Re: Data
- From: Richard Robinson <richardR@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 23 Aug 2008 11:26:01 GMT
Fenny said:
Previously on The West Wing...
Yes, I heard a piece on the radio a few weeks ago that warmed me up
In other arjs, I hear it claimed On The Arjf that one big reason why we've
to watch our heating bills hit the stratosphere, with no recourse except to
freeze [1], is because the people demanding it haven't been Investing In The
Infrastructure, which was claimed to be the great reason for them to be
looking after the family silver in the first place.
nicely when my blood started to boil. The denationalised private energy
companies are whining that nobody has invested anything in building new
generating plants and that the gummint needs to fork out something
stupid like UKP 20Billion for some more efficient power stations, or
else teh energy corps won't be able to make massive profits, cos there
won;t be any power to sell to us.
Yes. The one I was thinking of was gas storage. After all, it's 20 years
since the toriesoftheday committed us to gas and gave it to the capitalists,
you'd think they'd have got over the first rush of excitement and started
thinking by now. (ah ... s/think/wish/)
FFS, the whole point in privatising stuff, including the railways, is so
that the tax payer doesn't keep subsidising the process.
Oh, hey, there was never any proposal that we stop giving people zbarl.
Just that we drop the notion that it gave us any say in anything or, in
fact, left us with anything to show for it at all.
It's a neat, but ugly, reversal. The actual state of things is to take it
for granted that there's kind of a universal protection-racket going on - you
want this, that and the other from the state ? That's why you cnl gnkrf ?
Ain't going to happen unless a handful of usual suspects can make their
fortunes bigger on the back of it; nothing to do about it, it's the best of
all possible worlds, because nothing else is possible, because why would the
people with the zbarl put up with it ? Hey, look, they even own the labour
party now, see ?
And then the publicity machines do the flip and make out that it follows
from the above that if you let them pocket the money, the things will get
done. Which ain't necessarily so.
I never really understood how a government could get elected on a platform
of asserting that they weren't competent to do anything, in the first place,
but now we've seen this happening for a couple of decades, there's room for
someone to start pointing out that their preferred alternative has not done
what they said on the tin.
Ah, which last is probably the key, given that a week is said to be a long
time. Oooh, shiny, look ! a new cold war, how cool ! Wait till winter.
Hell in a handbasket, bah humb(contd. p94, film at 11)
--
Richard Robinson
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