? What about Santa Klaus and the Easter Bunny? Truth is FB and other SM sell your personal information to corporations, government agencies and foreign governments for Big Bucks. There simply is no ''free lunch''.</p>\r\n<p>What about our teaching colleges and universities? With over 400 female teachers having been convicted of sex crimes with students in just the past two years, can it be said that Brianna Nicole Stanley''s educators properly informed and instructed her regarding what is and isn''t acceptable sexual behaviour with students?</p>\r\n<p>Did Scotland County''s school system''s ''intake and orientation program'' for new teachers adequately explain its policies and expectations to Brianna?</p>\r\n<p>150 years ago a twenty three year old teacher could reasonably be expected to be a mature, responsible adult. Can this really be said today when children are for the most part being raised by social media, burned out parents, failing schools and corporate/government propaganda?</p>\r\n<p>Should Brianna Nicole Stanley receive a ''Get Out of Jail Free'' pass? Of course not. She is of legal age and, like it or not, will face consequences for her poor decisions.</p>\r\n<p>We can only pray, that when our judicial system dispenses its ''justice'', The Punishment will befit the Crime.</p>\r\n<p>While this young woman''s life hangs in the balance, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper hangs out and parties with a known, convicted sexual offender. <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-governor-cooper-attends-gala-hosted-by-sex-offender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Here''s the story</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Ask yourself, What would Jesus do?</strong></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/05/scotland-teacher-racks-up-14-sex-charges-including-child-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Lady Liberty 1885</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/e-cigarette-makers-frantically-targeting-your-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">E-Cigarette Makers Frantically Targeting Your Children</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/incredible-high-school-valedictorian-commencement-speech-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Incredible High School Valedictorian Commencement Speech (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/why-do-bullies-bully-bullying-among-youths/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Do Bullies Bully – Bullying Among Youths</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Brianna Nicole Stanley - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3356-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-07 12:55:34', '2019-04-07 16:55:34', '', 3356, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3356-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3988, 1, '2019-04-07 12:57:47', '2019-04-07 16:57:47', '<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3387" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-300x256.jpg" alt="" width="339" height="289" /><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley was arrested November 30, 2018 by the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old student at Carver Middle School in Laurinburg, North Carolina. This was Stanley’s first year of teaching with the school district where she taught seventh grade science.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3388" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-scotland-county-teacher.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="328" />The fact is more than 400 female teachers have been convicted nationwide of similar offences during just the past two years. It appears such behaviour is rapidly becoming the new normal.</p>\r\n<p>What''s driving this epidemic? Professionals lay the blame at the feet of ubiquitous electronic technologies that allow instant communications between teachers and students, including the sharing of explicit messaging and photos.</p>\r\n<p>Certainly, there is truth here, but there''s more to this story.</p>\r\n<p>Children are sexually active earlier than ever due to the presence of Estrogen mimickers in our drinking water, food supply, packaging materials and clothing. Such chemicals cause the early onset of puberty.</p>\r\n<p>Children are also being exposed to a constant barrage of sexual messaging through advertising, social media, gaming and subliminal messaging.</p>\r\n<p>Students interact with teachers on a regular basis so it''s only natural that sexual relationships will develop, but isn''t it unnatural and unholy for adults to have a sexual relationships with minors as young as twelve?</p>\r\n<p>A law enforcement official spoke at a real estate conference requesting that association members be required to report agents who may be engaging in or likely to engage in ''inappropriate'' sex with minors.</p>\r\n<p>When the speaker finished, the association''s president thanked him and recommended the association adopt law enforcement''s proposed new rules.</p>\r\n<p>Before that could be done, a well known, respected broker stood up among the crowd, and with a booming voice began presenting an opposing point of view.</p>\r\n<p>The job of law enforcement he said was to enforce the law and the job of real estate professionals was to sell real estate. He questioned whether agents were competent to make decisions that could end up damaging or even destroying the reputations and careers of fellow agents, regardless of how well-intentioned, and questioned whether unscrupulous agents might even go so far as to falsely report competing agents in order to gain an unfair advantage.</p>\r\n<p>He pointed out that sexual coming of age was a fluid concept that was constantly evolving and offered his grandparents up as an example.</p>\r\n<p>They married at twelve and had their first of ten children at thirteen, all of whom grew up to be productive, law abiding citizens. By today''s standards his grand parents would be convicted sex offenders, and his grandfather a statutory rapist.</p>\r\n<p>The broker ended by recommending the association reject law enforcement''s proposed new rules and received a rousing round of applause. Thankfully, that was the end of that.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers having sex with students, is this a good idea? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Should such behaviour be condoned or overlooked? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers have a responsibility to act responsibly and school districts have the right to set standards, policy and disciplinary action as necessary.</p>\r\n<p>Legislators also have the right and responsibility to set standards through legislation, but let us bear in mind that most legislation is passed without ever having been read by those who introduce, promote and vote for it, as it is largely drafted by well paid corporate and NGO lobbyists on behalf of those who have bought and paid for our legislators with donations, bribes and blackmail. It''s incumbent upon each of us, especially law enforcement and the judiciary, to question and carefully weigh the applicability and wisdom of legislated solutions.</p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley''s job and career have been destroyed, and what''s left of her youth could very well be spent behind bars.</p>\r\n<p>America already has more citizens locked away in jails and prisons than any other nation on earth, and American prison sentences are the most lengthy of any civilized nation. We imprison ten times more of our citizens than Europe does.</p>\r\n<p>Law enforcement and District Attorneys are now making prodigious use of a tool called <strong>''Stacking''</strong> to make sure our prisons, especially our privately owned prisons, stay full.</p>\r\n<p>With so many laws now on the books, it''s estimated that each American commits at least 3 felonies a day, that''s 21 felonies each week. When you''ve pissed off the wrong person(s) it''s easier than ever for the system to come up with reasons to arrest you. Once arrested, they don''t just charge you with one crime, say tax fraud, they charge you with a whole host of related crimes, like conspiracy to commit tax fraud, unlawful use of a bank account to commit tax fraud, conspiracy to unlawfully use electronic communications (a phone) to commit tax fraud, etc.</p>\r\n<p>In theory you have the right to demand a trial before a jury of your peers, but ''stacking'' makes that right virtually impossible to exercise. In addition to the original charge of tax fraud which carries a five year sentence, when all the other charges are stacked on top of it, you''re now facing 400 years in prison.</p>\r\n<p>The District Attorney lets you know that if you force him/her and the court to go through the expense of a trial, they will ''throw the book at you'' by demanding you be sentenced to the maximum (400 years)... but if you plead guilty to the charges, they will only seek a sentence of twenty years.</p>\r\n<p>This places defendants in a tight spot. Should you demand a jury trial and lose, you could spend the rest of your life in prison. If you agree to plead guilty, you will only spend twenty years in the slammer (despite that fact that you may be innocent). Our jails and prisons are full of individuals whose only crime was to be in the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/how-easy-it-is-to-end-up-in-prison-for-a-crime-you-didnt-commit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>wrong place at the wrong time</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p>This is the very situation Brianna Nicole Stanley now faces. Does she have the financial resources to adequately defend herself against the virtually unlimited resources of the District Attorney? Will Brianna be forced to accept an onerous, unjust plea agreement in order to avoid doing serious time in prison? What would you do in her position?</p>\r\n<p>Is Brianna Nicole Stanley just an average American girl, like most, having grown up with faces glued to cell phones and other electronic devices, sharing their every thought, fantasy and desire on social media? Was the supposed victim really a victim or just another willing participant?</p>\r\n<p>How many of today''s parents are themselves poorly educated, uninformed, self centered, immature social media junkies and video gaming zombies whose children are essentially forced to raise themselves?</p>\r\n<p>Numerous studies indicate that Social Media causes mental health problems. Many Social Media developers themselves do not allow their own families to use the products they produce because they know all too well they are designed to cause both individuals and the herd to make decisions and take actions that are diametrically opposed to their own best interests.</p>\r\n<p>How many believe Facebook offers it''s services for free out of the kindness of their heart? What about Santa Klaus and the Easter Bunny? Truth is FB and other SM sell your personal information to corporations, government agencies and foreign governments for Big Bucks. There simply is no ''free lunch''.</p>\r\n<p>What about our teaching colleges and universities? With over 400 female teachers having been convicted of sex crimes with students in just the past two years, can it be said that Brianna Nicole Stanley''s educators properly informed and instructed her regarding what is and isn''t acceptable sexual behaviour with students?</p>\r\n<p>Did Scotland County''s school system''s ''intake and orientation program'' for new teachers adequately explain its policies and expectations to Brianna?</p>\r\n<p>150 years ago a twenty three year old teacher could reasonably be expected to be a mature, responsible adult. Can this really be said today when children are for the most part being raised by social media, burned out parents, failing schools and corporate/government propaganda?</p>\r\n<p>Should Brianna Nicole Stanley receive a ''Get Out of Jail Free'' pass? Of course not. She is of legal age and, like it or not, will face consequences for her poor decisions.</p>\r\n<p>We can only pray, that when our judicial system dispenses its ''justice'', The Punishment will befit the Crime.</p>\r\n<p>While this young woman''s life hangs in the balance, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper hangs out and parties with a known, convicted sexual offender. <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-governor-cooper-attends-gala-hosted-by-sex-offender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Here''s the story</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Ask yourself, What would Jesus do?</strong></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/05/scotland-teacher-racks-up-14-sex-charges-including-child-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Lady Liberty 1885</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/e-cigarette-makers-frantically-targeting-your-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">E-Cigarette Makers Frantically Targeting Your Children</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/incredible-high-school-valedictorian-commencement-speech-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Incredible High School Valedictorian Commencement Speech (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/why-do-bullies-bully-bullying-among-youths/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Do Bullies Bully – Bullying Among Youths</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. 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(3989, 1, '2019-04-08 11:42:44', '2019-04-08 15:42:44', '<p>The Christchurch New Zealand massacre was supposed to be a MEGA event for Gun Grabbers world wide. Unfortunately, the truth is starting to leak out despite Mainstream and Social Media attempts to snuff the perp''s head-cam  video from the Internet. The following video provides conclusive proof that this entire event was staged as part of the NWO''s Gladio G10 operation.<span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">[iframe src="https://www.bitchute.com/embed/VRRZI8Pre7oa/" width="100%" height="500"]</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/VRRZI8Pre7oa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Bitchute</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:<br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="False Flag Crisis Actors - A Full Time Career" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/false-flag-crises-actors-a-full-time-career/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">False Flag &amp; Crises Actors – A Full Time Career</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="CA Bar Mass Shooting is a False Flag" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/ca-bar-mass-shooting-is-a-false-flag/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CA Bar Mass Shooting is a False Flag</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Full 5G Satanic Agendas Exposed (video)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/full-5g-satanic-agendas-exposed-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Full 5G Satanic Agendas Exposed (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Christchurch Shooting was a False Flag - Here''s Proof (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3908-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-08 11:42:44', '2019-04-08 15:42:44', '', 3908, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3908-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(3990, 1, '2019-04-08 11:50:10', '2019-04-08 15:50:10', '<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3387" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-300x256.jpg" alt="" width="339" height="289" /><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley was arrested November 30, 2018 by the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old student at Carver Middle School in Laurinburg, North Carolina. This was Stanley’s first year of teaching with the school district where she taught seventh grade science.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3388" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-scotland-county-teacher.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="328" />The fact is more than 400 female teachers have been convicted nationwide of similar offences during just the past two years. It appears such behaviour is rapidly becoming the new normal.</p>\r\n<p>What''s driving this epidemic? Professionals lay the blame at the feet of ubiquitous electronic technologies that allow instant communications between teachers and students, including the sharing of explicit messaging and photos.</p>\r\n<p>Certainly, there is truth here, but there''s more to this story.</p>\r\n<p>Children are sexually active earlier than ever due to the presence of Estrogen mimickers in our drinking water, food supply, packaging materials and clothing. Such chemicals cause the early onset of puberty.</p>\r\n<p>Children are also being exposed to a constant barrage of sexual messaging through advertising, social media, gaming and subliminal messaging.</p>\r\n<p>Students interact with teachers on a regular basis so it''s only natural that sexual relationships will develop, but isn''t it unnatural and unholy for adults to have a sexual relationships with minors as young as twelve?</p>\r\n<p>A law enforcement official spoke at a real estate conference requesting that association members be required to report agents who may be engaging in or likely to engage in ''inappropriate'' sex with minors.</p>\r\n<p>When the speaker finished, the association''s president thanked him and recommended the association adopt law enforcement''s proposed new rules.</p>\r\n<p>Before that could be done however, a well known, respected broker stood up among the crowd, and with a booming voice began presenting an opposing point of view.</p>\r\n<p>The job of law enforcement he said was to enforce the law and the job of real estate professionals was to sell real estate. He questioned whether agents were competent to make decisions that could end up damaging or even destroying the reputations and careers of fellow agents, regardless of how well-intentioned, and questioned whether unscrupulous agents might even go so far as to falsely report competing agents in order to gain an unfair advantage.</p>\r\n<p>He pointed out that sexual coming of age was a fluid concept that was constantly evolving and offered his grandparents up as an example.</p>\r\n<p>They married at twelve and had their first of ten children at thirteen, all of whom grew up to be productive, law abiding citizens. By today''s standards his grand parents would be convicted sex offenders, and his grandfather a statutory rapist.</p>\r\n<p>The broker ended by recommending the association reject law enforcement''s proposed new rules and received a rousing round of applause. Thankfully, that was the end of that.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers having sex with students, is this a good idea? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Should such behaviour be condoned or overlooked? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers have a responsibility to act responsibly and school districts have the right to set standards, policy and disciplinary action as necessary.</p>\r\n<p>Legislators also have the right and responsibility to set standards through legislation, but let us bear in mind that most legislation is passed without ever having been read by those who introduce, promote and vote for it, as it is largely drafted by well paid corporate and NGO lobbyists on behalf of those who have bought and paid for our legislators with donations, bribes and blackmail. It''s incumbent upon each of us, especially law enforcement and the judiciary, to question and carefully weigh the applicability and wisdom of legislated solutions.</p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley''s job and career have been destroyed, and what''s left of her youth could very well be spent behind bars.</p>\r\n<p>America already has more citizens locked away in jails and prisons than any other nation on earth, and American prison sentences are the most lengthy of any civilized nation. We imprison ten times more of our citizens than all of Europe does.</p>\r\n<p>Law enforcement and District Attorneys are now making prodigious use of a tool called <strong>''Stacking''</strong> to make sure our prisons, especially our privately owned prisons, stay full.</p>\r\n<p>With so many laws now on the books, it''s estimated that each American commits at least 3 felonies a day, that''s 21 felonies each week. When you''ve pissed off the wrong person(s) it''s easier than ever for the system to come up with plenty of reasons to arrest you. Once arrested, they don''t just charge you with one crime, say tax fraud, they charge you with a whole host of related crimes, like conspiracy to commit tax fraud, unlawful use of a bank account to commit tax fraud, conspiracy to unlawfully use electronic communications (a phone) to commit tax fraud, etc.</p>\r\n<p>In theory you have the right to demand a trial before a jury of your peers, but ''stacking'' makes that right virtually impossible to exercise. In addition to the original charge of tax fraud which carries a five year sentence, when all the other charges are stacked on top of it, you''re now facing 400 years in prison.</p>\r\n<p>The District Attorney lets you know that if you force him/her and the court to go through the expense of a trial, they will ''throw the book at you'' by demanding you be sentenced to the maximum (400 years)... but if you plead guilty to the charges, they will only seek a sentence of twenty years.</p>\r\n<p>This places defendants in a tight spot. Should you demand a jury trial and lose, you could spend the rest of your life in prison. If you agree to plead guilty, you will only spend twenty years in the slammer (despite that fact that you may be innocent). Our jails and prisons are full of individuals whose only crime was to be in the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/how-easy-it-is-to-end-up-in-prison-for-a-crime-you-didnt-commit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>wrong place at the wrong time</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p>This is the very situation Brianna Nicole Stanley now faces. Does she have the financial resources to adequately defend herself against the virtually unlimited resources of the District Attorney? Will Brianna be forced to accept an onerous, unjust plea agreement in order to avoid doing serious time in prison? What would you do in her position?</p>\r\n<p>Is Brianna Nicole Stanley just an average American girl, like most, having grown up with faces glued to cell phones and other electronic devices, sharing their every thought, fantasy and desire on social media? Was the supposed victim really a victim or just another willing participant?</p>\r\n<p>How many of today''s parents are themselves poorly educated, uninformed, self centered, immature social media junkies and video gaming zombies whose children are essentially forced to raise themselves?</p>\r\n<p>Numerous studies indicate that Social Media (SM) causes mental health problems. Many SM developers themselves do not allow their own families to use the products they produce because they know all too well they are specifically designed to cause both individuals and the herd to make decisions and take actions that are diametrically opposed to their own best interests.</p>\r\n<p>85% of users believe Facebook (FB) offers it''s services for free out of the kindness of their heart. Does this same demographic believe in Santa Klaus and the Easter Bunny? Truth is FB and other SM sell your personal information to corporations and government agencies for Big Bucks. There simply is no ''free lunch''.</p>\r\n<p>What about our teaching colleges and universities? With over 400 female teachers having been convicted of sex crimes with students in just the past two years, can it be said that Brianna Nicole Stanley''s educators properly informed and instructed her regarding what is and isn''t acceptable sexual behaviour with students?</p>\r\n<p>Did Scotland County''s school system''s ''intake and orientation program'' for new teachers adequately explain its policies and expectations to Brianna?</p>\r\n<p>150 years ago a twenty three year old teacher could reasonably be expected to be a mature, responsible adult. Can this really be said today when children are for the most part being raised by social media, burned out parents, failing schools and corporate/government propaganda?</p>\r\n<p>Should Brianna Nicole Stanley receive a ''Get Out of Jail Free'' pass? Of course not. She is of legal age and, like it or not, will face consequences for her poor decisions.</p>\r\n<p>We can only pray, that when our judicial system dispenses its brand of ''justice'', The Punishment will befit the Crime.</p>\r\n<p>While this young woman''s life hangs in the balance, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper hangs out and parties with a known, convicted sexual offender. <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-governor-cooper-attends-gala-hosted-by-sex-offender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Here''s the story</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Ask yourself, What would Jesus do?</strong></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/05/scotland-teacher-racks-up-14-sex-charges-including-child-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Lady Liberty 1885</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/e-cigarette-makers-frantically-targeting-your-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">E-Cigarette Makers Frantically Targeting Your Children</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/incredible-high-school-valedictorian-commencement-speech-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Incredible High School Valedictorian Commencement Speech (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/why-do-bullies-bully-bullying-among-youths/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Do Bullies Bully – Bullying Among Youths</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Brianna Nicole Stanley - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3356-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-08 11:50:10', '2019-04-08 15:50:10', '', 3356, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3356-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3992, 1, '2019-04-11 07:59:33', '2019-04-11 11:59:33', '<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3387" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-300x256.jpg" alt="" width="339" height="289" /><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley was arrested November 30, 2018 by the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old student at Carver Middle School in Laurinburg, North Carolina. This was Stanley’s first year of teaching with the school district where she taught seventh grade science.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3388" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-scotland-county-teacher.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="328" />The fact is more than 400 female teachers have been convicted nationwide of similar offences during just the past two years. It appears such behaviour is rapidly becoming the new normal.</p>\r\n<p>What''s driving this epidemic? Professionals lay the blame at the feet of ubiquitous electronic technologies that allow instant communications between teachers and students, including the sharing of explicit messaging and photos.</p>\r\n<p>Certainly, there is truth here, but there''s more to this story.</p>\r\n<p>Children are sexually active earlier than ever due to the presence of Estrogen mimickers in our drinking water, food supply, packaging materials and clothing. Such chemicals cause the early onset of puberty.</p>\r\n<p>Children are also being exposed to a constant barrage of sexual messaging through advertising, social media, gaming and subliminal messaging.</p>\r\n<p>Students interact with teachers on a regular basis so it''s only natural that when sexual relationships develop teachers may be part of the mix.</p>\r\n<p>A law enforcement official spoke at a real estate conference requesting that association members be required to report agents who may be engaging in or likely to engage in ''inappropriate'' sex with minors.</p>\r\n<p>When the speaker finished, the association''s president thanked him and recommended the association adopt law enforcement''s proposed new rules.</p>\r\n<p>Before that could be done however, a well known, respected broker stood up among the crowd, and with a booming voice began presenting an opposing point of view.</p>\r\n<p>The job of law enforcement he said was to enforce the law and the job of real estate professionals was to sell real estate. He questioned whether agents were competent to make decisions that could end up damaging or even destroying the reputations and careers of fellow agents, regardless of how well-intentioned, and questioned whether unscrupulous agents might even go so far as to falsely report competing agents in order to gain an unfair advantage.</p>\r\n<p>He pointed out that sexual coming of age was a fluid concept that was constantly evolving and offered his grandparents up as an example.</p>\r\n<p>They married at twelve and had their first of ten children at thirteen, all of whom grew up to be productive, law abiding citizens. By today''s standards his grand parents would be convicted sex offenders, and his grandfather a statutory rapist.</p>\r\n<p>The broker ended by recommending the association reject law enforcement''s proposed new rules and received a rousing round of applause. Thankfully, that was the end of that.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers having sex with students, is this a good idea? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Should such behaviour be condoned or overlooked? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers have a responsibility to act responsibly and school districts have the right to set standards, policy and disciplinary action as necessary.</p>\r\n<p>Legislators also have the right and responsibility to set standards through legislation, but let us bear in mind that most legislation is passed without ever having been read by those who introduce, promote and vote for it, as it is largely drafted by well paid corporate and NGO lobbyists on behalf of those who have bought and paid for our legislators with donations, bribes and blackmail. It''s incumbent upon each of us, especially law enforcement and the judiciary, to question and carefully weigh the wisdom and applicability of legislated solutions.</p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley''s job and career have been destroyed, and what''s left of her youth could very well be spent behind bars.</p>\r\n<p>America already has more citizens locked away in jails and prisons than any other nation on earth, and American prison sentences are the most lengthy of any civilized nation. We imprison ten times more of our citizens than all of Europe does, and what good is it doing us?</p>\r\n<p>Law enforcement and District Attorneys are now making prodigious use of a tool called <strong>''Stacking''</strong> to make sure our prisons, especially our privately owned prisons, stay full.</p>\r\n<p>With so many laws now on the books, it''s estimated that each American commits at least 3 felonies a day, that''s 21 felonies each week. If you piss off the wrong person(s) it''s easier than ever for the system to come up with plenty of reasons to arrest you. Once arrested, they don''t just charge you with one crime, say tax fraud, they charge you with a whole host of related crimes, like conspiracy to commit tax fraud, unlawful use of a bank account to commit tax fraud, conspiracy to unlawfully use electronic communications (a phone) to commit tax fraud, etc.</p>\r\n<p>In theory you have the right to demand a trial before a jury of your peers, but ''stacking'' makes this right virtually impossible to exercise. In addition to the original charge of tax fraud which carries a five year sentence, when all the other charges are stacked on top of it, you''re now facing 400 years in prison.</p>\r\n<p>The District Attorney lets you know that if you force him/her and the court to go through the trouble and expense of a trial, they will ''throw the book at you'' by demanding you be sentenced to the maximum (400 years)... but if you plead guilty to the charges, they will only seek a sentence of twenty years.</p>\r\n<p>This places defendants in a tight spot. Should you demand a jury trial and lose, you could spend the rest of your life in prison. If you agree to plead guilty, you will only spend twenty years in the slammer (despite that fact that you may be completely innocent). Our jails and prisons are full of individuals whose only crime was to be in the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/how-easy-it-is-to-end-up-in-prison-for-a-crime-you-didnt-commit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>wrong place at the wrong time</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p>This is the very situation Brianna Nicole Stanley now faces. Does she have the financial resources to adequately defend herself against the virtually unlimited resources of the District Attorney? Will Brianna be forced to accept an onerous, unjust plea agreement in order to avoid doing serious time in prison? What would you do in her position?</p>\r\n<p>Is Brianna Nicole Stanley just an average American girl, like most, having grown up with faces glued to cell phones and other electronic devices, sharing their every thought, fantasy and desire on social media? Was the supposed victim really even a victim or just another willing participant?</p>\r\n<p>How many of today''s parents are themselves poorly educated, uninformed, self centered, immature social media junkies and video gaming zombies whose children are essentially forced to raise themselves?</p>\r\n<p>Numerous studies indicate that Social Media (SM) causes mental health problems. Many SM developers themselves do not allow their own families to use the products they produce because they know all too well they are specifically designed to cause both individuals and the herd to make decisions and take actions that are diametrically opposed to their own best interests.</p>\r\n<p>85% of users believe Facebook (FB) offers it''s services for free out of the kindness of their heart. Is this the same demographic that believes in Santa Klaus the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy? Truth is FB and other SM are making billions selling your most intimate personal information to corporations and government agencies. There simply is no ''free lunch''.</p>\r\n<p>What about our teaching colleges and universities? With over 400 female teachers having been convicted of sex crimes with students in just the past two years, can it be said that Brianna Nicole Stanley''s educators properly informed and instructed her regarding what is and isn''t acceptable sexual behaviour with students?</p>\r\n<p>Did Scotland County''s school system''s ''intake and orientation program'' for new teachers adequately explain its policies and expectations to Brianna?</p>\r\n<p>100 years ago a twenty three year old teacher could reasonably be expected to be a mature, responsible adult. Can this really be said today when children are for the most part being raised by social media, burned out parents, failing schools and a never ending barrage of corporate/government propaganda?</p>\r\n<p>Should Brianna Nicole Stanley receive a ''Get Out of Jail Free'' pass? Of course not. She is of legal age and, like it or not, will face consequences for her poor decisions.</p>\r\n<p>We can only pray, that when our judicial system dispenses its brand of ''justice'', The Punishment will befit the Crime.</p>\r\n<p>While this young woman''s life hangs in the balance, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper hangs out and parties with a known, convicted sexual offender. <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-governor-cooper-attends-gala-hosted-by-sex-offender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Here''s the story</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Ask yourself, What would Jesus do?</strong></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/05/scotland-teacher-racks-up-14-sex-charges-including-child-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Lady Liberty 1885</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/e-cigarette-makers-frantically-targeting-your-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">E-Cigarette Makers Frantically Targeting Your Children</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/incredible-high-school-valedictorian-commencement-speech-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Incredible High School Valedictorian Commencement Speech (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/why-do-bullies-bully-bullying-among-youths/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Do Bullies Bully – Bullying Among Youths</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Brianna Nicole Stanley - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3356-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-11 07:59:33', '2019-04-11 11:59:33', '', 3356, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3356-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3993, 1, '2019-04-11 08:09:46', '2019-04-11 12:09:46', '<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3387" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-300x256.jpg" alt="" width="339" height="289" /><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley was arrested November 30, 2018 by the Scotland County Sheriff''s Department for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old student at Carver Middle School in Laurinburg, North Carolina. This was Stanley’s first year of teaching with the school district where she taught seventh grade science.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3388" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brianna-nicole-stanley-scotland-county-teacher.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="328" />The fact is more than 400 female teachers have been convicted nationwide of similar offences during just the past two years. It appears such behaviour is rapidly becoming the new normal.</p>\r\n<p>What''s driving this epidemic? Professionals lay the blame at the feet of ubiquitous electronic technologies that allow instant communications between teachers and students, including the sharing of explicit messaging and photos.</p>\r\n<p>Certainly, there is truth here, but there''s more to this story.</p>\r\n<p>Children are sexually active earlier than ever due to the presence of Estrogen mimickers in our drinking water, food supply, packaging materials and clothing. Such chemicals cause the early onset of puberty.</p>\r\n<p>Children are also being exposed to a constant barrage of sexual messaging through advertising, social media, gaming and subliminal messaging.</p>\r\n<p>Students interact with teachers on a regular basis so it''s only natural that when sexual relationships develop teachers may be part of the mix.</p>\r\n<p>A law enforcement official spoke at a real estate conference requesting that association members be required to report agents who may be engaging in or likely to engage in ''inappropriate'' sex with minors.</p>\r\n<p>When the speaker finished, the association''s president thanked him and recommended the association adopt law enforcement''s proposed new rules.</p>\r\n<p>Before that could be done however, a well known, respected broker stood up among the crowd, and with a booming voice began presenting an opposing point of view.</p>\r\n<p>The job of law enforcement he said was to enforce the law and the job of real estate professionals was to sell real estate. He questioned whether agents were competent to make decisions that could end up damaging or even destroying the reputations and careers of fellow agents, regardless of how well-intentioned, and questioned whether unscrupulous agents might even go so far as to falsely report competing agents in order to gain an unfair advantage.</p>\r\n<p>He pointed out that sexual coming of age was a fluid concept that was constantly evolving and offered his grandparents up as an example.</p>\r\n<p>They married at twelve and had their first of ten children at thirteen, all of whom grew up to be productive, law abiding citizens. By today''s standards his grand parents would be convicted sex offenders, and his grandfather a statutory rapist.</p>\r\n<p>The broker ended by recommending the association reject law enforcement''s proposed new rules and received a rousing round of applause. Thankfully, that was the end of that.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers having sex with students, is this a good idea? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Should such behaviour be condoned or overlooked? Of course not.</p>\r\n<p>Teachers have a responsibility to act responsibly and school districts have the right to set standards, policy and disciplinary action as necessary.</p>\r\n<p>Legislators also have the right and responsibility to set standards through legislation, but let us bear in mind that most legislation is passed without ever having been read by those who introduce, promote and vote for it, as it is largely drafted by well paid corporate and NGO lobbyists on behalf of those who have bought and paid for our legislators with donations, bribes and blackmail. It''s incumbent upon each of us, especially law enforcement and the judiciary, to question and carefully weigh the wisdom and applicability of legislated solutions.</p>\r\n<p>Brianna Nicole Stanley''s job and career have been destroyed, and what''s left of her youth could very well be spent behind bars.</p>\r\n<p>America already has more citizens locked away in jails and prisons than any other nation on earth, and American prison sentences are the most lengthy of any civilized nation. We imprison ten times more of our citizens than all of Europe, and what good is it doing us?</p>\r\n<p>Law enforcement and District Attorneys are now making prodigious use of a tool called <strong>''Stacking''</strong> to make sure our prisons, especially our privately owned prisons, stay full.</p>\r\n<p>With so many laws now on the books, it''s estimated that each American commits at least 3 felonies a day, that''s 21 felonies each week. If you piss off the wrong person(s) it''s easier than ever for the system to come up with plenty of reasons to arrest you. Once arrested, they don''t just charge you with one crime, say tax fraud, they charge you with a whole host of related crimes, like conspiracy to commit tax fraud, unlawful use of a bank account to commit tax fraud, conspiracy to unlawfully use electronic communications (a phone) to commit tax fraud, etc.</p>\r\n<p>In theory you have the right to demand a trial before a jury of your peers, but ''stacking'' makes this right virtually impossible to exercise. In addition to the original charge of tax fraud which carries a five year sentence, when all the other charges are stacked on top of it, you''re now facing 400 years in prison.</p>\r\n<p>The District Attorney lets you know that if you force him/her and the court to go through the trouble and expense of a trial, they will ''throw the book at you'' by demanding you be sentenced to the maximum (400 years)... but if you plead guilty to the charges, they will only seek a sentence of twenty years.</p>\r\n<p>This places defendants in a tight spot. Should you demand a jury trial and lose, you could spend the rest of your life in prison. If you agree to plead guilty, you will only spend twenty years in the slammer (despite that fact that you may be completely innocent). Our jails and prisons are full of individuals whose only crime was to be in the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/how-easy-it-is-to-end-up-in-prison-for-a-crime-you-didnt-commit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>wrong place at the wrong time</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p>This is the very situation Brianna Nicole Stanley now faces. Does she have the financial resources to adequately defend herself against the virtually unlimited resources of the District Attorney? Will Brianna be forced to accept an onerous, unjust plea agreement in order to avoid doing serious prison time? What would you do in her position?</p>\r\n<p>Is Brianna Nicole Stanley just an average American girl, like most, having grown up with faces glued to cell phones and other electronic devices, sharing their every thought, fantasy and desire on social media? Was the supposed victim really even a victim or just another willing participant?</p>\r\n<p>How many of today''s parents are themselves poorly educated, uninformed, self centered, immature social media junkies and video gaming zombies whose children are essentially forced to raise themselves?</p>\r\n<p>Numerous studies indicate that Social Media (SM) causes mental health problems. Many SM developers themselves do not allow their own families to use the products they produce because they know all too well they are specifically designed to cause both individuals and the herd to make decisions and take actions that are diametrically opposed to their own best interests.</p>\r\n<p>85% of users believe Facebook (FB) offers it''s services for free out of the kindness of their heart. Is this the same demographic that believes in Santa Klaus the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy? Truth is FB and other SM are making billions selling your most intimate personal information to corporations and government agencies. There simply is no ''free lunch''.</p>\r\n<p>What about our teaching colleges and universities? With over 400 female teachers having been convicted of sex crimes with students in just the past two years, can it be said that Brianna Nicole Stanley''s educators properly informed and instructed her regarding what is and isn''t acceptable sexual behaviour with students?</p>\r\n<p>Did Scotland County''s school system''s ''intake and orientation program'' for new teachers adequately explain its policies and expectations to Brianna?</p>\r\n<p>100 years ago a twenty three year old teacher could reasonably be expected to be a mature, responsible adult. Can this really be said today when children are for the most part being raised by social media, burned out parents, failing schools and a never ending barrage of corporate/government propaganda?</p>\r\n<p>Should Brianna Nicole Stanley receive a ''Get Out of Jail Free'' pass? Of course not. She is of legal age and, like it or not, will face consequences for her poor decisions.</p>\r\n<p>We can only pray, that when our judicial system dispenses its brand of ''justice'', The Punishment will befit the Crime.</p>\r\n<p>While this young woman''s life hangs in the balance, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper hangs out and parties with a known, convicted sexual offender. <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-governor-cooper-attends-gala-hosted-by-sex-offender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Here''s the story</strong></a></span>.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Ask yourself, What would Jesus do?</strong></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/05/scotland-teacher-racks-up-14-sex-charges-including-child-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Lady Liberty 1885</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/e-cigarette-makers-frantically-targeting-your-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">E-Cigarette Makers Frantically Targeting Your Children</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/incredible-high-school-valedictorian-commencement-speech-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Incredible High School Valedictorian Commencement Speech (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/why-do-bullies-bully-bullying-among-youths/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Do Bullies Bully – Bullying Among Youths</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Brianna Nicole Stanley - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3356-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-11 08:09:46', '2019-04-11 12:09:46', '', 3356, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3356-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(3995, 1, '2019-04-17 10:42:14', '2019-04-17 14:42:14', '', 'woocommerce-placeholder', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'woocommerce-placeholder', '', '', '2019-04-17 10:42:14', '2019-04-17 14:42:14', '', 0, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/woocommerce-placeholder.png', 0, 'attachment', 'image/png', 0),
(4012, 3, '2019-04-23 04:00:06', '2019-04-23 08:00:06', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4053 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gordon-t-long-2019-themes-shoppers-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="495" height="297" /></p>\r\n<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>Are you paying twice as much for groceries as you should?</strong></span> It''s easier than you think to cut your bill in half. Here''s how one shopper does it:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop once a month</span>. This demands discipline, organisation and the ability to think and plan ahead, and it keeps you from making wasteful ''impulse'' purchases. I have a large refrigerator (with no freezer) and a separate chest freezer and storage area with shelves in the garage. Fresh fruits and vegetables will easily last throughout the month if kept sealed and the refrigerator temperature is set to cold. I use a refrigerator thermometer and keep the temp set at 34 degrees F.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Go prepared</span>. I take a spreadsheet that I developed which shows exactly what items I''m going to purchase at each of the two stores where I shop. My list is generated based on historic purchases, plus any changes I want to make for the current trip and allows me to compare prices right on the spot. If you just grab stuff off the shelf as you go by, your plan to save money is doomed from the start.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Know your ingredients</span>. If the products you choose are loaded with chemicals and empty calories, what are you really getting for your money? Answer: You''re getting fat, stupid, unhealthy and broke!</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Pay attention to the ''Unit Cost''</span>. If you can buy 20 ounces of cereal for $3 or 35 ounces for $5.85, which is the best deal? Many grocery items have the ''unit price'' posted right on the shelf label, but for those that don''t, you''ll need the calculator on your phone or pocket calculator to figure it out. There''s nothing more important than knowing the unit price.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stay away from prepared meals</span>. They''re expensive and usually loaded with stuff your body doesn''t need.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients. Stock up and use them. There are tons of excellent recipes online if you need a little help.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Know your products</span>. Many so called ''bargain brands'' (dish soaps, laundry detergents, shampoos, condiments, etc.) are <strong>watered down</strong> and offer poor value compared to concentrated brands. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Read labels carefully</span> and pay attention as you use them.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop online</span>, but take the time to learn your way around. 20% of my grocery and virtually 100% of pharmacy type purchases are now made online. I use eBay and AliExpress mostly. I''ve found Amazon too expensive and don''t appreciate their efforts to make real comparison shopping extremely difficult.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Never shop in Laurinburg/Scotland County</span>. Prices here are brain damaging budget busters. No exceptions, not even Wal-Mart.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop in Rockingham</span>. It''s well worth the trip. I go to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aldi</span> first because they are the least expensive <span style="text-decoration: underline;">by far</span> and purchase most stuff there. I take my own <span style="text-decoration: underline;">reusable boxes</span> which makes checkout a snap. I would go to Lidl (which is right next door to Aldi) second, but I''ve learned not to bother. They''re cheap but carry too much esoteric stuff I don''t need which just wastes my time. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up the few items that Aldi doesn''t stock. Yes, Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than in Laurinburg, but they still can''t compete with Aldi.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Join Costco Wholesale</span> (Charlotte) and buy stuff in bulk. Costco offers great values on canned goods, condiments, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, dish soap, etc., which are expensive at most grocery stores. I stock up there once a year.</li>\r\n	<li>Remember, nobody looks out for your interests and well being better than <span style="text-decoration: underline;">YOU</span>.      </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>I''m saving thousands of dollars, eating healthier and feeling better than ever. <strong>Here''s what got me started:</strong>  </p>\r\n<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but <span style="text-decoration: underline;">negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck</span>.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are experiencing erosion as buyers increasingly migrate online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers generally guarantee their vehicles to be exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">You never have to visit the dealer or haggle with a salesperson</span>.This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>Our family used to spend over $2,000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">we don''t spend a dime</span>. I haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because I found many local businesses are simply not doing their best to help customers, themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city spending millions of dollars it didn''t have on an extravagant new ''Colonial Williamsburg'' style Municipal Complex, most businesses chose to remain silent as this disaster played out. The money squandered on this worthless boondoggle meant already hard pressed customers would now have even less money in their pockets to spend at local business for the next <span style="text-decoration: underline;">forty years</span> while this projects debt is being paid off. Unfortunately, none of this seemed to matter to the local business community.</p>\r\n<p>If the business community doesn''t care about its customers, let alone itself, why should we care about them? If the business community thinks higher property taxes, higher sales taxes and more taxpayer funded (but privately owned) ''Art Parks'' and art studios with trendy coffee shops are going to turn things around, they are truly delusional.</p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. Our family used to do business with numerous small mom &amp; pop businesses in Laurinburg. One example, was the Machine Shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair, they were creative, hard working, on time and never said No to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it no longer made sense to travel there and we needed to find a new machine shop in Rockingham. We did, and while this was great for us, it meant that another good Laurinburg business lost our trade forever. This is true for many other Laurinburg small businesses.</p>\r\n<p>This is the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">hidden cost</span> of local business leaders standing by as customers are abused and bled out by high taxes, a government operated Chamber of Commerce and a parasitic Ruling Elite bent on feathering their own nests.</p>\r\n<p>We now save a solid 50% on our grocery bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free in Rockingham while still leaving plenty of money in our pockets for other things. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local Laurinburg businesses had customers by the Gucchi''s, and it''s going to get even tougher for those who refuse to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers now have plenty of options to get virtually everything they want and need for less from neighbouring counties and online.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful.</p>\r\n<p>Best wishes on your money saving adventure!</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County Shopper Cuts Grocery Bill 50% (video)', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'scotland-county-shopper-cuts-grocery-bill-50-video', '', '', '2019-05-01 07:55:19', '2019-05-01 11:55:19', '', 0, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/?p=4012', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(4013, 3, '2019-04-20 06:37:39', '2019-04-20 10:37:39', '<p>(PIC)<span style="color: #0000ff;">Dieter - Start Here, don''t forget to do SEO below.<br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Related Posts and Flycheck on side --&gt;</span></strong></p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'DRAFT - Gordon Long Video - 2019 Themes w/Charles Hugh Smith', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-20 06:37:39', '2019-04-20 10:37:39', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4014, 3, '2019-04-20 12:46:04', '2019-04-20 16:46:04', '<p>Happy Easter Everyone. </p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rf8Zzn4nOzc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">Elevation Worship</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'The Resurrected King is Resurrecting Me (video)', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'the-resurrected-king-is-resurrecting-me-video', '', '', '2019-04-20 12:46:04', '2019-04-20 16:46:04', '', 0, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/?p=4014', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(4016, 3, '2019-04-20 12:46:04', '2019-04-20 16:46:04', '<p>Happy Easter Everyone. </p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rf8Zzn4nOzc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">Elevation Worship</span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'The Resurrected King is Resurrecting Me (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4014-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-20 12:46:04', '2019-04-20 16:46:04', '', 4014, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4014-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4017, 1, '2019-05-01 07:54:26', '2019-05-01 11:54:26', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4053 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gordon-t-long-2019-themes-shoppers-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="495" height="297" /></p>\n<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>Are you paying twice as much for groceries as you should?</strong></span> It''s easier than you think to cut your bill in half. Here''s how one shopper does it:</p>\n<ul>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop once a month</span>. This demands discipline, organisation and the ability to think and plan ahead, and it keeps you from making wasteful ''impulse'' purchases. I have a large refrigerator (with no freezer) and a separate chest freezer and storage area with shelves in the garage. Fresh fruits and vegetables will easily last throughout the month if they are kept sealed and the refrigerator temperature is set to cold. I use a refrigerator thermometer and keep the temp set at 34</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Go prepared</span>. I take a spreadsheet that I developed which shows exactly what items I''m going to purchase at each of the two stores where I shop. My list is generated based on historic purchases, plus any changes I want to make for the current trip and allows me to compare prices right on the spot. If you just grab stuff off the shelf as you go by, your plan to save money is doomed from the start.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Know your ingredients</span>. If the products you choose are loaded with chemicals and empty calories, what are you really getting for your money? Answer: You''re getting fat, stupid, unhealthy and broke!</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Pay attention to the ''Unit Cost''</span>. If you can buy 20 ounces of cereal for $3 or 35 ounces for $5.85, which is the best deal? Many grocery items have the ''unit price'' posted right on the shelf label, but for those that don''t, you''ll need the calculator on your phone or pocket calculator to figure it out. There''s nothing more important than knowing the unit price.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stay away from prepared meals</span>. They''re expensive and usually loaded with stuff your body doesn''t need.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients. Stock up and use them. There are tons of excellent recipes online if you need a little help.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Know your products</span>. Many so called ''bargain brands'' (dish soaps, laundry detergents, shampoos, condiments, etc.) are <strong>watered down</strong> and offer poor value compared to concentrated brands. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Read labels carefully</span> and pay attention as you use them.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop online</span>, but take the time to learn your way around. 20% of my grocery and virtually 100% of pharmacy type purchases are now made online. I use eBay and AliExpress mostly. I''ve found Amazon too expensive and don''t appreciate their efforts to make real comparison shopping extremely difficult.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Never shop in Laurinburg/Scotland County</span>. Prices here are brain damaging budget busters. No exceptions, not even Wal-Mart.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop in Rockingham</span>. It''s well worth the trip. I go to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aldi</span> first because they are the least expensive <span style="text-decoration: underline;">by far</span> and purchase most stuff there. I take my own <span style="text-decoration: underline;">reusable boxes</span> which makes checkout a snap. I would go to Lidl (which is right next door to Aldi) second, but I''ve learned not to bother. They''re cheap but carry too much esoteric stuff I don''t need which just wastes my time. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up the few items that Aldi doesn''t stock. Yes, Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than in Laurinburg, but they still can''t compete with Aldi.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Join Costco Wholesale</span> (Charlotte) and buy stuff in bulk. Costco offers great values on canned goods, condiments, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, dish soap, etc., which are expensive at most grocery stores. I stock up there once a year.</li>\n	<li>Remember, nobody looks out for your interests and well being better than <span style="text-decoration: underline;">YOU</span>.      </li>\n</ul>\n<p>I''m saving thousands of dollars, eating healthier and feeling better than ever. <strong>Here''s what got me started:</strong>  </p>\n<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but <span style="text-decoration: underline;">negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck</span>.</p>\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are experiencing erosion as buyers increasingly migrate online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers generally guarantee their vehicles to be exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">You never have to visit the dealer or haggle with a salesperson</span>.This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\n<p>Our family used to spend over $2,000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">we don''t spend a dime</span>. I haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because I found many local businesses are simply not doing their best to help customers, themselves or their community.</p>\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city spending millions of dollars it didn''t have on an extravagant new ''Colonial Williamsburg'' style Municipal Complex, most businesses chose to remain silent as this disaster played out. The money squandered on this worthless boondoggle meant already hard pressed customers would now have even less money in their pockets to spend at local business for the next <span style="text-decoration: underline;">forty years</span> while this projects debt is being paid off. Unfortunately, none of this seemed to matter to the local business community.</p>\n<p>If the business community doesn''t care about its customers, let alone itself, why should we care about them? If the business community thinks higher property taxes, higher sales taxes and more taxpayer funded (but privately owned) ''Art Parks'' and art studios with trendy coffee shops are going to turn things around, they are truly delusional.</p>\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. Our family used to do business with numerous small mom &amp; pop businesses in Laurinburg. One example, was the Machine Shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair, they were creative, hard working, on time and never said No to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it no longer made sense to travel there and we needed to find a new machine shop in Rockingham. We did, and while this was great for us, it meant that another good Laurinburg business lost our trade forever. This is true for many other Laurinburg small businesses.</p>\n<p>This is the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">hidden cost</span> of local business leaders standing by as customers are abused and bled out by high taxes, a government operated Chamber of Commerce and a parasitic Ruling Elite bent on feathering their own nests.</p>\n<p>We now save a solid 50% on our grocery bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free in Rockingham while still leaving plenty of money in our pockets for other things. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local Laurinburg businesses had customers by the Gucchi''s, and it''s going to get even tougher for those who refuse to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers now have plenty of options to get virtually everything they want and need for less from neighbouring counties and online.</p>\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful.</p>\n<p>Best wishes on your money saving adventure!</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\n</strong></address>\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\n<address> </address>\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County Shopper Cuts Grocery Bill 50% (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-autosave-v1', '', '', '2019-05-01 07:54:26', '2019-05-01 11:54:26', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4018, 1, '2019-04-21 07:34:42', '2019-04-21 11:34:42', '<p>(PIC) Being in business for yourself in Scotland County North Carolina can be tough and competitive. Things are going to get even tougher unless you take the steps to understand what''s going on and learn what you can do to not only survive, but thrive in today''s rapidly changing economy.</p>\r\n<p>We''ve been following Gordon T Long for many years and don''t think you will find better actionable information and knowledge anywhere. Watch this video and decide for yourself.</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Related Posts and Flycheck on side --&gt;</span></strong></p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'DRAFT - Gordon Long Video - 2019 Themes w/Charles Hugh Smith', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-21 07:34:42', '2019-04-21 11:34:42', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4019, 1, '2019-04-21 07:36:10', '2019-04-21 11:36:10', '<p>(PIC) Being in business for yourself in Scotland County North Carolina can be tough and competitive. Things are going to get even tougher unless you take the steps to understand what''s going on and learn what you can do to not only survive, but thrive in today''s rapidly changing economy.</p>\r\n<p>We''ve been following Gordon T Long for many years and don''t think you will find better actionable information and knowledge anywhere. Watch this video and decide for yourself.</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Related Posts and Flycheck on side --&gt;</span></strong></p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'DRAFT - Gordon T Long - Knowledge for Small Business Owners (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-21 07:36:10', '2019-04-21 11:36:10', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4020, 1, '2019-04-21 07:36:59', '2019-04-21 11:36:59', '<p>(PIC) Being in business for yourself in Scotland County North Carolina can be tough and competitive. Things are going to get even tougher unless you take the steps to understand what''s going on and learn what you can do to not only survive, but thrive in today''s rapidly changing economy.</p>\r\n<p>We at CCN have been following Gordon T Long for many years and don''t think you will find better actionable information and knowledge anywhere. Watch this video and decide for yourself.</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Related Posts and Flycheck on side --&gt;</span></strong></p>\r\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">123</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'DRAFT - Gordon T Long - Knowledge for Small Business Owners (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-21 07:36:59', '2019-04-21 11:36:59', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4021, 3, '2019-04-21 08:08:53', '2019-04-21 12:08:53', '', 'gordon-t-long-2019-themes', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'gordon-t-long-2019-themes', '', '', '2019-04-21 08:08:53', '2019-04-21 12:08:53', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gordon-t-long-2019-themes.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(4022, 3, '2019-04-21 08:10:08', '2019-04-21 12:10:08', '<p>Being in business for yourself in Scotland County, North Carolina can be tough and competitive. Things are going to get even tougher unless you take the steps to understand what''s going on and learn what you can do to not only survive, but thrive in today''s rapidly changing economy.</p>\r\n<p>We at CCN have been following Gordon T. Long for many years and don''t think you will find better actionable information and knowledge anywhere. Watch this video and decide for yourself.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Gordon T. Long - Knowledge for Small Business Owners (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-21 08:10:08', '2019-04-21 12:10:08', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4023, 1, '2019-04-21 11:20:32', '2019-04-21 15:20:32', '<h1><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 20px;"><strong>Gibson Commits Municipal Suicide - Part 2</strong></span></h1>\r\n<p>The crime wave (see <strong><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">here</span></span></a></strong>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/24070/two-men-wanted-by-sheriffs-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>here</strong></span></a></span> and <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/24072/gibson-man-charged-with-assault-robbery-and-more" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">here</span></a></span></strong>) <b> </b> that has gripped this small southern town is no accident or coincidence. Gibson, North Carolina 28343 is hellbent on committing ''Municipal Suicide''.</p>\r\n<p>Armed, violent, recidivist criminals are running loose terrorizing the community, while <b>Town Officials work feverishly behind the scenes to terrorize ''select'' residents</b>. That''s right, hardened criminals roam the streets while Town Officials are taking deliberate action, knowingly placing hand picked town residents in harm''s way, in jeopardy of being robbed, assaulted and even killed.</p>\r\n<p>No Gibson resident can feel safe in their persons, home or possessions until this crime wave is brought under control.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-3757" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Scotland-County-Sheriff-vehicle-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="286" height="158" /> The Scotland County Sheriff''s Department is trying to get a handle on things, but is admittedly overwhelmed due to high personnel turnover, low morale and a plethora of entertaining but burdensome, nonsensical community outreach programs.</p>\r\n<p>Sheriff Ralph Kersey has brought in the Federal Police, but they have an agenda all their own, so, in the end it''s really going to be up to us as usual.</p>\r\n<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><i><b>Here''s one resident''s frightening story:</b></i></span></p>\r\n<p>Long time multi-acre agricultural property owner (name withheld by request) enjoyed her peace and quiet, savouring the beautiful forests, storm clouds, birds, bunnies, deer, fox, raccoons, possums, hoot owls, butterflies, dragonflies and bees.</p>\r\n<p>Today, she''s terrified and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Gibson''s dystopic Mayor and Town Commission (see list of culprits below) who, instead of addressing critical safety issues, spend precious time figuring out how to ''jam it'' to those on their ''hit list''.</p>\r\n<p>Relations with the town had been cordial for years, despite there being issues. The Town''s raw, untreated municipal sewage regularly backed up onto her property following heavy rains when the Town''s south sewage lift station failed, but it quickly flowed into a drainage ditch (stream) which went under State Highway 381 and out into North and South Carolina watersheds. A cloudy, milky industrial pollutant, likely left over from Gibson''s go-go days, also flows from under the town and through the stream, but it too quickly exited.</p>\r\n<p>Gibson is tired and poor, it''s infrastructure in disrepair. Those with get up and go got up and left long ago and there simply haven''t been sufficient resources to address issues. "I never complained, keeping my concerns to myself, leaving things well enough alone seemed like the best thing" said this property owner.</p>\r\n<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3798" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gibson-north-carolina-28343-town-hall-300x153.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="153" />Unfortunately, Town officials couldn''t help but upset the apple cart.</p>\r\n<p>Residents from neighbouring <b>Section 8 public housing </b>toss liquor bottles, food containers, old clothing, furniture, tires, soiled diapers and unwanted children''s toys over their fence and into a drainage ditch that also flows into the culvert under Highway 381. Neither the Town of Gibson nor <strong>Scotland County Social Services</strong> have shown any interest in correcting the situation.</p>\r\n<p>To make matters worse, Section 8 vendors hired to clear brush and trim trees often throw their own debris and beer cans into the drainage ditch too instead of using a chipper or hauling debris away. Eventually all this trash and organic debris proved too much for the culvert and it became plugged.</p>\r\n<p>With raw, untreated Town sewage, storm water, legacy pollution and Section 8 trash unable to get through, <b>it didn''t take long for this stinking, festering, fetid mess to back up, flooding the owner''s property and an adjacent agricultural property</b>.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the seriousness, the property owner didn''t panic, but calmly went over to Town Hall on September 9, 2018, explaining the problem to Town Clerk Angela Hunsucker.</p>\r\n<p>When no response was received and no effort was made to clear the culvert blockage, the property owner''s assistant contacted Gibson Public Works Manager Greg Leonard, leaving a detailed message describing the situation, offering to meet with Mr. Leonard at the state highway culvert site, suggesting a possible course of action and even offering to participate in the actual remediation effort. <i><b>Mr. Leonard did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!RkI2xaJK!bpRz6luGiPGzMn7faROOq6sOcOmq4bW5bFEtjRrVQGo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>letter</b></a></span></span> was sent to the Town on November 14, 2018 articulating the problem and seeking resolution. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>A second <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mega.nz/#!gtISiQKJ!PKzeyFSRfb7KBjlSxfcMBAriYGACLmFfYNCdfukxwCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">letter</span></b></span></a></span> was sent on December 12, 2018. <i><b>The Town did not respond</b></i><i>.</i></p>\r\n<p>Clerk, Angela Hunsucker, finally <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://mega.nz/#!I5Bg2aqT!-7ql-EoglAYZ4iEFQSvwlhbo8qzzkRphwRW2GBSNmqQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>emailed</b></a> </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">the property owner on December 19, 2018 stating that Mr. Leonard would be responding. </span></p>\r\n<p>That same day a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N0YQmKQA!qw7jfAKyOBo4bzNo6qOWAIyxUSCsEHI7684FPNW_IR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">text message</span></b></a></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066ff; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bit.ly/GL-Personal-Attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voice mail</a></span> </b></span></span> arrived from Mr. Leonard <b>unleashing a torrent of vicious, violent, threatening insults</b>. Mr. Leonard''s abuse included calling the property owner <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>"Fuckin'' God Damn</strong><b> Yankee Trash"</b></span><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p>\r\n<p>Virtually everyone who reads or listens to Mr. Leonard''s incredibly shocking assault is dismayed, and perplexed that Town officials did not immediately discharge Leonard ''for cause'' and report his actions to the District Attorney.</p>\r\n<p>Quite the opposite, <b>Town Commissioners rewarded Mr. Leonard with a bonus and raise</b>. Listen to and read (via links above) Mr. Leonard<span style="color: #000000;">''s full venting </span>and see if you agree a bonus and raise were in order.</p>\r\n<p>While the property owner attempted to work with the Town in an open, honest, transparent and assistive manner, little did she know the Town was working behind the scenes, under cover of darkness to turn the tables in an attempt to morph her into the perpetrator and the Town the victim, going so far as to enlist the <b>North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality</b> to confirm (according to Ms. Hunsucker) that the flooding with raw, untreated Town sewage is actually the fault of the property owner, not the repeated failure of the Town''s south sewage lift station, and the property owner will need to hire a ''licensed plumber'' to correct the situation. And, as for the legacy pollutant, even though it comes from upstream, it too is somehow the property owner''s fault. Fortunately, the laws of physics remain in force and shit still flows downhill despite Ms. Hunsucker''s Bullshit which is flowing in all directions.</p>\r\n<p><b>When it comes to Civil Rights protections, it appears not much has changed in North Carolina since the ''Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter days'' back in 1960</b>. Sure, there are plenty of warm &amp; fuzzy new laws and agencies, but where is the interest in actual enforcement? Rather, it seems a massive ''cover up machine'' has been put in place. Living here has turned out to be like the old Rod Steiger, Sydney Poitier movie ''In the Heat of the Night''.</p>\r\n<p>The Town''s retaliation against this unfortunate property owner who dared bring a problem to the Town''s attention became official on Friday, January 18, 2019 when Clerk Hunsucker sent an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://mega.nz/#!N5Y2gKpY!8Q6kXNJ0D5DNNk3iPBEEPYCHH8r8_mBxTLzqk3dzfFk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">email</span></b></a></span>, stating the Town was going to remove <i>''</i><i><b>Their Gate''</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p>A standard ''farm style gate'' with padlock had been in place for decades at the intersection of the farm road and Highway 381. The gate prevented breaking &amp; entering incidents, vandalism and the dumping of trash, an issue that continues to plague the community. Those with a legitimate need to enter (the Town, Fire Department, Electric Utility, property owner and neighbouring farm) all had keys.</p>\r\n<p><b>The Town''s claim that it now owned both the road and gate couldn''t be further from the truth.</b> The Town had been granted an <a href="https://mega.nz/#!1wIWgYya!yAjgayNsEDaVLBib4zRvMEzvS7C8VPYgCQ-E7-qaH7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0066ff;"><b><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">easement</span></span></b></span></a> in 1980 from the then property owner to pave and maintain the road and install and maintain utilities (water &amp; sewer) for the purpose of serving a large forest products facility that was being constructed. The easement made clear that the Town''s willingness to pave and install utilities was predicated on the facility bringing employment to the community. The road has never served any other purpose or property and dead-ends at the now ''former'' forest products facility.</p>\r\n<p><b>An ''easement'' conveys certain stated rights, but does not convey ownership.</b> The road and gate remain the property of the property owner. ''<i>Permanently affixed improvements made on land over which an easement exists run with the land and become the property of the property owner, not the easement holder unless otherwise specified''</i>. "<i>Real estate includes the land and anything fixed, immovable, or permanently attached to it such as buildings, walls, fixtures, improvements, </i><i><b>roads,</b></i><i> trees, shrubs, </i><i><b>fences</b></i><i>, sewers, structures, and utility systems."</i> (<a href="https://thelawdictionary.org/real-estate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">Black''s Law Dictionary</span></span></a>).</p>\r\n<p>Now, all of a sudden, and only after the property owner complained about Town activity that was threatening her property, did the Town claim ownership of the road and gate and threaten to remove the gate, which the Town subsequently did on February 4, 2019 <b>without any ''due process'', public hearing or evidence of purported ownership.</b></p>\r\n<p>Removing the gate, proclaiming the road ''open'' was <b>a deliberate and calculated provocation, an invitation to every criminal in the area</b> to break into the owner''s property, and as could be expected, <b>the property was vandalized and break-ins attempted within days of the gate''s removal</b>.</p>\r\n<p><strong><i><span style="color: #800000;">''Won''t you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly.''</span></i></strong></p>\r\n<p>Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:12PM, a plain clothes officer in an unmarked vehicle entered the owner''s property. He had not been invited, sought permission, nor did he have cause to suspect unlawful activity was or had been taking place at this location. This officer''s trespass onto private property was illegal, no different than that of any other common criminal.</p>\r\n<p>Within moments of his arrival, the Officer''s car became severely disabled and he called for assistance. Two additional plain clothes officers arrived at 2:29PM in an unmarked car and a flatbed recovery vehicle arrived minutes later. The recovery vehicle departed at 2:58PM with the immobilized vehicle onboard and the three officers drove away together in the other car a few minutes later.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Had this incident occurred at night the results would likely have been very different. The officer could easily have been mistaken for an armed intruder and killed. Luckily, such tragedy was avoided this day.</strong></p>\r\n<p>A <strong>Criminal Conspiracy</strong> is playing out over at Gibson Town Hall and sooner or later someone is going to get seriously injured or killed. Here are the players working to make this happen:</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3797  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mayor-ronnie-hudson-gibson-north-carolina-28343-1-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="311" height="256" /></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Mayor Ronnie Hudson - Bad actor with a bad rep and a <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/features/local-features/13046/gibson-mayor-arrested-for-eluding-illegal-hunting" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">rap sheet</a></span></span> to match.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Stephen Hudson - Mayor Hudson''s faithful, loyal lapdog offspring.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Ken Haney - Old tyme bully from way back.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Randy Pearson - Good ole boy who does whatever his handler says.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Commissioner Adam Liles - Knows the truth, but is frightened and too cowardly to speak.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>F</b><b>reedom has never been free</b>. Remaining a free people requires courage and action. <i>''Yes Massa, whatever you say Massa''</i> will never get the job done. Jesus understood this and exhibited plenty of courage his entire time on earth. </p>\r\n<p>When the criminals include those holding public office and those wearing law enforcement badges, you know<b> you''re on your own when it comes to defending yourself and protecting your property. </b>Taking the law into your own hands, while unfortunately necessary under certain circumstances, can be a recipe for disaster and should be avoided whenever possible.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3809  alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/smiley-face-300x300.png" alt="" width="90" height="90" /> Scotland County, is desperately trying to put a happy face on efforts to attract business, industry, retirees and investors, but the fact remains:<em><b> Your personal safety, freedom, liberty, investment dollars and retirement savings remain in severe jeopardy here.</b></em></p>\r\n<p>Nothing good comes when The ''Rule of Law'' is replaced with iron-fisted Fascism. <img class="alignright  wp-image-3763" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-fisted-facism-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="49" height="30" /></p>\r\n<p>Have a Blessed Day!</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/news/23645/teen-turns-himself-in-after-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: </strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/gibson-town-commission-sad-excuse-for-governance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Municipal Suicide – Gibson, North Carolina 28343 (part 1)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/is-this-the-nightmare-scotland-county-edc-is-trying-to-replicate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Nightmare in the making?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. 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(4024, 1, '2019-04-21 11:51:10', '2019-04-21 15:51:10', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes and neighbouring counties willing to offer competitive services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck. Even used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends are now experiencing sales erosion, as buyers flock to online dealers, many of whom are hundreds of miles or more away. </p>\r\n<p>Things are going to get even tougher for those businesses that don''t understand what''s going on and are unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN studies economic trends and some of you business owners might enjoy one of our favourite financial gurus. Watch the video and decide for yourself.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Gordon T. Long - Knowledge for Small Business Owners (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-21 11:51:10', '2019-04-21 15:51:10', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4025, 1, '2019-04-21 11:57:06', '2019-04-21 15:57:06', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competitors and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck. Even used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends are now experiencing sales erosion, as buyers flock to low price online dealers, many of whom are hundreds of miles away.</p>\r\n<p>Things are going to get even tougher for those businesses that don''t understand what''s going on and are unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to economic and social trends. We hope some business owners will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Gordon T. Long - Knowledge for Small Business Owners (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-21 11:57:06', '2019-04-21 15:57:06', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4026, 1, '2019-04-21 12:00:25', '2019-04-21 16:00:25', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competitors and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck. Even used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends are now beginning to experience sales erosion, as buyers flock to online dealers hundreds of miles away for the lowest price, best selection and low cost financing.</p>\r\n<p>Things are going to get even tougher for those that don''t understand what''s going on and are unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to economic and social trends. We hope some of you business owners will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Gordon T. Long - Knowledge for Small Business Owners (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-21 12:00:25', '2019-04-21 16:00:25', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4027, 1, '2019-04-21 12:03:10', '2019-04-21 16:03:10', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck. Even used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends are now beginning to experience sales erosion, as buyers go online to shop (in some cases hundreds of miles away) for the lowest price, best selection and lowest cost financing.</p>\r\n<p>Things are going to get even tougher for those that refuse to understand what''s going on and are unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to economic and social trends. We hope you will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Gordon T. Long - Knowledge for Small Business Owners (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-21 12:03:10', '2019-04-21 16:03:10', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4028, 1, '2019-04-21 12:16:00', '2019-04-21 16:16:00', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck. Even used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends are now beginning to experience sales erosion, as buyers increasingly go online to shop (in some cases hundreds of miles away) for the lowest price, best selection and lowest cost financing.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 per month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dollar. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because businesses are simply not competitive. Even Wal-Mart''s pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to compete with Aldi and Lidl pricing.  </p>\r\n<p>Things are going to get even tougher for those refusing to understand what''s going on and are unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. We hope you will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Gordon T. Long - Knowledge for Small Business Owners (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-21 12:16:00', '2019-04-21 16:16:00', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4029, 1, '2019-04-23 12:36:54', '2019-04-23 16:36:54', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck. Even used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends are now beginning to experience sales erosion, as buyers increasingly go online to shop (in some cases hundreds of miles away) for the lowest price, best selection and lowest cost financing. Online dealers often offer delivery right to your door and fully guarantee the vehicle is as advertised.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 per month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend even a dollar. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because businesses are simply not competitive. Even Wal-Mart''s pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to compete with Aldi and Lidl pricing.  The Money saved shopping outside Scotland County more than makes up for increased gasoline costs. </p>\r\n<p>Things are going to get even tougher for those refusing to understand what''s going on and are unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. We hope you will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Gordon T. Long - Knowledge for Small Business Owners (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-23 12:36:54', '2019-04-23 16:36:54', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4030, 1, '2019-04-23 12:42:20', '2019-04-23 16:42:20', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck. Even used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are now beginning to experience sales erosion, as buyers increasingly buy online (in some cases from dealers hundreds of miles away) for the best price, largest selection and lowest cost financing. Online dealers often offer free delivery right to your door and fully guarantee the vehicle is exactly as advertised.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 per month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend even a dollar. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because businesses are simply not competitive. Even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to compete with Aldi and Lidl pricing.  We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping elsewhere. This no only makes up for the increased gasoline costs, but allows us to essentially have a nice sit down lunch for free.</p>\r\n<p>Things are going to get even tougher for businesses refusing to understand what''s going on and are unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. We hope you will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Gordon T. Long - Knowledge for Small Business Owners (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-23 12:42:20', '2019-04-23 16:42:20', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4031, 1, '2019-04-23 12:56:17', '2019-04-23 16:56:17', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience sales erosion, as buyers increasingly buy online (in some cases from dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best price and lowest cost financing. Online dealers often offer free delivery right to your door and fully guarantee that the vehicle is exactly as advertised. While this trend is in its infancy, it''s moving fast and guarantees to shake things up.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 per month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because businesses are simply not competitive. We had plenty experiences involving high prices, poor services and bad attitudes.</p>\r\n<p>Even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to compete with Aldi and Lidl rock bottom pricing. We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping elsewhere. This not only makes up for the increased gasoline cost, but allows us to have a nice sit down lunch for free. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are going to get even tougher for businesses refusing to understand what''s going on and unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. We hope you will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Gordon T. Long - Knowledge for Small Business Owners (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-23 12:56:17', '2019-04-23 16:56:17', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4032, 1, '2019-04-23 13:17:19', '2019-04-23 17:17:19', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience sales erosion, as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases from dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best price and lowest cost financing. Online dealers often offer free delivery right to your door and guarantee the vehicle is exactly as advertised. This trend is still in its infancy, but it''s moving fast and will definitely shake things up.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 per month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves or their community. Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars they didn''t have on an extravagant new municipal complex they didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent. The the money wasted on this boondoggle meant hard pressed taxpayers wouldn''t have as much money to spend at local business for the next forty years while the bonds are being paid off, but for whateever reason, the business community didn''t seem to care. Heck, if business owners themselves didn''t care... why should we?   </p>\r\n<p>Even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to compete with Aldi and Lidl rock bottom pricing. We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping elsewhere. This not only makes up for the increased gasoline cost, but allows us to have a nice sit down lunch for free. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>The bad apples have hurt the entire barrel. Just as an example, we used to use a Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great, their pricing was low and they never said no to any project we brought them.</p>\r\n<p>Things are going to get even tougher for businesses refusing to understand what''s going on and unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. We hope you will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Gordon T. Long - Knowledge for Small Business Owners (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-23 13:17:19', '2019-04-23 17:17:19', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4033, 1, '2019-04-23 13:22:55', '2019-04-23 17:22:55', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience sales erosion, as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases from dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers often offer free delivery right to your door and guarantee the vehicle is exactly as advertised. This trend is still in its infancy, but it''s moving fast and will definitely shake things up.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 per month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves or their community. Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars they didn''t have on an extravagant new municipal complex they didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent.</p>\r\n<p>Despite the fact that the money wasted on this boondoggle meant hard pressed taxpayers wouldn''t have as much money to spend at local business for the next forty years while the bonds are being paid off, the business community didn''t seem to care. Heck, if business owners themselves didn''t care... why should we?  </p>\r\n<p>Bad apples spoil the entire barrel. Just as an example, we used to regularly use a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great, their pricing was low and they never said no to any project we brought to them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Laurinburg, this meant we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did!</p>\r\n<p>We discovered that Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to compete with Aldi and Lidl rock bottom pricing. We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping elsewhere. This not only makes up for the increased gasoline costs, but allows us to have a nice sit down lunch for free. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are going to get even tougher for businesses refusing to understand what''s going on and unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. We hope you will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Gordon T. Long - Knowledge for Small Business Owners (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-23 13:22:55', '2019-04-23 17:22:55', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4034, 1, '2019-04-23 13:26:04', '2019-04-23 17:26:04', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience sales erosion, as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers often offer free delivery right to your door and guarantee the vehicle is exactly as advertised. This trend is still in its infancy, but it''s moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 per month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves or their community. Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars they didn''t have on an extravagant new municipal complex they didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent.</p>\r\n<p>The money wasted on this boondoggle meant hard pressed taxpayers wouldn''t have as much money to spend at local business for the next forty years while the bonds were being paid off, but the business community didn''t seem to care. Heck, if business owners themselves didn''t care... why should we?  </p>\r\n<p>Bad apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great, their pricing was low and they never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Laurinburg, this meant we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did!</p>\r\n<p>We discovered that Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to compete with Aldi and Lidl rock bottom pricing. We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping elsewhere. This not only makes up for the increased gasoline costs, but allows us to have a nice sit down lunch for free. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are going to get even tougher for businesses refusing to understand what''s going on and unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. We hope you will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. 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(4035, 1, '2019-04-23 13:28:33', '2019-04-23 17:28:33', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience sales erosion, as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers often offer free delivery right to your door and guarantee the vehicle is exactly as advertised. This trend is still in its infancy, but it''s moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 per month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves or their community. Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars they didn''t have on an extravagant new municipal complex they didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent.</p>\r\n<p>The money wasted on this boondoggle meant hard pressed taxpayers wouldn''t have as much money to spend at local business for the next forty years while the bonds were being paid off, but the business community didn''t seem to care. Heck, if business owners themselves didn''t care... why should we?  </p>\r\n<p>Bad apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great, their pricing was low and they never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Laurinburg, this meant we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did!</p>\r\n<p>We discovered that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to compete with Aldi and Lidl rock bottom pricing. We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping elsewhere. This not only makes up for the increased gasoline and wear and tear, but allows us to have a nice sit down lunch for free. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are going to get even tougher for businesses who refuse to understand what''s going on and are unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. We hope you will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Gordon T. Long - Knowledge for Small Business Owners (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-23 13:28:33', '2019-04-23 17:28:33', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4036, 1, '2019-04-23 13:32:24', '2019-04-23 17:32:24', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience sales erosion, as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers often offer free delivery right to your door and guarantee the vehicle is exactly as advertised. This trend is still in its infancy, but it''s moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 per month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves or their community. Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars they didn''t have on an extravagant new municipal complex they didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent.</p>\r\n<p>The money wasted on this boondoggle meant hard pressed taxpayers wouldn''t have as much money to spend at local business for the next forty years while the bonds were being paid off, but the business community didn''t seem to care. Heck, if business owners themselves didn''t care... why should we?  </p>\r\n<p>Bad apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great, their pricing was low and they never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Laurinburg, this meant we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and the machine shop wasn''t the only good business that lost our trade. </p>\r\n<p>We discovered that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to compete with Aldi and Lidl rock bottom pricing. We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping elsewhere. This not only makes up for the increased gasoline and wear and tear, but allows us to have a nice sit down lunch for free. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are going to get even tougher for businesses who refuse to understand what''s going on and are unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. We hope you will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Gordon T. Long - Voting with Your Dollars (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-23 13:32:24', '2019-04-23 17:32:24', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4037, 1, '2019-04-23 13:36:07', '2019-04-23 17:36:07', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience sales erosion, as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers often offer free delivery right to your door and guarantee the vehicle is exactly as advertised. This trend is still in its infancy, but it''s moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 per month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves or their community. Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars they didn''t have on an extravagant new municipal complex they didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent while this disaster played out.</p>\r\n<p>Money wasted on this boondoggle meant hard pressed taxpayers wouldn''t have as much money to spend at local business for the next forty years while the bonds were being paid off, but the business community didn''t seem to care. Heck, if business owners themselves didn''t care... why should we?  </p>\r\n<p>Bad apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great, their pricing was fair and they never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Laurinburg, this meant we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and the machine shop wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade.</p>\r\n<p>We discovered that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to compete with Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom pricing. We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping elsewhere. This not only makes up for the increased gasoline and wear and tear, but allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are going to get even tougher for businesses who refuse to understand what''s going on and are unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. We hope you will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Gordon T. Long - Voting with Your Dollars (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-23 13:36:07', '2019-04-23 17:36:07', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4038, 1, '2019-04-23 13:37:19', '2019-04-23 17:37:19', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience sales erosion, as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers often offer free delivery right to your door and guarantee the vehicle is exactly as advertised. This trend is still in its infancy, but it''s moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 per month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves or their community. Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars they didn''t have on an extravagant new municipal complex they didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent while this disaster played out.</p>\r\n<p>Money wasted on this boondoggle meant hard pressed taxpayers wouldn''t have as much money to spend at local business for the next forty years while the bonds were being paid off, but the business community didn''t seem to care. Heck, if business owners themselves didn''t care... why should we?  </p>\r\n<p>Bad apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great, their pricing was fair and they never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Laurinburg, this meant we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and the machine shop wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade.</p>\r\n<p>We discovered that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to compete with Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom pricing. We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping elsewhere. This not only makes up for the increased gasoline and wear and tear, but allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are going to get even tougher for businesses who refuse to understand what''s going on and are unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. We hope you will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County residents Vote with Their Dollars (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-23 13:37:19', '2019-04-23 17:37:19', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4039, 1, '2019-04-23 13:43:01', '2019-04-23 17:43:01', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience sales erosion, as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers guarantee the vehicle is exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 per month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves or their community. Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars they didn''t have on an extravagant new municipal complex they didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent while this disaster played out.</p>\r\n<p>Money wasted on this boondoggle meant hard pressed taxpayers would not have as much money to spend at local business for the next forty years while the bonds were being paid off, but the business community didn''t seem to care. Heck, if business owners themselves didn''t care... why should we?  </p>\r\n<p>Bad apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great, their pricing was fair and they never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Laurinburg, this meant we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and the machine shop wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade simply because fellow business leaders we too busy to do their part.</p>\r\n<p>We discovered that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to compete with Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom pricing. We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This not only makes up for the increased gasoline and wear and tear, but allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are going back to the way they were. It''s going to get even tougher for businesses who refuse to understand what''s happening and are unwilling to learn what must be done to survive and thrive in tomorrow''s economy.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. We hope you will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County residents Vote with Their Dollars (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-23 13:43:01', '2019-04-23 17:43:01', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4040, 1, '2019-04-23 13:49:13', '2019-04-23 17:49:13', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience sales erosion, as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers guarantee the vehicle is exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 each month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars they didn''t have on an extravagant new municipal complex they didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent while this disaster played out.</p>\r\n<p>Even though money wasted on this boondoggle meant hard pressed taxpayers would not have as much money to spend at local business for the next forty years while the bonds were being paid off, the business community didn''t seem to care. Heck, if business owners themselves didn''t care... why should the rest of us?  </p>\r\n<p>Bad apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair and they never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Laurinburg, this meant we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and the machine shop wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade simply because fellow business leaders couldn''t be bothered to do their part.</p>\r\n<p>It didn''t take long for us to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom pricing. We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This not only makes up for the increased gasoline and wear and tear, but allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the way they were. It''s going to get even tougher for businesses who refuse to understand what''s happening.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. We hope you will find this video helpful. As always, you decide.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County residents Vote with Their Dollars (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-23 13:49:13', '2019-04-23 17:49:13', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4041, 1, '2019-04-23 14:34:19', '2019-04-23 18:34:19', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers guarantee their vehicles are exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars they didn''t have on an extravagant new municipal complex they didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent, lying low, while this disaster played out.</p>\r\n<p>Even though money wasted on this boondoggle meant hard pressed taxpayers would not have as much money to spend at local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off, the business community didn''t seem to care. Heck, if business owners themselves didn''t care... why should the rest of us?  </p>\r\n<p>Bad apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair and they never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Laurinburg, this meant we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and the machine shop wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade simply because fellow business leaders and their government operated Chamber of Commerce couldn''t be bothered to do their part.</p>\r\n<p>It didn''t take long for us to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom pricing. We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This not only makes up for the increased gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, but allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the way they were. It''s going to get even tougher for businesses who refuse to understand what''s happening and adapt.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. Here''s a video from one of out favourite financial gurus. We hope you find it helpful. As always, it''s up to You.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County Shoppers Vote with Their Dollars (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-23 14:34:19', '2019-04-23 18:34:19', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4042, 1, '2019-04-23 14:38:14', '2019-04-23 18:38:14', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers guarantee their vehicles are exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars they didn''t have on an extravagant new municipal complex they didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent, lying low, while this disaster played out.</p>\r\n<p>Even though money wasted on this boondoggle meant hard pressed taxpayers would not have as much money to spend at local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off, the business community didn''t seem to care. Heck, if business owners themselves didn''t care... why should the rest of us?  </p>\r\n<p>Bad apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair and they never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Laurinburg, this meant we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and the machine shop wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade simply because fellow business leaders and their government operated Chamber of Commerce couldn''t be bothered to do their part.</p>\r\n<p>It didn''t take long for us to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom pricing. We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This not only makes up for the increased gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, but allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free and still have money left over. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the way they were. It''s going to get even tougher for businesses who refuse to understand what''s happening and adapt.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus. We hope you find it helpful. As always, it''s up to You.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. 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(4043, 1, '2019-04-23 14:44:02', '2019-04-23 18:44:02', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers guarantee their vehicles are exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars they didn''t have on an extravagant new municipal complex they didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent, lying low, while this disaster played out.</p>\r\n<p>Even though money wasted on this boondoggle meant hard pressed taxpayers would not have as much money to spend at local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off, the business community didn''t seem to care. Heck, if business owners themselves didn''t care... why should the rest of us?  </p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair and they never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, this meant we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and this wasn''t the only good, hardworking local business that lost our trade. This is what happens when business leaders and their government operated Chamber of Commerce can''t be bothered to do their part.</p>\r\n<p>It didn''t take long for us to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom pricing. We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This not only makes up for gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, but allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free and still have money left over. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the way they were. It''s going to get even tougher for businesses who refuse to understand what''s happening and adapt.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus. We hope you find it helpful. As always, it''s up to You.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. 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(4044, 1, '2019-04-23 14:46:18', '2019-04-23 18:46:18', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers guarantee their vehicles are exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars they didn''t have on an extravagant new municipal complex they didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent, lying low, while this disaster played out.</p>\r\n<p>Even though money wasted on this boondoggle meant already hard pressed taxpayers would have even less money to spend at local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off, the business community didn''t seem to care. Heck, if business owners themselves didn''t care... why should the rest of us?  </p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair and they never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, this meant we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and this wasn''t the only good, hardworking local business that lost our trade. This is what happens when business leaders and their government operated Chamber of Commerce can''t be bothered to do their part.</p>\r\n<p>It didn''t take long for us to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom pricing. We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This not only makes up for gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, but allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free and still have money left over. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the way they were. It''s going to get even tougher for businesses who refuse to understand what''s happening and adapt.</p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic and social trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus. We hope you find it helpful. As always, it''s up to You.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County Shoppers Vote with Their Dollars (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-23 14:46:18', '2019-04-23 18:46:18', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4045, 1, '2019-04-24 08:24:31', '2019-04-24 12:24:31', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers guarantee their vehicles are exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars they didn''t have on an extravagant new municipal complex they didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent while this disaster played out.</p>\r\n<p>Money squandered on this boondoggle meant already hard pressed taxpayers would have even less money to spend at local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off, the business community didn''t seem to care. Heck, if business owners themselves don''t care about us, their customers, why should the rest of us care about them?  </p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair and they never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and this wasn''t the only good, hardworking local business that lost our trade.</p>\r\n<p>This is what happens when local business leaders stand by and watch as their customers are abused by a government operated Chamber of Commerce and Ruling Elite parasites.</p>\r\n<p>It didn''t take long for us to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom pricing. We save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This makes up for gasoline and vehicle wear and tear and allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free and still have plenty of money left over. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for businesses who refuse to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers can get virtually everything they want or need from neighbouring counties or on the Internet.   </p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends . Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful. As always, your future is up to You.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. 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(4046, 1, '2019-04-24 08:41:04', '2019-04-24 12:41:04', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers guarantee their vehicles are exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves, their customers or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars it didn''t have on an extravagant new Williamsburg style municipal complex it didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent while this disaster played out, despite the fact that the money squandered on this project meant already hard pressed customers would have even less money to spend at their local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off. If the business community itself doesn''t care about its customers, let alone itself, why should we the customers care about them?</p>\r\n<p>If the business community now thinks taxpayer funded ''Art Parks'' and taxpayer funded downtown art studios and coffee shops (albeit owned by private individuals) are going to turn things around, they are truly delusional.</p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair, they were hard working and they never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and this wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade.</p>\r\n<p>This is what happens when local business leaders stand by and watch as their customers are abused by a government operated Chamber of Commerce and a Ruling Elite parasitic class bent on feathering its own nest.</p>\r\n<p>Once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it didn''t take long for us to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and they can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom prices. We now save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This more than makes up for the extra gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, and allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free while still having plenty of money left over. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for businesses who refuse to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers can get virtually everything they want or need from neighbouring counties or on the Internet at more favourable terms.  </p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful. As always, your future is up to You.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. 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Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. 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(4047, 1, '2019-04-24 08:47:23', '2019-04-24 12:47:23', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers guarantee their vehicles are exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found too many businesses were simply not doing their best to help themselves, their customers or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars it didn''t have on an extravagant new Williamsburg style municipal complex it didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent while this disaster played out, despite the fact that the money squandered on this project meant already hard pressed customers would have even less money to spend at their local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off. If the business community itself doesn''t care about its customers, let alone itself, why should we the customers care about them?</p>\r\n<p>If the business community now thinks taxpayer funded ''Art Parks'', downtown art studios and coffee shops (albeit owned by ''select'' private individuals and NGO''s) are going to turn things around, they are truly delusional.</p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair, they were creative, hard working and never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and this wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade.</p>\r\n<p>This is what happens when local business leaders stand by and watch as their customers are abused by a government operated Chamber of Commerce and a Ruling Elite parasitic class bent on feathering its own nest.</p>\r\n<p>Once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it didn''t take long for us to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and Wal-Mart can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom prices. We now save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This more than makes up for the extra gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, and allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free while still having plenty of money left over. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for those refusing to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers can get virtually everything they want or need for less from neighbouring counties or on the Internet.  </p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful. As always, your future is up to You.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County Shoppers Vote with their Dollars (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-24 08:47:23', '2019-04-24 12:47:23', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4048, 1, '2019-04-24 08:56:13', '2019-04-24 12:56:13', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are beginning to experience erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers generally guarantee their vehicles are exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found many businesses were simply not doing their best to help their customers, themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars it didn''t have on an extravagant new ''Williamsburg'' style municipal complex it didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent as this disaster played out. The money squandered on this project meant already hard pressed customers would now have even less money to spend at local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off, but it didn''t seem to matter to the businesses. If the business community itself doesn''t care about its customers, let alone itself, why should customers care about them?</p>\r\n<p>The business community now thinks taxpayer funded ''Art Parks'', downtown art studios and coffee shops (albeit owned by ''select'' private individuals and NGO''s) are going to turn things around. This is truly delusional.</p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair, they were creative, hard working and never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and this wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade.</p>\r\n<p>This is what happens when local business leaders stand by and watch as their customers are abused by a government operated Chamber of Commerce and a parasitic Ruling Elite class bent on feathering its own nest.</p>\r\n<p>Once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it didn''t take long for us to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and Wal-Mart can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom prices. We now save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This more than makes up for the extra gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, and allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free while still leaving plenty of money in our pockets. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for those refusing to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers can get virtually everything they want or need for less from neighbouring counties or on the Internet.  </p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful. As always, your future is up to You.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County Shoppers Vote with their Dollars (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-24 08:56:13', '2019-04-24 12:56:13', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4049, 1, '2019-04-24 09:05:29', '2019-04-24 13:05:29', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are experiencing erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers generally guarantee their vehicles to be are exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found many businesses were simply not doing their best to help their customers, themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars it didn''t have on an extravagant new ''Williamsburg'' style municipal complex it didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent as this disaster played out. The money squandered on this project meant already hard pressed customers would now have even less money to spend at local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off, but it didn''t seem to matter to the businesses.</p>\r\n<p>If the business community itself doesn''t care about its customers, let alone itself, why should customers care about them? If the business community now thinks taxpayer funded ''Art Parks'', downtown art studios and coffee shops (albeit owned by ''select'' private individuals and NGO''s) are going to turn things around, they are truly delusional.</p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair, they were creative, hard working and never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and this wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade.</p>\r\n<p>This is what happens when local business leaders stand by and watch as their customers are abused by a government operated Chamber of Commerce and parasitic Ruling Elites bent on feathering their own nest.</p>\r\n<p>Once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it didn''t take long to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and Wal-Mart can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom prices. We now save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This more than makes up for the extra gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, and allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free while still leaving plenty of money in our pockets. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for those refusing to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers can now get virtually everything they want or need for less from neighbouring counties or on the Internet.  </p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful.</p>\r\n<p>As always, your future is up to You!</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County Shoppers Vote with their Dollars (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-24 09:05:29', '2019-04-24 13:05:29', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4050, 1, '2019-04-24 09:07:53', '2019-04-24 13:07:53', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are experiencing erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers generally guarantee their vehicles to be are exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found many businesses were simply not doing their best to help their customers, themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars it didn''t have on an extravagant new ''Williamsburg'' style municipal complex it didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent as this disaster played out. The money squandered on this project meant already hard pressed customers would now have even less money to spend at local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off, but it didn''t seem to matter to the businesses.</p>\r\n<p>If the business community doesn''t care about its customers, let alone itself, why should customers care about them? If the business community now thinks taxpayer funded ''Art Parks'', downtown art studios and coffee shops (albeit owned by ''select'' private individuals and NGO''s) are going to turn things around, they are truly delusional.</p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair, they were creative, hard working and never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and this wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade.</p>\r\n<p>This is what happens when local business leaders stand by and watch as their customers are abused by a government operated Chamber of Commerce and parasitic Ruling Elites bent on feathering their own nest.</p>\r\n<p>Once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it didn''t take long to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and Wal-Mart can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom prices. We now save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This more than makes up for the extra gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, and allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free while still leaving plenty of money in our pockets. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for those refusing to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers can now get virtually everything they want or need for less from neighbouring counties or on the Internet.  </p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful.</p>\r\n<p>As always, your future is up to You!</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County Shoppers Vote with their Dollars (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-24 09:07:53', '2019-04-24 13:07:53', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4051, 1, '2019-04-24 09:09:14', '2019-04-24 13:09:14', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are experiencing erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers generally guarantee their vehicles to be exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found many businesses were simply not doing their best to help their customers, themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars it didn''t have on an extravagant new ''Williamsburg'' style municipal complex it didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent as this disaster played out. The money squandered on this project meant already hard pressed customers would now have even less money to spend at local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off, but it didn''t seem to matter to the businesses.</p>\r\n<p>If the business community doesn''t care about its customers, let alone itself, why should customers care about them? If the business community now thinks taxpayer funded ''Art Parks'', downtown art studios and coffee shops (albeit owned by ''select'' private individuals and NGO''s) are going to turn things around, they are truly delusional.</p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair, they were creative, hard working and never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and this wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade.</p>\r\n<p>This is what happens when local business leaders stand by and watch as their customers are abused by a government operated Chamber of Commerce and parasitic Ruling Elites bent on feathering their own nest.</p>\r\n<p>Once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it didn''t take long to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and Wal-Mart can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom prices. We now save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This more than makes up for the extra gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, and allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free while still leaving plenty of money in our pockets. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for those refusing to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers can now get virtually everything they want or need for less from neighbouring counties or on the Internet.  </p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful.</p>\r\n<p>As always, your future is up to You!</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. 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(4052, 1, '2019-04-24 09:13:23', '2019-04-24 13:13:23', '<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are experiencing erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers generally guarantee their vehicles to be exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found many businesses were simply not doing their best to help their customers, themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars it didn''t have on an extravagant new ''Williamsburg'' style municipal complex it didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent as this disaster played out. The money squandered on this project meant already hard pressed customers would now have even less money to spend at local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off, but it didn''t seem to matter to the businesses.</p>\r\n<p>If the business community doesn''t care about its customers, let alone itself, why should customers care about them? If the business community now thinks taxpayer funded ''Art Parks'', downtown art studios and coffee shops (albeit owned by ''select'' private individuals and NGO''s) are going to turn things around, they are truly delusional.</p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair, they were creative, hard working and never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and this wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade.</p>\r\n<p>This is what happens when local business leaders stand by and watch as their customers are abused by a government operated Chamber of Commerce and parasitic Ruling Elites bent on feathering their own nest.</p>\r\n<p>Once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it didn''t take long to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and Wal-Mart can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom prices. We now save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County, which more than makes up for the extra gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, and allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free while still leaving plenty of money in our pockets. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for those refusing to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers can now get virtually everything they want or need for less from neighbouring counties or on the Internet.  </p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful.</p>\r\n<p>As always, your future is up to You!</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. 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(4053, 3, '2019-04-24 09:52:24', '2019-04-24 13:52:24', '', 'scotland-county-shopper-cuts-grocery-bill-50-percent', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'gordon-t-long-2019-themes-shoppers', '', '', '2019-04-27 12:16:31', '2019-04-27 16:16:31', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gordon-t-long-2019-themes-shoppers.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(4055, 3, '2019-04-27 12:22:58', '2019-04-27 16:22:58', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4053 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gordon-t-long-2019-themes-shoppers-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="495" height="297" /></p>\n<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>Are you paying twice as much for groceries as you should?</strong></span> It''s easier than you think to cut your bill in half. Here''s how one shopper does it:</p>\n<ul>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop once a month</span>. This demands discipline, organisation and the ability to think and plan ahead. It keeps you from making wasteful ''impulse'' purchases. I have a large refrigerator (with no freezer) and a separate chest freezer and storage area with shelves in the garage. If your excuse is that you don''t have enough money to go just once a month, think about doing without junk food, sodas, energy drinks, cheap beer, snacks and other packaged garbage loaded with empty calories and chemicals that make you fat, stupid, unhealthy and broke. This move alone will free up plenty of extra money.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Go prepared</span>. I take a spreadsheet that I developed which shows exactly what I''m going to buy at each of the two stores where I shop. My list is generated based on last months purchases, plus any changes I want to make for the current trip and allows me to compare prices right on the spot. If you just grab stuff off the shelf as you go by, your plan to save money is doomed from the start.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stay away from prepared and frozen meals</span>. They''re expensive and loaded with stuff your body doesn''t need.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Know your products</span>. Many so called ''bargain items'' (dish soaps, laundry detergents, shampoos, condiments, etc.) are <strong>watered down</strong> and offer poor value compared to concentrated brands.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop online</span> when possible, but take the time to learn your way around. 20% of my grocery and virtually 100% of my pharmacy type purchases are now made online. I use eBay and AliExpress mostly. I''ve found Amazon too expensive and don''t appreciate their efforts to make comparison shopping difficult.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Never shop in Laurinburg/Scotland County</span>. Prices here are brain damaging budget busters. No exceptions, not even Wal-Mart.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop in Rockingham</span>. It''s well worth the trip. I go to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aldi</span> first because they are the least expensive <span style="text-decoration: underline;">by far</span> and purchase most stuff there. I take my own <span style="text-decoration: underline;">reusable boxes</span> which makes checkout a snap. I would go to Lidl (which is right next door to Aldi) second, but I''ve learned not to bother. They''re cheap but carry too much esoteric stuff I don''t need which just wastes my time. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up the few items that Aldi doesn''t stock. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than Laurinburg, but they still can''t compete with Aldi.</li>\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Join Costco Wholesale</span> (Charlotte) and buy stuff in bulk. Costco is especially great for canned goods, condiments, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, dish soap, etc. I stock up there once a year.</li>\n	<li>Remember, nobody looks out for your interests better than <span style="text-decoration: underline;">YOU</span>.      </li>\n</ul>\n<p>I''m saving thousands of dollars, eating healthier and feeling better than ever. <strong>Here''s what got me started:</strong>  </p>\n<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but <span style="text-decoration: underline;">negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck</span>.</p>\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are experiencing erosion as buyers increasingly migrate online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers generally guarantee their vehicles to be exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">You never have to even visit the dealer</span>.This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\n<p>Our family used to spend over $2,000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">we don''t spend a dime</span>. I haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because I found many local businesses are simply not doing their best to help customers, themselves or their community.</p>\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city spending millions of dollars it didn''t have on an extravagant new ''Colonial Williamsburg'' style Municipal Complex it didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent as this disaster played out. The money squandered on this worthless project meant already hard pressed customers would now have even less money to spend at local business for the next <span style="text-decoration: underline;">forty years</span> while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off. Unfortunately, none of this seemed to matter to the local business community.</p>\n<p>If the business community doesn''t care about its customers, let alone itself, why should we care about them? If the business community now thinks higher property taxes, higher sales taxes and more taxpayer funded (but privately owned) nonsense like ''Art Parks'' and art studios with trendy coffee shops are going to turn things around, they are truly delusional.</p>\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. Our family used to do business with numerous small mom &amp; pop Laurinburg businesses. One example, was the Machine Shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair, they were creative, hard working, on time and never said No to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it no longer made sense to travel there and we needed to find a new machine shop in Rockingham. We did, and while this was great for us, it meant that a good local Laurinburg business lost our trade forever. This remains true for many other Laurinburg small businesses too.</p>\n<p>This is the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">hidden cost</span> of local business leaders standing by as customers are abused and bled out by high taxes, a government operated Chamber of Commerce and a parasitic Ruling Elite bent on feathering their own nests.</p>\n<p>Once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it didn''t take long to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and Wal-Mart can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom prices. We now save 50% on our grocery bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County. This allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free in Rockingham while still leaving plenty of money in our pockets for other things. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local Laurinburg businesses had customers by the Gucchi''s, and it''s going to get even tougher for those who refuse to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers now have plenty of options to get virtually everything they want and need for less from neighbouring counties or online.</p>\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful.</p>\n<p>Best wishes on your money saving adventure!</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\n</strong></address>\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\n<address> </address>\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County Shopper Cuts Grocery Bill 50% (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-autosave-v1', '', '', '2019-04-27 12:22:58', '2019-04-27 16:22:58', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4056, 3, '2019-04-24 09:56:14', '2019-04-24 13:56:14', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4053 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gordon-t-long-2019-themes-shoppers-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="495" height="297" /></p>\r\n<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are experiencing erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers generally guarantee their vehicles to be exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found many businesses were simply not doing their best to help their customers, themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city''s spending millions of dollars it didn''t have on an extravagant new ''Williamsburg'' style municipal complex it didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent as this disaster played out. The money squandered on this project meant already hard pressed customers would now have even less money to spend at local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off, but it didn''t seem to matter to the businesses.</p>\r\n<p>If the business community doesn''t care about its customers, let alone itself, why should customers care about them? If the business community now thinks taxpayer funded ''Art Parks'', downtown art studios and coffee shops (albeit owned by ''select'' private individuals and NGO''s) are going to turn things around, they are truly delusional.</p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair, they were creative, hard working and never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and this wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade.</p>\r\n<p>This is what happens when local business leaders stand by and watch as their customers are abused by a government operated Chamber of Commerce and parasitic Ruling Elites bent on feathering their own nest.</p>\r\n<p>Once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it didn''t take long to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and Wal-Mart can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom prices. We now save almost 40% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County, which more than makes up for the extra gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, and allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free while still leaving plenty of money in our pockets. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for those refusing to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers can now get virtually everything they want or need for less from neighbouring counties or on the Internet.  </p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful.</p>\r\n<p>As always, your future is up to You!</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County Shoppers Vote with their Dollars (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-24 09:56:14', '2019-04-24 13:56:14', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4057, 3, '2019-04-24 10:05:38', '2019-04-24 14:05:38', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4053 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gordon-t-long-2019-themes-shoppers-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="495" height="297" /></p>\r\n<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are experiencing erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers generally guarantee their vehicles to be exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2,000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found many businesses were simply not doing their best to help their customers, themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city spending millions of dollars it didn''t have on an extravagant new ''Williamsburg'' style municipal complex it didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent as this disaster played out. The money squandered on this project meant already hard pressed customers would now have even less money to spend at local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off, but it didn''t seem to matter to the businesses.</p>\r\n<p>If the business community doesn''t care about its customers, let alone itself, why should customers care about them? If the business community now thinks taxpayer funded ''Art Parks'', downtown art studios and coffee shops (albeit owned by ''select'' private individuals and NGO''s) are going to turn things around, they are truly delusional.</p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair, they were creative, hard working and never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and this wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade.</p>\r\n<p>This is what happens when local business leaders stand by and watch as their customers are abused by a government operated Chamber of Commerce and parasitic Ruling Elites bent on feathering their own nest.</p>\r\n<p>Once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it didn''t take long to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and Wal-Mart can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom prices. We now save almost 50% on our food bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County, which more than makes up for the extra gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, and allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free while still leaving plenty of money in our pockets. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for those refusing to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers can now get virtually everything they want or need for less from neighbouring counties or on the Internet.  </p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful.</p>\r\n<p>As always, your future is up to You!</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County Shoppers Vote with their Dollars (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-24 10:05:38', '2019-04-24 14:05:38', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4060, 1, '2019-04-25 08:05:41', '2019-04-25 12:05:41', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4053 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gordon-t-long-2019-themes-shoppers-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="495" height="297" /></p>\r\n<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are experiencing erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers generally guarantee their vehicles to be exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>We used to spend over $2,000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, we don''t spend a dime. We haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because we found many businesses were simply not doing their best to help their customers, themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city spending millions of dollars it didn''t have on an extravagant new ''Williamsburg'' style municipal complex it didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent as this disaster played out. The money squandered on this project meant already hard pressed customers would now have even less money to spend at local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off, but it didn''t seem to matter to the businesses.</p>\r\n<p>If the business community doesn''t care about its customers, let alone itself, why should customers care about them? If the business community now thinks taxpayer funded ''Art Parks'', downtown art studios and coffee shops (albeit owned by ''select'' private individuals and NGO''s) are going to turn things around, they are truly delusional.</p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. We used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair, they were creative, hard working and never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and this wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade through no fault of their own.</p>\r\n<p>This is what happens when local business leaders stand by and watch as their customers are abused and bled out by a government operated Chamber of Commerce and a parasitic Ruling Elite class bent on feathering their own nests.</p>\r\n<p>Once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it didn''t take long to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and Wal-Mart can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom prices. We now save almost 50% on our grocery bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County, which more than makes up for the extra gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, and allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch or dinner for free while still leaving plenty of money in our pockets. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for those refusing to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers now have plenty of options and can now get virtually everything they want or need for less from neighbouring counties or on the Internet.  </p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful.</p>\r\n<p>As always, your future is up to You!</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County Shoppers Vote with their Dollars (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-25 08:05:41', '2019-04-25 12:05:41', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4061, 1, '2019-04-25 13:13:34', '2019-04-25 17:13:34', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4053 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gordon-t-long-2019-themes-shoppers-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="495" height="297" /></p>\r\n<p>Are you paying twice as much for groceries as you should? It''s easier than you think to cut your food bill in half by making some changes. This shopper tells you how she does it.</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Never</span> shop in Laurinburg/Scotland County. Prices here are budget busters. No exceptions, not even Wal-Mart.</li>\r\n	<li>I shop once a month. This forces me to be disciplined, organized and to plan ahead. I Have a large refrigerator (with no freezer) and a separate chest freezer.</li>\r\n	<li>Go to the store prepared. I take an Excel spreadsheet that I made which shows exactly what I''m going to buy at each of the two stores I shop. My list is based on historical purchases, plus shows any changes I want to make this trip and allows me to compare prices right on the spot. If you just grab stuff off the shelf, your budget is 100% doomed to failure.</li>\r\n	<li>Always check ingredients. Junk food, sodas, energy drinks, cheap beer, cheap bread, snacks and other packaged nonsense provides empty calories and harmful chemicals which make you fat, stupid and unhealthy and broke.</li>\r\n	<li>Stay away from prepared and frozen meals. They are expensive and loaded with stuff your body doesn''t want.</li>\r\n	<li>Canned goods are often cheap and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\n	<li>Shop online whenever possible, but be careful and take the time to learn your way around. 20% of my grocery and 100% of my pharmacy purchases are now made online. I use ebay mostly because Amazon is too expensive and tries to make it difficult to comparison shop.</li>\r\n	<li>I shop in Rockingham. It''s a little further but well worth the trip. I go to Aldi first because they are the least expensive <span style="text-decoration: underline;">by far</span> and I buy most of my stuff there. I would go to Lidl second, but I''ve learned not to bother. They are cheap but too disorganized. I then go Wal-Mart last to pick up a few items like produce, and Pom juice that Aldi doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than in Laurinburg, but they still can''t compete with Aldi.       </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>I have saved thousands of dollars and eat healthier than ever. Here''s what got me started:  </p>\r\n<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are experiencing erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers generally guarantee their vehicles to be exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>I used to spend over $2,000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, I don''t spend a dime. I haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because I found many businesses were simply not doing their best to help their customers, themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city spending millions of dollars it didn''t have on an extravagant new ''Williamsburg'' style municipal complex it didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent as this disaster played out. The money squandered on this project meant already hard pressed customers would now have even less money to spend at local business for the next forty years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off. Unfortunately, none of this seemed to matter to the local business community.</p>\r\n<p>If the business community doesn''t care about its customers, let alone itself, I figured. why should customers care about them? If the business community now thinks more taxpayer funded nonsense like ''Art Parks'', downtown art studios and coffee shops (albeit owned by ''select'' private individuals and NGO''s) are going to turn things around, they are truly delusional.</p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. Our family used to regularly do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair, they were creative, hard working and never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, we needed to find a new machine shop too. We did, and this wasn''t the only good local business that lost our trade forever.</p>\r\n<p>This is what happens when local business leaders stand by and watch as their customers are abused and bled out by a government operated Chamber of Commerce and a parasitic Ruling Elite class bent on feathering their own nests.</p>\r\n<p>Once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it didn''t take long to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and Wal-Mart can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom prices. We now save almost 50% on our grocery bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County, which more than makes up for any extra gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, and allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch or dinner for free while still leaving plenty of money in our pockets. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for businesses refusing to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers now have plenty of options to get virtually everything they want and need for less from neighbouring counties or on the Internet.  </p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful.</p>\r\n<p>As always, your future is up to You!</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. Long</span></a></p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <br />\r\n</strong></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-north-carolina-property-taxes-on-the-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Federal Employee Pay and Benefits" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/federal-employee-pay-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Federal Employee Pay &amp; Benefits</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-edc-blood-sucking-vampire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County EDC – Blood Sucking Vampire?</a></span></address>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>You can reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>.</address>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Scotland County Shopper Cuts Grocery Bill 50% (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-25 13:13:34', '2019-04-25 17:13:34', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4062, 1, '2019-04-25 13:28:32', '2019-04-25 17:28:32', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4053 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gordon-t-long-2019-themes-shoppers-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="495" height="297" /></p>\r\n<p>Are you paying twice as much for groceries and drugs as you should? It''s easier than you think to cut your food bill in half by making some changes. This shopper tells you how she does it.</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Never</span> shop in Laurinburg/Scotland County. Prices here are budget busters. No exceptions, not even Wal-Mart.</li>\r\n	<li>I shop once a month. This forces me to be disciplined, organized and to plan ahead. I Have a large refrigerator (with no freezer) and a separate chest freezer.</li>\r\n	<li>Go to the store prepared. I take an Excel spreadsheet that I made which shows exactly what I''m going to buy at each of the two stores I shop. My list is based on historical purchases, plus shows any changes I want to make this trip and allows me to compare prices right on the spot. If you just grab stuff off the shelf, your budget is 100% doomed to failure.</li>\r\n	<li>Always check ingredients. Junk food, sodas, energy drinks, cheap beer, cheap bread, snacks and other packaged nonsense provides empty calories and harmful chemicals which make you fat, stupid, unhealthy and broke.</li>\r\n	<li>Stay away from prepared and frozen meals. They are expensive and loaded with stuff your body doesn''t want.</li>\r\n	<li>Canned goods are often cheap and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\n	<li>Shop online whenever possible, but be careful and take the time to learn your way around. 20% of my grocery and 100% of my pharmacy purchases are now made online. I use ebay mostly because Amazon is too expensive and makes it difficult to comparison shop.</li>\r\n	<li>I shop in Rockingham. It''s a little further but well worth the trip. I go to Aldi first because they are the least expensive <span style="text-decoration: underline;">by far</span> and buy most stuff there. I take my own reusable boxes which makes checkout a snap. I would go to Lidl (which is right next door) second, but I''ve learned not to bother. They are cheap but too disorganized and carry too much esoteric stuff I don''t want. I go Wal-Mart last to pick up a few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi might not have. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than in Laurinburg, but they still can''t compete with Aldi.</li>\r\n	<li>Join Costco Wholesale in Charlotte and by stuff in bulk. This is especially good for canned goods, toilet paper, paper towels, etc. I go there to stock up about every six months.         </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>I have saved thousands of dollars and eat healthier than ever. Here''s what got me started:  </p>\r\n<p>Scotland County, North Carolina business owners are toughing it out, but negative population demographics, exploding property taxes, government subsidized competition, the Internet and neighbouring counties willing to offer better services at lower prices are stiff headwinds to buck.</p>\r\n<p>Even local used car dealers, which had been considered largely immune from current trends, are experiencing erosion as buyers increasingly go online (in some cases to dealers hundreds of miles away) for the largest selection, best pricing and lowest cost financing. Online dealers generally guarantee their vehicles to be exactly as advertised and often offer free delivery right to your door. This trend, while still in its infancy, is moving fast and is about to shake things up big time.</p>\r\n<p>I used to spend over $2,000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, I don''t spend a dime. I haven''t shopped in the county for over two years now because I found many businesses were simply not doing their best to help their customers, themselves or their community.</p>\r\n<p>Despite Laurinburg citizens being up in arms over the city spending millions of dollars it didn''t have on an extravagant new ''Williamsburg'' style municipal complex it didn''t need, most businesses chose to remain silent as this disaster played out. The money squandered on this project meant already hard pressed customers would now have even less money to spend at local business for the next <span style="text-decoration: underline;">forty</span> years while this boondoggle''s bonds were being paid off. Unfortunately, none of this seemed to matter to the local business community.</p>\r\n<p>If the business community doesn''t care about its customers, let alone itself, I figured. why should customers like me care about them? If the business community now thinks higher property taxes, higher sales taxes and more taxpayer funded crap like ''Art Parks'', downtown art studios and coffee shops (albeit owned by ''select'' private individuals and NGO''s) are going to turn things around, they are truly delusional.</p>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. Our family used to do business with a local Laurinburg machine shop. They were absolutely great. Their pricing was fair, they were creative, hard working and never said no to any project we brought them. Unfortunately, once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it no longer made sense to go there. We needed to find a new machine shop in Rockingham and did, and this wasn''t the only good local Laurinburg business that lost our trade forever.</p>\r\n<p>This is what happens when local business leaders stand by and watch as their customers are abused and bled out by high taxes, a government operated Chamber of Commerce and a parasitic Ruling Elite class bent on feathering their own nests.</p>\r\n<p>Once we stopped shopping in Scotland County, it didn''t take long to discover that even Wal-Mart pricing is lower in neighbouring counties, and Wal-Mart can''t even begin to match Aldi and Lidl''s rock bottom prices. We now save 50% on our grocery bill alone by shopping outside Scotland County, which more than makes up for any extra gasoline and vehicle wear and tear, and allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch or dinner for free while still leaving plenty of money in our pockets. Who said there was no free lunch?</p>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for businesses refusing to understand what''s happening and adapt. Scotland County shoppers now have plenty of options to get virtually everything they want and need for less from neighbouring counties or online.</p>\r\n<p>Best wishes on your money saving adventure. </p>\r\n<p>CCN pays close attention to rapidly changing economic, social and political trends. Here''s a video from one of our favourite financial gurus Gordon T. Long. We hope you find it helpful.</p>\r\n<p>As always, your future is up to You!</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEvckj8hmKc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span><br />\r\n<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GordonTLong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gordon T. 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