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Are we up to 200 Yet?

By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter

April 1, 2005

It is April Fools Day, and the Heraldo-Liberal has, expectedly, once again printed an editorial that is just plain militant against the Kentucky American Water Company. The ranting from the leftists in charge at Main and Midland Avenues never ceases; nor does it make much sense. However, what a perfect day for the H-L to print yet another article designed to misinform the general public, or “fool” people.

Maybe Warren Rogers and the gang over at the Coalition Against A Government Takeover, www.notakeover.com, can start a running tab on the number of editorials the H-L has printed in support of FLOW just like the running tabulation they do for the taxpayer money thrown into this money pit, over $1,300,000.00 so far. We know they have printed well over one hundred editorials against the water company in support of the communistic condemnation proceedings. Are we up to 200 yet?

If I didn’t realize that most people are sheep-like, or sheeple, and never venture outside of the mainstream media for their information, these foolish editorials would be laughable. However, it is no joke when a mass of people are making decisions based upon the irresponsible journalism of those who have an agenda. The opinions expressed in the editorials at the H-L are so far left and off the mark that I do indeed get a laugh, but the laugh quickly turns to a knot in the stomach when I realize how misinformed the public has become because of these editorials that are tied in with slanted reporting and the omission of facts.

Today’s April “Fools” editorial is a celebration of the PSC turning down some of the requests from KAWC which would have raised water rates a little bit. What is so laughable is the fact that if the utility were municipally owned there would be no PSC oversight. Isn’t it interesting that the leftists over at the H-L celebrate PSC oversight as long as KAWC doesn’t get everything it asks for, yet they are calling for an end to PSC oversight through communistically condemning a well-run company through the misuse of eminent domain proceedings? This is typical one-sided liberal whining.

The leftist editors of the H-L then go on in their editorial to call for KAWC to lower their rates to poor people and forgo the $24 activation fee for new service, claiming that poor people move more than the rest of us and isn’t this unfair. Well, no, it isn’t unfair. What would be unfair is me having to pay higher fees so other people can have it easier in life. I sucked it up when I had nothing and paid the fees and worked hard to move myself out of the poor side of town; the same opportunity is there for everyone. If we continue to “make it easy” for people to remain poor, why would they ever pick themselves up and be productive? What is so important that we need to make transient living more possible?

An alleged “profit” of $672,000 is mentioned in relation to these activation fees. Well, er, uh, excuse me H-L, but people have to move paperwork, turn off and turn on valves, and manage accounts of customers over at KAWC, so in reality, the $24 activation fee is more likely a money loser and could easily be raised just to cover what it actually costs KAWC to process these changes; so there more likely is no profit involved in these fees. Put that in your cheerios and eat it up H-L. Unbelievable!

No, this typical editorial from the Heraldo-Liberal, or Herald-Misleader, whichever you prefer, is not about helping alleged poor people. It is nothing more than a thinly veiled attack against a well-run and privately-owned company that is an excellent local corporate citizen. These attacks are so obvious that it appears the editors over at the H-L are working with the communists who work to see America become socialist in nature. The state ownership of the means of production calling profit-making businesses politically incorrect and “evil” in nature is one of the main planks of the Communist Manifesto. Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Lenin, Mao, Castro, and Joseph Stalin would all be well pleased with the editors over at the H-L. It’s April Fools Day, and thanks to ridiculous editorials, we know where the real fools are.

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