08 FEBRUARY 2015, Vol.2, No.5 > THE MYTH OF ‘TOURISM’…especially with a
PIPELINE!
The
POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous succeed the
people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’
– Proverbs 29:2
THE MYTH OF ‘TOURISM’… especially with a
PIPELINE!
One of the greatest ‘myths’
spread within Pocahontas County is the ‘idea’
that ‘tourism’
helps the local rank & file Citizen when in reality the only thing ‘tourism’
helps is a few self-serving types as the disparity and difference between ‘Predator’ & ‘Prey’ continues to grow throughout the county! Never has there been a time when the GAP
between the ‘HAVES’
from the ‘HAVE-NOTS’ ever been greater!
The false-idea that money from
‘tourism’ trickles down and benefits
everyone is as BOGUS as the ‘zombie-economics’ of believing that by not taxing
the rich that the rich will share their wealth with everyone else! For anyone to believe that ‘TRICKLEDOWN-ECONOMICS’
helps anyone but the rich & infamous is like giving a hot-dog or hamburger
to three ‘bear-dogs’ and expecting
the one who gets the hotdog or hamburger to share it with the other two! The fallacy in such misplaced beliefs in seen
in the fact that no matter how financially successful the Dollar General, IGA
(former Foodland), Trents or Snowshoe / Silver Creek have been or become – THEY STILL PAY MINIMUM-WAGES TO THEIR EMPLOYEES AND NEVER
PASS ON ANY BONUSES OR BENEFITS FOR ANY JOBS WELL DONE!
The rank & file Citizen is
left in the middle between the greedy PROFITEERS & MONEYLENDERS on the one
hand and the local THREE-STOOGES on the county commission on the other who
instead of always putting the rank & file Citizen First and THE GREATER COMMON GOOD BEFORE SELF…or any Special Interests
– continually put themselves first & foremost along
with special interests! It’s plain stupidity & then some!
The simple fact of the
matter is that the current THREE-STOOGES on the county commission DON’T HAVE
ANY REAL CLUE AS TO EXACTLY WHAT THEIR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE
ALL ABOUT!
They EACH simply come to every meeting to pick up their
public-welfare-check of $1700 EACH MEETING…or $3400 each month = $10,200
per/month we Citizens have to pay for such stupidity! IF THESE THREE-STOOGES had any COMMON SENSE
then they would think like the rest of us that allowing a
PIPELINE to be built right down the middle, or across any part of Pocahontas
County DESTROYS THE SCENIC VALUE OF THE COUNTY – THE VERY REASON FOR ANY KIND
OF ‘TOURISM’ to even occur! And in case anyone has
forgotten – the very fact that Pocahontas, Randolph & Pendleton counties
have been DENIED INDUSTRY is for the sole purpose of ATTRACTING TOURISM – so our
respective mountain scenery remains ‘pristine’!
Yet we currently have the three
most UNEDUCATED county commissioners in the history of this county – two who
have spent the better part of their lives chasing after the collective derrière of cattle, and the third who
would rather be chasing the collective derrière
of inbred-bear-dogs whose only purpose is to track and kill bears! What do they know
about putting the PEOPLE FIRST?
Instead of them using their positions to PROTECT the Citizens &
NATURAL RESOURCES of this county, these three buffoons are willing to give
everything away to an out-of-state ‘foreign’
corporation! This is no different for
all of us on the local level for Dominion Gas to SOLELY PROFIT than it is on a
national scale to let two brothers in Kansas, the Koch Brothers, make over $100
BILLION EACH at the expense of tens-of-thousands of Citizens who face certain
DEATH at the hands of the worst polluters on record in America – if the
Keystone XL Pipeline is built! Thank Our Creator that Obama is at least threatening to VETO
this most dangerous pollution threat! Would
that the THREE STOOGES would have enough ‘guts’
to also, JUST SAY, ‘NO’!
But just imagine a GIANT SWATH ACROSS THIS COUNTY almost as WIDE as a
Football field so a trench can be cut and roads built for vehicles on both
sides of the trench! ALL TREES CUT FIRST IN THE SWATH – just like the
power & telephone companies do when installing new wires to any given
building. Wouldn’t
THAT be nice for the Tourists to come see? And as for ‘tourist attractions’ – WHAT has Pocahontas County
really got left for any given attractions, that folks cannot find
elsewhere? How much longer, if at all,
will the trains be available at Cass now that the State has sold it to private-profiteers? And how much longer will the NRAO operate now
that their secret is out that NO NOISE is heard by us here on earth as new
stars are born or old-ones explode? And
what if no one cares!
Take a look at the chart below! While the ‘state-law’ currently requires 50% of
all ‘hotel-motel-tax’
given to the ‘Convention & Visitors
Bureau’ (CVB)! Does anyone really
believe that this group requires three-quarters- of-million-dollars? Just where
are the ‘conventions’ held in this
county, other than Snowshoe or Silver Creek, privately-owned enterprises, in
which any group can hold a meeting? For the money that the CVB extorts, all of us could be taken
on BOTH a land & sea-cruise TOUR OF ALASKA
– just like Cara Rose took a few years back all paid for by public-funds as
welfare for public employees! HAS ANYONE SEEN ONE SINGLE ESKIMO VISITING THIS COUNTY
since Cara’s trip to promote-tourism? Better yet, why doesn’t the CVB
take all of us to Hawaii
during the winter? For the amount the
CVB gets, we could rent an entire hotel on a white-beach and wait for winter to
blow over here in these mountains!
AND it doesn’t take a
rocket-scientist to realize that the recent ‘FIRE-FEE’ proposal to extort funds from the
po’-folks of Pocahontas County was really a SCAM since BY STATE LAW the amount
allocated to Medical, EMS & FIRE organizations are limited
to a maximum of $200,000! If so,
then our THREE-STOOGES cannot count since the total they have already given to EMS & the FIRE-ASSOCIATION, now EXCEEDS
$225,000! Even so, that’s why fire-equipment
can be donated TO us FROM large-metropolitan areas as well as
federal surplus equipment! Heck, the WV
National Guard LEFT IN IRAQ
more equipment than this county and a half-dozen other counties would ever need
in a lifetime!
When you look at the above-chart,
you have to wonder just WHY some of these self-serving ‘groups’ get any funding at all!
How exactly is Pocahontas County BEING ‘PRESERVED’ when
predatory-profiteers want to extract gas by FRACKING when it is now a known
fact that FRACKING IS CAUSING EARTHQUAKES as hit
Pocahontas a couple years back from Fracking in Virginia – let alone POLLUTE
OUR NATURAL WATER RESOURCES! At least
the former county commission publicly took a stand AGAINST FRACKING even though
the late Dolan Irvine was secretly trying to sign up folks to PRIVATELY allow Fracking
on their lands! Yeah, it’s the same
Dolan Irvine who never raised his own taxes as County Assessor, or that of
certain ‘lodge-bros’ or those that
rented their land to him for his livestock!
And how about the
so-called ‘Historic Landmarks Commission’
which just had ONE OF ITS LANDMARKS torn-up
& removed in Green Bank in regards to one
of the oldest known trees in this county that was several HUNDREDS-OF-YEARS
old? Where were they when their landmark
was bulldozed down?
WHY isn’t their a local
referendum or other PUBLIC VOTE, such as a petition FOR or AGAINST the tearing
up of this county for a PIPELINE to benefit folks in North Carolina instead of
in this county?
Wouldn’t that be more DEMOCRATIC than relying upon THREE (uneducated)
STOOGES to make a PERMANENT DECISION that would DESTROY THIS COUNTY on its
surface – let alone not know just how much damage would be done to our NATURAL
WATER RESOURCES?
And as for ‘TOURISM’ – has anyone
started a tourism-business by driving folks around the county to SHOW OFF our
POVERTY & PAUPERISM on a grand scale?
What about the once picturesque Marlinton until the late ‘stupid’ Mayor Dunbrack decided to cut
down all the once magnificent TREES in front of the three-story homes &
buildings and then replace them with ‘bushes’
that grow no higher than ten-feet! Ah, but he pocketed a PROFIT at the time so the hell with Marlinton – money came first! At least the recent FIRE tried to set the
record straight and level a large portion of the town until the next BIG FLOOD
finishes the job! Just look around us in
other parts of the country as the massive rains & water take their toll –
and it’s only a matter of time till Marlinton reaps what it has sown!
IF THE
THREE STOOGES VOTE FOR THE PIPELINE – AND DONALD TRUMP GETS HIS FOUR-LANE FROM
I-64 TO CORRIDOR-H…right down the valley of Route 92 as part of the Route 219
Project…THEN WE CAN ALL KISS POCAHONTAS COUNTY – GOODBYE!
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER…WE ALL REAP WHAT WE HAVE SOWN…&
then some!
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