Comments on: Columbia Falls Aluminum Ceases Operations
By FightOrFlight on 10-31-09
Dearest Bonneville Power,
I am writing to ask why you don’t just reduce the rates to all us other rate payers so the the company can stay in business and those 88 folks left on the curb don’t have to look to the NOT quasi-government unemployment funds to survive????
We all would like lower rates, so whats the problem with that?
Sincerely,
Your Faithful QUasi-Customer
By Firebeam on 10-31-09
Um, could this be at least partially the fault of CFA?? I know other plants have sucessfully reached agreement with BPA to stay open—-at least in the short term. Don’t be too quick to heap all the blame on one side.
By JohnGalt on 11-01-09
Here is an excellent article to get everyone thinking about subsidies. Everyone seems to be against them until the person getting the subsidy is them. Maybe it’s just me, but that seems a bit hyppcritical.
As it states in the article; “When it comes to taking a stand on an issue, where you stand depends upon where you sit.”
Are those jobs worth ratepayers kicking in $100,000 per year per job in subsidies?
http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_80e88722-c6a0-11de-a2bf-001cc4c002e0.html
By Billy on 11-01-09
We have grown accustomed to having some faroff investors supply us with jobs in their offices and factories and have forgotten how to sustain a local society.
The community has cracks.
Ruthless attitudes toward self preservation held by those, who fall thru the cracks, where the stimulus or unemployment or welfare or good paying jobs or low paying jobs or government jobs, find themselves in competition with others like themselves for food and shelter and will have to adjust to working with each other, or the authorities will make the necessary adjustments.
How does it feel to hear the knock from the sheriff on the door with the court orders in his hand. When youve run out of options and need to find another place for you and your family to sleep. Long days and cold nights in the car with a wrinkled grocery bag containing a loaf of bread, sliced bologna, and jar of mayonaise.
Classified adds on the dash can barely conceal the drug dealing and prostitution just outside the car in the parking lot where the lights from the strip club shine on your children in the back seat snuggled beneath quilts while you wait for morning and a job interview on warehouse row.
You realise you’re mistake, spending your last couple thousand dollars trying to keep the mortgage and insurance companies and the taxman satisfied.
Now it’s you and the elements.
Now you are free.
By Vud on 11-01-09
JGalt:
Informative article !
(...it is funny to see some here who are ‘free market capitalists’ ; cry about Hope and Change when the market forces are allowed to work.)
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