It has taken a while for me to get pissed off enough to start blogging again. But here I am banging away on the old keyboard. Sure the “L” key doesn’t work very well but I will give it a try once more.
What has frosted my balls this time is the impending sale of JEA. The Jacksonville Electric Authority. They are the community/city owned electric utility in Jacksonville Fl. If you live in Jacksonville you HAVE to use JEA as your electric water and sewage provider. There is no other public utility to choose from.
For some stupid reason JEA is researching their sale to a private corporation. This I have no problem with whatsoever. JEA is a city protected monopoly. What pisses me off is that they are building a brand new headquarters building in downtown Jacksonville. What is that going to cost? They spend millions on advertising about how great their services are on local TV, radio and the print media. Hell they even advertise now on YouTube! Why? It’s not like they are in a competitive market. People in Jacksonville HAVE to use JEA.
If that isn’t bad enough, the asshole leaders of this publicly owned utility give themselves millions of dollars every year in holiday bonuses. Now they have the audacity to raise your electric and water rates.
So their sale is fine with me…Well almost.
The city council would love to sell your public utility, THAT YOU OWN, in order to get a shitload of money for themselves. You see the proceeds from the sale won’t go to you the owners, Oh Hell No. The thieves on the city council will keep the money for more useless city projects. They will give tons of cash to the local football team owner and then they will all fly to London on our dime to watch the Jaguars play football. How many roads are under construction in this city? Yet they keep adding more and begging for more money to build them.
We are talking about FIVE BILLION DOLLARS here ($5,000,000,000.00). That’s the quote from the city council. I didn’t make that one up. That is about sixteen thousand dollars per JEA customer. Would they give you free electric and water service for a few years? Will they lower your rates for a couple of years? Hell no. They will piss the money away on pet projects and line their own pockets.
This is the same city council that swindled 2 billion dollars from the police and firefighters pension fund, They didn’t pay for any preventative maintenance for Metropolitan Park for fifteen years and now it needs to be scrapped. Yet the local football huckster has built a new amphitheater next door and we have to pay to park there to see a show. Most recently they need millions of dollars to repair our aging schools that they have ignored for the last fifty years.
It is a proven fact these people cannot manage the budget we currently have. Are we going to let them steal our property from us for billions more?
Thursday, October 3, 2019
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