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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 07:49 PM
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Use the blackout as an excuse to shout ENRON any chance you get!
Let's face it, it's just another tragic result of the Reagan-era deregulation fever that allowed companies like Enron to flourish and states like California to be screwed.

And now they want to deregulate the media? More? Go meet your reps and tell them that you not only want them to roll back the new FCC rules - you want to restore the Fairness Doctrine and roll back the catastrophic deregulation of the 80's!

Go to http://meetings.commoncause.ctsg.com/meetings/selectMeeting.asp?event_id=1 for a start.
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 07:52 PM
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1. Good idea.
Where is Ken Lay?
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 07:52 PM
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2. Enron and Cheney's secret energy task force.
Edited on Fri Aug-15-03 07:53 PM by oasis
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CarlBallard Donating Member (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 07:54 PM
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3. good add
Was the energy commission too buisy with Iraqi oil wells to try to deal with upgrading the power grid?
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billbuckhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 08:22 PM
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5. The grid system was set up for energy trading and not reliabilty.
They "Enroned" the electric power supply. Profit over people's security. Almost a manslaughterlike equivalent to terrorism.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 08:26 PM
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6. We don't even know who attended the meetings. Not yet.
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inthecorneroverhere Donating Member (842 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 08:17 PM
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4. Right-on!
The deregulation schemata indeed started during the Reagan Admin. Think tanks such as the Ludwig von Mises institute and numerous Ayn Randers were heavily involved.
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 08:32 PM
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7. Why not use the Fair & Balanced terminology?
Enronomics

:evilgrin:
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 06:27 AM
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8. Hi ClassWarrior!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 06:39 AM
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9. Shout "First Energy" instead
Bu$h Pioneer and an advisor to Cheney, Tony Alexander is the CEO of First Energy, the company that owns Ohio Edison. It is starting to look like it's his company that caused the black out.

This is not the first time Alexander's company has had serious problems. I guess Alexander is too busy giving away $100,000's of dollars for tax breaks and deregulation to bother with upgrading infrastructure.


Davis-Besse Nuclear Plant Comes Close To Disaster As Lax Regulator Places Company Interests Ahead of Public Safety

http://www.northstar.sierraclub.org/NUKE_Near_Miss_Ohio.htm
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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 09:01 AM
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10. I tell people that this is about deregulation. . .
and that this is what happens when you vote Republican.

:kick:
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