08 JUNE 2014, Vol.1, No.58 > LET
THE ‘RIP-OFFS’ END!
The POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous succeed the people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2
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LET THE ‘RIP-OFFS’ END!
As many of you may know, because
Pocahontas County has a small & continuing shrinking population – as a
community WE HAVE
BEEN ‘RIPPED-OFF’ by the monopoly telephone company, insurance
companies, local agencies like the solid waste authority, and the utility
companies – and just about every other type of business within this
county – certain banks most of all!
Thanks to the likes of Reta
Griffith when she was a county commissioner, Frontier Communications was
granted a ten (10) year monopoly over the telephone & Internet services of
this county whereby Frontier has charged
each telephone in each household & business TWICE the monthly rate it
charges in other parts of the state!
So instead of paying $15 - $20 per/month to have a ‘landline’ in our residencies – we are forced to pay $30 - $40+ for
the same services found in other counties in West Virginia! WHY?
Because without charging us TWICE as much, they could not provide
communication services to this county – so they say! ‘BULL….’! If this county had
access to CELL PHONE service – countywide – then we would not need any ‘landlines’ as most folks are finding
out nationwide! And CELL PHONES
also eliminate the need for ‘pay-phones’
that rarely work anyway!
What’s holding this county up from
becoming part of the 21st Century?
Some say it’s the NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) in Green
Bank since they claim that CELL PHONES may disrupt their ‘static-noise-level’
– but that too is a load of ‘BULL….’! WHY?
Because the NRAO has the technology to sort-out ‘white noise’ and bloc, any frequencies it wishes in order to continue
its ‘listening’ to the stars
scenario! If anyone has seen the recent Hollywood Movie, BATTLESHIP, then you know why the SETI-PROGRAM
(Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) was abandoned decades ago for fear
that WHAT IF we did make contact with something or someone ‘out-there’? WHAT THEN? So now the NRAO is supposed to be listening
to the ‘noise’
coming from star bursts & such – BUT in all the
times since the NRAO has been in Green Bank – if all the noise were ever
collected – it would amount to the SOUND OF A PIN DROPPING IN A ROOM! So you have to ask yourself: (1) Is it any
wonder that there are folks inside the Beltway that want to shut-it-down and
leave it as a tourist-attraction? And,
(2) Is having the NRAO worth paying the price of the
Frontier Monopoly over us – and NOT BEING ABLE TO HAVE CELL PHONES for
emergency purposes in a rural area – as provided throughout the rest of
America?
Someone falls & gets
injured! Either crawl to a ‘landline’, or wait for someone to
visit, or die for lack of medical assistance!
How about a vehicle running out of fuel or hitting a deer or other
animal that disables your vehicle – at night – on in the snow? The scary possibilities are endless but REAL
all the less! Meanwhile
Frontier puts broadband into Snowshoe
and leaves the rest of the county in the DARK AGES!
Look around at the insurance
companies doing business in rural areas!
Nine of ten vehicle insurance policies INSURE
THE VEHICLE regardless of who is driving the vehicle in case of an accident
– yet listening to the ‘insurance-agent’,
they will tell you that EACH DRIVER has to be insured in the same household to
drive the family car! WHY? Because this is a rural area and that’s the
only way they can make money is by ‘insuring-people’
instead of ‘insuring-vehicles’ –
read your insurance policy! Then compare
a local-insurance company’s prices to an insurance policy that can be purchased
on the Internet from the major companies!
All anyone needs is the BASIC LIMIT of what is required under State Law
– anything above the basic-limit is just your money in the pocket of an insurance
agent to pay his mortgage and expenses instead of your own!
Then here in Pocahontas County we
have to also contend with a corrupt & incompetent solid waste authority
whereby someone like Ed Riley has been in control of ALL
THE PCSWA FUNDS FOR 25 YEARS – WITH NO ACCOUNTABLIITY – no oversight by the
County Commission or the Office of the Sheriff which is supposed to be the ‘treasurer’ of all county funds –
and simply file a financial report to the commission each month! BUT once again the people of this county are
being ‘RIPPED-OFF’
when the PCSWA
fails to provide the EXEMPTIONS it is supposed to provide under State Law! WHY?
Because the thieves on the PCSWA claim they need the forced
assessment-fee to cover their expenses – when Riley sits on in excess of $2.5
MILLION in Certificate of Deposits (CD) in various banks around the State. IF the Supreme Court of Appeals of West
Virginia does not straighten things out via the lawsuit before them right now –
then a NEW & WORSE LAWSUIT will be forthcoming in FEDERAL COURT and the
Feds will surely require a FULL-ACCOUNTING for the past 25 years of every penny
Riley & his cronies have handled…. & then some!
Then as you may have seen in the
local & state news, the PSC has ordered MONTHLY
METER READINGS and an end to the ‘RIP-OFF’ of ‘estimating monthly usage’ as has been occurring for the
past who knows how many years! But if
you have checked your MONTHLY METER READING
invoice against the past ESTIMATED MONTHLY USAGE
you will find that you have been paying TWO – THREE TIMES MORE under the estimated-usage-system
as compared to the actual monthly-meter-readings! Now will the PSC force a REFUND for all the
months that each of us have been ‘ripped-off’ – probably not – but the PCS
should estimate the OVERPAYMENTS and force either a refund or reduced rate-amount
for all the months estimated to each user!
Better yet, the State should take over the utilities as they once did
and make it affordable for everyone as once done as a national policy in America!
And last but not least by a long
shot, compare the prices of gasoline & food charged
here to what is charged in Lewisburg or Elkins or in VIRGINIA! The cost of gasoline here is .50¢ - .60¢ MORE
PER/GALLON than fueling up in Virginia
BEFORE coming here to visit Cass or Snowshoe or NRAO, etc. Meanwhile ‘we locals’ are being ‘RIPPED-OFF’ everyday by the local
grocery & gas-station convenience stores – simply because those
businesses are trying to ‘rip-off’ the TOURISTS who come here. Is that what some
folks mean when they tell us ‘tourism’
is good for Pocahontas
County? The local businesses want to pick-the-pockets
of tourists before the tourists get to Snowshoe where Snowshoe wants the
tourists to EMPTY THEIR POCKETS! Ha,
just wait until Jim Justice of The
Greenbrier Inn takes over the casino Donald Trump plans to build & sell
to Justice once Trump becomes ‘King of the Hill’ after getting his ‘Resort Area
District’ (RAD)! The county
will never be the same once ALL THE GRAVY goes to ‘the mountain’! IF you think
the scraps & ‘rip-offs’ are bad
now – you ain’t seen nothing yet!
THAT’S WHY…
On 04 NOVEMBER…there’s no excuse…
IT’S YOUR
CHOICE…
TO CHANGE THINGS 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:
On 04 NOVEMBER it doesn’t matter how you are registered – YOU CAN VOTE
for:
CHARLES
WILFONG – ND
&
NORMAN
LEE ALDERMAN - SD
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