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(4063, 1, '2019-04-25 13:48:40', '2019-04-25 17:48:40', '<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 bill in half. Here''s how this shopper does it:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><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), a separate chest freezer and a storage area with shelves.</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 generated based on historical purchases, plus 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 garbage 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 cheap and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\n	<li>Shop online whenever possible, but 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, Alibaba and AliExpress mostly because Amazon is too expensive and tries to make it as difficult as possible 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 purchase 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 need. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up a few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than Laurinburg, but they still can''t compete with Aldi.</li>\r\n	<li>Join Costco Wholesale in Charlotte and buy stuff in bulk. Join with a friend if possible. Costco is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I stock up about once a year and come back loaded to the gills.        </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>I''m saving thousands of dollars and eating healthier 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 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 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</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 I care about them? If the business community now thinks higher property taxes, higher sales taxes and more taxpayer funded crap like ''Art Parks'', art studios with 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, 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. We needed to find a new machine shop in Rockingham and we 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. This allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free 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 businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for businesses that 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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-25 13:48:40', '2019-04-25 17:48:40', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4064, 1, '2019-04-25 13:51:34', '2019-04-25 17:51:34', '<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 and drugs as you should? 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;">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), a separate chest freezer and a storage area with shelves.</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 generated based on historical purchases, plus 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 garbage 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 cheap and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\n	<li>Shop online whenever possible, but 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, Alibaba and AliExpress mostly because Amazon is too expensive and tries to make it as difficult as possible 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 purchase 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 need. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up a few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than Laurinburg, but they still can''t compete with Aldi.</li>\r\n	<li>Join Costco Wholesale in Charlotte and buy stuff in bulk. Join with a friend if possible. Costco is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I stock up about once a year and come back loaded to the gills.        </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>I''m saving thousands of dollars and eating healthier 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 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 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</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 I care about them? If the business community now thinks higher property taxes, higher sales taxes and more taxpayer funded crap like ''Art Parks'', art studios with 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, 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. We needed to find a new machine shop in Rockingham and we 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. This allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free 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 businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for businesses that 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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-25 13:51:34', '2019-04-25 17:51:34', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4065, 1, '2019-04-25 14:02:17', '2019-04-25 18:02:17', '<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><strong>Are you paying twice as much for groceries and drugs as you should?</strong> 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>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 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">once a month</span>. This forces me to be disciplined, organized and to plan ahead. I Have a large refrigerator (with no freezer), a separate chest freezer and a storage area with shelves.</li>\r\n	<li>Go prepared. I take an Excel <span style="text-decoration: underline;">spreadsheet</span> that I made which shows exactly what I''m going to buy at each of the two stores I shop. My list is generated based on last months purchases, plus any changes I want to make this trip, and allows me to compare prices right on the spot. If you just grab stuff on the go off the shelf, your budget plans are 100% doomed to failure.</li>\r\n	<li>Always <span style="text-decoration: underline;">check ingredients</span>. Junk food, sodas, energy drinks, cheap beer, cheap bread, snacks and other packaged garbage provides empty calories and harmful chemicals which make you fat, stupid, lethargic, unhealthy and broke.</li>\r\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 want.</li>\r\n	<li>Canned goods are cheap and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\n	<li>Shop online whenever possible, but 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, Alibaba and AliExpress mostly because Amazon is too expensive and tries to make it as difficult as possible 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 purchase 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''re cheap but carry too much esoteric stuff I don''t need. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up a few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than Laurinburg, but they still can''t compete with Aldi.</li>\r\n	<li>Join Costco Wholesale in Charlotte and buy stuff in bulk. Join with a friend if possible. Costco is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I stock up about once a year and come back loaded to the gills.        </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>I''m saving thousands of dollars and eating healthier 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 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 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</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 I care about them? If the business community now thinks higher property taxes, higher sales taxes and more taxpayer funded crap like ''Art Parks'', art studios with 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, 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. We needed to find a new machine shop in Rockingham and we 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. This allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free 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 businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for businesses that 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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-25 14:02:17', '2019-04-25 18:02:17', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4066, 1, '2019-04-25 14:07:33', '2019-04-25 18:07:33', '<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><strong>Are you paying twice as much for groceries and drugs as you should?</strong> 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>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 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">once a month</span>. This forces me to be disciplined, organized and to plan ahead. I Have a large refrigerator (with no freezer), a separate chest freezer and a storage area with shelves.</li>\r\n	<li>Go prepared. I take an Excel <span style="text-decoration: underline;">spreadsheet</span> that I made which shows exactly what I''m going to buy at each of the two stores I shop. My list is generated based on last months purchases, plus any changes I want to make this trip, and allows me to compare prices right on the spot. If you just grab stuff on the go off the shelf, your budget plans are 100% doomed to failure.</li>\r\n	<li>Always <span style="text-decoration: underline;">check ingredients</span>. Junk food, sodas, energy drinks, cheap beer, cheap bread, snacks and other packaged garbage provides empty calories and harmful chemicals which make you fat, stupid, lethargic, unhealthy and broke.</li>\r\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 want.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop online</span> whenever possible, but 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, Alibaba and AliExpress mostly because Amazon is too expensive and tries to make it as difficult as possible to comparison shop.</li>\r\n	<li>I <span style="text-decoration: underline;">shop in Rockingham</span>. 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 purchase 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''re cheap but carry too much esoteric stuff I don''t need. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up a few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than Laurinburg, but they still can''t compete with Aldi.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Join Costco</span> Wholesale in Charlotte and buy stuff in bulk. Join with a friend if possible. Costco is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I stock up about once a year and come back loaded to the gills.        </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>I''m saving thousands of dollars and eating healthier 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 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 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</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 I care about them? If the business community now thinks higher property taxes, higher sales taxes and more taxpayer funded crap like ''Art Parks'', art studios with 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, 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. We needed to find a new machine shop in Rockingham and we 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. This allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free 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 businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for businesses that 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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-25 14:07:33', '2019-04-25 18:07:33', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4067, 1, '2019-04-25 14:16:03', '2019-04-25 18:16:03', '<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><strong>Are you paying twice as much for groceries as you should?</strong> 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>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 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">shop once a month</span>. This forces me to be disciplined, organized and to plan ahead. I Have a large refrigerator (with no freezer), a separate chest freezer and a storage area with shelves.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Go prepared</span>. 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 generated based on last months purchases, plus any changes I want to make this trip, and allows me to compare prices right on the spot. If you just grab stuff on the go off the shelf, your budget plans are 100% doomed to failure.</li>\r\n	<li>Always <span style="text-decoration: underline;">check ingredients</span>. Junk food, sodas, energy drinks, cheap beer, cheap bread, snacks and other packaged garbage provide empty calories and chemicals which make you fat, stupid, lethargic, unhealthy and broke.</li>\r\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 want.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop online</span> whenever possible, but 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, Alibaba and AliExpress mostly because Amazon is too expensive and tries to make it as difficult as possible to comparison shop.</li>\r\n	<li>I <span style="text-decoration: underline;">shop in Rockingham</span>. It''s a little further but 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) second, but I''ve learned not to bother. They''re cheap but carry too much esoteric stuff I don''t need. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up a few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than Laurinburg, but they still can''t compete with Aldi.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Join Costco</span> Wholesale in Charlotte and buy stuff in bulk. Join with a friend if possible. Costco is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I stock up about once a year and come back loaded to the gills.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stay as far away from the Medical/Big Pharma Industry</span> as possible. They''re main purpose appears to be prescribing expensive drugs, many of which have terrible side effects.          </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>I''m saving thousands of dollars and eating healthier 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 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 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</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 I care about them? If the business community now thinks higher property taxes, higher sales taxes and more taxpayer funded crap like ''Art Parks'', art studios with 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, 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. We needed to find a new machine shop in Rockingham and we 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. This allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free 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 businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for businesses that 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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-25 14:16:03', '2019-04-25 18:16:03', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(4068, 1, '2019-04-25 14:21:34', '2019-04-25 18:21:34', '<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><strong>Are you paying twice as much for groceries as you should?</strong> 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>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 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">shop once a month</span>. This forces me to be disciplined, organized and to plan ahead. I Have a large refrigerator (with no freezer), a separate chest freezer and a storage area with shelves.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Go prepared</span>. 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 generated based on last months purchases, plus any changes I want to make this trip, and allows me to compare prices right on the spot. If you just grab stuff on the go off the shelf, your budget plans are 100% doomed to failure.</li>\r\n	<li>Always <span style="text-decoration: underline;">check ingredients</span>. Junk food, sodas, energy drinks, cheap beer, cheap bread, snacks and other packaged garbage provide empty calories and chemicals which make you fat, stupid, lethargic, unhealthy and broke.</li>\r\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 want.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop online</span> whenever possible, but take the time to learn your way around. 20% of my grocery and virtually 100% of my pharmacy purchases are now made online. I use ebay, Alibaba and AliExpress mostly because Amazon is too expensive and tries to make it as difficult as possible to comparison shop.</li>\r\n	<li>I <span style="text-decoration: underline;">shop in Rockingham</span>. It''s a little further but well worth the trip. I go to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aldi</span> first because they are the cheapest <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) second, but I''ve learned not to bother. They''re cheap but carry too much esoteric stuff I don''t need. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up a few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than Laurinburg, but they still can''t compete with Aldi.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Join Costco Wholesale</span> in Charlotte and buy stuff in bulk. Join with a friend if possible. Costco is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I stock up about once a year and come back loaded to the gills.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stay as far away from the Medical/Big Pharma Industry</span> as possible. They''re main purpose appears to be prescribing expensive drugs, many of which have terrible side effects.</li>\r\n	<li>Never forget... Nobody cares about you but you. In the end, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">You are in charge of your health and finances</span>.         </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>I''m saving thousands of dollars, eating healthier and feeling 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 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 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</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 I care about them? If the business community now thinks higher property taxes, higher sales taxes and more taxpayer funded crap like ''Art Parks'', art studios with 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, 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. We needed to find a new machine shop in Rockingham and we 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. This allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free 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 businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for businesses that 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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-25 14:21:34', '2019-04-25 18:21:34', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4069, 1, '2019-04-25 14:23:36', '2019-04-25 18:23:36', '<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><strong>Are you paying twice as much for groceries as you should?</strong> 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>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 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">shop once a month</span>. This forces me to be disciplined, organized and to plan ahead. I Have a large refrigerator (with no freezer), a separate chest freezer and a storage area with shelves.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Go prepared</span>. 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 generated based on last months purchases, plus 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 as you go by, your budget plans are 100% doomed to failure.</li>\r\n	<li>Always <span style="text-decoration: underline;">check ingredients</span>. Junk food, sodas, energy drinks, cheap beer, cheap bread, snacks and other packaged garbage provide empty calories and chemicals which make you fat, stupid, lethargic, unhealthy and broke.</li>\r\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 want.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop online</span> whenever possible, but take the time to learn your way around. 20% of my grocery and virtually 100% of my pharmacy purchases are now made online. I use ebay, Alibaba and AliExpress mostly because Amazon is too expensive and tries to make it as difficult as possible to comparison shop.</li>\r\n	<li>I <span style="text-decoration: underline;">shop in Rockingham</span>. It''s a little further but well worth the trip. I go to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aldi</span> first because they are the cheapest <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) second, but I''ve learned not to bother. They''re cheap but carry too much esoteric stuff I don''t need. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up a few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than Laurinburg, but they still can''t compete with Aldi.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Join Costco Wholesale</span> in Charlotte and buy stuff in bulk. Join with a friend if possible. Costco is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I stock up about once a year and come back loaded to the gills.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stay as far away from the Medical/Big Pharma Industry</span> as possible. They''re main purpose appears to be prescribing expensive drugs, many of which have terrible side effects.</li>\r\n	<li>Never forget... Nobody cares about you but you. In the end, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">You are in charge of your health and finances</span>.        </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>I''m saving thousands of dollars, eating healthier and feeling 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 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 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</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 I care about them? If the business community now thinks higher property taxes, higher sales taxes and more taxpayer funded crap like ''Art Parks'', art studios with 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, 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. We needed to find a new machine shop in Rockingham and we 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. This allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free 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 businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for businesses that 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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-25 14:23:36', '2019-04-25 18:23:36', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4070, 1, '2019-04-25 14:29:10', '2019-04-25 18:29:10', '<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><strong>Are you paying twice as much for groceries as you should?</strong> 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>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 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">shop once a month</span>. This forces me to be disciplined, organized and to plan ahead. I Have a large refrigerator (with no freezer), a separate chest freezer and a storage area with shelves.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Go prepared</span>. 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 generated based on last months purchases, plus 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 as you go by, your budget plans are 100% doomed to failure.</li>\r\n	<li>Always <span style="text-decoration: underline;">check ingredients</span>. Junk food, sodas, energy drinks, cheap beer, cheap bread, snacks and other packaged garbage provide empty calories and chemicals which make you fat, stupid, lethargic, unhealthy and broke.</li>\r\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 want.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Know your products</span>. Many ''bargain items'' (Dish Soaps, Laundry Detergents, condiments, etc.) are <strong>watered down</strong> and offer poor value.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop online</span> whenever possible, but take the time to learn your way around. 20% of my grocery and virtually 100% of my pharmacy purchases are now made online. I use ebay, Alibaba and AliExpress mostly because Amazon is too expensive and tries to make it as difficult as possible to comparison shop.</li>\r\n	<li>I <span style="text-decoration: underline;">shop in Rockingham</span>. It''s a little further but well worth the trip. I go to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aldi</span> first because they are the cheapest <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) second, but I''ve learned not to bother. They''re cheap but carry too much esoteric stuff I don''t need. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up a few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than Laurinburg, but they still can''t compete with Aldi.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Join Costco Wholesale</span> in Charlotte and buy stuff in bulk. Join with a friend if possible. Costco is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I stock up about once a year and come back loaded to the gills.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stay as far away from the Medical/Big Pharma Industry</span> as possible. They''re main purpose appears to be prescribing expensive drugs, many of which have terrible side effects. Nobody cares about you but you. In the end, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">You are in charge of your health and finances</span>.        </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>I''m saving thousands of dollars, eating healthier and feeling 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 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 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</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 I care about them? If the business community now thinks higher property taxes, higher sales taxes and more taxpayer funded crap like ''Art Parks'', art studios with 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, 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. We needed to find a new machine shop in Rockingham and we 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. This allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free 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 businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for businesses that 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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-25 14:29:10', '2019-04-25 18:29:10', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4071, 1, '2019-04-25 14:35:54', '2019-04-25 18:35:54', '<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><strong>Are you paying twice as much for groceries as you should?</strong> 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>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 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">shop once a month</span>. This forces me to be disciplined, organized and to plan ahead. I Have a large refrigerator (with no freezer), a separate chest freezer and a storage area with shelves.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Go prepared</span>. 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 generated based on last months purchases, plus 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 as you go by, your budget plans are 100% doomed to failure.</li>\r\n	<li>Always <span style="text-decoration: underline;">check ingredients</span>. Junk food, sodas, energy drinks, cheap beer, cheap bread, snacks and other packaged garbage provide empty calories and chemicals which make you fat, stupid, lethargic, unhealthy and broke.</li>\r\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 want.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Know your products</span>. Many ''bargain items'' (dish soaps, laundry detergents, condiments, etc.) are <strong>watered down</strong> and offer poor value.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop online</span> whenever possible, but take the time to learn your way around. 20% of my grocery and virtually 100% of my pharmacy purchases are now made online. I use ebay, Alibaba and AliExpress mostly because Amazon is too expensive and tries to make it as difficult as possible to comparison shop.</li>\r\n	<li>I <span style="text-decoration: underline;">shop in Rockingham</span>. It''s a little further but well worth the trip. I go to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aldi</span> first because they are the cheapest <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) second, but I''ve learned not to bother. They''re cheap but carry too much esoteric stuff I don''t need. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up a few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than Laurinburg, but they still can''t compete with Aldi.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Join Costco Wholesale</span> in Charlotte and buy stuff in bulk. Join with a friend if possible. Costco is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I stock up about once a year and come back loaded to the gills.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stay as far away from the Medical/Big Pharma Industry</span> as possible. They''re main purpose appears to be prescribing expensive drugs, many of which have terrible side effects. Nobody cares about you but you. In the end, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">You are in charge of your health and finances</span>.        </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>I''m saving thousands of dollars, eating healthier and feeling 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 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 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</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 I care about them? If the business community now thinks higher property taxes, higher sales taxes and more taxpayer funded crap like ''Art Parks'', art studios with 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, 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. We needed to find a new machine shop in Rockingham and we 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 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>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. This allows us to have a nice, relaxing sit down lunch for free 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 businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for businesses that 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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-25 14:35:54', '2019-04-25 18:35:54', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4072, 1, '2019-04-26 07:16:42', '2019-04-26 11:16:42', '<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 keeps you from making ''impulse'' purchases. I Have a large refrigerator (with no freezer), a separate chest freezer and a storage area with shelves. 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, cheap bread, snacks and other packaged garbage that provides empty calories and chemicals which make you fat, stupid, unhealthy and broke. This alone will free up plenty of extra money.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Go prepared</span>. I take an Excel spreadsheet that I developed which shows exactly what I''m going to buy at each of the two stores I shop. My list is generated based on last months purchases, plus 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 as you go by, your plan to save money is doomed from the start.</li>\r\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>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\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>\r\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, Alibaba and AliExpress mostly. I''ve found Amazon too expensive and don''t appreciate that they make it as difficult as possible to comparison shop.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Never shop in Laurinburg/Scotland County</span>. Prices here are brain damage budget busters. No exceptions, not even Wal-Mart.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop in Rockingham</span>. It''s a little further but well worth the trip. I go to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aldi</span> first because they are the cheapest <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 wastes my time. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up the few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi just doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than 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 is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I stock up once a year and come back loaded to the gills.</li>\r\n	<li>Remember, nobody looks out for your interests 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 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 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. You never have to even visit the dealer, 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 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 ''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>\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 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>\r\n<p>Rotten apples spoil the entire barrel. Our family used to do business with small mom &amp; pop Laurinburg businesses. As an example, the machine shop was 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 this was great for us, but it meant that a good local Laurinburg business lost our trade forever. This remains true for other Laurinburg small businesses too.</p>\r\n<p>This is the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">hidden cost</span> when local business leaders stand by and watch 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>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>\r\n<p>Things are never going back to the good ole days when local Laurinburg businesses had customers by the balls, and it''s going to get even tougher for businesses that 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>\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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-26 07:16:42', '2019-04-26 11:16:42', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(4073, 1, '2019-04-26 07:27:51', '2019-04-26 11:27:51', '<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 keeps you from making ''impulse'' purchases. I Have a large refrigerator (with no freezer), a separate chest freezer and a storage area with shelves. 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, cheap bread, snacks and other packaged garbage that provides empty calories and chemicals which make you fat, stupid, unhealthy and broke. This alone will free up plenty of extra money.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Go prepared</span>. I take an Excel spreadsheet that I developed which shows exactly what I''m going to buy at each of the two stores I shop. My list is generated based on last months purchases, plus 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 as you go by, your plan to save money is doomed from the start.</li>\r\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>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\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>\r\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, Alibaba and AliExpress mostly. I''ve found Amazon too expensive and don''t appreciate that they make it as difficult as possible to comparison shop.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Never shop in Laurinburg/Scotland County</span>. Prices here are brain damage budget busters. No exceptions, not even Wal-Mart.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop in Rockingham</span>. It''s a little further but well worth the trip. I go to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aldi</span> first because they are the cheapest <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 wastes my time. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up the few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi just doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than 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 is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I stock up once a year and come back loaded to the gills.</li>\r\n	<li>Remember, nobody looks out for your interests 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 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 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. You never have to even visit the dealer, 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 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 ''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>\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 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>\r\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 other Laurinburg small businesses too.</p>\r\n<p>There is a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">hidden cost</span> when local business leaders stand 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>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>\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 that 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>\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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-26 07:27:51', '2019-04-26 11:27:51', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4074, 1, '2019-04-26 07:29:11', '2019-04-26 11:29:11', '<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 keeps you from making ''impulse'' purchases. I Have a large refrigerator (with no freezer), a separate chest freezer and a storage area with shelves. 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, cheap bread, snacks and other packaged garbage that provides empty calories and chemicals which make you fat, stupid, unhealthy and broke. This move alone will free up plenty of extra money.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Go prepared</span>. I take an Excel spreadsheet that I developed which shows exactly what I''m going to buy at each of the two stores I shop. My list is generated based on last months purchases, plus 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 as you go by, your plan to save money is doomed from the start.</li>\r\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>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\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>\r\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, Alibaba and AliExpress mostly. I''ve found Amazon too expensive and don''t appreciate that they make it as difficult as possible to comparison shop.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Never shop in Laurinburg/Scotland County</span>. Prices here are brain damage budget busters. No exceptions, not even Wal-Mart.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop in Rockingham</span>. It''s a little further but well worth the trip. I go to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aldi</span> first because they are the cheapest <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 wastes my time. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up the few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi just doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than 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 is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I stock up once a year and come back loaded to the gills.</li>\r\n	<li>Remember, nobody looks out for your interests 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 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 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. You never have to even visit the dealer, 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 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 ''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>\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 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>\r\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 other Laurinburg small businesses too.</p>\r\n<p>There is a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">hidden cost</span> when local business leaders stand 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>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>\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 that 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>\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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-26 07:29:11', '2019-04-26 11:29:11', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4075, 1, '2019-04-26 07:29:59', '2019-04-26 11:29:59', '<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 keeps you from making ''impulse'' purchases. I have a large refrigerator (with no freezer), a separate chest freezer and a storage area with shelves. 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, cheap bread, snacks and other packaged garbage that provides empty calories and chemicals which make you fat, stupid, unhealthy and broke. This move alone will free up plenty of extra money.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Go prepared</span>. I take an Excel spreadsheet that I developed which shows exactly what I''m going to buy at each of the two stores I shop. My list is generated based on last months purchases, plus 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 as you go by, your plan to save money is doomed from the start.</li>\r\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>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\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>\r\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, Alibaba and AliExpress mostly. I''ve found Amazon too expensive and don''t appreciate that they make it as difficult as possible to comparison shop.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Never shop in Laurinburg/Scotland County</span>. Prices here are brain damage budget busters. No exceptions, not even Wal-Mart.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop in Rockingham</span>. It''s a little further but well worth the trip. I go to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aldi</span> first because they are the cheapest <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 wastes my time. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up the few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi just doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than 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 is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I stock up once a year and come back loaded to the gills.</li>\r\n	<li>Remember, nobody looks out for your interests 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 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 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. You never have to even visit the dealer, 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 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 ''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>\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 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>\r\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 other Laurinburg small businesses too.</p>\r\n<p>There is a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">hidden cost</span> when local business leaders stand 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>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>\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 that 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>\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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-26 07:29:59', '2019-04-26 11:29:59', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4076, 1, '2019-04-26 07:31:24', '2019-04-26 11:31:24', '<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 keeps you from making ''impulse'' purchases. I have a large refrigerator (with no freezer), a separate chest freezer and a storage area with shelves. 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, cheap bread, snacks and other packaged garbage that provides empty calories and chemicals which make you fat, stupid, unhealthy and broke. This move alone will free up plenty of extra money.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Go prepared</span>. I take an Excel style spreadsheet that I developed which shows exactly what I''m going to buy at each of the two stores I shop. My list is generated based on last months purchases, plus 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 as you go by, your plan to save money is doomed from the start.</li>\r\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>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\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>\r\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, Alibaba and AliExpress mostly. I''ve found Amazon too expensive and don''t appreciate that they make it as difficult as possible to comparison shop.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Never shop in Laurinburg/Scotland County</span>. Prices here are brain damage budget busters. No exceptions, not even Wal-Mart.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop in Rockingham</span>. It''s a little further but well worth the trip. I go to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aldi</span> first because they are the cheapest <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 wastes my time. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up the few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi just doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than 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 is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I stock up once a year and come back loaded to the gills.</li>\r\n	<li>Remember, nobody looks out for your interests 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 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 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. You never have to even visit the dealer, 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 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 ''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>\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 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>\r\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 other Laurinburg small businesses too.</p>\r\n<p>There is a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">hidden cost</span> when local business leaders stand 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>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>\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 that 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>\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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-26 07:31:24', '2019-04-26 11:31:24', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4077, 1, '2019-04-26 07:39:12', '2019-04-26 11:39:12', '<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 keeps you from making ''impulse'' purchases. I have a large refrigerator (with no freezer), a separate chest freezer and a storage area with shelves. 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, cheap bread, snacks and other packaged garbage that provides empty calories and chemicals which make you fat, stupid, unhealthy and broke. This move alone will free up plenty of extra money.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Go prepared</span>. I take an Excel style spreadsheet that I developed which shows exactly what I''m going to buy at each of the two stores I shop. My list is generated based on last months purchases, plus 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 as you go by, your plan to save money is doomed from the start.</li>\r\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>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\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>\r\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, Alibaba and AliExpress mostly. I''ve found Amazon too expensive and don''t appreciate that they make it as difficult as possible to comparison shop.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Never shop in Laurinburg/Scotland County</span>. Prices here are brain damage budget busters. No exceptions, not even Wal-Mart.</li>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shop in Rockingham</span>. It''s a little further but well worth the trip. I go to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aldi</span> first because they are the cheapest <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 wastes my time. I go to Wal-Mart last to pick up the few items like produce, canned olives and Pom juice that Aldi just doesn''t carry. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than 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 is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I stock up once a year and come back loaded to the gills.</li>\r\n	<li>Remember, nobody looks out for your interests 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 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>\r\n<p>I used to spend over $2,000 every month shopping in Scotland County. Today, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">I 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 ''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>\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 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>\r\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 other Laurinburg small businesses too.</p>\r\n<p>There is a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">hidden cost</span> when local business leaders stand 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>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>\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 that 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>\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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-26 07:39:12', '2019-04-26 11:39:12', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(4078, 1, '2019-04-27 09:03:44', '2019-04-27 13:03:44', '<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 highly 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, or 21 felonies each week, or 1092 felonies each year. 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 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'', 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 real 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 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 self destructive, diametrically opposed to their own best interests.</p>\r\n<p>85% of Facebook users believe it offers its 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 make 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', '', '', '2019-04-27 09:03:44', '2019-04-27 13:03:44', '', 3356, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3356-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4079, 1, '2019-04-27 09:18:34', '2019-04-27 13:18:34', '<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><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. 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>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Go prepared</span>. I take an Excel style spreadsheet that I developed which shows exactly what I''m going to buy at each of the two stores I shop. My list is generated based on last months purchases, plus 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 as you go by, your plan to save money is doomed from the start.</li>\r\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>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\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>\r\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>\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 cheapest <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>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Join Costco Wholesale</span> (Charlotte) and buy stuff in bulk. Costco is especially great for canned goods, mayo, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, dish soap, etc. I stock up there once a year.</li>\r\n	<li>Remember, nobody looks out for your interests 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 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>\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 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>\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 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>\r\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>\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>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>\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 that 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>\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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-27 09:18:34', '2019-04-27 13:18:34', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4080, 1, '2019-04-27 10:47:00', '2019-04-27 14:47:00', '<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 highly 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. <strong>The U.S. has 4% of the world''s population but 33% of the world''s prisoners</strong>. We imprison ten times more of our citizens than all of Europe. Is America really the land of the Free or is it time we look in the mirror and ask ourselves what the hell is going on? </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, or 21 felonies each week, or 1092 felonies each year. 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 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'', 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 real 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 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 self destructive, diametrically opposed to their own best interests.</p>\r\n<p>85% of Facebook users believe it offers its 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 make 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', '', '', '2019-04-27 10:47:00', '2019-04-27 14:47:00', '', 3356, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3356-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4081, 3, '2019-04-27 12:13:57', '2019-04-27 16:13:57', '<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. 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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\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>\r\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>\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. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than 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 is especially great for canned goods, condiments, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, dish soap, etc. I stock up there once a year.</li>\r\n	<li>Remember, nobody looks out for your interests 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 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>\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 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>\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 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>\r\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>\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>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>\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 that 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>\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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-27 12:13:57', '2019-04-27 16:13:57', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4082, 3, '2019-04-27 12:25:41', '2019-04-27 16:25:41', '<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><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. 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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\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>\r\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>\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. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than 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 is especially great for canned goods, condiments, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, dish soap, etc. I stock up there once a year.</li>\r\n	<li>Remember, nobody looks out for your interests 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 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>\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 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>\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 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>\r\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>\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>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>\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 or 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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-27 12:25:41', '2019-04-27 16:25:41', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(4083, 1, '2019-04-28 05:32:40', '2019-04-28 09:32:40', '<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. 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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients.</li>\r\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>\r\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 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>\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. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than 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 is especially great for canned goods, condiments, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, dish soap, etc. I stock up there once a year.</li>\r\n	<li>Remember, nobody looks out for your interests 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 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>\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 now 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 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>\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>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>\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 or 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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-28 05:32:40', '2019-04-28 09:32:40', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4084, 1, '2019-04-29 08:53:16', '2019-04-29 12:53:16', '<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. 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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients. Stock up and use them.</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.</li>\r\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 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>\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. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than 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 is especially great for canned goods, condiments, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, dish soap, etc. I stock up there once a year.</li>\r\n	<li>Remember, nobody looks out for your interests 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 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>\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 now 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 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>\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>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>\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 or 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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-29 08:53:16', '2019-04-29 12:53:16', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4085, 1, '2019-04-29 08:54:19', '2019-04-29 12:54:19', '<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. 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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\n	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canned goods are cheap</span> and contain relatively healthy ingredients. Stock up and use them.</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 and Ingredients carefully</span>.</li>\r\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 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>\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. Wal-Mart''s Rockingham prices are lower than 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 is especially great for canned goods, condiments, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, dish soap, etc. I stock up there once a year.</li>\r\n	<li>Remember, nobody looks out for your interests 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 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>\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 now 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 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>\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>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>\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 or 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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-29 08:54:19', '2019-04-29 12:54:19', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4086, 1, '2019-05-01 07:20:08', '2019-05-01 11:20:08', '<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. </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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-05-01 07:20:08', '2019-05-01 11:20:08', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4087, 1, '2019-05-01 07:25:33', '2019-05-01 11:25:33', '<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 monthly meetings completely unprepared. They are nothing more than a rubber stamp for 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. Pension systems are designed to fail and when they do, 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', '', '', '2019-05-01 07:25:33', '2019-05-01 11:25:33', '', 3504, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3504-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(4088, 1, '2019-05-01 07:28:59', '2019-05-01 11:28:59', '<p>The Christchurch New Zealand massacre was supposed to be a MEGA event for Gun Grabbers world wide. Unfortunately, the truth is leaking out despite Mainstream and Social Media attempts to snuff the perp''s head-cam video from the Internet. Here''s the original head-cam video which provides conclusive proof that this entire event was staged as part of the NWO''s <strong>Gladio G10</strong> operation. Remember, ''In today''s world, there are no accidents or coincidences''.<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', '', '', '2019-05-01 07:28:59', '2019-05-01 11:28:59', '', 3908, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3908-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4089, 1, '2019-05-01 07:55:19', '2019-05-01 11:55:19', '<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)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4012-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-05-01 07:55:19', '2019-05-01 11:55:19', '', 4012, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4012-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4092, 3, '2019-05-03 08:10:09', '2019-05-03 12:10:09', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4094 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/risks-of-vaccine-ingredients-300x173.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="294" /></p>\r\n<p>More and more doctors and scientists are refusing to allow themselves and their families to be vaccinated. Here''s why:  <span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W6XbWbrceM8" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" data-mce-type="bookmark" class="mce_SELRES_start">﻿</span></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/redirect?v=W6XbWbrceM8&amp;redir_token=ji13xgVsMSSnX_IhMLcW-b_QnGJ8MTU1Njk3MTMyOUAxNTU2ODg0OTI5&amp;event=video_description&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.familyhealthchiropractic.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Family Health Chiropractic</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="Scotland County North Carolina Health Ranks 99th out of 100 Counties" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-health-ranks-99th/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Health Ranks 99th out of 100 Counties</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Chemtrails – What’s Going On? (video)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/chemtrails-whats-going-on-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chemtrails – What’s Going On? (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="E-Cigarette Makers Frantically Targeting Your Children" 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<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<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>', 'Doctor explains why he won''t allow his children to be Vaccinated (video)', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'doctor-explains-why-he-wont-allow-his-children-to-be-vaccinated-video', '', '', '2019-05-03 08:38:23', '2019-05-03 12:38:23', '', 0, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/?p=4092', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(4093, 3, '2019-05-02 07:13:04', '2019-05-02 11:13:04', '<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/W6XbWbrceM8" 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 - Measles Video', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4092-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-05-02 07:13:04', '2019-05-02 11:13:04', '', 4092, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4092-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(4095, 3, '2019-05-02 07:22:31', '2019-05-02 11:22:31', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4094 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/risks-of-vaccine-ingredients-300x173.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="294" /></p>\r\n<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/W6XbWbrceM8" 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 - Measles (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4092-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-05-02 07:22:31', '2019-05-02 11:22:31', '', 4092, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4092-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4096, 1, '2019-05-02 07:35:34', '2019-05-02 11:35:34', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4094 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/risks-of-vaccine-ingredients-300x173.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="294" /></p>\n<p>(PIC)More and more doctors and scientists are refusing to allow themselves and their families to be vaccinated. Here''s why:  <span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\n</span></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W6XbWbrceM8" 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<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span><br />\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span><br />\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Related Posts and Flycheck on side --&gt;</span></strong></p>\n<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong></p>\n<address><strong>Related Articles: <span style="color: #ff0000;">FIX TITLES IN CODE TO REPLACE ''123''</span><br />\n</strong></address>\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>\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>\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>\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>', 'DRAFT - Doctor explains why he won''t allow his children to be Vacinated (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4092-autosave-v1', '', '', '2019-05-02 07:35:34', '2019-05-02 11:35:34', '', 4092, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4092-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4097, 1, '2019-05-02 07:37:27', '2019-05-02 11:37:27', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4094 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/risks-of-vaccine-ingredients-300x173.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="294" /></p>\r\n<p>(PIC)More and more doctors and scientists are refusing to allow themselves and their families to be vaccinated. Here''s why:  <span style="color: #0000ff;"><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/W6XbWbrceM8" 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 - Doctor explains why he won''t allow his children to be Vacinated (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4092-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-05-02 07:37:27', '2019-05-02 11:37:27', '', 4092, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4092-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4099, 3, '2019-05-03 07:50:32', '2019-05-03 11:50:32', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4094 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/risks-of-vaccine-ingredients-300x173.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="294" /></p>\r\n<p>More and more doctors and scientists are refusing to allow themselves and their families to be vaccinated. Here''s why:  <span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W6XbWbrceM8" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" data-mce-type="bookmark" class="mce_SELRES_start">﻿</span></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 - Doctor explains why he won''t allow his children to be Vacinated (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4092-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-05-03 07:50:32', '2019-05-03 11:50:32', '', 4092, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4092-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4100, 3, '2019-05-03 08:08:08', '2019-05-03 12:08:08', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4094 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/risks-of-vaccine-ingredients-300x173.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="294" /></p>\r\n<p>More and more doctors and scientists are refusing to allow themselves and their families to be vaccinated. Here''s why:  <span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W6XbWbrceM8" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" data-mce-type="bookmark" class="mce_SELRES_start">﻿</span></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/redirect?v=W6XbWbrceM8&amp;redir_token=ji13xgVsMSSnX_IhMLcW-b_QnGJ8MTU1Njk3MTMyOUAxNTU2ODg0OTI5&amp;event=video_description&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.familyhealthchiropractic.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Family Health Chiropractic</span></a></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="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-health-ranks-99th/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Health Ranks 99th out of 100 Counties</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/chemtrails-whats-going-on-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chemtrails – What’s Going On? (video)</a></span></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<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<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>', 'Doctor explains why he won''t allow his children to be Vacinated (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4092-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-05-03 08:08:08', '2019-05-03 12:08:08', '', 4092, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4092-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4101, 3, '2019-05-03 08:11:34', '2019-05-03 12:11:34', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4094 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/risks-of-vaccine-ingredients-300x173.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="294" /></p>\r\n<p>More and more doctors and scientists are refusing to allow themselves and their families to be vaccinated. Here''s why:  <span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W6XbWbrceM8" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" data-mce-type="bookmark" class="mce_SELRES_start">﻿</span></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/redirect?v=W6XbWbrceM8&amp;redir_token=ji13xgVsMSSnX_IhMLcW-b_QnGJ8MTU1Njk3MTMyOUAxNTU2ODg0OTI5&amp;event=video_description&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.familyhealthchiropractic.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Family Health Chiropractic</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="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-health-ranks-99th/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Health Ranks 99th out of 100 Counties</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/chemtrails-whats-going-on-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chemtrails – What’s Going On? (video)</a></span></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<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<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>', 'Doctor explains why he won''t allow his children to be Vacinated (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4092-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-05-03 08:11:34', '2019-05-03 12:11:34', '', 4092, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4092-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4102, 3, '2019-05-03 08:12:46', '2019-05-03 12:12:46', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4094 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/risks-of-vaccine-ingredients-300x173.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="294" /></p>\r\n<p>More and more doctors and scientists are refusing to allow themselves and their families to be vaccinated. Here''s why:  <span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W6XbWbrceM8" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" data-mce-type="bookmark" class="mce_SELRES_start">﻿</span></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/redirect?v=W6XbWbrceM8&amp;redir_token=ji13xgVsMSSnX_IhMLcW-b_QnGJ8MTU1Njk3MTMyOUAxNTU2ODg0OTI5&amp;event=video_description&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.familyhealthchiropractic.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Family Health Chiropractic</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="Scotland County North Carolina Health Ranks 99th out of 100 Counties" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-health-ranks-99th/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Health Ranks 99th out of 100 Counties</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Chemtrails – What’s Going On? (video)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/chemtrails-whats-going-on-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chemtrails – What’s Going On? (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="E-Cigarette Makers Frantically Targeting Your Children" 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<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<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>', 'Doctor explains why he won''t allow his children to be Vacinated (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4092-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-05-03 08:12:46', '2019-05-03 12:12:46', '', 4092, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4092-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4103, 3, '2019-05-03 08:34:27', '2019-05-03 12:34:27', '<p><img class=" wp-image-4094 aligncenter" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/risks-of-vaccine-ingredients-300x173.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="294" /></p>\r\n<p>More and more doctors and scientists are refusing to allow themselves and their families to be vaccinated. Here''s why:  <span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W6XbWbrceM8" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" data-mce-type="bookmark" class="mce_SELRES_start">﻿</span></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/redirect?v=W6XbWbrceM8&amp;redir_token=ji13xgVsMSSnX_IhMLcW-b_QnGJ8MTU1Njk3MTMyOUAxNTU2ODg0OTI5&amp;event=video_description&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.familyhealthchiropractic.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Family Health Chiropractic</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="Scotland County North Carolina Health Ranks 99th out of 100 Counties" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-health-ranks-99th/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scotland County North Carolina Health Ranks 99th out of 100 Counties</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Chemtrails – What’s Going On? (video)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/chemtrails-whats-going-on-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chemtrails – What’s Going On? (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="E-Cigarette Makers Frantically Targeting Your Children" 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<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<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>', 'Doctor explains why he won''t allow his children to be Vaccinated (video)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4092-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-05-03 08:34:27', '2019-05-03 12:34:27', '', 4092, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/4092-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(4107, 1, '2019-05-17 08:15:23', '2019-05-17 12:15:23', '<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 highly 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. <strong>The U.S. has 4% of the world''s population but 33% of the world''s prisoners</strong>. We imprison ten times more of our citizens than all of Europe. Is America really the land of the Free or is it time we look in the mirror and ask ourselves what the hell is going on?</p>\r\n<p>Law enforcement and District Attorneys now make 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, or 21 felonies each week, or 1092 felonies each year. 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 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'', 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 real 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 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 self destructive, diametrically opposed to their own best interests.</p>\r\n<p>85% of Facebook users believe it offers its 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 make 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 particular 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', '', '', '2019-05-17 08:15:23', '2019-05-17 12:15:23', '', 3356, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3356-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4110, 1, '2019-05-23 09:05:22', '2019-05-23 13:05:22', '<p>Many Scotland County North Carolina property owners are opening mailboxes to discover a ''Notice of Real Property Assessed Value'' increase.</p>\r\n<p>The good news is: Your property is growing in value (at least, that''s what the Assessor says).</p>\r\n<p>The bad news is: <i><b>higher property tax bills are on the way</b></i>.</p>\r\n<p><img class="wp-image-3583 alignleft" src="https://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/taxpayer-with-empty-pockets-1.jpg" alt="" width="348" height="348" /></p>\r\n<p>How is it that properties are growing in value when the County''s economy remains in the toilet, population demographics continue heading south, and as anyone who has been trying to sell their property knows, buyers are scarce as hens teeth, causing continued downward pressure on already depressed prices.</p>\r\n<p>How did the Tax Assessor determine that things are so rosy as to cause valuation increases?</p>\r\n<p>Let''s see if we can sort this puzzle out.</p>\r\n<p>Licensed, certified real estate appraisers determine property values by analyzing ''recent comparable sales''. This methodology has long been considered the ''gold standard'' by real estate professionals when it comes to accurate price/valuation discovery.</p>\r\n<p>Scotland County appears to be using a different method, that of determining how much money highly paid county officials, hangers-on, grifters, relatives, friends, cronies and other parasites need to continue cushy lifestyles, schemes and scams, and then raising taxes enough on the poor to cover this ever growing, seemingly insatiable need.</p>\r\n<p>County Commissioners have options when it comes to matching expenses with revenues:</p>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Downsize government to match the present reality (just like homeowners and businesses must do to avoid insolvency).</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Reduce waste, fraud, graft and corruption sufficient to balance expenses with revenues.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Sales Tax Rates.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Property Tax Rates.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Assessed Valuations on ''select'' properties sufficient to grab enough money to fund the present bloated, outrageous situation.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<p>None of these options are perfect, but some are better than others as far as County Commissioners are concerned.</p>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Try downsizing government and every public employee, spouse, child and pet will be at your doorstep screaming bloody murder.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Try reducing waste, fraud, graft and corruption and ruling elites will be at your throat.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Try increasing the Sales Tax Rate and angry voters could vote it down and you out of office.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase the Property ''Tax Rate'' and you could have a populist rebellion on your hands.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<p>Increase Assessed Valuations on ''select'' properties... <i><strong>this is the one that can be counted on to get the job done without setting off too many alarm bells</strong>.</i></p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<p>Fiddling with individual ''select'' property valuations especially if done on a ''rotating schedule'' makes it difficult for property owners to figure out what''s happening, and is all but impossible to fight. How many folks know that while their assessed values increase, those of wealthy ruling elite''s somehow stay the same or even decline? </p>\r\n<p>This ''shell game'' effectively transfers the problem from elected politicians (County Commissioners) to individual property owners and to a lesser degree, the Assessor.</p>\r\n<p>Property owner wrath can easily be deflected from Commissioners to the Assessor. All Commissioners need do is express extreme sympathy for your plight while explaining that this wasn''t their doing, but rather the Assessor''s decision, and you''ll need to vent your grievance over at the Tax Collector''s Office. Pretty slick slight of hand, hey?</p>\r\n<p>Property owners can of course dispute increased valuations, but the cumbersome, bureaucratic process and slim odds of success discourage all but the wealthy from trying.</p>\r\n<p><b>Commissioners</b> refusing to deal with problems, instead, dumping them at the Tax Collector or other agency doorsteps isn''t a new game; it''s tried and true.</p>\r\n<p>Anyone who has stood in line to pay property taxes knows lots of folks are having trouble paying current tax bills, and the last thing needed is to now owe even more. Times are tough, many of our friends and neighbours are hurting.</p>\r\n<p>County officials make tons of money and fantastic benefits, and many don''t even live in the county, so increased property taxes doesn''t mean much to them.</p>\r\n<p>Voters recently told County Commissioners <i><b>they''d had enough</b></i> when they voted down the proposed sales tax increase, but Commissioners didn''t get the message and are now <b>increasing tax collections</b> by going through the ''back door''.</p>\r\n<p>This may seem like an innocent game of cat and mouse, but there are real consequences for us, our county and our future.</p>\r\n<p>Every dollar paid in taxes, fees and licenses means less money in our pockets for house payments, rent, car payments/repairs, insurance, clothing, food, education, medications, utilities, dining out, etc.</p>\r\n<p>Less money spent at local businesses means fewer local jobs and less revenue paid into county, state and federal coffers in the form of taxes.</p>\r\n<p>Trying to hide tax increases by selectively raising property valuations may fool some, but it doesn''t fool most prospective property buyers. When buyers determine property taxes are too high, they simply stay away or adjust the offering price downward to compensate, making it even harder for sellers to receive prices they can live with, prices that will allow them to achieve escape velocity from Scotland County.</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Scotland County Commissioners have created and are now perpetuating an extremely dangerous ''negative feedback loop'' that is drowning us in bonded debt, onerous property taxes, sales taxes and fees which discourage shopping or investing in the county.</b></i></p>\r\n<p>Is it any wonder that out of 100 counties in North Carolina, Scotland County comes in dead last in virtually every category?</p>\r\n<p>A County Commissioner''s job isn''t easy, nor was it meant to be. If you don''t have the courage, time or inclination, or if you''re just too lazy or uniformed, then maybe it''s time to vacate the office.</p>\r\n<address><strong>Related Articles:</strong></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<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Hollowing Out Rural America" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/hollowing-out-rural-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hollowing Out Rural America</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="Economic Warning to U.S. – All Dominoes Fall the Same (video)" href="https://carolinacrossroads.news/economic-warning-to-u-s-all-dominoes-fall-the-same-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Economic Warning to U.S. – All Dominoes Fall the Same (video)</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\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 North Carolina Property Taxes on the Rise', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3581-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-05-23 09:05:22', '2019-05-23 13:05:22', '', 3581, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3581-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4112, 1, '2019-05-28 07:34:26', '2019-05-28 11:34:26', '<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 highly 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. <strong>The U.S. has 4% of the world''s population but 33% of the world''s prisoners</strong>. We imprison ten times more of our citizens than all of Europe. Is America really the land of the Free or is it time we look in the mirror and ask ourselves what the hell is going on?</p>\r\n<p>Law enforcement and District Attorneys now make 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, or 21 felonies each week, or 1092 felonies each year. 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 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'', 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 real 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 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 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 self destructive.</p>\r\n<p>85% of Facebook users believe its services are offered 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 make 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, but 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 particular 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', '', '', '2019-05-28 07:34:26', '2019-05-28 11:34:26', '', 3356, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3356-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4114, 1, '2019-06-01 08:08:45', '2019-06-01 12:08:45', '<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 highly 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. <strong>The U.S. has 4% of the world''s population but 33% of the world''s prisoners</strong>. We imprison ten times more of our citizens than all of Europe. Is America really the land of the Free or is it time we look in the mirror and ask ourselves what''s going on?</p>\r\n<p>Law enforcement and District Attorneys now make 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, or 21 felonies each week, or 1092 felonies each year. Piss off the wrong person(s) and 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 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'', 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 real 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 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 will not allow their own families to use the products they produce because they know all too well the damage they cause by manipulating them to make decisions and take actions that are clearly self destructive.</p>\r\n<p>85% of Facebook users believe its services are offered for free out of the kindness of their heart. Is this the same demographic that still believes in Santa Klaus the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy? Truth is FB and other SM make 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 enter the workforce as a mature, responsible adult, but 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 particular 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', '', '', '2019-06-01 08:08:45', '2019-06-01 12:08:45', '', 3356, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3356-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(4123, 1, '2019-06-27 06:37:12', '2019-06-27 10:37:12', '<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 will 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 highly 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. <strong>The U.S. has 4% of the world''s population but 33% of the world''s prisoners</strong>. We imprison ten times more of our citizens than all of Europe. Is America really the land of the Free or is it time we look in the mirror and ask ourselves what''s going on?</p>\r\n<p>Law enforcement and District Attorneys now make 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, or 21 felonies each week, or 1092 felonies each year. Piss off the wrong person(s) and it''s easier than ever for the system to come up with reasons to arrest you... and, have you noticed that everything you do has become illegal and everything legislators, law enforcement and government bureaucrats do is legal? Once arrested, they don''t just charge you with one crime, say tax fraud, they charge you with a whole host of 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'', 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 real 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 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 show that Social Media (SM) causes mental health problems. Many SM developers will not allow their own families to use the products they produce because they know all too well the damage they cause by manipulating them into making decisions and taking actions that are clearly self destructive.</p>\r\n<p>85% of Facebook users believe its services are offered for free out of the kindness of their heart. Is this the same demographic that still believes in Santa Klaus the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy? Truth is FB and other SM make 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 enter the workforce as a mature, responsible adult, but 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/media 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 particular 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', '', '', '2019-06-27 06:37:12', '2019-06-27 10:37:12', '', 3356, 'https://carolinacrossroads.news/3356-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
