"As part of our economic development focus, we have been diligent in identifying locations in east Greensboro that can serve as areas for future development...."
On December 30th, Sal Leone said to me, "Some how I don't think Nancy is going to get a break from you,lol."
I replied, "All Nancy has to do to get a break is to start telling the truth. I can't trash her lies if she tells no lies."
Problem is: Nancy Baracat Vaughan has a very skewed vision of the truth just as she has a very skewed vision of what economic development actually means. Case in point:
Here's Greensboro Mayor Nancy Baracat Vaughan's vision of economic development for East Greensboro: The Tabb Study, aka, A Strategic Plan for East Greensboro. The Tabb Study was commissioned by the City of Greensboro at a cost of $90,000.oo and it advocates nothing more than the building of roads and shopping centers. That's all, no talk of more high tech jobs, no talk of recruiting more industry, no talk of anything we don't already have in East Greensboro except parity with west Greensboro in terms of shopping centers and the extension of Florida Street which is opposed by the majority of east Greensboro residents.
It's the exact same plan presented by then Mayor Robbie Perkins at his East Greensboro Summit at Dudley High School on October 29th 2012. I was there and let me tell you it did not go over well with the residents of east Greensboro. How do I know that's what Nancy is talking about? Nancy has made mention of no other economic development plans for east Greensboro in over a year since and the City of Greensboro and EMSDC are still pushing the plan. Seriously folks, that's the home page for East Market Street Development Corporation and almost all you see is the Strategic Plan for East Greensboro.
Nothing but low wage and minimum wage retail and fast food jobs that require full time workers to sign up for food stamps, welfare and other forms of government aid just to make ends meet. Why one would think Nancy a Tea Party Republican conservative to the core but in fact Nancy is a registered Democrat whose husband, retired North Carolina State Senator Don Vaughan, is in line for the Democratic Party Chair for the state of North Carolina.
Just goes to show that when it comes to the elites there are no Democrats, Republicans, conservatives or liberals, just them who have and those of us they take it away from.
So Nancy Vaughan has no economic development plan for east Greensboro other than to make her Irving Park neighbors who happen to be in the commercial real estate development business a whole lot richer than they are today. But Nancy wrote in the News & Record:
"As part of our economic development focus, we have been diligent in identifying locations in east Greensboro that can serve as areas for future development...."
Key words: future development, not economic development. Nancy, like Robbie before her seems to view real estate development as an economic driver-- it's not. Never has been. Real estate development is an economic indicator. If a lot of real estate development is going on then there is lots of money being spent in the private sector to drive that development. The development indicates the money is being spent and the economy is thriving.
But Nancy's friends and neighbors don't know how to operate in a down market so they hook the cart before the horse and hope to stay in business by bleeding the taxpayers to death. Can you blame them, it must be really hard paying thousands of dollars a month in house payments and sending your children to private schools. Well I've got a surprise for you, leeches can't cure cancer.
Nancy blocked me from viewing her Facebook page a couple of days ago. One can only guess she got tired of my copying and pasting what she wrote on Facebook and comparing it to the facts. That's okay, Nancy, I'm sure someone in Greensboro will send me screen grabs of what you post to Facebook.
Who else is thinking Nancy Baracat Vaughan will serve the shortest term ever served by any Greensboro Mayor? The Facebook thing shows me she's already breaking under the pressure.
Please continue reading Incentives In Greensboro: Part 7
