Elk Konnected Hand out at County Commissioners meeting on 4/25

[Ross]

This IMHO kind of explains what I have been asking what has Elk Konnected done for Elk County as far as Econoomic Development or what can the do as far as econimics to improve the growth of Elk County and perhaps why they wont answer the questions.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Stocks were headed for a slight dip at the open Wednesday as investors await word from the Federal Reserve about whether it will act to spur the sluggish U.S. economy.

Dow Jones industrial average (INDU), S&P 500 (SPX) and Nasdaq (COMP) futures were slightly lower ahead of the opening bell. Stock futures indicate the possible direction of the markets when they open at 9:30 a.m. ET.

The Federal Reserve concludes its two-day policy meeting Wednesday afternoon, and investors are hoping the central bank will announce new action to spur the economy -- a move being dubbed "Operation Twist".

The Federal Reserve concludes its two-day policy meeting Wednesday afternoon, and investors are hoping the central bank will announce new action to spur the economy -- a move being dubbed "Operation Twist".

In addition to the Fed, investors will continue to monitor the developing situation in debt-stricken Greece.
The whole story is at

http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/21/markets/premarkets/index.htm?section=money_mostpopular&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_mostpopular+%28Most+Popular%29

Now I am wondering if that
"Operation Twist".
is a new word for Stimulus Package or Quantative Easing
or just another way of saying screwing things up???

But you see the Feds have the ability to print all the money it wants to print to throw at the Economics problem which Elk Konnected does not have the ability to do. So do you suppose that is perhaps why they won't respond to any of our questions???[/b]

But really Elk Konnected how about some answers to some really cool questions?

What is Elk Konnected, LLC a private business doing to improve Elk County's economic situation or to make Elk County a better place to live??

Just what can they do in this World Wide Economic Crises??

Who steers the steering committee?

Who are the admitted members who own, and run,
Elk Konnected?

Who is their Leader?

How can seven people in an organization with no leader and no registered membership speak for the entire population of Elk County? 
In my opinion the lack of definitive answers regarding Elk Konnected, LLC reflects the reality that nobody knows anything about who owns them or who the admitted members are or the admitted members are ashamed of being admitted members? It would be nice to have some clarification.

" There are always individuals or very, very small groups of individuals who try to distort facts by subjectively using them out of context, or in the case of imperical data, changing parameters of a statistical analysis so the numbers will fit a predetermined outcome with no names to support the data.

When these individuals try to hide behind a cloak of anonymity, then others must ask why ? "

Have we become an Infantile Society, eager only to be coddled, burped and entertained, with noise masquerading as music, and nicks and bruises as deep cuts and real wounds and lollipops as good deeds and to believe everything someone says to us ??

Can anybody answer just one question with any intelligence and authority?

[Ross]

INMO This is what takes place at Elk Konnected Community Meetings, plain and simple censorship. If you really want to have a conversation about Elk Konnected,LLC while it is being facillitated by Public Squares Communities,LLC the sheriff is called.
How great that is.

Internet shut off at Wall Street protest, part of the agenda?
Yahoo admits to censoring e-mails regarding the Wall Street Protests. Corporate America already feels their bottom line is threatened and will bend to public pressure when their shareholders no longer profit from corruption and human-rights violations. It's happening all over the world making lives better for the other 99%. We are the change.
Read more: http://wearechangetv.us/2011/09/internet-shut-off-at-wall-street-protest/#ixzz1YbUaiFvO

And Elk Konnected followers have made it very clear through their postings to this thread they want this thread to die. They have made it very clear through their postings they want me and others to go away. Guess what we are not going away untill we get communications with Elk Konnected and some answers. Elk Konnected we know you are reading so what is stopping you from communicating with us?

[Patriot]

Stand by.... there's a new 'community conversation' coming.....

[Ross]

Wow, would you look at that, no bad mouthing from the Elk Konnected followers, wow?

I've been wondering why because it is so unusual, haven't you been wondering why???

Well, I got my newspaper today and what I read was an article from Elk Konnected.

The article makes me think Elk Konnected has order the followers to be quiet, what do you think???
Elk Konnected has invited everyone to another Community Conversation to feed us the information they want to feed us???
But, I am wondering if it will be a true Community Conversation or like all the previous circuses they have put on, Don't you wonder, too???

You know the circle of chairs, the name tags and the kindergarten type colored stars, the controller oops, the facilitator from Wichita County??? I wonder just why it is Elk Konnected, LLC needs a facilitator from another county to run our county and control Elk County citizens??? What's with that???

A follower even knocked our fellow citizens as stupid about running business, here is the reminder:

    NEWS FLASH  , Elk Konnected was started by Richard Fish, a well respected citizen who sought to bring all of Elk County together and quit quibbling over small things and work together as county. The original idea went through the Chamber of Commerce, DONATIONS were given by many people who want to see the county grow. TIME was , and is, VOLUNTEERED by many people , YOUR If you would ever give up your time to help "people wanting to start a business" ( some people don't know about the assistance the government has..... Stupid people who don't know what they're talking about ) , but wait, then you wouldn't have time to come up with your BS here.

 You will not likely see me waste another keystroke on you. You are a  person who has one agenda, you're own.Go out and get a real job.

I doubt anything will be said about this posting because I think orders have been given in my opinion. I'm anxious to find out.

Oh, back to the newspaper article I can't quote all of it here so I won't quote at all, so please read it if you can. The meeting will be October 5th at 7pm at the Grenola Community Building. I definitly plan to attend, Lord willing. .

Elk Konnected, LLC a private company encourages the public to join in a positive conversation about how Elk Konnected,LLC the privately owned company was formed and who is involved. No, they don't refer to themselves as a privately owned company, but that is exactly what an LLC is, a Limited Liability Company. Wiil they address that fact??? I guess I will have to wait and see???

Will they really tell us who owns the company and who the investors or members of the company are??? The suspense builds???

Will they tell us who the volunteers and followers are?? Again I am anxious to hear.

I doubt that I wll talk with them because I would expect them to call in the sheriff to escort me out as they did at the last meeting. Will the Sheriff's department? By the way, why is the sheriff at the meeting of a privately owned company?? The sheriff's don't attend other company's meetings do they? They don't attend church meeting's do they? The sheriffs department doesn't attend the other organizational meetings in the county do they? Will they be there and have they been there because the self proclaimed founder of Elk Konnected order's them to be there because she is a County Commissioner??

I can hardly wait for the meeting.

But really Elk Konnected in the mean time how about some answers to some really cool questions?

What is Elk Konnected, LLC a private business doing to improve Elk County's economic situation or to make Elk County a better place to live??

Just what can they do in this World Wide Economic Crises??

Who steers the steering committee?

Who are the admitted members who own, and run,
Elk Konnected?

Who is their Leader?

How can seven people in an organization with no leader and no registered membership speak for the entire population of Elk County?  
In my opinion the lack of definitive answers regarding Elk Konnected, LLC reflects the reality that nobody knows anything about who owns them or who the admitted members are or the admitted members are ashamed of being admitted members? It would be nice to have some clarification.

" There are always individuals or very, very small groups of individuals who try to distort facts by subjectively using them out of context, or in the case of imperical data, changing parameters of a statistical analysis so the numbers will fit a predetermined outcome with no names to support the data.

When these individuals try to hide behind a cloak of anonymity, then others must ask why ? "


Have we become an Infantile Society, eager only to be coddled, burped and entertained, with noise masquerading as music, and nicks and bruises as deep cuts and real wounds and lollipops as good deeds and to believe everything someone says to us ??

Can anybody answer just one question with any intellegence and authority?

[kshillbillys]

Ross, you make a very good point on the Sheriff's Department participating in other meetings. I have yet to see them show up at any FFA, 4H, Boy Scouts, Masonic Lodge, Lions Club, school board meetings or even city council meetings. But most likely these people haven't got much to hide. They haven't formed an LLC to protect their own personal assets from being taken from them by being sued; that maybe they're not in it for their own personal gain to indoctrinate with a Delphi technique and pull the wool over Farmer Joe and his minimum wage/hour job that supports a community square organization. Kind of what I've heard related to the President, you have to have had a job to be able to create jobs; fits in with this organization and their hopey changey ideas. And not to rely on daddy and mommy's money to keep your failing business afloat and keep you out of bankruptcy. Let's set at a round table with people you don't even know, passing out your ideas to people you don't even know, thinking that you're a part of the "winds of change", when it's actually the person that's not from the community that you've never seen in your life except for maybe at another community conversation, telling you which ideas are the best. Look to the person to the left of you or the right and ask them which one of these answers are yours. You may be surprised to learn none of them were. They came in with their own ideas, their own agenda but want to make you think it was all your idea. I call bullshit.----Mr. Robert L. Walker

[Ross]

Wow! Mr. Walker you have said a mouth full.

And pretty much of what this thread is about.
In my opinion Elk Konnected, LLC is probably having this so Called Community CONVERSATION tp put out some more of the stuff that was printed in the news, which was IMHO non-information. No names, no numbers, nothing. Like I said IMHO.

Will they fess up and apologize for their wrong doings, which would the proper thing to do, at this so called Community CONVERSATION? Perhaps they will prove me wrong, I hope so. I am anxious to find out, aren't you ??

I doubt it, don't you ?? I Betting they are too proud to do the right thing, don't you ??

If I would have hijacked the County Governments web site or the County Governments emergency call system, the sheriff would definitely have been called. But Elk Konnected, LLC did it and nothing happens, why? Where's the justice??

That's what part of what that Wall Street Protests is all about the have's and the have not's. The wealthy cheating and doing what ever they want and justice being blind. Just ask yourself how many of those rich wall streeters and bankers that caused our financial problems have gone to jail ??

None, they got outrageous bonuses instead. Do you suppose that falls under the good old boys or the so called old guard programs

What do you Elk Konnected, LLC followers think of that? Is it right ??

I plan on attending The so called Elk Konnected, LLC  conversation even though I don't expect it to be much of a Community CONVERSATION. Which is fine with me. This thread is where I would like a real conversation. One in writing so that more people in Elk County can participate even if it is only as observers. After all this thread has had over 33,900 hits and Elk Konnected has said in the past they would use every available source to reach the people. The even have a web page and a Facebook, but those don't provide a conduit for conversation now do they?? Oh did I mention this is "CALLED" the "ELK COUNTY FORUM'. It is an Elk County business which translated to Elk County ECONOMIC's so why don't you support this forum???

Elk Konnected,LLC supports a business on the internet in Wichita County, why not an Elk County internet business???

I would almost bet if I was a gambling man that their web site, and their pages on Public Squares Communities web site, and their Facebook all combined have received less than 1/4 the number of hits that this thread alone has had. What do you think Mr. Walker if they really wanted to reach out to all the citizens for a real conversation they could reach a lot of the shut ins, and the citizens that live in the outlying areas of the county?? This would also provide the flexibility to the citizens to respond and view as their schedule allows and at their own convience, wouldn't that be nice. Also people that work swing shift that can't make it to the so called Community CONVERSATIONS could come here to catch up on what is happening with Elk Konnected, LLC. Look at all the advantages this thread  and this forum has to offers to Elk Konnected, LLC.

But, perhaps their not interested in a real conversation, and perhaps they don't really want to reach as many Elk County citizens as possible

Perhaps they haven't studied on the subject, like they didn't study on running a Wellness Center which ended up a failure ?? I     It just leads to a lot of questions that come to mind, you know what I mean ??

So as an aid to Elk Konnected, I and others will, as a favor, try to keep this thread alive for Elk Konnected, LLC to COMMUNICATE with more citizens. Come on Elk Konnected, LLC connect with those that may not be able to attend your private companies meetings called Community CONVERSATIONS. You might just get some surprisingly great idea's and suggestions and constructive criticism.

But honest and openess is a requirement for positive results, don't you think ??

Or do you have a problem with transparency


HAPPY FIRST DAY OF FALL, EVERYONE.

[srkruzich]

Elk Konnected,LLC supports a business on the internet in Wichita County, why not an Elk County internet business???



HAPPY FIRST DAY OF FALL, EVERYONE.

I Know of one such internet business setup right in Elk County.  They do web page, hosting, Design, all kinds of things. Even blogs, email service.

[Ross]

Steve I was refering to this forum.

[Teresa]

Oh did I mention this is "CALLED" the "ELK COUNTY FORUM'. It is an Elk County business which translated to Elk County ECONOMIC's so why don't you support this forum???

Elk Konnected,LLC supports a business on the internet in Wichita County, why not an Elk County internet business???

Ross...I appreciate the kind words and support..but in all honesty.. the Elk County Website and its forum section isn't a business.. We set it up back in 2004 simply to offer the community an internet meeting place to post information, to use it for free advertising and to share and discuss local and other topics without cost to the users and the community.
This service and all maintenance and upkeep is financed solely by us.  From day one we have never looked at this as a business opportunity.. Marshal / Kjell built this as a thank you and a give back to this county. Because upon moving here, he found the people and area friendly and it felt like home to him. And he had the professional knowledge to do it, so he did.
  Also, we are fortunate enough to make our financial living elsewhere and still get to live here. There is no revenue collected from this website, so therefore we don't look at it nor do we claim it as a business.

The cost and maintenance is the same no matter the amount of members. It's voluntary and totally up to the users if they want to participate and utilize this website.   

[Janet Harrington]

It's voluntary and totally up to the users if they want to participate and utilize this website.   

I didn't know it was voluntary. Ms. T, you told me I had to use it or you would fly a broom up my...well, you know what you said. Voluntary to use?  That's good to know. ROFLMAO