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is $60 million. $60, $60 million dollars. We are not
talking about $8 million here and $14 million over here.
We're talking about $60 million, and paying it back $3
million a year.
Iredell Memorial Hospital says they can pay back
$2 million a year. Lowrance Hospital Board of Directors
says they can pay back $1 million a year. The question
is can we afford it? Now how many of you have told
your children we simply can't afford it? Or have you
forgotten how to say that? We can't afford it.
I think that is one of the things that's wrong with
this country today. We were forced into World War II,
we fought it and we won it, and then we sat back and
we let the federal government take over. And they spent,
and they spent, and they spent, and we are almost spent
into oblivion.
Now there's a time and a place to put a stop to this
spending. And if we don't need to spend $60 million,
let's don't do it. A few weeks ago, some of us read
about a poll that Iredell Memorial paid $5,600 for. In
this poll, there were 400 people polled on the telephone,
and out of it came the news that 57% people in Iredell
County would support a bond issue if the public were
educated and if there were no opposition to it, and if,
if, if. And I wondered about it. I simply didn't believe