Posted by
CyberMom on Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:30:37 PM
Or is it, is Oregon getting stupiderer? I don't know as it's hard to tell here in the Pac Northwest where the I.Q.'s of our elected officials are being sold off to fill their pockets. The only catch is, they weren't doing so great in the beginning!!
In 2005, the citizens of Oregon piped up against Governor Kulongoski's heavy taxation, budget drilling, fool-hardy prison:
The State is absolutely convinced that by 2014, we'll have imprisoned (long-term) at least 17,000 Oregonians. Unfortunately, at the current rate, that number is much, much higher. In fact, with all the jails added in and short-term prisoners, that number escalates dramatically! For a state with only 3 million people, our prison population, that's a LOT. Don't be fooled - the real numbers are higher.
Oregon currently has 30 people awaiting the death penalty...
Oregon has a 30% recidivism rate
Oregon has 14 prisons (only 1 being max security)
Now for the ignorance:
Yes - the governor is making it appear as if everything's awesome. Dice the school budget - throw in a prison! Hey, afterr all, these guys talk about the budget like they're all about to get rich quick. and the rest of us are the peons footing the bill!
The governor promotes less gvt intrusion, then creates laws to control lives like measure 11....
He promotes supporting an economy turn-around, then cuts off stimulus monies to unemployment benefits to support profiteering projects like a new prison....
He attacks racial disparity in Foster Care, and then sends out MORE support and new appointments at DHS to take MORE kids away from their families...
This man is not only corrupt, he's not too bright. But, are Oregon prisons overcrowded? Yes, in fact, they are. But, rather than spend stimulus monies to 'deal' with these problems, to provide correctional/rehab opportunities, to improve education and what-not, he reduces school year terms, throws people in little cells never to see them again and then begs the feds for more stimulus money! He's GM, Ford and the others all rolled into One!
But wait, there's MORE -
Pacific Power, the main provider for Oregon, has approached the government with a request to increase business and residential costs.
They prepared a FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR page "brief," to justify their logic. And, the reason is?
They need to fund more infrastructure to handle the growth and bigger income they're planning on from a population boone. HAHAHAHA - yup - they want to increase the costs for THEIR POCKETS!!! Talk about AIG....
These guys are the biggest utility scam artists on the west coast. Just google their name in relationship to lawsuits.
http://www.pacificpower.net/File/File78116.pdf; http://www.aclu-or.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Lit_main_ct; and SO many others. These are the same people that are constantly being punished by the government for taxation and utility fraud violations!!! For pete's sakes - why doesn't the government interject themselves into the power company's lives and just END THIS?
Every complaint - EVERY ONE - that has come before the Oregon PUC has defaulted in their favor. They have been forcing power spikes, averaging bills, and illegally manipulating the system. Without the PUC EVER acting as a checks and balance for PP&L - we're in trouble.
As for needing the money for renewable energy projects? Check again. We ALREADY pay a tax in our current bill for this. Then, when we go to buy it, we have to pay extra above and beyond the current rate to adjust for the green tags PP&L has to buy. The do NOT buy green tags, in OR, as required and then transfer the savings to the customer at equal rates. They charge us the FULL production rate of coal AND the RETC rates. And, the added taxes - how do those support renewable energy projects when, almost EVERY one in the Pacific Northwest has had to be privately funded.
The Energy Trust of Oregon is a joke and designed solely to mess up the renewable energy industry. But, nobody watches over them, either. Welcome to the Pacific Northwest. Great if you're rich -and can afford to go broke slowly. With a bill "lower" than the rest of the nation? HAHAHAHA - try again. States without winter times do not pay what we do. PP&L's rates, by themselves, are as high or higher than ANYwhere else in the nation - we just have less taxes in Oregon.
Great - more governments - more lying. Just what we need. The Governor's office is raping the people for their OWN gain, the utility companies are cheating the government - at OUR cost and then trying to rape us in return, and the list goes on and on and on!
Yup, I'm pretty sure that Oregon's gettin' ta' be the stupidestest of every state out there!!!