26 October 2014, Vol.1, No.72 > ‘POVERTY’ WITH A
VIEW!
The
POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous
succeed the people rejoice,
But when the bad
govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2
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‘POVERTY’ WITH A VIEW!
What’s the main reason most folks
after hearing about Pocahontas
County actually come to
this county? The many come first for a
visit and then a few possibly to stay? What’s
the attraction? IT’S THE VIEW! Considered the third largest county in West
Virginia, with perhaps the smallest population, and being a rather remote &
‘pristine’ underdeveloped county – until the ‘IDIOTA’
at the DOH cut down the canopy of trees along our roadways! But a visit here is like stepping back in time when West
Virginia used to be known as ‘WILD &
WONDERFUL’ instead of the stupid slogan
chosen by Joe Manchin III, “Open for
Business”! The only thing
open-for-business in this state was Joe’s empty-pockets that were stuffed by
Massey Coal with around $50+ Million and now the ‘dirty-oil-tar-sands’ of the
Billionaire Kansas Koch Brothers who bought Joe’s Senate-Vote for their
Keystone XL Pipeline that will make each brother $100-BILLION EACH! We guess
the Koch Brothers could afford to ‘buy-Joe’ for a couple of million compared to
what they will each make – so in that respect, to them…Joe’s a cheap-investment!
Meanwhile no one ever tells anyone
BEFORE they arrive in Pocahontas
County that THERE IS NO CELL-PHONE SERVICE – they just let the
visitors find out for themselves! And no
one tells any visitors that this county is just another TOURIST TRAP with higher than usual prices compared to buying
supplies in Virginia BEFORE entering West Virginia! And no one tells anyone BEFORE they arrive
here that
‘poverty & pauperism’ is a ‘way-of-life’ in this county compared to either
Greenbrier or Randolph
Counties! After a couple of days stay in the
county, however, anyone with Common Sense quickly realizes that there are only
TWO KINDS of folks here: A FEW ‘HAVES’
– AND THE MANY ‘HAVE-NOTS’! A handful of folks are at the economic-top, the
vast majority at the bottom – and only a few in-between!
Here are some things to consider
as we approach the 2014 Mid-Term elections in a few more days! The propaganda on the corporate-media-channels
these days is CONTINUALLY REPEATING the same ‘B.S.’ that nobody likes Obama – or anything that he has tried to
accomplish – and therefore the Republicans, thanks to
the CORPORATE-FINANCING of BILLIONAIRES like the Koch Brothers will buy-up
Congress, and the rich & the super-rich will then control Congress AND THE TEA-PARTY-REPUBLICANS WILL MAKE SURE
THAT THERE’S:
●
NO INCREASE IN THE MINIMUM-WAGE;
● NO MORE SAFETY-REGULATIONS;
● NO MORE ENVIRONMENTAL-REGULATIONS;
● NO MORE RESTRICTIONS FOR MOVING
AMERICAN JOBS TO
FOREIGN-COUNTRIES;
● NO MORE REGULATIONS ON POLLUTION;
● NO MORE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS;
● NO MORE MEDICARE OR MEDICAID BENEFITS;
● NO MORE UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS;
● NO MORE DISABILITY BENEFITS;
● NO MORE INCREASES FOR VETERAN’S BENEFITS
…and
● NO MORE OF ANYTHING THAT STANDS BETWEEN
PUTTING ‘PROFITS BEFORE PEOPLE’ &
NO MORE
SOCIAL SAFETY-NET – since everything
will become
‘PRIVATIZED’ from schools,
hospitals, prisons, and
Natural Resources such as water,
timber, minerals,
AND PUBLIC
LANDS!
If any of you had a chance to watch
C-SPAN at any time in the past month, then you would have been able to see the
DEBATES in the various States for Governor, Senator, & House of
Representatives – and IF SO, then you too were witness to the SAME RHETORIC,
SAME SLOGANS, SAME ‘B.S.’ coming from
EVERY REPUBLICAN since
all Republican candidates for Congress had their Campaigns PAID FOR BY THE
BILLIONAIRE KANSAS KOCH BROTHERS!
BUT IF YOU were able to
watch C-SPAN then you too knows that the
LARGEST APPLAUDS both during and after
each debate were GIVEN TO THE DEMOCRAT
CANDIDATES – not the
Republican-puppets! And the polling done all around the country is showing that Democrat
candidates & challengers are actually a few points AHEAD of their
robotic-opponents! SO THE REPUBLICAN-BILLIONAIRES
might get another shock on election night as they did in 2012! But not to worry – FOX NEWS (the ‘F’-word media) will still be in
DENIAL as they have been since 2012!
POCAHONTAS COUNTY = POVERTY &
PAUPERISM
WITH A VIEW!
In California,
any house, apartment, or condo facing the Pacific Ocean
– even ten-miles away – sells at the highest possible amount a person is
willing to pay! Why? BECAUSE IT HAS A ‘VIEW’! The same goes in New York City for any apartment, condo, and town-house
or hotel room – TOP DOLLAR is paid FOR A ‘VIEW’! But here in Pocahontas County WE ALL HAVE A
VIEW of the panorama of majestic mountains & forest trees, etc. – but the vast majority of the Citizens living here find
themselves on a ‘fixed-income’ of
POVERTY & PAUPERISM due to MINIMUM-WAGES and NO ECONOMIC EMPLOYMENT
OTHER THAN MINIMUM-WAGES! Thus
the vast majority are only a few-dollars away from what they need – and just a
few-dollars away from financial-ruin! IT’S CALLED A RUT! Everyone is just getting by the best they can
by ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’, as
the saying goes!
BUT THERE IS HOPE – IF WE ELECT THE
RIGHT COMMISSIONERS!
On the local level
BOTH David McLaughlin & William Beard, Jr., Democrat candidates for county
commission, believe that FARMING can save & grow this county – BUT IF THAT IS SO – THEN WHY IS POVERTY & PAUPERISM EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK? It ain’t so in Greenbrier & Randolph
counties – there they have lots of new jobs that pay LIVING-WAGES
instead of MINIMUM-WAGES! And for a rural-farming-community to be
prosperous – it takes 4 – 5 successful farms to support each local
business! Farmers
that are ‘just-getting-by’ themselves
are no different than workers in a local-gas-station-convenience-store, or
working at Snowshoe / Silver Creek on Minimum-Wages! There is no
MIDDLE-CLASS without LIVING-WAGES, and without a MIDDLE-CLASS there is NO
PROSPERITY! Organized Labor
Unions built the Middle-Class from the 1950s during the ‘Eisenhower Era’ until Ronald Reagan began destroying Unions and
the Middle-Class in the 1980s until the WALL-STREET-BANKERS took over during
the ‘Bush-regime’ and the same has
continued with Obama! We cannot control
the international or national economic ups & downs – but we can control our
own DESTINY if we…
BUT JUST CONSIDER…
► WHAT IF…Cell-Phone service was brought into this county with
long-term jobs to eliminate the high cost & poor service of Frontier Communications?
► WHAT IF…A PURE-WATER-COOP were established to sell the
Natural Spring Water and provide a steady NEW INCOME for all those with Natural
Springs on their property that runs for more than six-months a year?
► WHAT IF…WIND TURBINES produced Electricity that could be sold
to all the counties surrounding Pocahontas, besides providing low-cost
Electricity to every household in this county?
Is anyone aware that in GERMANY
they are producing so much electricity from WIND & SOLAR that they are
actually turning-off their Wind-Turbines until they decide how to
distribute the electricity to all parts of their Nation? And the Germans are so environmentally
conscious, that rather than build huge-towers with electric-wires going in
every direction, or rather than BURY huge-wires in trenches going in every
direction – THE GERMANS ARE BUILDING LOCAL
POWER-PLANTS – whereby every town &
city will have its OWN POWER SUPPLY on a local level under LOCAL CONTROL via
PUBLIC-UTLITY-CORPORATIONS or individual private-owners for their own homes
& communities! Germany does not permit
privatization of any Natural Resources since such resources are the Sovereign
Property of all Citizens in Common – but Wind Turbines are privatized for
individual & COOP use!
And are you aware that Donald
Trump had a provision placed in the Snowshoe-RAD proposal that NO ELECTRIC
GENERATION could be placed on his Snowshoe-RAD? That’s how STUPID TRUMP IS since Wind Turbines could
generate more capital than any seasonal recreational business or casino! That’s just one more reason why
Snowshoe Mountain, Inc. should have its Charter REVOKED and the resorts turned
over to a WORKERS COOP in this county for Daily Operations & the spending
of the PROFITS HERE AT HOME!
THAT’S WHY, as
important as this mid-term election is, ordinarily we’d say VOTE STRAIGHT DEMOCRAT to keep the SOCIAL SAFETY NET
& MEET the SOCIAL NEEDS of everyone – but since the two Democrat candidates
for County Commission are so inept by lacking the knowledge and skills
necessary to govern a county –
COMPARED
TO THE TWO EXPERIENCED REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR COUNTY COMMISSION – we say
Vote
Democrat at every level EXCEPT for County Commission…
For COUNTY COMMISSION: VOTE FOR…
Charles
Wilfong who is perhaps the
most experienced and successful farmer this county has ever seen – besides
working for all farmers in this state in the leadership of the West Virginia
State Farm Bureau…
And,
Norman
Lee Alderman who has never stopped
trying to benefit the folks of this county in all his various efforts as a
school teacher, pastor, former county commissioner, and editor of his powerful
non-subscription Website –
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 Election 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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Crier is an independent Internet News Service that has
now endorsed
two candidates for County Commission
– CHARLES WILFONG & NORMAN LEE ALDERMAN –
in addition to providing in depth news reporting on important issues
directly affecting the Citizens of Pocahontas
County!
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