Downtown Georgetown
Typical One Percenters
RECEIVED Fri., July 13, 2012
Dear Editor,
I see that a bunch of well-fed white guys who live in … uhm … ”large” houses feel victimized because they think their large houses should get preferential, entitled, lower electric rates rather than progressive rates that everybody else pays for. Typical 1% mentality. They want an “independent board” to govern the people-owned utility, the better for them to manipulate to get lower electric rates than everybody else, I suppose. Even though every government from Congress to the city are wholly owned subsidiaries of Wall Street Nuclear Meltdown Cartel Capitalism anyway.
These white guys are like the for-profit “nonprofit” charter school victims of discrimination because they don’t get their turn at the taxpayers’ trough like those bullies, the public schools do.
My heart just bleeds. A tear winds its way down my right cheek. A violin sings.
Meanwhile, where are the opponents to this example of corpoROTification and profitization (not privatization) scheme to take over the people-owned electric utility?
None to be found.
The Neville Chamberlain/Vichy Democrats like state Sen. Kirk Watson and Mayor Lee Leffingwell – he's supposedly nonpartisan – are both willing collaborators in this scheme to let the 1% control the people-owned electric utility and give special, entitled, favored nonprogressive electric rates to the well-fed white guys in “large” houses. Watson and Leffingwell are willing collaborators and unindicted co-conspirators in this sleazy project.
And where are the other Neville Chamberlain/Vichy Democrats like U. S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett, or the so-called “Democratic” state legislators?” Democratic state Rep. Mark Strama, I know, is off spokes-personing for and coddling the way-profitable standardized testing industry and probably doesn’t have enough time to do anything else anyway.
Are there any real Democrats left in this town? Or have they all become Neville Chamberlain/Vichy Democrats? That’s right, Vichy Democrats. Worse than Obama in the first term, they punt on first down and surrender at the end of the first quarter. They cave instantly. What good are they?
The people-owned electric utility needs to stay people-owned and people-governed. Meanwhile, a people-owned and people-governed municipal bank would be nice for the people, for a change.
I see that a bunch of well-fed white guys who live in … uhm … ”large” houses feel victimized because they think their large houses should get preferential, entitled, lower electric rates rather than progressive rates that everybody else pays for. Typical 1% mentality. They want an “independent board” to govern the people-owned utility, the better for them to manipulate to get lower electric rates than everybody else, I suppose. Even though every government from Congress to the city are wholly owned subsidiaries of Wall Street Nuclear Meltdown Cartel Capitalism anyway.
These white guys are like the for-profit “nonprofit” charter school victims of discrimination because they don’t get their turn at the taxpayers’ trough like those bullies, the public schools do.
My heart just bleeds. A tear winds its way down my right cheek. A violin sings.
Meanwhile, where are the opponents to this example of corpoROTification and profitization (not privatization) scheme to take over the people-owned electric utility?
None to be found.
The Neville Chamberlain/Vichy Democrats like state Sen. Kirk Watson and Mayor Lee Leffingwell – he's supposedly nonpartisan – are both willing collaborators in this scheme to let the 1% control the people-owned electric utility and give special, entitled, favored nonprogressive electric rates to the well-fed white guys in “large” houses. Watson and Leffingwell are willing collaborators and unindicted co-conspirators in this sleazy project.
And where are the other Neville Chamberlain/Vichy Democrats like U. S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett, or the so-called “Democratic” state legislators?” Democratic state Rep. Mark Strama, I know, is off spokes-personing for and coddling the way-profitable standardized testing industry and probably doesn’t have enough time to do anything else anyway.
Are there any real Democrats left in this town? Or have they all become Neville Chamberlain/Vichy Democrats? That’s right, Vichy Democrats. Worse than Obama in the first term, they punt on first down and surrender at the end of the first quarter. They cave instantly. What good are they?
The people-owned electric utility needs to stay people-owned and people-governed. Meanwhile, a people-owned and people-governed municipal bank would be nice for the people, for a change.
Sincerely,
Thom Prentice
Thom Prentice
