If you live in Loudon County then you already know some of the issues about the school budget. You also may know of some of the Board of Supervisor and the issues of up coming budget so that Loudon County can continue to operate. I have read of county employees losing their jobs or getting laid off. Is there anyway possible I have the teachers union has so much dirt on Dr. Hatrick that he refused to even freeze pay raises until told to add that to the budget from Richmond? Can it be true that the Board of Supervisors has a fund for entertainment and travel has approx 4-10 million dollars in it?

What is real and what is a lie? Well let’s start with your property assessment, when you bought your home it was at the price you could afford, say 300,000?. Then when assessments went up you refinanced so you could get that equity out that you really did not have? But you told everyone you had a 700,000 dollar house. When in reality you had a 300,000 dollar house. Now your house is not assessed at 700,000 and you have the same payment as if it is a 700,000 house?. Guess what? it is because that’s the amount you financed! Live with it or sell it and take a lost. You did pocket quite a bit of money in that equity loan that is really just false equity cause it was not worth it when you borrowed it.

Now the school board is telling you that it will have an additional 2500 students to support and the budget will not allow that and cuts have to be made. In reality less than 1000 will be from legal families moving within Loudon County. The rest will be grand kids that now live with grandparents cause their mothers and fathers had to move back home with their parents. The rest are illegal aliens’ kids that your tax dollars are educating.

So what is the answer? Not really sure, but I can tell you this. Not only does Loudon county need a Honest and Loyal political party. They need a house cleaning or rat killing like my grand dad use to say and start from scratch. I encourage you to vote these bums out. The ones with their own agendas and personal side deals.

I agree that it's the Republicans fault.

JERUSALEM – The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe" and supports intense immigration reform, including providing drivers licenses and education to illegal aliens.

The co-founder of the Arab group in question, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was involved in anti-Western terrorism and was labeled by the State Department as a terror group.

In 2001, the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based nonprofit that describes itself as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN, for which Khalidi's wife, Mona, serves as president. The Fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002.

Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund's website. According to tax filings, Obama received compensation of $6,000 per year for his service in 1999 and 2000.

Obama served on the Wood's Fund board alongside William C. Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971.

Ayers, who still serves on the Woods Fund board, contributed $200 to Obama's senatorial campaign fund and has served on panels with Obama at numerous public speaking engagements. Ayers admitted to involvement in the bombings of U.S. governmental buildings in the 1970s. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The $40,000 grant from Obama's Woods Fund to the AAAN constituted about a fifth of the Arab group's reported grants for 2001, according to tax filings obtained by WND. The $35,000 Woods Fund grant in 2002 also constituted about one-fifth of AAAN's reported grants for that year.

The AAAN, headquartered in the heart of Chicago's Palestinian immigrant community, describes itself as working to "empower Chicago-area Arab immigrants and Arab Americans through the combined strategies of community organizing, advocacy, education and social services, leadership development, and forging productive relationships with other communities."

It reportedly has worked on projects with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, which supports open boarders and education for illegal aliens.

The AAAN in 2005 sent a letter to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in which it called a billboard opposing a North Carolina-New Mexico joint initiative to deny driver's licenses to illegal aliens a "bigoted attack on Arabs and Muslims."

Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an anti-Israel line.

The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, "The Subject of Palestine," that featured works related to what some Palestinians call the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" of Israel's founding in 1948.

According to the widely discredited Nakba narrative, Jews in 1948 forcibly expelled hundreds of thousands - some Palestinians claim over one million - Arabs from their homes and then took over the territory.

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The problem Loudoun has with taxes is not current board spending or lies or illegal immigrants. It is the excessive residential development that has been permitted over 30 years that has never paid for itself and has left the burden on existing taxpayers, and the archaic Dillon rule system that gives all the power to Richmond (where developers write the legislation) and ties the hands of local governments.

When you can't reasonably stop development and end up having to build 5 schools a year, your taxes are going to go up. Period.

So now houses aren't being sold but we still have a backlog of schools to build and operate.

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> I agree that it's the Republicans fault.

Me too!

Here's the Loudoun County School Board Chairman John Stevens' budget presentation to the Board of Supervisors submitted in march 2011 http://cmsweb1.lcps.org/509759161361/lib/509759161361/Final_FY12_School_Board_Budget_Presentation.pdf