WATER: What's it really worth?

Are we that naive we believe all that is in the news or what the CEOs of big corporations tell us to be true?

Avista wants to work on the Post Falls Dam and raise the rates because the cost of production is going up. I call B.S. It doesn’t cost anything to produce water — it comes from the sky. It is greed that is going up. It is the same with the price of fuel production. Costs have not gone up; profit margins have.

It is too bad that the working public cannot afford to stay home for a week and take a big bite out of that profit margin. Our pay increases come nowhere close to the increases in the cost of living, making it almost impossible for us to afford to work. Come on, people. Give a little back. The working man built this country. We deserve to be paid for it.

CLAY HAWKINS

Coeur d’Alene