Friday, March 19, 2010

The electricity companies and the privatizations

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In a wonderful corner of the Costa Brava they take three days without light, without phone... There remain affected today more than 20.000 subscribers (what it means many other persons because it is necessary to multiply for those who live in every house). Nevertheless, Endesa, responsible maxim now of this outrage, goes out with semantic affectations and asks the mass media to abstain from using the word paid. According to the company, it is a question of "clients"... And like clients, already it is known, it is possible to treat them anyway. After all, the privatized electricity companies keep on being an oligopoly: and they are in charge! Go if they are in charge! You see how: yesterday they did not attend by phone to one of 20 calls that did not even do the Catalan public television to be able to report to the citizenship. But it is more, presented President Montilla in his facilities (that not the other way round) to find out and to urge them to proceed to the repairs with the maximum urgency, the problem of absence of supply continues without solution.

For the persons biggest stayed at residences and for some clinics some generators have been obtained, but they do not come for all. Yesterday it could be read in LV that Tom Sharpe, with his peculiar sarcastic style, at his 81 years did not remember to have lived "anything similar, not even during the Second World war in England". The English, resident writer was referring in Llafranc, to having to survive without electricity, being peeled of cold and with the fear of catching "a pneumonia" that might be "fatal" in a prosperous Catalunya and in the full XXIst century that neither nobody nor nothing put itself upside down for an exceptional snowfall in places where - not at least the gigantic electrical towers of Endesa - they are prepared to support. All the Sharpe fears - that expressed when scarcely it was taking 24 hours without light of course were shared by hundreds of major persons, of mothers and parents with sick children, and by thousands of citizens who, as the days have already happened - three endless days - have had to do a retrogression to the past, to those times in which the people were living in view of the sails, he was cooking and warmed up with the firelight of the hearth or was freezing the food with ice blocks....

Also yesterday, Jordi Miralles intervened in Parlament de Catalunya on behalf of his group, ICV-EUiA there asked President Montilla to "a major control públic" on the electrical companies... Since sincerely I believe that it remained short. I dress how they behave, verified with so much rigor that they trump reiteramente in the suministo of a public service of the first need, accepted by the Government so versallescamente the tariffs increase with the beneficial aftereffect that it has had in the benefits of the companies and so harmful to the persons of low revenues (that are the immense majority), the best thing would be that we are thinking of nationalizing them again because, unlike what they wanted to do to us creeer: the market does not work! And while they prosper and they do not even cost like businessmen, the people lack a fundamental public service.

If we turn back in two clear errors (and recognized or recognizable): the elimination of the Tax on the Patrimony and the loss of economic control on the electrical companies, equal turns out that ZP can begin behind also in the increase of the VAT, which so much is going to harm the persons of minor resources, and with step we fill the public fund of the richest and of the big companies with benefits...: would not this be a good socialistic program?

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