Welcome To Connecticut The Third World State-Part 3

Now that most of the power in Connecticut has been restored the blame game is in full swing here in our Third World State.  We now see our elected officials who have received a great deal of money in campaign contributions from Eversource Energy condemn them now for their response to the power outages due to the Tropical Storm.  We now see how ineffective and inept Connecticut's Public Utility Regulatory Authority (PURA) is during a crisis.  It kinds of reminds me how ineffective and inept Connecticut's Department of Public Health is during the Covid-19 crisis.  In this case Connecticut's Public Utility Regulatory Authority (PURA) is a vast governmental bureaucracy created to help employ five commissioners who are paid an incredible sum of money for supposedly regulating and over seeing the legal monopolies here in the state.  They somehow try to help you understand why Connecticut has some of the highest electric rates in the country with some of the worse service to go along with those high rates.  The money that is spent by this agency especially with now five commissioners due to the 2019 House Bill 7424 instead of three who earn combined well over $750,000 in salaries and benefits is economically irrational given Connecticut's economic crisis and high unemployment.  They have failed miserably in this crisis.  Three Commissioners can not solve PURA's issues why did Ned Lamont believe five would?  I forgot two more state political jobs can be paid for by Connecticut Taxpayers. 

High electric rates and poor service can be traced to several factors.  Eversource Energy top five management people earn over $40 million dollars.  One can argue that and rightly so that customers help pay for those salaries.  If one looks at 2018 Senate Bill 9 it shows why electric rates will skyrocket in the future due to the mandate to change over to renewable power over the next several years.  Ned Lamont argued on Twitter on July 30th that only 4% of the rate increase was due to the mandate even though it was accepted fully by PURA.  He suggested that Eversource Energy electric customers turn down their air conditioners and save energy.  

Massive campaign contributions flow into both state parties from Eversource Energy.  It is logical to assume that those contributions help to let our elected leaders overlook the constant shortcomings of Eversource Energy and its customers from high electric rates to poor service during a storm.  It is also logical to assume that PURA and its Commissioners just rubber stamp what these same elected leaders want them to do as we have just seen with these rate hikes.  Thus it is a no win solution for both Connecticut Eversource Energy customers and Connecticut Taxpayers.  They pay for poor service through both their high electric rates and high taxes.

The solution to this problem is the following.  First disband PURA and its commissioners.  The overseeing of utility monopolies in the state should be done by a non political independent agency.  Secondly, eliminate all utility lobbyist and campaign contributions by these same utilities in the state.  This has influenced bad decisions by our elected officials to reach the Third World State point that we are in today in Connecticut not just with monopoly electric companies but also with telephone, cell and cable TV and internet companies.  Change is needed if we are ever going to regain our state economy and not have businesses and household spend the bulk of their monies on excessively high taxes coupled with excessively high utility rates.  Enough is enough.

Welcome To Connecticut The Third World State-Part 2

 Welcome to Connecticut: The Third World State, Ned Lamont, Governor.  That should be the new sign at the entrances on the highways when one enters Connecticut but I have not seen them being put up yet. Oh well.  Obviously the Boston Consulting Group who is our current and future de-facto government has put a hold for these new signs for now. 

The continuing crisis that many Connecticut residents must face is when will their electricity be back on.  But fear not as there has been an abundance of blame being thrown at Eversource Energy and United Illuminating by Connecticut's elected officials who never seem to share the blame when it comes to a problem or crisis that they have helped to make.  In this case they have mandated a great deal of renewable energy to be created and used by these two utilities while having no comprehension as to how much it will cost both the utilities and or the customers of these utilities.   Our omnipotent one party rule's only concern seems to be making life as expensive and as difficult as it possibly can be while the political elite can line their pockets with good old fashion Connecticut Taxpayer's monies.  This bill for renewable energy is a great example of this.   And let us not forget the beauty of highly paid and somewhat forgotten utility company lobbyists who lobby our elected officials and who will make sure to smooth over ill feelings from yet another damaging storm.  Let us look at the stale rhetoric United States Senator Richard Blumenthal spews for the media while on yet another tour of damaged Connecticut homes and businesses.  The Senator demands action!  The Senator shows how much he cares so long as he is the lead story on Connecticut's biased media reports!  The Senator wants mass firings and or changes in Eversource Energy!  All the same garbage he stated during the last storm, and during the storm before that and even the storm before that.  On and on and on.  Maybe Senator Blumenthal along with Senator Chris Murphy and the five Connecticut Democrat United States Representatives could all grab chainsaws and rakes and be productive in helping the citizens they supposedly represent by helping to clean up the state for once in their lives rather than just spewing cheap bombast oratory that does nothing whatsoever to help the situation.  Now that would be a novel approach to this type of crisis wouldn't it?

But yet again when one lives in a Third World State what can one expect?  Common sense and logic when dealing with a crisis?  Possibly real actual preparations before a storm or a crisis hits?  We know that did not happen during the never ending profit making Connecticut Covid-19 crisis.  Nor do we know when and how Connecticut's economy will be allowed to fully open.  Possibly when the Lamont's family Hedge fund has made enough profit?  Or when lobbyists have contributed enough to the Connecticut Democrat Party to assure two more years of dictatorial rule?  What is really the plan for any crisis in Connecticut?  

Connecticut sorely needs real leadership in its state government.  It can no longer afford the constant failed liberal agenda from losing mail-in election ballots, to a never ending Covid-19 crisis that offers no solutions and a constant fear of losing your electricity and food during any type of storm summer or winter.  Connecticut needs someone to lead it into the 21st Century.  Ned Lamont and the Connecticut Democrat are incapable of leading this state.  We live in a Third World State.  Enough is enough.

Welcome To Connecticut The Third World State-Part 1

Welcome to Connecticut: The Third World State, Ned Lamont, Governor.  That should be the new sign at the entrances on the highways when one enters Connecticut.  Since the hysteria and lock down of the Covid-19 crisis of March coupled with the massive economic damage it has caused, more economic destruction has occurred this past week with a Tropical Storm.

At the peak of the storm almost one third of the state's residents lost power.   And for Eversource Energy customers their last month's bill showed in some cases a 50% increase in the bill due to several factors including less power being used, and a state mandate that all energy be renewable in several years.   Thus those customers got higher rates plus no service.  And it seems to be a regular pattern here in Connecticut as to when a storm hits.  Power is out for days and Connecticut continues to have some of the highest electric rates in the country.  Oh well that seems to be acceptable to our elected officials as the blame starts as soon as power is out.  Ned Lamont's attention is now taken off the profit driven Covid-19 crisis and he must somehow answer to the public during a hot spell as to why power take days to restore while condemning high electric rates that are a product of his party's legal legislation that has passed.  And with a totally inept Public Utilities Regulatory Authority that does nothing to monitor nor oversee the state's utility monopolies such as Eversource Energy.  Please remember that these utilities have massive lobbying groups in Hartford that help nurture their companies at the expense in my opinion of their paying customers.  But isn't that how a Third World State operates?   A ruling political elite in this case coupled with a do nothing highly paid state agency regulatory group and lobbyist influencing legislation.  What is better than that?   The costs of clean up for this storm will be enormous thus causing more economic havoc to the state.  Insurance losses and personal property losses will be high especially with spoiled food.  

I truly wonder if Connecticut's state government has any plans whatsoever for an emergency?  It really does not seem like it to me.  Whether it is a public health crisis with no apparent state Public Health Commissioner in charge except for a highly paid consulting group or now yet another storm that creates chaos to the state's residents and businesses with losses of electricity, phone and internet services, there is really no plan in an emergency.

And that is the way it in Connecticut: The Third World State.  Enough is enough.