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County government spending too much
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Cherokee County govern-
ment spends too much money.
Theyjustify what they are doing
under the fallacy of they need
to provide for the needs of the
people of the county.
They spend at an ever increas-
ing rate. They rob from the rainy
day fund like it is their personal
piggy bank, with no effort to
validate a real need to steal
this money, other than they are
reluctant to increase our taxes
beyond a trigger point that we
might remove them from office.
They pay themselves a cost
of hving and benefits increase
when none of the private sector
working people has a chance to
get one. They hide behind a bu-
reaucracy and a regulation level
that makes it almost impossible
for a common taxpayer to find
out just how and on what the
money is being used and if it is
truly justified. They hold pubhc
hearings at which they want
you to think they are listening
to the voice of the people.
However, they know that
the apathy of the people will
give them the advantage. This
whole process allows misguided
people to do whatever they want
without fear of consequences.
What are our options if we
disagree with the unjustified
spending? Wait until they are
up for reelection in two to four
years? Impeach them now?
They know that these options
are too remote and difficult, to
implement and they are safe to
do what they want now.
Our freedoms, hberties and
monies are being siphoned
away in baby steps by an ever
growing government that is out
of control and knows that there
is httle we the people can do to
stop the train.
Looking for answers in TransCanada ruling
ARNOLD J. NASS
Tyler
A friend in Jacksonville sent
me acopy ofBecky Whisenant’s
article (Suit ruling favors
TransCanada trenching, Sept.
19), which is full of good infor-
mation for one like me that has
been fighting the TransCanada
Keystone pipeline for years
without success.
Does anyone there know
why the 10th Circuit Court in
Denver, Colo, shouldbe hearing
the Texas cases? Were there any
experienced oil and gas industry
people included in the Aug. 27,
commission meeting at Reklaw
City Hall? If so, what was their
reactions?
Who is Debra Medina, who
testified concerning eminent
domain with Juba Crawford?
What background does Rita
Beving have in the energy busi-
ness? I thought Beving & As-
sociations was a Home Health
Firm? Has anyone appealed
these cases?
I don’t expect you to drop
everything you are working on
to answer these questions. I am
just thinking out loud.
I circulated attachments to
hundreds of contacts Septem-
ber 8: a copy of the Supreme
Court of Texas Decision and my
excerpt of the Texas Natural Re-
sources Code, Section 111.002,
just in case the committee did
not have them.
TransCanada’s Keystone
XL Pipehne is not an ordinary
crude oilpipeline. It is designed
for diluted bitumen (dilbit) to
withstand from 1,400 to 1,700
psipump pressure. Most oil and
gas pipehnes operate at 1,000
psi or less.
If any of the land owners or
city officials have questions,
I would be happy to provide
answers.
The newspaper business—
both small and large papers—
has sounded full-throated op-
position this past month about
aplanby theU.S. PostalService
to purposely entice advertising
out of the newspaper so ads can
be placed instead with USPS
favored stakeholder Valassis
Inc., which bought direct mail
company ADVO in 2006.
The goal of USPS is to cre-
ate more advertising mail.
To newspapers that count on
advertising to pay its reporters
and cover the news, this new
venture is beyond alarming.
Many think it will push some
newspapers—already made
fragile by the economy and the
Internet—over the edge. If that
happens, it is the communities
across our country that will feel
the most long-term harm.
People have a love-hate
relationship with advertising,
whether in the newspaper or
in the mail. When advertising
helps them find deals or shop
smartly, they love it. When it
doesn’t happen to scratch the
shopping itch, they may not
like it so much. But most people
understand advertising drives
the economy and it brings other
intangible benefits, like paying
the bill for news coverage that
keeps communities informed.
On every level advertising
is highly competitive. Local,
regional and national newspa-
pers compete with a growing
field of ad media, from Internet
to television and door hangers
to direct mailers. But now the
Postal Service wants to pick win-
ners and losers in this market.
It is providing postage rebates
to Valassis of more than 30 per-
cent if Valassis can divert more
ad inserts into direct mail from
newspapers.
Not everyone can play. The
discounts can be offered by
Valassis only to large national
retailers. Newspapers cannot
get the same discount for their
own mail because they can’t sign
one national postage contract,
as the direct mail company
did, with USPS. Neither can
a small clothing or bookstore
or a hairdresser or auto parts
shop. We—the newspaper and
our small businesses—are all
local. This deal is only for the
big guys. For the httle guys,
USPS has another advertising
plan that enables businesses to
bring unaddressed advertising
directly to the post office.
What’s wrong with this pic-
ture? It is that USPS isn’t a
business. It is owned by Uncle
Sam. It exists to serve all. It
shouldn’t be picking winners
and losers in any marketplace.
It shouldn’t be competing with
and undercutting its stakehold-
ers, which are all of us. It should
deliver the mail that exists,
promptly and affordably.
One of USPS’s big goals is to
carry even more advertising, as
the Internet saps away letters
and bills. But we have to ask
ourselves: does America need
a federally-owned advertising
service? This newspaper says
no.
Mr. Anfinson is the president
of the National Newspaper As-
sociation.
Keystone XL pipeline needs to be finished
/
KENNETH WHITE
Rusk
I was pleased to read the ar-
ticle in this week’s Cherokeean
concerning the work being done
on the Keystone Pipehne and
a Federal Court upholding the
work on the pipehne.
Now I hope Mitt Romney is
elected in November to finish
the pipehne and open up the
vast oilfields for drilling in
Utah, Colorado, ANWR, and
the coastal waters of the USA.
The Baaken oil field in North
Dakota and Western Montana
contains up to 35 billion bar-
rels of recoverable oil and is
currently being drilled and
producing over one million
barrels of oil daily. One well
in North Dakota is pumping
700,000 barrels of oil daily, and
there are plans to pump some
of this through the Keystone
Pipehne to Texas refineries,
creating thousands of jobs in the
oil well drilling industry, all the
businesses that will spring up
supporting the drill sites and
the new employees pouring into
these areas.
The unemployment rate in
North Dakota is three percent.
The pipehne is safe regardless
of what the Sierra Club and the
Cornell Study shows. These
groups were financed by George
Soros and Warren Buffet, big
Obama contributors. Some of
these good folks in the Rusk,
Gallatin, and Reklaw areas
need to check closer into the
background of these financiers
of Obama’s campaign and the
green climate folks. They may
find something that might
surprise them.
Build the pipehne and let’s
“git ‘er done.” Sixty percent of
Americans want the pipehne
finished.
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