Yes they most certainly can help Americans who have no way to provide heat for themselves this winter, if they do their friggin job and collect the UNPAID federal taxes from the deregulated utility monopolies that added those federal taxed onto their customers’ skyrocketing fuel and energy costs! These greedy energy cartels were deregulated by our government under the reign of Boy George. And on top of that, these wealthy monopolies got tax cuts on top of tax cuts over the last 20 years to the point where they don’t pay their fair share now! Instead of looking out for “we the people”, our government tricked out like a gaggle of hookers for the malefactors of great wealth who have fled the temple of our society.

Gas and electric utility companies across the US collect BILLIONS in taxes from their customers for the utilities’ corporate taxes – which the utilities keep instead of sending in to the government. Surprisingly, this is legal in most states (including Pennsylvania).

Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch explained, “Essentially, utility customers pay twice: once through the utility bill and again through the lost revenue to government. That means either higher taxes for them or less government services.”

When desperate poor people do what they have to do to survive, they’re accused of utility service theft. But when rich utility monopolies extort tax money from customers that they don’t turn over to the government, and when they price gouge the public, it’s called “free market capitalism.” It’s time to fight the economic terrorism wielded by the criminal cabal of economic cannibals and it’s time to place human rights above the “rights” of social predators to make obscene profits from policies resulting in the deaths of the poor.

Jacqueline S. Homan,
author: Classism For Dimwits

Two points: Do you really believe Clinton engineered the dot-com boom?? Give me a break the only idea he ever had was to drop trout.

Have you noticed that all the so-called green energy requires substantial subsidies from us the taxpayers? There is no viable alternative. The ONLY reason these “green” industries exist is to suck money out of our treasury. There will be no “green energy boom”.

Some less-than-useful ideas too, like buy your own woodlot (not everyone has access to cheap wooded land), shoot the dog (the blue collar who abandons the dog has the same mentality as the white collar who abandons 50,000 American workers), etc.

For the off-the-grid survivalists: Isn’t the whole point of this post to feel some compassion for others, and to realize that we’re in this mess together? It’s fine that you had the good fortune of coming across all the survivalist stuff through the years, and that your lives have allowed you the opportunity to make your preparations, and no doubt those preparations have involved hard work and sacrifice. But how can you feel anything but lucky that you had this opportunity? Can you understand that others have not had that opportunity?

Is your vision of the future destitution and poverty and violence for the masses while all 427 homesteaders mutter “told-ya-so”? Will that make you feel good, and feel smart? Do you think 350,000,000 Americans could realistically do the homesteading thing? It’s a curious attitude.