Simple Reality. Chapter 3 of The Butler Novel: Septic, Water, and Sewage Profiteers are destroying families.

There are 5.7 million homes in Pennsylvania. 26% of them (1,500,000) use septic tanks to dispose of wastewater. 2.5 people live in the average home, meaning that 3,600,000 Pennsylvanians depend on septic tanks.
Many of these systems have been used for a century with no cholera, malaria, or other diseases being caused.

Ignored Problem #1: “Septic System Profiteers” use exaggerated problems to force people to replace simple Septic Systems that used to cost a few thousand dollars with needlessly complicated alternatives that can cost upwards of $50,000.00!

3,600,000 Pennsylvanians live in fear of a zealous Sewage Enforcement Officer.  The State has given them the power to force families to replace entire septic systems that may only need a few thousand dollars of perforated plastic pipe, gravel, and topsoil (or a $1.00 bag of bacteria every month!) to get back in better working order.  They usually order helpless families to put in a crushing, family-destroying Septic System requiring another mortgage they may not be able to afford or get.

Ignored Problem #2: “Public Sewage Profiteers” are destroying families in many Townships and Counties because they always want more people hooked up to their ever more costly sewage systems.

Ignored Problem #3: “The Dye Test” involves putting brightly colored “dye” into the septic tank and seeing if it surfaces outside the tank. It almost always does because that’s how septic tanks have been working for over a hundred years! Then, The Sewage Enforcement Officer, (the dreaded SEO), usually shows himself as The Family Enemy by announcing with hidden glee: “Your septic tank has failed ‘The Dye Test’!” Then, a Septic Profiteer often appears and tells them: “You need a Sand Mound. It will only cost $35,000.00, if you are lucky!”

Ignored Problem #4:  Recently, an SEO asked the secretary of a local septic-pumping company to lunch. There, he is reported to have told her: “I will pay you $250.00 for every name and phone number of people with a septic problem.”

Ignored Problem #5: The Department of Environmental Protection is the “hired gun” used by Septic Profiteers. The dreaded DEP attacks Pennsylvania Families with weapons of Septic Tank Rules based on making septic tank repairs as costly as possible to families.  No Pennsylvania Governors or Legislators have dared to reduce DEP funding or its power to destroy families.  Frankly, few Elected officials have the courage to criticize anything the DEP does, even those in Counties with projected 20% population losses in coming decades.  They are proudly presiding over the ruin of their own State!

Ignored Problem #6: State and local officials are “friendly” toward those who give them donations.   Septic Tank Profiteers take full advantage of that. As a result of their own, and connected donations combined with marketing efforts, the Department of Environmental Protection has been allowed to take control of the Inspection Process that gives them an automatic excuse to enrich Septic and Sewage Profiteers with billions of dollars taken from millions of Pennsylvania Families. Many describe them as: “Regulatory Racketeers”.

Anyone can see how those Hidden Problems add up to hurt more Pennsylvania Families.

How do the “Ignored Problems” hurt every Family in a Community?

Ignored Problem #8:  Forty years ago, families in the small town of Prospect, Pennsylvania had the usual “Dye Tests” used to force them to hook up to a Public Sewer Authority, despite no diseases or health issues to them, or to their nearby water wells, from their septic tanks or earlier “outhouses” for the previous two hundred years.

What hurt Every Family in Prospect? New septic regulations, invented and imposed upon Pennsylvania Families by Elected Officials, many of whom received donations of time and effort from Septic and Sewer System Profiteers.  Suddenly, no one could buy a lot and build a house on it in Prospect.
Now, every housing unit in Prospect is forced to pay nearly $90.00 a month for Public Sewage that replaced their free septic tanks.
Public Sewage Profiteers took so much money out of the town that two restaurants, one farm implement dealer, and a grocery store closed.   Things got worse as the people of Prospect were impoverished:

Sewage Profiteers, encouraged by “financial geniuses” in Philadelphia and New York, flushed so much money out of Prospect’s families that their bank closed thirty years later!

While the families of Prospect and thousands of other places were being similarly ravaged, Not One State Legislator from either Party stood up for them. The few Township Supervisors and Borough Council members who love their neighbors enough to protect them are often replaced by candidates with more funding. No one asks where that funding comes from!  One of the saddest facts in The Butler Novel is that Republicans in Prospect told their own neighbors how fortunate they were to have Public Sewers flushing family assets down the drain.

Compare Prospect with the small town of Portersville, a few miles away. We have the same half-acre, or smaller, lots with septic tanks that Prospect had. We did not have our $10-20,000.00 Septic Tank asset stripped from our assets. We did not have to pay $10,000.00 dollars in today’s money for hook-up fees to attach to a Public Sewer. We did not have to pay over $40,000.00 in constant dollar monthly fees for forty years. We received interest payments on that money, instead of seeing it flushed down the toilet. We could afford new tires for our vehicles, furnaces for our homes, prom dresses, kitchen remodeling, and things we needed to help our families. Guess what? Our Bank is still here!

The Public Sewage Profiteers did not take a hundred thousand dollars from every family in Portersville. Every year, our families get richer. Every year, the families in Prospect and other places impoverished by Public Sewage Profiteers get poorer as many of their monthly fees have doubled, tripled, and quadrupled to pay for shoddy installation, maintenance, subsequent bond issues for Public Sewage Profiteers, higher interest rates thereon, and their many, many, many “consultants” and “engineers”. Some of them have climbed from the pits of self-serving delusions to what may be the very pinnacle of tax-addicted uselessness; “Watershed Management”.

Families are being destroyed across Pennsylvania and America! Needlessly expensive Septic and Sewer Systems do the same damage to families as drugs and gambling: they destroy family finances. A single Mother with two children lives across the road. Rather than repair or replace a septic system that cost $5,000.00 twenty years ago, she was forced to spend $50,000.00 dollars! Two houses away from her, another family had to borrow over $20,000.00 instead of making simple repairs.

“Regulatory Racketeers” create and use largely imaginary environmental problems as an excuse to hurt millions of Pennsylvania families. Finding and supporting Township Supervisors and Borough Council candidates who care more about families than donors is our only protection from “Septic, Sewage, and Water Profiteers”.

May all be blessed to care more about our families than about often-imaginary and always-exaggerated environmental concerns. Septic, Sewage, and Water Profiteers are helping bring projected 15-20% population losses to many Pennsylvania Counties in their War on Families because families fear having children they cannot afford. A horde of recently spawned “Watershed Profiteers” only make Imaginary Problems more costly with hordes of Engineers endlessly inspecting everything they can, at taxpayer expense.

Many Democrat and Independent voters love their families. When they realize how much water and sewage profiteers are costing them, they are appalled at the biggest financial problem they face: being crushed by Septic, Sewage, Water, (and the increasingly visible) Watershed Profiteers.

May all elected officials be blessed with enough love of their neighbors in their hearts to stop ignoring or hiding from this issue. May God bless all Legislators, Township Supervisors, and Borough Councils to work as quickly and effectively on behalf of families as they do on behalf of donors!

Not a Hidden Problem #9!  Those “donors” may include those funded by high-level executives of huge Water and Sewage Profiteering Companies. The head of one such company is a woman who receives $7,200,000.00 a year from American Water Works.  Yearly income of just five of their Very Important Profiteers:

Name	Position	Total Compensation	Rank
M. Susan Hardwick	President and Chief Executive Officer	$7,720,825	#99
Cheryl Norton	Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer	$2,700,343	#56
Melanie M. Kennedy	Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer	$1,496,037	#128
James H. Gallegos	Executive Vice President and General Counsel	$2,354,199	#97
John C. Griffith	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer	$3,788,248	–

The President, her top half-dozen executives, and a dozen people on her board of directors receive about $20,000,000.00 every year. They use company money to pay the hefty salaries of cunning Marketing Professionals and well-trained salespeople who are hired to ingratiate themselves with Township Supervisors, Borough Councils, County Commissioners, and other elected officials to be “enlightened” enough to keep more money being taken from families so huge amounts may continue to flow through Public Water and Sewer Systems into their pockets.  Township Supervisors and Bureau Councils may have first-hand knowledge about what sort of “donations”, “inducements” and “contributions” may be at work. Amazingly:  Few, if any, law enforcement agencies are moved to investigate.
One simple question lets us understand their motivation to turn us into helpless puppets: “Every time a person locked into their systems flushes a toilet, do those 20 people share varying percentages of a nickel?”  Has anyone learned enough arithmetic skills in a Public School to answer that question?

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There is hope!

The Supreme Court’s recent and amazing Chevron Decision does not allow bureaucrats to force needlessly expensive programs on helpless families by using profit-generating standards invented to make families poorer in the name of “Public Safety”. This is a connection more Pennsylvania voters and Public Officials are beginning to understand. All are increasingly grateful to the handful of Public Officials and candidates who are meaningfully “family-friendly”.

But, there are more Hidden Problems:

Ignored Problem #10, Public Water Profiteers:

Public Water Profiteers hate for people to get free water from their wells. Many are forced to abandon their wells, often an asset value of $10,000.00. Then, they must pay to hook up to Public Water. One Cranberry Township resident in Butler County reported that his family would have to pay over $40,000.00 to do so!

Sometimes, small public water companies come up for sale.  Many want to buy such companies and hook their customers up to endless charges and increases.  In most areas, families can drill a well and be free from such charges.  No State Organizations are willing to help families drill wells and be free from Public Water Profiteers.

The Historical Precedent that Tax-Addicts avoid!  May all families have Abraham’s God-given Freedom to dig wells that, 4,000 years ago, were the foundation for the fortunes of The Twelve Tribes from whom so many European Peoples and Believers from Spain to Norway and from Ireland to India are descended!

Ignored Problem #11: Watershed Profiteers are working to seize control of entire areas. Virtually anything that changes any downhill flow of water can be made to fall under their control. Soon, driveway culverts and house gutters may be carefully inspected, permitted, and regulated. “Watershed Inspectors” want the power to be paid to control and regulate any change in or on the earth’s surface to get money from anyone who falls under their purview.

Inspection Costs and fees will be created that profit those among “Watershed Profiteers”. Many “engineers” support “Watershed Profiteers”. They may plan to take collectively uncountable billions from ever more inspections and appeals. Many want battalions of“Watershed Enforcement Officers” hired to provide employment for those who hate their neighbors. Attorneys will have additional billings. Families will have additional expenses.  Money that could be invested in making new, useful things will disappear as stagnation follows.

Ignored Problem #12:  As rural areas lose population, cunning plans to “gerrymander” districts are implemented.  That puts more Family-Friendly Legislators out of office as those candidates are forced to compete with each other.  Then, all families are even more likely to be ravaged by Septic, Sewage, Water, and Watershed Profiteers.

May Public Officials understand two simple facts:

1. Conventional septic systems, low-cost sewage, and wells bring financial freedom to families.

2. Politically correct, uncontrolled mandates from “Regulatory Racketeers” are destroying families.
These are among the most important issues we face if we want families to have a future. May all Legislators and Public Officials be blessed to put families before well-organized Septic, Sewage, Water, and Watershed Profiteers and their donations.

Three Prayers for God’s Help:

1. May all be blessed to understand what was revealed to Dante about the fate of souls at Judgment: “All who unrepentantly participate in ‘complex frauds’ must eternally suffer in the lower six circles of ‘The Inferno’.”

2. May Public Officials who have the legal authority to force neighbors to pay for unnecessary “improvements” be blessed to tell donors who lobby for such hurtful things This Simple Truth: “If I bear false witness to vote to reward you for lies and exaggerations, my soul will join yours in suffering forever in the lower circles of Hell. May we both be smart enough to avoid that!”

3. May “Regulatory Racketeers” be blessed to obey The Bible Instruction from Ephesians 4:28 so their souls may spend eternity in Heaven: “Anyone who was a thief must stop stealing.”

Question:  “How will many Septic, Sewage, Water, and Watershed Profiteers react when Pennsylvania Families pray that Public Officials will be blessed to care more about us than the usual Profiteers?”

Answer: “The most greedy and godless “Regulatory Racketeers” will make bigger donations to Public Officials. They may tell bigger lies, falsify more studies, and invent more Imaginary Problems to justify their attacks on families. Sadly, the more “complex” the “frauds” in which they engage become, the lower the circle of hell to which their poor souls will be sent.

The biggest mistake made by those who hurt their neighbors?  They do not understand that the forces of evil hate those who follow them more than anyone!   Those whom they lead to idolize “the separation of Church and State” spend eternity living in the greatest agony in the pits of hell, suffering the endless torments of those they kept from Heaven.

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