Make money by killing people

By now just about everyone recognizes that the tobacco industry thrives by killing people, and selling cancerous products.  It is perfectly legal.  This morning Kadizzle got his bowels in an uproar reading about the power grid failure in Puerto Rico.  The same storm that hit Puerto Rico hit Cuba.  Cuba will recover it's power grid in about two weeks. Puerto Rico will take six months.  Why? Aren't socialist and communist countries supposed to be backward.  Cuba did what was good for everyone, not just a few.

Now back to North Dakota.  A simple minded women in Beulah who represents our district and has the affliction of being a Republican has some brilliant ideas.  This woman who actually works for a coal mine wants to tax the production of wind so her company can be more profitable.  Conflict of interest?  Back to Puerto Rico.  Some people in the hurricane struck area had solar panels and were able to operate independent of the grid.  Now to Kadizzle's amazement he read in the NYT that in Florida the power company is trying to make it illegal for people to produce their own solar power. Arizona Republicans are up to the same crap.  Our country has developed a wonderful system to make money, simply outlaw the competition or tax them to death. There is not end to this nonsense. Tesla the car company wants to sell cars directly to customers.  Sounds efficient and simple, but no. Car dealers don't want to be left out. So what do they do?  Car dealers pay the Republicans to pass laws that mandate only car dealers can sell cars.

Capitalism is supposed to be efficient.  It has become so efficient that no longer do you need to improve he product, you need to simply increase your budget for lobbyist. The coal industry with the help of the chief idiot The Donald now wants to have power companies paid to stockpile coal. The claim is in an emergency they will not run out of coal.  Kadizzle worked his entire life in the coal and power industry and the insanity of this idea is so clear.  Coal is, has been, and always will be stockpiled by power plants.  It is done for several reasons.  One reason it is stockpiled has nothing to do with emergencies.  The coal is blended for quality.  Has a power plant ever run out of coal? In my entire career I have never heard of it.  What really causes power outages is the grid.  The failure of the grid is the problem.  There are many ways to improve energy distribution.  One simple way is to use less of it. That is what Cuba did. Cuba of all places went to energy efficient lighting.  This took the burden off their grid.  Have you heard any American companies promoting efficiency.  Hell no, they sell power.

Our system now is supported by the wholesale abundance of ignorance.  People do not read, research or thing.  The people who do think rob the ones who are caught up watching "the game".   Nothing has changed.  The Romans realized that you could divert the dolts with circuses.  Now we have Fox, the idiot for president and little handheld devices that make sure our brains never engage in prolonged thought. Throw religion and Republicanism into the mix and you can sell the dolts on anything. Perhaps dotards should have been the word.  North Korea has figured out we have a dotard running the country, why can't we?