Power Companies and the State

[palani]

Odd connection. Here is Puerto Ricos debt crisis linked to the inability of the islands power company to collect from a remote hospital. Now consider that evidence of your identity as a resident of a state is your bill from an electric company (direct from the Bureau of Vital Statistics).

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2016/03/11/puerto-rico-power-company-cuts-off-electricity-to-hospital-over-nearly-4m-debt/

So being connected to the power grid has some connection to receiving political favors from the State? Who is to say. Stranger things have happened. The question is what test can you design to either prove or disprove this theory?

Can pulling the plug on the State be as simple as not being connected to the electrical grid? Literally?

[Glass]

my comprehension of the electricity service was that they were providing an accounting service. The electricity is free but you pay a usaged based fee for them to measure and report how much you use.

Certainly water was dealt with this way. Water was free but the delivery system had to be paid for and again the measurement and accounting. I believe Ireland has just transitioned to a measured water system where previously they did not pay for water.

Disconnecting would render the governments service superfelous however, the government are usually very keen for you to have their service, whether you want it or not. People here are not permitted to not connect or disconnect from "the grid" if it is available in their area. They will get a forceful visit at some point.

As we know things will only get better because the Government has now entered the carbon footprint minimization service field. It's a good model because they get to charge for taking stuff off you or for not letting you have it in the first place. So no input costs and plenty of fees to reap. Of course they will also need to measure and report this service so they can rub it in your face. And we will love them for it.

[palani]

The first personal service provided by government in the U.S. was free home delivery of mail. The year was 1862, the government was in the need of conscripts to join the battle with the southern states.

The year is 2016 and if you are receiving the benefit of free home delivery of mail then you are still participating in the war between the states (aka 'the war of northern aggression'). Now this concept is funny because there are many in the south who take advantage of the free home delivery of mail yet raise the southern banner.

[mick silver]

don't stamp come at a cost if so then there no free mail delivery

[Glass]

Now this concept is funny because there are many in the south who take advantage of the free home delivery of mail yet raise the southern banner.

Didn't the North classify the South as an insurrection?

[palani]

don't stamp come at a cost if so then there no free mail delivery

The stamp pays for transport from post office to post office. Even if you have a box at the post office the transport of the envelope to the box is considered FREE. RFD came later .. RURAL FREE DELIVERY. I guess free home delivery of mail originally was only within city limits but government had to reach out to incorporate country people into the scheme. An analogy is the present Equal Rights amendment proposed ... the entire population of MAN is insufficient to keep the economy rolling so WOMAN must be harnessed and forced to labor alongside.

The post office has a special place in society. Road signs showing how far it is to a distant city is not to the COURTHOUSE but rather to the POST OFFICE. If you were a child molester and required to live further than 2,000 feet from any SCHOOL that distance is measured from your MAILBOX rather than your FRONT DOOR.

Lincoln even used to necessity of keeping the POST ROADS open to prosecute a war upon the southern states.

[palani]

Didn't the North classify the South as an insurrection?
Congress walked out. Adjourned sine die. Only congress can declare war so how could a war be declared when they have walked off?