{"id":2260,"date":"2016-04-27T13:35:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2016-04-27T14:35:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T18:35:53","slug":"darren-barney-on-bernie-hot-tubs-and-the-new-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=2260","title":{"rendered":"Darren Barney on Bernie Hot Tubs and the New Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Barney will be on the May 10 Republican ballot for Morgan County Commissioner facing off against Ken Reed and Jimmy Stewart. No Democrats are running for the office.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BmoaxFb383s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Barney is a small businessman. Barney owned a furniture store &#8212; Country Traditions &#8212; that he says was wiped out by Chinese competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was never that large, never more than 13 employees,\u201d Barney told<em> This Week in Morgan County with Russell Mokhiber.<\/em> \u201cJust at about the time when we were about to break through, free trade with China was signed. I couldn\u2019t survive the 47 cents an hour they were paying the Chinese people. That was the end of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barney then went into the hot tub business. The hot tub business was doing really well until the recession hit. \u201cIn 2009, my sales dropped 45 percent,\u201d Barney said. \u201cPeople couldn\u2019t pay their grocery bills, let alone come to my store and buy a hot tub.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barney is now in the trucking business and has started a new business &#8212; Roscoe\u2019s Bargain Outlet &#8212; south of town in the old Largent building just past the Dairy Queen.<\/p>\n<p>Barney he would love to run for Congress someday.<\/p>\n<p>He was critical of Bernie Sanders and those who support Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem with Bernie Sanders is &#8212; too much socialism, to much give,\u201d Barney said. \u201cWhere are they going to get the money? The government will end up printing money. Then we will have hyperinflation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barney says he \u201cwould like to see us get some industry here without destroying the county.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I know we can do it. I\u2019ve been in almost every state in the country. You can drive in rural Indiana, pass an Amish buggy, and there is a factory. If they can do it, we can do it. You can cross the border into Fulton County and they have industry. And it\u2019s not destroying the environment. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody who is willing to come who is not going to destroy things. We need to present the county in a favorable light as a viable opportunity for these factories to come here. There are a lot of people who don\u2019t have jobs. And quite honestly, without offending a bunch of people, there are a lot of people who don\u2019t work. They are lazy. Leave them out of it. They are always going to be lazy. These are the people who are probably going to vote for Bernie Sanders. And I\u2019ll probably lose some votes saying that. But it\u2019s true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Sanders supporters are lazy?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Barney says. \u201cThey have probably gotten lulled into the fact that the government owes them something. And the government doesn\u2019t owe them anything but what the initial rules written in the Constitution (say).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people would think I\u2019m a little radical. I would consider myself a social and fiscal conservative. I don\u2019t look down on people because of how they believe. I don\u2019t look down on people because of their sexual preferences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to get our tax base back so we don\u2019t have to tax the homeowners so much. We need to get some industry in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barney said &#8212; \u201cI\u2019m not a big Wal Mart fan.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think they come in and take away from jobs,\u201d Barney said. \u201cThey support China for sure. But the reality of it is, if we don\u2019t allow Wal Mart to come here, it\u2019s going to come to Fulton County or Washington County &#8212; and there goes the tax base.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I had to chose between a big box store and somebody local that could grow, I\u2019m going to take the local guy. But unfortunately, there are a handful of us left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barney said he was against the school levy. Why?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we homeschooled our children, for one thing,\u201d Barney said. \u201cMy son is like me. He can do just about anything. That\u2019s because I taught him to do just about everything. He knows a little bit about electricity, a little bit about plumbing, a little bit about everything. I love computers. Believe me, that\u2019s great. But not everybody is going to get a tech job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What don\u2019t you like that\u2019s being taught in the schools?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a whole math person,\u201d Barney said. \u201cI still believe that one and one is two and not what you think it is. If a child thinks one plus one plus one is four, they will give him a passing mark. That doesn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Barney will be on the May 10 Republican ballot for Morgan County Commissioner facing off against Ken Reed and Jimmy Stewart. No Democrats are running for the office. Barney is a small businessman. 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