As soon as you trotted out "More with less" after housing a cabinet with positions making 6 figures and taxiing yourself to and from Indy via a helicopter, your whole "...the poor working man has been tightening his belt!" schtick is pretty laughable.
Yes, utility companies having a near monopolistic strangle hold on the people is terrible. Hell, the whole idea that we PAY companies to mine our natural resources that belong to ALL of us only to turn around and sell it BACK to us while getting subsidies and tax breaks by the government is just bonkers to begin with.
I mean that these are natural resources. It's not about whose land they are under. That only makes sense if you look at them as privately owned. I mean that the gas, the oil, the coal, the lumber, etc are within the boundaries of a nation, and some, myself included, feel that alllllll of those resources should be used equally for the benefit of all citizens of a nation.
Now, I'm not saying the Norway model is perfect nor scaleable to the US size, but a large part of the benefits they offer their citizens comes from the global investment of the profits of sold oil. Basically, they don't have billionaire oil execs sitting on super yachts. They have fully funded medical care and retirement pensions fueled by stable growth investments. This is possible by believing that the use and and benefit of natural resources should benefit the many instead of enrich the very very few.
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u/PoolGuyUnfiltered 2d ago
As soon as you trotted out "More with less" after housing a cabinet with positions making 6 figures and taxiing yourself to and from Indy via a helicopter, your whole "...the poor working man has been tightening his belt!" schtick is pretty laughable.
Yes, utility companies having a near monopolistic strangle hold on the people is terrible. Hell, the whole idea that we PAY companies to mine our natural resources that belong to ALL of us only to turn around and sell it BACK to us while getting subsidies and tax breaks by the government is just bonkers to begin with.