Angry! (But grateful to be back on line, worried for the 239,000 who aren’t and the thousands who have lost so much) - Wait, What?

Angry! (But grateful to be back on line, worried for the 239,000 who aren’t and the thousands who have lost so much) - Wait, What?:

Angry! (But grateful to be back on line, worried for the 239,000 who aren’t and the thousands who have lost so much)

by jonpelto

But since there are still a few days until Election Day, I’d like to re-post a comment that I made earlier this week on Facebook, thanks to the generator at the local community center.

Let us take a moment to IMAGINE a world in which instead of giving $115 million in taxpayer funds to hedge fund criminals, or tens of millions to UBS who then lay-off 10,000 people or giving scarce public funds to the carrion-birds called “ticket-re-sellers,” all the while postponing vital transportation projects so the money could be shifted to the transportation fund to cover up the deficit in the General Fund, we actually invested in real infrastructure upgrades like burying key electric lines or creating these so-called micro-grids.

Yes, there would still be many people who would have lost power.  There might even be