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It has been a surprise to me that there haven’t been more comments in The Chronicle to question the recent PUD hike. Over the past several years our power rates have increased at a rate more rapid than any other, short of gasoline.
It has severely affected many people that I know as well as myself. The latest PUD billing is now one of the highest of any I have faced over the past fifty years.
The elderly and/or retired folks barely getting by on a little social security are really feeling the bite.
We have come to depend on electricity more than any one item on our life list.
I know of a few families, with such cost increases on the rise, that are considering going back to depression ways of living! Free venison and potatoes are on the menu, as well as canning home grown food — no freezers. Wood heat is coming back, emissions no longer matter.
Each time costs rise, it means a little less money left over for the low income, for other life necessities! Many must choose between food and lifesaving prescription medications.
The homeless situation will continue to get worse as we haven’t figured out how to cope with that. We do know what helps to create it!
So, wouldn’t it be interesting to see a public accounting of state and local agencies and a sound reason for salaries and operating expenses. We of course won’t get that, but it should be mandatory for any public agency to provide this information! It is your hard-earned money supposedly at work for you.
We often hear of state or local mandates — really? Let us hear more of these excuses, where they come from and the facts behind them.
James Stafford
Adna
