OK, you get your electric bill and it's for $3000 for one month & it's NOT a mistake

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

You HAVE to have electricity, right? But, no matter how you economized, there would have to come a point where you simply could not afford the burdens of this expense. Only a very small percentage of the American public would be unaffected - the ones who are simply much, much, richer than the rest of us.

But what if there was a way out of this dilemma? Suppose that one of the benefits of working for particular companies was that they had negotiated group rates with the electricity company and you could pay 1/10 of the going rate? And the government will also pay the electric bills of the elderly. Would that be an answer to the problem?

I guess it would work for you if you had one of these jobs. So you have one of these jobs and your house is warm and bright, but all around you the houses in your town are going dark one by one.

[dipsydoodle]

1. You using an analogy ?

:shrug:

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

2. Well, sorta

I was working on a longer post.

I was attempting to make a link between a very bad health care business model applied to other industries that could be considered necessities. I hit post sooner than I meant to. But what the heck. Now it has a certain obscure fortune cookie quality that permeates some of the stuff I write anyway, intentional or not.

[dipsydoodle]

12. Then at least

I interpreted what you wrote correctly. :hi:

[TexasObserver]

5. Nothing gets past you.

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. No, you do not have to have electricty:

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/09/lebanon_county_woman_92_not_wo.html

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

4. Yes, yes, of course. Most people consider electricity one of the niceties of modern life they would

prefer to keep. (And that picture looks like a lifestyle we would all want to emulate.)

[Walk away]

6. Soilent Green. Turn old people into electrical power.

Savings all around!




:sarcasm:

[Swamp Rat]

11. Now we know the REAL reason for the Death Panels: ELECTRICITY... IT'S PEOPLE!!!

[Lagomorph]

7. If the energy plan comes down as published...

You could see both!

Come on Congress, do your jobs.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

8. If your bill is $3,000.00 and it's not a mistake

Your kid is growing pot in the basement.

[Lance_Boyle]

9. If the operation costs that much

it's MORE THAN paying for itself in sales. ;-)

[yost69]

10. Isn't solar the new fad now?