Keep your hands off my DWP bill!
It's high enough.
For years, my bi-monthly DWP bill was usually somewhere between $150 - $175 for water, sewer, trash and electricity for my small two-bedroom house with many water- and electricity-saving devices. A couple months ago the combined whammy of increased trash fees ($11 a month to $26 a month) and higher water rates pushed it up to as much as $250 per billing period. Now, the city is thinking about raising the trash fee again?
Yes -- if you can believe it. According to a Times story today ( they occasionally get a City Hall story in the paper before us, but believe me we will cover much heavier than the Times over the course of thing), city officials are talking about raising the trash fee again, to $38 a month. Combined with the 6 percent hike in water rates again and 9 percent in power in the near future, I can see my bi-monthly bill easily surpassing $300 -- a 100 percent increase from just last summer -- despite the fact that I'm one person in a small house and I don't have a lot of electronics and don't take frequent long showers. I even have low-flow toilets, front-loading washer, no lawn a very low water landscaping and compact florescent bulbs in all my fixtures.
If my bill goes up to $300, what must other people be experiencing?
It is only my Opinion;
I don't know how dumb Democrats think the American public is.
After Eevry war that United States was involved in, US developed a base in that particular region (Germany, Korea, etc). This stratigic planning is for long term benefit of USA. We used to have a base in Iran to have a bit of control over Russia, China and other contries in that region since WWII, now it has to be either Iraq or Afganistan.
Democrat's promiss of puling out of the region is simply an empty promiss that will not materialize.
Try this scenario on for size.
My Woodland Hills home is a one family home. It has about 4000 square feet. After my children grew up and I was single again, I favored staying in the house. However, I simply did not personally need all that space for myself and it was too difficult for me to maintain alone.
I then had the truly bright idea of creating lovely guest suites -- virtually apartments -- within the space. There are connecting doors between each suite (because of understandable city and fire laws). But each space has its own entrance.
The DWP sees my house as an apartment building with four units. Therefore, the DWP has quadrupled my trash bill to $112 every two months. Here's the real issue at hand.....
I am effectively paying for 12 trash cans when, in fact, I only have three.
I called DWP about these charges. Once they realized the facts, they said I had to "use it (the 12 cans) or lose it." I then said my property cannot accomodate any more than three cans ... that the number of people who live in the house now has not changed from the original number that represented my family. They then had the gall to say to me that I should have no complaints ... that my rents likely more than cover this increased trash fee. This, of course, is not their business. Fairly billing people is. But, by this point, I just gave up while thinking I can't fight city hall.
If my trash fee goes from $112 to $152 I believe I'll actually save money if I simply hire a private trash service. I will simply dismiss ... discharge ... fire the city trash service. I look forward to that day.
Wow! That's an even worse tale. Taking it to the dump would probably even be cheaper.