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Petition: Ashe County Commissioners: Recognize Tourism as an Extractive Industry

jrscott295

Posted 4:09 am, 07/27/2019

Government can't really stop drug addiction. It can't even stop people from coming over the border......

aFicIoNadoS

Posted 11:07 pm, 07/26/2019

Hayseed, just what do you think local government should do about drug addiction?

Lurker2

Posted 2:15 pm, 07/26/2019

Banjer, the reason so many of the locals are poor is because they are locals, and too to migrate to places that have healthy economies.

The locals might as well be fishing in Ashe Lake trying to catch a Marlin. If you want a Marlin, you go to the ocean to fish. It's that simple.

Family land and the willingness to live at the subsistence level is the reason for Appalachian Poverty.

July_4

Posted 12:17 pm, 07/26/2019

I like all the beautiful new things that West Jefferson has added. Of course I am kinda new to the county. But if the county and towns could continue to grow that would be great. Now if Jefferson could have a facelift that would be good too.

jack rip her

Posted 8:17 am, 07/26/2019

You speak like a true liberal. Tourism is already the backbone of Ashe and Alleghany counties. Liberals like you have no place in Ashe county.

banjerpicker

Posted 8:10 am, 07/26/2019

Again, not against tourism. It becomes a problem though when our local govt. sweeps things like gentrification and drug addiction under the rug in favor of it. Frantically throwing McMansions, antique shops, and craft breweries at the issues won't fix anything. There is not a single, easy solution, but continuing to put locals at a disadvantage instead of looking for ways to help them succeed sure isn't the way to go in my opinion.

aFicIoNadoS

Posted 7:00 am, 07/26/2019

There are no other options. The fact you think there is proves you are stuck in 1965. Mountain City is what Ashe will be if you cut off tourism.

jack rip her

Posted 6:10 am, 07/26/2019

You should be more concerned with the who we put on our school board and board of commissioners. Look at what they have done in the past as proof to my statement.

jrscott295

Posted 5:22 am, 07/26/2019

So you think we should stop promoting tourism.

You do realize that without the tourism dollars this county will take an economic nosedive.

The problems needed to be fixed decades ago. A greater emphasis on education so that the area was more attractive to manufacturing, but today with rising costs of employment it is not likely manufacturing would find this area particularly enticing. The education level is to low. The cost to transport goods is to high. When we were the center of clothing and furniture goods that was because the labor costs here were so much lower than elsewhere that they could make the goods here and still ship it out and make a profit. That's not true for most goods today. GE makes a high end product that sells for a premium and thus can get by with it.

banjerpicker

Posted 8:41 am, 07/25/2019

We don't have to be like Mountain City, we've got our own problems. I just want the local govt. to admit they're not looking at other options to help our economy. I'm not against tourism either. We've been a vacation spot for the last 100+ years, nothing new.

aFicIoNadoS

Posted 6:46 am, 07/25/2019

So Hayseed, would you rather Ashe be like Mountain City?

billythemountain

Posted 10:43 pm, 07/24/2019

Haha

banjerpicker

Posted 9:01 pm, 07/24/2019

Hey everybody, please visit and sign my petition, if you feel so inclined!

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