04 April 2014, Vol.1, No.26 > TENTH
ORDER OF BUSINESS – PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS!
The POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous succeed the people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2
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PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS
WHEN & WHERE FEASIBLE!
A lot of folks have talked about
it, a lot of older-folks may even remember when it was first initiated in this
country during the ‘Great Depression’
– but it all boils down to this question:
WHAT WILL JUMP-START AN ECONOMICALLY DEPRESSED
AREA?
The answer: PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS!
At the present time there are
close to 100,000 once prosperous manufacturing plants now in a state of rust
& decay that are actually being stripped of all their metal by folks in the
inner-cities and sold for scrap so those folks can earn a living! Where is the
scrap-metal being sold? IN CHINA
where the Chinese are building all the factories for their citizens that were
once operating here in America! Is it their fault? No, it’s the fault of the U.S. government
for the past three decades for allowing and even subsidizing corporations to
move overseas and take American-manufacturing plants with them. Why?
So countries like China
can ‘loan’
money to the USA
to wage wars in foreign lands! The factories from the USA are payback for the loans! Yeah, it sounds crazy – and it is crazy
politics, but whoever said that the various ruling-regimes in the White House
in the last generation acted with any degree of Common Sense or on behalf of ‘We the People’?
Now let’s apply that scenario
to this county.
Currently we have the lowest number of full-time residences since before
the two-dams were built across the mountain in Bath County, Virginia. And while politicians like former State
Senator Walt Helmick promised in each of his re-election campaigns ‘jobs, Jobs, JOBS’
– his political legacy shows a loss of
jobs into the thousands & then some!
Remember when Denmar closed? Hanover Shoe? Howes Leather? Well those loses have
just kept coming and what do we have left? Snowshoe & roadside gas station
convenience stores each pay a whopping ‘Minimum-Wage’
or thereabouts with little to no benefits!
Meanwhile the county commission got a raise,
gave one to county employees, gave one to law enforcement,
and even plans to create ‘one-new-job’ for something called a “Water
Resources Task Force Coordinator”. Gee-whiz, didn’t someone in
the Forest Service keep track of streams,
rivers, ponds & such at one time?
And if this ‘new coordinator’
is anything like what former State Senator Walt Helmick turned out to be when
he was the ‘Economic Coordinator’ for
Pocahontas County – then we are really in trouble! Walt was the one who released 13 Million
gallons of toxic-waste from the Howes Leather ‘ponds’ into the Greenbrier River – and now he’s Commissioner of
Agriculture! Who would have thought?
At any rate, driving through
Durbin or Marlinton these days can give anyone a quick-glance at poverty &
depression first hand with more places boarded up than open! Yeah, we can blame it on the fire – but is
that really what is taking place? Since Marlinton is no longer protected with
any degree of ‘flood-insurance’ –
what really will happen the next time the river rises and comes rolling down at
30-Million gallons per/minute? Before that inevitable catastrophe occurs, wouldn’t it make
sense to relocate all residential persons still in the Flood Plain to higher
ground NOW? There’s Brush
Country, Edray, Beard
Heights with a
golf-course ‘Village Green’ – and
these are just suggestions – since the
reality is anywhere but remaining in the Marlinton Flood Plain!
Now for those who wish to keep
their businesses in Marlinton, downtown can obtain a new designation as an ‘Industrial
& Retail Park’,
where folks can shop but not live in the path-of-danger – so there are options
galore. But
putting carpenters, plumbers, electricians, cement-masons, roofers, and
similarly talented persons to work at ‘Living-Wages’
for those trades instead of ‘Minimum-Wages’
would go a long way to lifting a lot of folks out of ‘poverty & pauperism’ and into ‘progress & prosperity’!
How can something like this take
place, you might ask? Well, if NORMAN LEE ALDERMAN (Rep-SD) & PATTI HEINEMANN
(Dem-ND) are elected to the county commission, let’s consider the
following:
1. There is still an accounting of all county-owned land that is necessary
so we all can know just how much county wealth we still have available that has
not been transferred to the GVEDC – and that which has been taken can be ordered given back! Maybe, just maybe there is enough level land
for folks to relocate onto!
2. Also there are the hundreds-of-thousands
of dollars that the GVEDC has taken from this county in violation of State Law –
and that will
come back upon demand!
3. And let’s not forget the illegal activity taking place within the Pocahontas County Solid Waste Authority (PCSWA)
whereby hundreds-of-thousands of dollars has
been illegally taken from county residents by an unauthorized collections-agency
– that too can
come back in the form of TENS OF MILLIONS via a RICO / Civil Rights
Citizen-Taxpayer lawsuit!
4. Finally there are the tens-of-thousands
of dollars that come into the county via the Hotel/Motel Tax provided from
Snowshoe, Silver Creek, and all the other motels & bed & breakfast
locations within the county!
5. Why shouldn’t the general public benefit from Public Works
Projects such as:
♦ Completion of the Durbin Library;
♦ Covered Pavilion for Farmers CO-OP;
♦ Relocating residents out-of-floodplain;
♦ Rebuilding businesses who wish to stay in
Marlinton;
♦ Removal of leaking storage tanks & all
tanks
within a floodplain;
♦ Removal of all dilapidated buildings to
beautify
the county;
♦ The general beautification of the entire
county;
and,
♦ Repair & replacement of county infrastructures!
6. And let us not forget that public works projects can also include
assisting Senior Citizens both inside and outside their homes like the Community Benevolent Societies once did
for those who were sick or whose spouse had recently died! Its
time once again for a community of ‘People Helping
People’!
All of these PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS
can be done for just the ‘Cost-of-Materials’ & the ‘Cost-of-Labor’, without having to pay any interest/usury
to any predatory banks or lending companies.
It’s the
public’s money – and it can be spent for public projects that assist the
general public! That’s why we
need to FIRE THE
GVEDC (Greenbrier Valley Economic Development Corporation) and
replace it with a lawful Pocahontas County Development Authority (PCDA) of rank
& file Citizens who will also place ‘The Common Good before Self or any Self-serving Special
Interests’!
You take these Public Works
Projects and add them to a Pure Water CO-OP where every landowner that has a
Natural Fresh Water Spring on their property can SHARE
THE WEALTH so as to make bottling pure, clean water the #1 business in
this county – THEN you have a County that
you can be Proud to Live in – where poverty &
pauperism are replaced with PROGRESS
& PROSPERITY! It’s time to elect those that have the
know-how, education, experience, and abilities to serve all the people all the
time!
THIS TIME…there’s no excuse…
IT’S YOUR
CHOICE…
TO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER!
Just say ‘NO’ to
those who want to keep this county in Poverty &
Pauperism
– and –
Just SAY ‘YES’ to
real Progress
& Prosperity for the future!
On Primary Day – YOU have a chance to elect two persons
that will always put YOU first! They know that:
THE
GREATER COMMON GOOD ALWAYS COMES BEFORE SELF OR ANY SELF-SERVING SPECIAL
INTERESTS!
Keep up to Date – Stay tuned to these Websites:
► IF YOU are registered to vote as a Republican,
you can
Vote for Norman
Lee Alderman in the Primary Election
on 13 May 2014;
► IF YOU are registered to vote as a Democrat,
you can
Vote for Patti Heinemann in the primary election on
13 May 2014;
► If you are not registered to vote, then you must
register
to vote on or before 22 April 2014;
► If you are registered to vote, but with no party
affiliation, then you must request
Loud & Clear either
a Republican or Democrat ballot
on Primary Day when
you go to the polls; &
► Since Norman
is unopposed, he recommends that you
request a Democrat ballot to vote for Patti so that
this
county can again have an Honest & Just county
commission!
►
Early Voting is from 30 April 2014 to 10 May 2014 – so
Vote Early & avoid
the rush!
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candidates for County Commission
–
one a Republican & the other a Democrat –
in
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affecting the Citizens of Pocahontas
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