Basically I guess if you want a quite rural county, you will suffer taxes. Or we will build, build, build, and suffer the exact same problems every overgrown community has!
I really don’t understand the reasoning here. It’s almost like saying, We want to keep our county a quite rural community;……. But we can’t help ourselves!

Fiscal inadequacies; Don’t spend what you don’t have!
Don’t build castle like structures like the County Supervisors Building and pay for all that technology only to not have it work properly. Was that expensive a building any way to actually be fiscally responsible? I don’t care if they say they budgeted for it, that’s just saying anything goes if we budget for it!

All of the problems you discuss will not be answered by “changing financial incentives for local governments, we can move away from fiscalized land-use policies, back toward policies that encourage community balance and responsible land-use planning that will be benefit all.” And maybe if we give Bush more time money and troops we won’t feel so bad about the ones he has already wasted!

There is but one problem here and one problem only. Without going into a class on social economics, I’ll use a phrase we use in the Computer Industry. Garbage in-Garbage out! The problem is the same we witnessed in Washington. Greed, power, and arrogance eventually changed the balance of power in Washington last fall. That work isn’t done because the 495 beltway does not hold all the warped ideas and cronyism within. Washington is merely the breeding place of the Ferengi, (The Ferengi were a race of aliens on Star Trek whose philosophy was based on Acquisition of riches. Anything was legal if it got you more riches.) It is a basic flaw in the Republican Party and their policy of repeating the same blatantly wrong, misleading and oft times incorrect information over and over until the masses believe it. Like, “Stay the course,” and “I’m the decider,” which was just so much incoherent mindless babble when he absolutely couldn’t come up with a whole sentence. All this and blocking of the Debate on the war is causing a few like John Warner to reconsider the Administrations Policies.

Like in Washington, we need to start fresh, and to do this we need fresh faces in Supervisors and in the Planning Department. The current occupants are so mired in the old ways they can’t see the forest for the trees they are cutting down. That is a beginning to fix the problem here in Hanover County! Government will not police itself; the citizens have to do that with their votes!