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#3034975 - 11/15/12 03:48 PM

East siders is there any truth to this?

jameseboy
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I copied this from a reliable person. We need to take this country BACK!! I'd like to pass along what I'm about to tell u & please share this thru email.

I'm returning now from being in gatlinburg TN. I was shocked to notice that many of the shops are replaced by new ones. The owners have foreign accents. I would guess 80% are now run by Indians, Pakistanis and now Ukrainians! I asked one lady where she was from and she said Ukraine. I asked 2 other shop owners where they were from: Ukraine. I jokingly asked "Did you folks buy up the whole left side of Gatlinburg"? She with barely veiled hatred and distain said" Yeah, pretty much". I tried to ask a vendor whom I asked first if he was American, about what was happening with all the foreigners. He refused to even talk about it. I asked another group and they seemed afraid but one woman spoke up with an attitude of careless determination and told us that the chamber of commerce was Iranians. That there was nothing they could do but try to stand. The others looked at her and each other nervously. I spoke to a young lady in a in busy shop and she carefully began to open up a little. She said the town was being bought up by a rich lawyer named Joe Baker and that he is renting the shops out to foreigners because they can afford higher rent since they don't have to pay taxes for 5 years. She said the foreigners change the business name and sell it to a relative and it continues tax free for 5 more years. It's destroying Gatlinburg. It feels creepy. I asked what the religious affiliation of most of the foreigners was--they said: MUSLIM!! A Muslim foothold in the mountains of Tennessee!
Very very scary!

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#3034981 - 11/15/12 03:55 PM

Re: East siders is there any truth to this? [Re: jameseboy]

htnseymour
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I live up that way and yep, it's true. It's ridiculous and yet another reason I don't go there except to fish.

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#3034985 - 11/15/12 03:57 PM

Re: East siders is there any truth to this? [Re: jameseboy]

strutandrut
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Im not sure about all the tax things but a lot if the shops up there are run by Indians. We go spend a few days there every year and everyone has been nice. Hell, my local beer store is run by some of the nicest Indians around.

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#3034988 - 11/15/12 03:58 PM

Re: East siders is there any truth to this? [Re: htnseymour]

Barrett
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Wow....I love Gatlinburg. Hate to hear this. I have started noticing more foreigners the last couple of times I have been there. Sad.

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#3034989 - 11/15/12 03:58 PM

Re: East siders is there any truth to this? [Re: htnseymour]

SilverFox
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Last time I was there that was the case.

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#3034998 - 11/15/12 04:02 PM

Re: East siders is there any truth to this? [Re: SilverFox]

Diehard Hunter
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Not only Gatlinburg, but all your tourist towns! Gulf Shores and Orange Beach in Alabama are the same way, all run by Ukranians!

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#3034999 - 11/15/12 04:02 PM

Re: East siders is there any truth to this? [Re: SilverFox]

The Ol'Professor
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The part about not having to pay taxes for 5-years pretty much debunks the bulk of that "pass it around" email. The IRS would tax the air we breathe if it could.

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#3035009 - 11/15/12 04:10 PM

Re: East siders is there any truth to this? [Re: The Ol'Professor]

SilverFox
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They do get a tax break unless they are not telling the truth. They have bought every store in my home town. The same family has 3 gas stations within 1/4 mile of each other... 2 are about 150 yards apart. They also bought the Subway.

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