Premier Wynnes response to my hydro rate complaint...

[mosquito]

Choosing between heat and home

http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/choosing-be...k&_gsc=SBYAUHg
A Brockville man is drawing a lot attention after erecting a large sign on his house saying he's got to choose between heat and home.

Rick Russell says he's been squeezed into a spot no senior should experience.

Russell’s sign may be unusual but his situation certainly isn't as more seniors find themselves hovering at the poverty line, trying to hang on.

Brockville resident Rick Russell is drawing a lot attention after erecting a large sign on his house saying he's got to choose between heat and home.



His truck is for sale. Now his rented house is back on the market as Rick Russell figures out how his next stage in life will play out. The 68-year-old erected a sign on his house this week saying “"Another senior loses home due to high energy costs”, almost as a warning to others this is what might await them.

[JBen]

Cant say I've "given up" but......

“These are the kinds of stories we are hearing in rural Ontario,” Ontario PC Energy Critic Todd Smith said in Toronto today, “and now we are hearing similar stories in the suburbs as well"

And now that the burbs are finally feeling a wee bit of it, and a fraction of it given rate/delivery charges are cheaper and they have Nat Gas. Theres attention being paid by QP, the media, and lots of noise by poor residents of the burbs who also get/have so much more.....

[skypilot]

Nothing like a party and policies for the people eh?

[JBen]

Don't know what it is, or what it's going to take R. Obviously the insane amount of corruption/waste and usual stuff we see from all (though never this bad) wasn't enough to get people in the city to turf her before it came to this. Obviously the pandering/vote buying seems not to register, true they "all do it" but again, "on this scale" and too the detriment to so many? Imagine a family of 6, and mom/dad ignore 3 children and do everything, pour their limited resources into making sure 1 child is happy, taken care of.....

Was out with a brunch of friends in Oshawa last night for beers. Predictably the topic of Hydro came up. One guy, great guy, no idea what his politics are ( and they don't matter) said "They aren't that bad, I haven't noticed a difference"...And this is a guy that travels throughout the province on business.

So many just "don't care", so busy and wrapped up in their own lives and it won't be until things are so bad, that they are feeling it...But for it to start hurting people in the GTA, where there are lots of jobs, jobs that pay a lot, where so much is subsidized, etc etc....the other 3 that get the crumbs.....

/looks at an electoral map and that one small pocket of red (well 2 really) and a big sea of blue.

[yellow dog]

Gotta hand it to line052 for stepping up to the plate and actually taking measures and getting involved in the political game rather than complain.

[JBen]

Yeah, far better for the populace to bury their heads in the sand..............................
In fact unless your a member of parliament, don't complain about poachers, the MNR, the dwindling of Moose, gun control etc, either.

[JBen]

This like anything else, cause and effect. There are reasons why there are so many "complaints". Perhaps if more of the populace had listened years ago, or gotten vocal themselves.................

Freedom was hammered out on the anvil of dissent, discussion and debate.

Apathy, the other alternative, is as they say, the devil and perhaps one of the main reasons, things are so bad.

[skypilot]

Don't know what it is, or what it's going to take R. Obviously the insane amount of corruption/waste and usual stuff we see from all (though never this bad) wasn't enough to get people in the city to turf her before it came to this. Obviously the pandering/vote buying seems not to register, true they "all do it" but again, "on this scale" and too the detriment to so many? Imagine a family of 6, and mom/dad ignore 3 children and do everything, pour their limited resources into making sure 1 child is happy, taken care of.....

Was out with a brunch of friends in Oshawa last night for beers. Predictably the topic of Hydro came up. One guy, great guy, no idea what his politics are ( and they don't matter) said "They aren't that bad, I haven't noticed a difference"...And this is a guy that travels throughout the province on business.

So many just "don't care", so busy and wrapped up in their own lives and it won't be until things are so bad, that they are feeling it...But for it to start hurting people in the GTA, where there are lots of jobs, jobs that pay a lot, where so much is subsidized, etc etc....the other 3 that get the crumbs.....

/looks at an electoral map and that one small pocket of red (well 2 really) and a big sea of blue.

Most are in the dark, don't care, fat dumb and happy, or selfish. It was similar in the States. Finally after the novelty of barry wore off, like turdo/wynne, a few people realized things were getting worse. He, like Jr, had issues with the English language when it came to terrorism and was weak on economy like wynne and disastrous on foreign policy and deal making. Sound familiar?

The guy you mention, like many have severe optical rectitis and are clueless. He is fortunate he has a job and can afford to party at night, many can't.
I had a guy tell me the other day he really had seen no reason to NOT vote for Jr. next time. AND HE WAS FROM OTTAWA. I converted him on the spot and returned him to a sane person.

I was looking yesterday at the price increases at the grocery store due to carbon tax, etc. which, of course is on top of the increase blamed on the US/CAD delta. But hey, we are, you know, dealing with the "real" problems right?

Gas 1.04 in the down season of winter, dread to see the summer price and oil is relatively low/bbl.

People need to wake up, rise up and get behind a candidate other than the Fiberals with money and support. That is how you regime change in a "mobocracy."