welcome to the inaugural post of DAMN THE MAN!!!
A quick overview and then I am off to work for the Man.....yes, on a Saturday.....we'll get into that later. This is an undertaking I have contemplated for quite some time and then, finally, this morning I saw this headline:
Electric rates going up for third consecutive year
That's it. I've freaking had it-thats right, folks, I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!
Look now, I'm no socialist (although I probably would be if I didn't have such a strong genetic tendency towards hatred of authority-barring my own, of course) but SHIT has gotten OUT 'O CONTROL, FOLK!! I mean, COME ON!
In the interest of brevity this morning, let me just say this....I don't have a high-rise to throw my TV out of (which I never watch anyway) so I am taking my revolt to the cyberworld. I'm posting my comic 'Damn the Man', or 'Is PNC the AntiChrist?' and the complaint I filed this morning with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, just to get things warmed UP. All comments and suggestions are welcome albeit subject to derision (gotta put that disclaimer in just in case).
No more "Yassir Yassir", no more "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
To quote Howard Dean, as he was heard to utter one fine day around four years ago in that great home state of mine:
Look now, I'm no socialist (although I probably would be if I didn't have such a strong genetic tendency towards hatred of authority-barring my own, of course) but SHIT has gotten OUT 'O CONTROL, FOLK!! I mean, COME ON!
In the interest of brevity this morning, let me just say this....I don't have a high-rise to throw my TV out of (which I never watch anyway) so I am taking my revolt to the cyberworld. I'm posting my comic 'Damn the Man', or 'Is PNC the AntiChrist?' and the complaint I filed this morning with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, just to get things warmed UP. All comments and suggestions are welcome albeit subject to derision (gotta put that disclaimer in just in case).
No more "Yassir Yassir", no more "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
To quote Howard Dean, as he was heard to utter one fine day around four years ago in that great home state of mine:
"AAAAARRRRGH!!!"
Read my complaint
against JCP&L filed this morning (02/09/2008) with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities:
When I received my bill this month, the usage that the company had calculated for my household was 65% higher than usage the same month of the previous year-despite no changes at all in my habits or appliance usage. When I asked them to do a new reading of my meter, I received a voicemail stating that I needed to provide them with a key to access the meter. Because I live in a federal housing project, this presents a major obstacle for me as I work full-time (I have tried to obtain access to the electric room before for cable installation so I know it is a nightmare). However, I have never had to provide the meter reader with a key before and yet they do not seem to have a problem billing me each month. Now I read that our rates are expected to rise in the double digits in the coming year due to 'prices'. I also see that the CEO of firstenergy, in FY06 (most recent year available) made well over $12 million dollars. My complaint is this: In the last five years, my electricity rates have risen hundreds percent...something like 150%-therefore it stands to reason that the CEO's salary should be reduced by an equal percentage amount and that money should be put towards lowering the monthly rates. Obviously this man has not been doing a $12 million job. Why am I (and you and all of us poor working people) paying for this man's life of luxury when his performance is so dismal??
'Damn the Man', or 'Is PNC the AntiChrist?'
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