Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:11:09 -0400
From: CrYpTiK
Subject: Anti-Capitalist Chatham Residents Shoot Selves In Collective Feet
Mixed beverage/liquor by the drink/”LBD” or whatever other name you call it…no one’s making you drink ’em. The topic has been hashed out numerous times on the Chatlist as well as the Chatham message board numerous times and the primary arguments being made against it have been refuted by many common sense counterpoints from many local residents
that no one has yet managed to successfully dispute, such as how drinking five minutes from home versus fifty endangers less people and how current laws don’t prevent me or you from making mixed drinks during get-togethers at our homes and getting plastered locally anyway.
The arguments I’m now beginning to see leak into the Chatlist in the form of reposted news articles are even more ridiculous, though, such as how evil corporate machines will appear in Chatham and “vacuum the dollars away to corporate headquarters.”
If you want more dollars to exist in Chatham County, you have to have local businesses that “vacuum the dollars” from outside places into Chatham, and from what I’ve come to understand, the managers of Siler City and Pittsboro are so gung-ho about nice-sounding goals like “preserving the appearance of Chatham County” that they’re being hostile to the very businesses that you people here want to see grow and pull cash into the county: local small businesses that bring money in from outside. How? By enacting arbitrary laws such as some of the sign ordinances we see, which keeps McDonald’s in Siler from running its ultra-expensive banner at the street continuously, yet in the same breath prevents a company right down the road from getting a sign installed in a pre-existing sign box due to an arbitrary sign ordinance regulation that makes no sense. The things that are good for these “evil big corporate beasts” are the same things that are good for the small local businesses that reverse the direction of the “money vacuum.” Hypocrisy all around. Thanks, neighbor.
A “gentlemen’s club” might open its doors in Chatham County? OH THE HORROR. Listen, no one’s making you visit that club. Keep your personal morality to yourself and stop using the local governments to enforce your moral beliefs on others. No one in Chatham will be seriously affected in any way by one single strip club opening its doors unless they make a decision to patronize the place, so what’s the big problem?
There has been enough whining about this stuff already. It’s time for it to cease. I’m sick of my fellow county residents being so ignorant and hypocritical about these issues. Educate yourself on everything you’re “opposing” when you scream about hating big bad businesses. The collateral damage will be to yourself and your neighbors. You might as well be kicking every business owner you personally know in the shins when you spew off about hating any kind of business. The same laws that hurt McDonald’s or Wal-Mart or any other “big” business are applied equally to small ones. Congratulations on helping to further beat up Chatham County financially. How many more businesses need to close or leave Chatham before you change your attitudes about these things?