Auntie Charo's Soapbox

I salute PDN for opening up a comment line for the articles they report on-line. Some of the comments are of great interest and are quite 'newsy' themselves.....the comments is a thermometer of how well the island is doing....right now, we're at 1.05f degrees and counting....lots of pathetic news reminding us that we're not making enough money to pay for the cost of living that's increasing almost on a monthly basis. Everything has increased within the last six years, most recently, the water and power have increased and will continue to increase. People who do a bit of farming can hardly make ends meet because they can't afford to pay the new water bill....oh, those new radio meters? Heard they won't start reading until the whole island has been installed and 'working', but don't quote me, I don't always get my stories straight.....anyway.....you almost have to be rich to live on Guam and that's no lie. Even a can of spam or corned beef hits the pocket book.....I digress..........what I'm getting at is that now, there's a place for people to talk to the readers of the PDN about what they think about issues based on the stories that are printed on-line.
I suppose I'm going to give the chat line about six months before the haters start going on-line and bashing people personally and PDN will have to watch the page and start to lose money on same because of the awful stuff that people will print. KUAM had a forum, RleneLive had a forum, Charo had a forum and recently, K57 had one....they've all been shut down because of personal attacks or scandalous comments that weren't pertinent to anything...let's hope that people will keep their comments on the 'high road' and that we'll all be able to discuss how we're all going to survive this ship headed to the bottom of the Marianas Trench.(The ocean, not the Thai food place!!)