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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere is NOTHING better than unfettered capitalism 👀
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Sad thing is - they will be shocked and cold, thirsty and maybe dead, and going to go fund me to pay these ridiculous bills that deregulation and unfettered greed have wrought on them - and vote for the same people that did this to them again and again.
Blue Owl
(50,491 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,574 posts)It's for people who got sucked in by a company called Gridy. Variable rates are cheaper normally, but when something happens like this they go through the roof.
We, and most Texans, have a company and plan with a fixed rate you lock in every year or two.
Variable rate utilities should be illegal.
JanMichael
(24,890 posts)Wouldn't want this loon running my publicly supported utilities:
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Fullduplexxx
(7,868 posts)Shermann
(7,428 posts)...right up to the point where it kicks YOUR ass.
gab13by13
(21,400 posts)crony capitalism is for the rich. Privatize the profits, socialize the costs. I saw Abbott declare that Texas was going to winterize its energy sector, with taxpayer dollars. That's like if a Walmart burned down in a city and the city made the residents pay to rebuild the Walmart.
There is no difference.
Liberal In Texas
(13,574 posts)Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)Seems to me Jerry Jones and others of his ilk who boasted about his windfall ought to pay those bills. They can do so and still retain a small profit.
Sick bastards.
If they continue to vote people into government who do not believe in government, we'll have more of this. Climate change is real. Addressing climate change is infrastructure. The Republican party refuses to govern, and they are penny wise and pound foolish.
Get out the vote.
I hope Beto runs for Governor.
sop
(10,243 posts)they need to answer one simple question: "better for who, exactly?" Laissez faire, dog-eat-dog, unregulated, free market capitalists always measure economic gains differently than you or me. We need a new definition for "better."