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Texas is now a third world country…

Well…I’m sure you read about the ongoing problems in Texas where there are still widespread power outages that the moron governor Abbot is lying his ass off about, telling anyone who will listen that it is because of the green new deal that never passed the congress and is not in effect…or that the wind turbines froze up, or, or, or….you get the picture, the reasons keep changing…just to make the words rhyme…yep, stole that from Joe Walsh but it is true here….first, it’s not the wind turbines since they only supply at most 10% of the power for the state and wouldn’t cause this mess even if all of them froze up and fell down…..the great majority of the outages are caused by the fact that the energy producers aren’t required to make their plants weatherized at all and the gas and coal plants froze up…just like chemical plants keep exploding because they have also been deregulated to the point where there is no regulation and the owners can do whatever they want….and the Texas electrical grid is a stand alone that can’t draw power from the rest of the country so the feds can’t regulate it and make sure it’s reliable….one of the egregious giveaways to the power companies is that they are not required to have any excess power built in for emergencies, and are allowed to charge whatever they can get in an emergency….and that leads to exploding electric bills that are a hundred times what people normally pay per month….one example was from a homeowner who got a bill for 2800 dollars for two days of electricity that she got when the power came back on…and this is by design since the morons who run the system think that unfettered capitalism is just the best thing since sliced bread and ripping off the people is just how it is…and it makes their donors richer so it’s all good. I know the feeling in Texas is that people should take care of themselves…the “rugged individualism” that they spout every day…but if you can’t depend on government to help during a disaster, what the hell is it good for? Texas is turning into a third world country before our eyes….maybe this will open some of them to see how their state government has failed them…nah, probably not…