Electricity would be nearly impossible for the US government to provide on their own. It would have to be done on a federal level due to transmission lines crossing multiple regions, and can cost billions of dollars. Realistically the federal government could never accomplish this. Source: I’m an engineer in this sector
@@CoryRayGordonMusic As the citizens, we have a responsibility and duty to keep our government reigned in. With corporations calling the shots, they have government (and the monopoly of violence) on their side. We need to take back our government.
This is legitimately terrifying. It’s bad enough that essential services or electricity and internet are privatized, but for water, the thing that every person requires to live, is their next target is unimaginable.
As a queer person who has always known, welcome to finding out that bullies are never satisfied and will always want more. You idiots shoulda listened when we warned you the first million times, but you always gotta let us die before you realize maybe the bad people are wrong.
Wait, you want the internet service to be state-owned ? Lmao, just look at the scenario of my home country brazil in the 90, where the telephone and internet services were state-owned
@@haydentravis3348 I'm sorry but you being treated wrongly for being queer and the water being taken into corporate hands are two separate issues. No need to lash out as if the commenter voted against you or said something demeaning.
More people should pay attention to this. It's what corporations do. But people don't really seem to want to know. Maybe because they mostly work for the giant corporations and don't want to lose their soft pointless jobs? Maybe because it would require them to take some responsibility for the consequences of their own actions? Nah... That _couldn't_ possibly be it...
As a staunch believer in capitalism and the free market, I agree. Unless they actually operate in a functional free market with meaningful competition, which is almost never the case.
As a Puertorican, I saw our only gov owned electrical plant get taken over by private corporation Luma, we are now paying more & daily blackouts are a constant occurrence. 😒
Real. All Luma has done here is lie and let our island lose electricity every odd month. For many, every day. And for even more, the power hasnt come back since the category 5 hurricane hit and thus had to leave.
That's a reason why it was so clandestine and hush hush. Politicians selling out towns to the 1% shareholders is nothing new, but there needs to be more awareness of this so people will be more informed when come elections. Since it was so hush hush I'm of the belief the local politicians new the ramifications and we're probably bribed.
That's kind of what they do when they elect their representative officials. Though, in a functioning democracy, those officials *should* realise that such a specific issue like this is not something were elected for determining, and therefore it *should* be put up for vote.
Well, that’s the thing, voters do get to vote on the people that make the decisions on their behalf. This is why usually politicians won’t make long lasting improvements that are difficult to swallow in the moment, unless it benefits them personally
Usually, public meetings are held to discuss such things. However, the extent to which the public is informed about the meetings and the public input is valued, tends to be minimal. Always remember, it isn't a bribe if you call it a "campaign contribution."
Once they've messed up the air for good with all their pollution, and only filtered/recycled air provided by utilities inside enclosed buildings is clean enough to breathe...you bet your @$$ air is gonna be next. We've got to consume less, replenish more, and stand up to ALL efforts to privatize basic needs that are already publicly funded through our taxes paid.
Decades of deregulation, Underfunded enforcement , corrupt campaign contributions and bastards on every level who will do anything for a little money and you wind up with a country that doesnt serve or protect the people at all.
Funny how 20-30 years ago, everyone was worried about communist dystopia similar to China but worse. Turns out we’re heading towards a capitalist dystopia that’s basically neofeudalism.
Corporate greed isn't any different than any other greed. The problem is the governments enabling this sort of thing. Monopolies shouldn't be privately owned or if they are, there needs to be restrictions on how and when rates are increased.
@@nacarreira777absolute facts!! And more work is still needed Vote Blue in November is the best way to turn the tides. Robert Reich is an economist who explains this in detail
@@MyLoganTreks Vote blue, you have to be kidding. Inflation is bad enough as it is. The more people this moron lets into the country, the more housing costs will increase. There was a time when the Democrats represented the working class, but that has changed. They have become greedy warmongers today.
omfg this is hilarious as a UK citizen, we sold our water off under thatcher and we saw the same effect. No shit! water is an inherent monopoly and shouldn't be sold.
Thanks to the dictatorship in Chile (and the Reagan/Thatcher school of thought) we have the same here, and they aren't even national companies: Anglian Water (UK) is here (through a local company), with some Spanish company. Only in small rural towns the water is managed by neighborhood cooperatives
@@pedrova8058, the people in the US really don't seem to grasp that exactly the same things happening all over the rest of the world are going to happen to them, too so they don't care. Mostly the damn boomers who don't care about anything except their retirement accounts and never cared about the things that didn't happen in their own neighborhoods.
Due to corporate greed coming soon, "my friend passed away yesterday because he didn't pay his air bill on time and his air was shut off by Acme Air Systems Corp. Ltd." The corporate owned funeral home industry will make millions too.
Doctor Who covered this idea in season 10 episode 5 "Oxygen". Where the workers have to pay for every breath they breathe (provided by suits they wear) as they work in the company's mining station (which has no built in oxygen atmosphere). The idea of any corporation having that much control over your very breathing is...terrifying.
They own nothing. These lands are not theirs, the materials are not theirs, and the people are not theirs. But when someone else tells us that violence isnt the answer and then the other side resorts to violence 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
My dad was born in Oklahoma 1935, he said, "a man has a right to live. He has a right to have a place to sleep and food to eat." It is our God-given right to have a little property, and buy our meals, and enough to drink. These free resources provided by @earthsystem MUST NOT not be a Capitalist Investment!!!! AMERICANS OWN AMERICA. This is OUR land.
Same with electric. It is just my husband and I. We have no dishwasher, only do 2 loads a week in laundry. Rarely cook in the summer. Shut our AC off when cooler. Rarely watch TV or have computers or anything large. Yet,every month our bill goes up. Almost double. Why???? Our government is selling us out. There needs to be a way to stop this.
@@peppermeat8059 That isn't an option for most people. Too expensive, not enough inventory, and no jobs out there. There is a reason people live in cities.
👍 Right. This is exactly why government has to exist. Because there are certain "businesses" too essential to be corrupted by corporate profitability. City water supplies are one of them Just imagine how far corporate cost-cutting would go (to maximize "profitability" & "efficiency") if the police & fire departments were "privatized," for example. Privatization has never worked in the public's interest, & it never will. We need municipal gov to control the water supply, because municipal gov is made up of local _TOWNSPEOPLE,_ not wealthy businessmen!
A Native American proverb predicted this. "Only when the last tree has fallen, the last river been poisoned and the last fish caught, will man realize he cannot eat money."
Public utilities CANNOT be for profit, they are not free market commodities or services. The end consumer DOES NOT have a choice of two or more options for utilities, therefore making public utilities private for profit enterprises is in fact a racket and should be illegal.
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr That's why you have safeguards against it, true capitalism is cannabilistic, you need regulated market systems that force companies to bend the knee and get back in their place.
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehrCapitalism inevitably results in corperate greed that costs the consumers more as time passes. Either capitalism needs to be heavily regulated, or replaced with socialism.
''Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians, bureaucrats, financiers, elites, bankers, pharma, MIC, big-agri, big-bus, msm, and kindred.....; creating solutions to problems they created in the first place." - Walter E. Williams
@@enemyofthesheeple gubment is useless without people of progressive, as in progress towards egalitarianism and cooperation, mindset pulling the levers. the gubment has people who believe in the commodification of everything at the levers. we need rights protected on all levels. individuals, unions, politicians, business people, community boards. all these groups, and more, need the mindset of protecting PEOPLE, not the interest of commodification and exponential growth. all hands on deck. a good starting document to consider alignment with would be the Declaration of Human Rights put out by the UN. people are VERY disconnected with even the most basic of rights that people have.
@@enemyofthesheeple well, it _ought_ to be the government. In the words of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, "all men [...] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights [...] among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. [...] to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
Why is selling public water systems to corporations even legal in the first place??? I assumed that was illegal until now, how do we even know they're properly treating the water if they're not public or state-owned???
70 years of Conservatism and Populist nonsense, breaking down safeguards and governmental regulatory power has this outcome. You can't be a corporate puppet and not create a modern Feudal state.
It already is, people are just being fooled to be angry at the wrong things. Divide and conquer, always works. Why do you think maga has become so popular... Its the promise of draining the swamp and jobs and justice.... Problem is, dump and his ilk have them all fooled. Real good.... But really... this is a war between decency and a future for all of US or letting big corp greed take over the rest of your country. Do you think corps will care one bit about human basic rights.... like clean water, housing, clean air, nutricious foods.... Oh, right, almost gone already. Get mad at the right things.... The big Dump is just a symptom on something much more sinister. You would do well taxing and regulating the ultra rich.... Vote for freedom from big corp, take your country back. Peace
All this privatization was put to a test in Chile. I worked down there for 2 years and everything was privatized. From water, to highways, trash, electricity. As over 50% of their citizens live well under poverty. It’s a very horrible practice.
Because the local government ain’t making much money off of water since water is meant to be cheap, then companies step in then buy water for what seems like a pretty penny, then butcher the prices for the customers in order to make a profit. Truly America at its finest
Because they get a backdoor deal, enough money for everyone on the city council to retire quite comfortably. Not long after the deal is done they all move far away, leaving the city to pay the price. They don't even have to pay everyone off, just the simple majority. Drink up.
Because it lines their pockets. How much of that 30mil do you imagine ended up in political pockets from the state house down to the local level? Probably about 90%.
Aqua ran the water utility’s in a neighborhood that I lived in 600$ a month water bills and the water had contaminants in it but Aqua didn’t care and when they did they raised rates and the water stayed the same companies like Aqua have no place in our society.
considering police aren't allowed to do their jobs/are actively punished for doing their job in certain areas that might actually not be as bad of an idea as you think
Police gonna pull us over because we didn’t look at them right and give us a 5 million dollar fine. But if you have rewards maybe 100k off. Maybe give out loans with unrealistic interest rates with garbage policies.
They tried to pull that mess in Cleveland Ohio when Dennis Kucinich was Mayor. He stood by the people to the point that the City went into default, withstanding much criticism, to save the Public Utility. To this day he's the reason that it's City Owned and saved his constituents absolute Millions. Great guy we need more of. He's running for Congress and hope he wins. Vote hard people and do your research to back the right ones. Remember to follow the $$$$!!!
@@HKgaming86 Thanks so much for saying that. It means a lot to me. I really hope you enjoyed the Holiday. We all sure have a lot of fights ahead of us this coming year and the number one enemy of the Oligarchs is information as to what they're up to and who's pulling the strings. They just love to put Lipstick on Pigs and con people into voting against their best interests, exemplified by what they just pulled with the Bill against Gerrymandering. Happy New Year!
Imagine working in government and thinking selling your citizens water supply is a good idea. I'm not mad at the company, I'm mad at the elected officials that allowed this to happen. This is criminal.
This plan been in affect for years my family in Puerto Rico own a mountain with three natural water sources and they have been approached bye company from the state with offers wanting to buy it my family always declines all the time but they come back every so often this company has bought other water sources around there the mountain been in our family for generations my uncle always told me that only the wealthy is going to be able to afford water I always thought he was paranoid but now that I am an adult I understand that he is absolutely right and why he Protects this mountain so much.
Same with food - which was the big issue with mon santo/Bayer - buying the rights to heirloom seeds etc. Then charging people tax who grow veggies from these seeds... So Wrong on So many levels!
Corporations did something like this to a river flowing downstream from California to Mexico. The corporation, during the 1970s to 1980s, ended up using all the water, and replacing it with a contaminated water filled with toxins. I believe it created the system of poverty there in Mexico. Thus the people started illegally migrate to the USA
graduated college, worked hard, never came ahead. Now I live in a rural county in a trailer on a small plot of land with a well. Its not an awesome apartment but my bills are around 300$ a month. I work part time doing siding and two days work covers the bills and everything is paid for. I sleep in, read a lot, its awesome.
The fact that these days everything in America is big this big that is so sad. People don’t even use company names anymore because these are essentially monopolies. It’s so dystopian to hear this ”big food” or ”big water” shit.
I was a dual certified water and wastewater operator in two states for more than a decade. I am here to tell you that, if your water system has been purchased by a privately owned company, do not drink that water. They are not purchasing the company with the hopes to provide safe drinking water. Profit is their only concern. Water and wastewater systems are expensive to operate. The very first thing that a private company does when they purchase a system is give it a facelift. All of the fresh paint is put there to mask the fact that they cut the annual maintenance budget in half. I have lived this scenario twice before I decided to exit the profession for good. Once the system falls so far out of maintenance that it needs an overhaul, they sell the system to an even worse company that funds the overhaul and raises the price of the service to you. It's disgusting. The water quality that they produce is not safe for consumption and the wastewater that they control is polluting your environment due to low maintenance. We need to stop putting our environment in the hands of private 'end stage capitalist' companies.
@@deemelody2396 yes but they handle 100 percent of the sampling in house. The licensed operator (that’s what I was) is in charge of the sampling and testing. The operator is required to keep logs as well. They are threatened with their jobs if the samples fail so they never fail. Even when they should.
But the people who are profiting from it have their own private water supply that they paid for by taking the money from everyone else through exploitation via water monopoly
Call it what it is: Big companies want to own everything you need to live and survive. This channel has covered medical, food, water, housing, electricity, cars, busses, jobs, and all have a single thread. If it's an absolute need, some guy in a board room wants to own it, just so he can own it. The cost doesn't matter; being able to say 'no you aren't getting it' does.
That's the point .the large corps will control every breathe we breathe the water we drink and we will own or control nothing. They will eventually have more power than national government. Look up the world economic forum.theres talk of eventually creating a global corporate congress that will basically be a world government.
Not “just to own it”. Worse, they want to own it because the customer has no choice. Can’t walk away no matter how high the price or how bad the service. They want to own monopolies and own land, water and air if they could.
Don't be f***ing stupid. Food has been privatized for almost two centuries, since after the start of the Industrial Revolution. The supermarkets and bodegas are just the last part of the retail chain before food gets to you.
I think it is ok for them to be privatized but at the very least let people choose between what is privatized and what is not. About air, I'm guessing you are talking about breathing air. No one should get charged for breathing air in any shape way or form. There is a chance they are taxing us for breathing air or going ti because of the global warming/climate change laws so that the government can tell people the reason they are taxing people is so that they can put that money into funding global warming/climate change projects. Which, whenever government gets their hands on money, they always misuse their funds.
Air is bc when u treatment of water = Daf system or holding tanks ect. Require air scrubber = air permits and regulations. Ik i work in wastewater we have air permit. Remember Us Humans need air !!! Rest of ecosystems use co2. Why do think industrial age was so bad. When realized that what kept plants and trees growing and producing. Now this clean air political crap for past 20years is joke with politicians riding the coat tail making bank. @eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee9531
Okay we need to start demanding our politicians to start doing something to STOP these private equity firms. This HAS TO STOP. Everywhere in America is going to become Flint Michigan if it doesn't.
As many people will probably have mentioned, we are already in that dystopia in the UK. But to bring it up to date, Xmas Day, 2024, an investigation has just discovered that private water companies have been diverting government subsidies to pay bonuses and dividends. If they need subsidies, how can they even be considered a private company? They are dependent on the taxpayer, yet get to keep private profits. Our rivers are polluted, and our beaches are filthy, yet when work needs to be done, the companies depend on the taxpayer to stump up - they have no spare cash, because they have used it all to pay dividends and bonuses, and to service the massive debts they have incurred. (All debts were wiped out on privatisation, so these are all new debts).
In other news, Blackrock, Vanguard, and Berkshire-Hathaway have bought controlling interest in the atmosphere, and will be charging a monthly access fee.
Can confirm. Our township sold our sewer line to a private "utility provider" (BCWSA - bucks county) . Our rates went from $280/ yr to almost $800/yr. They tricked us by saying nothing would change. Then after 3 years, they 3x'd the rates on us.
A water utility is basically a monopoly, pretty much letting a private company become the monopoly. All they care about if exponential profit growth and they have no competition so they can do whatever they want. And its not like people can just forego water, a basic life necessity.
@@thec9424 How would they do that? Shut off their own water or do you mean 2nd Amendment time? I'm serious. How are massive amounts of Americans supposed to fight back? The people that make these rules are insulated from them, outcome wise AND physically. It's their messengers, the other little people doing their job trying to stay employed, is who we can reach.
@blues03 They keep erasing my replies. But basically we would need to do what the prolife did to end roe v wade, but for lobbying. They used voter suppression, gerrymandering, fear tactics, outright lies... whatever it takes to achieve their goal.
Utilities (including internet access) all need to be required to be run as a not for profit entity. All mid level management and above (including executive) pay should be tied to Independently measured and validated metrics such as quality, customer satisfaction, and outages. Lobbying by these entities should be banned, and violations should be SEVERELY punished and any fines indexed to inflation as to never again becomming "the cost of doing business"
For two years, I was severely burned by privatised city water, only escaping it when I moved to another state. Investors are getting paid handsomely for doing no work, in their entitled way leeching off those who work and harming them in the process. This must be stopped.
Companies are FOR PROFIT, but water is a necessity for consumption, cleanliness, and growing food. Whether covered through taxes or paid directly, Greedy companies will find a way to exploit the system to line their own pockets.
More Perfect Union is to be congratulated for being ahead of the curve on this issue! I think they have done something more important than just reporting on an entrenched problem.
My town smartly sold their water and sewer system about 7 or 8 years ago. The bill then was $25 a month for sewer. This month? It was $250. "We need to fix up all the pipes because the town never repaired them" they say, yet not a single pipe has been replaced. The township keeps shooting down every attempt to mitigate the disaster. And the water company blatantly broke the contract by blasting up the price.
In PA and our water bill has nearly tripled in 10 years after our system was bought by American Water. We use a pretty modest amount, around 2500 gallons a month and our bill is about $150. The customer charge for water and sewer before you use a drop is almost $35. They buy up systems and before you know it you get a notice saying your bill is going up, and the regulators here let them charge whatever they want. If you live in an area where one of these companies are attempting to buy your system fight tooth and nail against it.
Everything’s is for sale in America including people. Working people are the collateral for how our elected officials spend our money or borrow from other countries.
You can bet that they are putting BETTER SAFER WATER in mills closer to high income neighborhoods. While lower income has chemical, old piping, fluoride, ect..
They did this Peru. Many companies only paid about $200 for the water, and then they cut people off from the water. Seriously, look it up. People have to walk miles for water, farmers are now living in deserts it’s awful!
Public utilities should remain public. A private company should not be allowed to purchase a monopoly that the public depends on for basic needs. The citizens should not be held financially hostage with their only option to move somewhere else. Kind of a coincidence that the lawmakers who sellout are usually the first to move out of area they just screwed over.
Money is the root of all evil. Public goods and services needed for survival should NEVER be allowed to be privately owned. Learn from these life lessons and do better.
I purchased a fixer upper and when I turned on my utilities and asked that the water service was left off until I could check for leaks. No meter was installed, I used ZERO gallons of water, but still had a sewer bill. This happened for multiple months.
Well not always, but things like railroads where you can't have any competition or say critical infrastructure is an absolutely insane idea. Tho I guess the US also has some serious issues with companies that claim they compete but don't like uh, Comcast and Horizon are two ISP who just by "sheer chance" happen not to service the same areas.
They're trying to do this where I live in CA. There's a petition going around to at least allow a vote before selling the sewer system off. This is a low income area and a lot of people are going to suffer of this happens.
This has been around for decades. I moved out of a municipal water town to a town using private water. Our prices went up, and the pressure at the hydrant went from 80psi to we’d be lucky if we got 30psi. But most towns can’t afford to run a whole ass water plant. Life sucks get over it
They are doing the same with the town dumps too. It used to be to town provided that for the tax they received if it went over the budget they could pull it from somewhere else and the streets were clean. Now a private (for profit) business runs it and the price hass doubled every year while the restrict the services they offer so people weee dumping in the back roads they put a gate up block the citizens from use them and people were dumping it in front of the gate. Then they had a “bag limit” so trash was piling up now the town has a rat problem all to “save” the town (not its citizens) a cuppa bucks😐
Water, food, air, shelter. These sustain life. Since we have the "right to life" this means we have the right to water,food,air, and shelter, directed by government, not private entities. Yes, private homes can exist along with.
Corporations can't be trusted with responsibility in our basic needs or common welfare. That's a federal, state, or municipal responsibility, whichever does it most efficiently.
Already happening here, the "city" a small town of around a 1,000, allowed a company to take over the water department. This was done by the city council over the objections of most of the town's population. The water, which was never of good quality, now it's undrinkable and smells.
They did this in the UK. Now, all the shorelines and riverbanks are covered in t u r d s . Do you want t u r d s in your water? Do you want to pay more for that to happen?
Here's a suggestion for a topic: I'm a 50+ year old with 20+ years of professional driving experience (over 1 million safe miles) I also worked as a trashman in Portland Oregon and as a lumber mill worker in northern Idaho (short version... LOTS of relevant job experience. Around 2 years ago I walked away from the trucking industry due to long term health concerns and a lack of work life balance. I spent a year exploring alternatives and decided to pursue a career as a transportation maintenance worker, for many reasons. Opportunity to learn new skills, physically demanding work outdoors (some of us enjoy it) good benefits and work life balance. The pay scale has always been modest (as is most government work) but due to inflation over the last several years, our pay scale isn't even sufficient to afford rent prices in SE Michigan...let alone enabling the purchase of a home. We get called out at 2am to plow the roads, and set up road closures for state police. We work all 4 seasons repairing guardrails, signs, drainage infrastructure and patching potholes all to serve and keep our community safe, and the economy flowing. Most of this work is done inches from speeding motorists. If WE can't afford even the most humble version of the American dream, something is deeply wrong.
Those who work the hardest are paid the least. That's the American way.... capitalism without restriction. If a regulation pops up, buy off a politician to remove it. Yay, america.
Water and electricity should *NEVER* be in corporate hands.
Yeah & we need to take the internet too
Electricity would be nearly impossible for the US government to provide on their own. It would have to be done on a federal level due to transmission lines crossing multiple regions, and can cost billions of dollars. Realistically the federal government could never accomplish this. Source: I’m an engineer in this sector
@@UnyonRing Yeah, you're right, socialistic minds can't check for facts and reality.
u ever played a game called MONOPOLY mu guy?
Id add internet and cell phone towers to that.
It's wild to me that there are still so many people who haven't figured out that corporations _absolutely never_ have your best interests in mind.
Replace the word corporations with governments.
Nope... Corps do not
@@CoryRayGordonMusic As the citizens, we have a responsibility and duty to keep our government reigned in. With corporations calling the shots, they have government (and the monopoly of violence) on their side. We need to take back our government.
No one but you has your best interest in mind.
It's unfortunately a little more complicated than citing platitudes
This is legitimately terrifying. It’s bad enough that essential services or electricity and internet are privatized, but for water, the thing that every person requires to live, is their next target is unimaginable.
As a queer person who has always known, welcome to finding out that bullies are never satisfied and will always want more. You idiots shoulda listened when we warned you the first million times, but you always gotta let us die before you realize maybe the bad people are wrong.
Wait, you want the internet service to be state-owned ? Lmao, just look at the scenario of my home country brazil in the 90, where the telephone and internet services were state-owned
@@haydentravis3348 I'm sorry but you being treated wrongly for being queer and the water being taken into corporate hands are two separate issues. No need to lash out as if the commenter voted against you or said something demeaning.
@@GyhcdhbJotghlbcw One country does not represent an entire policy decision. Brazil is not the United States.
@@haydentravis3348being gay shouldn't have anything to do with water being unaffordable.
"Privatise the profits, socialise the losses" in action
ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Capitalism
@@Blackatchaproduction Yep, working exactly as it's supposed to, not as the propaganda we're fed says.
@@Blackatchaproduction Corporate welfare. The only welfare Republicans always love.
More people should pay attention to this. It's what corporations do. But people don't really seem to want to know. Maybe because they mostly work for the giant corporations and don't want to lose their soft pointless jobs? Maybe because it would require them to take some responsibility for the consequences of their own actions?
Nah... That _couldn't_ possibly be it...
Investor owned utilities should be ILLEGAL.
Indeed. All utilities should be publicly owned.
As a staunch believer in capitalism and the free market, I agree. Unless they actually operate in a functional free market with meaningful competition, which is almost never the case.
But you LOVE CAPITALISM
@@N9Breaker
...and with Your comment, You're just showing the world how arrogant, ignorant and utterly clueless You are...
Well done!
@@N9Breakercapalism 😡
As a Puertorican, I saw our only gov owned electrical plant get taken over by private corporation Luma, we are now paying more & daily blackouts are a constant occurrence. 😒
Island . and Another Hurricane...stay Strong..
Luma is all about the money, this company doesn't care about us!
Luma has been busy buying the government for its own profits ,check it out people of P.R.
Real. All Luma has done here is lie and let our island lose electricity every odd month. For many, every day. And for even more, the power hasnt come back since the category 5 hurricane hit and thus had to leave.
Yes now chile electricity is owned by china, and bills are gettin creazy, before was spanish.
And the townspeople don’t get the right to vote on this purchase? Wtf
That's a reason why it was so clandestine and hush hush.
Politicians selling out towns to the 1% shareholders is nothing new, but there needs to be more awareness of this so people will be more informed when come elections.
Since it was so hush hush I'm of the belief the local politicians new the ramifications and we're probably bribed.
This is the problem with Republics. We farm out our political decision making to corrupt officials who only care about benefiting themselves.
That's kind of what they do when they elect their representative officials. Though, in a functioning democracy, those officials *should* realise that such a specific issue like this is not something were elected for determining, and therefore it *should* be put up for vote.
Well, that’s the thing, voters do get to vote on the people that make the decisions on their behalf. This is why usually politicians won’t make long lasting improvements that are difficult to swallow in the moment, unless it benefits them personally
Usually, public meetings are held to discuss such things.
However, the extent to which the public is informed about the meetings and the public input is valued, tends to be minimal.
Always remember, it isn't a bribe if you call it a "campaign contribution."
Water is peoples most important resource. Water is life. Should never be owned by private companies. Same with electricity and sewage.
Housing, food, or college education. End corporate profits
Would you rather it be owned by the government?
@@Homedepotorangeyes, because then it would be owned by the public… that’s what the government is after all
@@HomedepotorangeYou're quite the genius ain't ya 😂😂😂😂😂
@@Homedepotorangeyes actually. Because then you can vote on how its handled vs just being handed a bill.
Corporate greed is rampant. There is no end to what they will try to monetize. Don't be surprised when air is next.
There already trying that.... watch about the new monetary system this lady with glasses talks about that very thing
"And I remember when Trees were everywhere!
And no one had to *pay* for air.
So I say, let it grow!"
Once they've messed up the air for good with all their pollution, and only filtered/recycled air provided by utilities inside enclosed buildings is clean enough to breathe...you bet your @$$ air is gonna be next. We've got to consume less, replenish more, and stand up to ALL efforts to privatize basic needs that are already publicly funded through our taxes paid.
In modern day America we would call the Lorax a w0kE RadIcKaL LibeRul and made the o hare guy president.
It’s like watching a dystopia unfold in real-time and no one is bothering to stop it.
Decades of deregulation, Underfunded enforcement , corrupt campaign contributions and bastards on every level who will do anything for a little money and you wind up with a country that doesnt serve or protect the people at all.
Funny how 20-30 years ago, everyone was worried about communist dystopia similar to China but worse. Turns out we’re heading towards a capitalist dystopia that’s basically neofeudalism.
Not enough people know it's happening.
@edsmith6504 Oh, we all know it is happening. We are all just too comfortable, complacent, and distracted with synthetic issues.
@@edsmith6504radical left for inflation
Control water, control food, control energy…. CONTROL THE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!! Come on man how do we stand together and fight back?????
Fighting back will be villified sadly
Comparing that to the terrorists the governments secretly created
Join the RFK Jr movement.
We the people will take our power back! ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸
@@1984FarmDreams That and folks have to stop being scared.
We can’t. They overruled our constitution with a law saying that we cannot rise against the government or we’re breaking the law.
Easy ppl need to head to the Whiteshouse in numbers and demand change
It's kinda like, someone should be FIGHTING this, AGGRESSIVELY.
With extreme prejudice
I am getting so sick of these corporations and their greed…it is just inhumane. So sick of it!!!
Corporate greed isn't any different than any other greed. The problem is the governments enabling this sort of thing. Monopolies shouldn't be privately owned or if they are, there needs to be restrictions on how and when rates are increased.
Antitrust laws need to be enforced.
Vote and educate everyone you know on these reasons to vote Blue in 2024
@@nacarreira777absolute facts!! And more work is still needed Vote Blue in November is the best way to turn the tides. Robert Reich is an economist who explains this in detail
@@MyLoganTreks Vote blue, you have to be kidding. Inflation is bad enough as it is. The more people this moron lets into the country, the more housing costs will increase. There was a time when the Democrats represented the working class, but that has changed. They have become greedy warmongers today.
omfg this is hilarious as a UK citizen, we sold our water off under thatcher and we saw the same effect. No shit! water is an inherent monopoly and shouldn't be sold.
it's like this little known board game called Monopoly!
Thanks to the dictatorship in Chile (and the Reagan/Thatcher school of thought) we have the same here, and they aren't even national companies: Anglian Water (UK) is here (through a local company), with some Spanish company. Only in small rural towns the water is managed by neighborhood cooperatives
You forgot to mention the fact that most of our water companies are also owned by 'foreign corporations'
@@pedrova8058, the people in the US really don't seem to grasp that exactly the same things happening all over the rest of the world are going to happen to them, too so they don't care. Mostly the damn boomers who don't care about anything except their retirement accounts and never cared about the things that didn't happen in their own neighborhoods.
Then there are people who actually defend Thatcher...
Due to corporate greed coming soon, "my friend passed away yesterday because he didn't pay his air bill on time and his air was shut off by Acme Air Systems Corp. Ltd." The corporate owned funeral home industry will make millions too.
Doctor Who covered this idea in season 10 episode 5 "Oxygen". Where the workers have to pay for every breath they breathe (provided by suits they wear) as they work in the company's mining station (which has no built in oxygen atmosphere).
The idea of any corporation having that much control over your very breathing is...terrifying.
How the hell can they sell something that doesn’t belong to them? It’s for the citizens
They think they are God. You will own nothing while they will own everything.
Purify it .. condition it.. sterilize it.. pressure it to your faucet...and recycle ♻️ it ....UNTIL U DO THAT U CANT BITCH ABOUT IT
Just ask a Native American 😢
They own nothing. These lands are not theirs, the materials are not theirs, and the people are not theirs. But when someone else tells us that violence isnt the answer and then the other side resorts to violence 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
DNR is a good Example of this.
this is ABSOLUTELY INSANE to me that THIS IS EVEN A TOPIC OF CONVERSATION. I really do hate it here... the greed and evil is much too palpable.
My dad was born in Oklahoma 1935, he said, "a man has a right to live. He has a right to have a place to sleep and food to eat." It is our God-given right to have a little property, and buy our meals, and enough to drink. These free resources provided by @earthsystem MUST NOT not be a Capitalist Investment!!!! AMERICANS OWN AMERICA. This is OUR land.
They have special schools to teach people how to be this evil
@@greg6500 shhh. Wharton grads will hear you.
@@greg6500 You mean schools like economics? 🤣
@@Seticzech MBAs will be the end of us.
Same with electric. It is just my husband and I. We have no dishwasher, only do 2 loads a week in laundry. Rarely cook in the summer. Shut our AC off when cooler. Rarely watch TV or have computers or anything large. Yet,every month our bill goes up. Almost double. Why???? Our government is selling us out. There needs to be a way to stop this.
its honestly best you move out to somewhere more rural, buy land, install solar etc because you both arent going to survive any longer living there
@@peppermeat8059 This is a temporary solution.
This is basically a corporate Manifest Destiny, and we're the natives whose land is being stolen.
@@peppermeat8059 That isn't an option for most people. Too expensive, not enough inventory, and no jobs out there. There is a reason people live in cities.
@ honestly americans are always being screwed over no matter what they buy
Utilities should NOT be commodities.
utilities are commodities...
@@gray3508 I mean in the literal sense of the word they are.
@@gray3508They are not. Go lick your boot
👍 Right. This is exactly why government has to exist. Because there are certain "businesses" too essential to be corrupted by corporate profitability. City water supplies are one of them
Just imagine how far corporate cost-cutting would go (to maximize "profitability" & "efficiency") if the police & fire departments were "privatized," for example. Privatization has never worked in the public's interest, & it never will. We need municipal gov to control the water supply, because municipal gov is made up of local _TOWNSPEOPLE,_ not wealthy businessmen!
@@magnificentmuttley154 If you don't think municipal gov is corruptible, you're fooling yourself!
A Native American proverb predicted this. "Only when the last tree has fallen, the last river been poisoned and the last fish caught, will man realize he cannot eat money."
They'll give us synthetic meat before they ever let themselves realize they've done something abominable.
@@SavageFreddy33keep your guns people
@SavageFreddy33 it's already happened with lab meat 😢
@@SavageFreddy33Not in Florida.
Who TF are you kidding? People have been eating gold for centuries.
Public utilities CANNOT be for profit, they are not free market commodities or services. The end consumer DOES NOT have a choice of two or more options for utilities, therefore making public utilities private for profit enterprises is in fact a racket and should be illegal.
We wish.
When it comes to greed there are no limitations.
and people will call you a communist for wanting non-profit essentials
I'd say the same about for profit " healthcare".
@@justthinking526 Interesting path of destruction, that. Look up KFC vs. Arbys... and how that lead to the destruction of US healthcare.
For decades, they were regulated monopolies, and things worked very well. (Just like most things in America used to work very well).
Some products and services should NOT be for profit. Utilities, healthcare, education, and a few others.
capitalism demands everything that can be commoditized be commoditized
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr That's why you have safeguards against it, true capitalism is cannabilistic, you need regulated market systems that force companies to bend the knee and get back in their place.
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehrCapitalism also means no bailouts for mega corporations or filing for bankruptcy 11 times, but here we are.
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehrCapitalism inevitably results in corperate greed that costs the consumers more as time passes. Either capitalism needs to be heavily regulated, or replaced with socialism.
Wow we live in sad times indeed. Everything is for sale in America. Nothing in sacred anymore.
1970s..Me Me and Me ..
''Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians, bureaucrats, financiers, elites, bankers, pharma, MIC, big-agri, big-bus, msm, and kindred.....; creating solutions to problems they created in the first place." - Walter E. Williams
Underrated comment.💯💯💯
Absolutely correct
commodification of EVERYTHING is the mindset that has to be changed here.
human rights need to be protected.
Okay. Who's doing the protecting of said rights? Because it isn't the gubment.
@@enemyofthesheeple
gubment is useless without people of progressive, as in progress towards egalitarianism and cooperation, mindset pulling the levers.
the gubment has people who believe in the commodification of everything at the levers.
we need rights protected on all levels.
individuals, unions, politicians, business people, community boards. all these groups, and more, need the mindset of protecting PEOPLE, not the interest of commodification and exponential growth. all hands on deck.
a good starting document to consider alignment with would be the Declaration of Human Rights put out by the UN.
people are VERY disconnected with even the most basic of rights that people have.
I don’t think it couldn’t be, we need to take back our government from the corporations. Eat the rich.
@@enemyofthesheeple well, it _ought_ to be the government. In the words of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, "all men [...] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights [...] among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. [...] to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
@@NateROCKS112 do they have your consent to steal your income? 🎤 drop
Any local government/officials who allow this should be removed ASAP,
Any contracts deemed null and void,
and an investigation started..
Why is selling public water systems to corporations even legal in the first place??? I assumed that was illegal until now, how do we even know they're properly treating the water if they're not public or state-owned???
70 years of Conservatism and Populist nonsense, breaking down safeguards and governmental regulatory power has this outcome. You can't be a corporate puppet and not create a modern Feudal state.
They'll get found out they aren't, go "bankrupt" and drop the bag. Everybody goes home with a golden parachute, we're left with the mess. Repeat.
Wow. Greed is going to tear this country apart.
But will use propaganda like flashy words or fake scenarios to cover it up
It already is, people are just being fooled to be angry at the wrong things.
Divide and conquer, always works.
Why do you think maga has become so popular...
Its the promise of draining the swamp and jobs and justice....
Problem is, dump and his ilk have them all fooled. Real good....
But really... this is a war between decency and a future for all of US
or letting big corp greed take over the rest of your country.
Do you think corps will care one bit about human basic rights....
like clean water, housing, clean air, nutricious foods....
Oh, right, almost gone already. Get mad at the right things....
The big Dump is just a symptom on something much more sinister.
You would do well taxing and regulating the ultra rich....
Vote for freedom from big corp, take your country back.
Peace
All this privatization was put to a test in Chile. I worked down there for 2 years and everything was privatized. From water, to highways, trash, electricity. As over 50% of their citizens live well under poverty. It’s a very horrible practice.
Why are local governments letting corporations buy water. 😡
Greed polluted brains?
Because the local government ain’t making much money off of water since water is meant to be cheap, then companies step in then buy water for what seems like a pretty penny, then butcher the prices for the customers in order to make a profit. Truly America at its finest
Because they get a backdoor deal, enough money for everyone on the city council to retire quite comfortably. Not long after the deal is done they all move far away, leaving the city to pay the price. They don't even have to pay everyone off, just the simple majority. Drink up.
They get paid fat sacks of cash
Because it lines their pockets.
How much of that 30mil do you imagine ended up in political pockets from the state house down to the local level?
Probably about 90%.
Aqua ran the water utility’s in a neighborhood that I lived in 600$ a month water bills and the water had contaminants in it but Aqua didn’t care and when they did they raised rates and the water stayed the same companies like Aqua have no place in our society.
They do, though.
Their boardrooms should serve as marvelous end recipients of high velocity retirement.
Try go to attorney offices with free consultation and ask lawyers to see if they think your cases have higher potential to win in court.
We tried lawyers and got nowhere the Judge basically said if you don’t like the prices move
@@DoctorDReidlike that’s easy. If you are having trouble keeping up with bills how are you supposed to save up to move?
Thanks for posting this, I wasn’t aware this was going on. It’s a dam shame what corporate greed is doing to this world
This is exactly why we don’t want the privatization of public entities! What’s next fire,police and private mail?
Re mail: that’s what is going to happen under DeJoy. He owns a company that would gobble up USPS.
considering police aren't allowed to do their jobs/are actively punished for doing their job in certain areas that might actually not be as bad of an idea as you think
Police gonna pull us over because we didn’t look at them right and give us a 5 million dollar fine. But if you have rewards maybe 100k off. Maybe give out loans with unrealistic interest rates with garbage policies.
@@SuzanneWhoI don’t understand why Biden hasn’t gotten rid of DeJoy. It seems some things are escaping his advisors.
when it comes to law enforcement ANYTHING is better than what we have now
They tried to pull that mess in Cleveland Ohio when Dennis Kucinich was Mayor. He stood by the people to the point that the City went into default, withstanding much criticism, to save the Public Utility. To this day he's the reason that it's City Owned and saved his constituents absolute Millions. Great guy we need more of. He's running for Congress and hope he wins. Vote hard people and do your research to back the right ones. Remember to follow the $$$$!!!
thank you for your service Ohioans 🫡
@@HKgaming86 Thanks so much for saying that. It means a lot to me. I really hope you enjoyed the Holiday. We all sure have a lot of fights ahead of us this coming year and the number one enemy of the Oligarchs is information as to what they're up to and who's pulling the strings. They just love to put Lipstick on Pigs and con people into voting against their best interests, exemplified by what they just pulled with the Bill against Gerrymandering. Happy New Year!
Thank you to the people who fight for the little guy... 🙏🙏🙏
Politicians should not be allowed to sign off on this without a vote of the township
Or each County.
This js why USA isnt a democracy. Corporations choose policies and politicians not us.
Imagine working in government and thinking selling your citizens water supply is a good idea. I'm not mad at the company, I'm mad at the elected officials that allowed this to happen. This is criminal.
no no i am definitely also mad at the company lmao
the officials are stupidly making a devil's bargain. The corpos are The Devil in this equation
All of them are bad.
@@Eaode right this guy probably works for the company that's going to do this I'm glad you called him out Im proud of you 👏🏾
This plan been in affect for years my family in Puerto Rico own a mountain with three natural water sources and they have been approached bye company from the state with offers wanting to buy it my family always declines all the time but they come back every so often this company has bought other water sources around there the mountain been in our family for generations my uncle always told me that only the wealthy is going to be able to afford water I always thought he was paranoid but now that I am an adult I understand that he is absolutely right and why he Protects this mountain so much.
Control the water, control the people.
Same with food - which was the big issue with mon santo/Bayer - buying the rights to heirloom seeds etc. Then charging people tax who grow veggies from these seeds...
So Wrong on So many levels!
Bro, they're already in control, quit foolin' yourself.
They own you
Can’t control what falls from the sky
@@improvisedsurvival5967 someone can
The Native Americans have been fighting for clean water for years. They have said you can not drink OIL.
WATER IS LIFE!!
Land and freedom! Team up with them. This is the way
✊
Indeed. DAPL is where I joined the fight. I support Lakota Peoples Law Project. I also support Independent non profit journalism/Propublica.
Corporations did something like this to a river flowing downstream from California to Mexico. The corporation, during the 1970s to 1980s, ended up using all the water, and replacing it with a contaminated water filled with toxins. I believe it created the system of poverty there in Mexico. Thus the people started illegally migrate to the USA
What's next? They already took our electricity, radio & TV. Imagine private owed roads & highways...
You must be behind, this already exists
The UK privatized water and sewage. The Thames is overflowing with sewage now.
bad news, Thames always overflowing with sewage, it's just when stealing from the colonies is taboo, u instead steal from your neighbor!
Horrible. Absolutely horrible 😞
Because they never upgraded the sewers from mixed to separate sanitary and storm sewerage.
The UK used to have a great train system too.
I don't understand the correlation with Corp owned water and overflowing sewage in seas. I'm confused here
graduated college, worked hard, never came ahead. Now I live in a rural county in a trailer on a small plot of land with a well. Its not an awesome apartment but my bills are around 300$ a month. I work part time doing siding and two days work covers the bills and everything is paid for. I sleep in, read a lot, its awesome.
@@anthonybarneswhat did you do w your bachelors? It’s supposed to be for an entry to cyber or data science
The fact that these days everything in America is big this big that is so sad. People don’t even use company names anymore because these are essentially monopolies. It’s so dystopian to hear this ”big food” or ”big water” shit.
I was a dual certified water and wastewater operator in two states for more than a decade. I am here to tell you that, if your water system has been purchased by a privately owned company, do not drink that water. They are not purchasing the company with the hopes to provide safe drinking water. Profit is their only concern. Water and wastewater systems are expensive to operate. The very first thing that a private company does when they purchase a system is give it a facelift. All of the fresh paint is put there to mask the fact that they cut the annual maintenance budget in half. I have lived this scenario twice before I decided to exit the profession for good. Once the system falls so far out of maintenance that it needs an overhaul, they sell the system to an even worse company that funds the overhaul and raises the price of the service to you. It's disgusting. The water quality that they produce is not safe for consumption and the wastewater that they control is polluting your environment due to low maintenance. We need to stop putting our environment in the hands of private 'end stage capitalist' companies.
Finally, my water can be consulted by a consultant consultant who consulted the consultant's consultant.
Sounds like the freight trains in the US😵💫
Don't the private water companies have to test the water to the same standards as the public ones?
@@deemelody2396 yes but they handle 100 percent of the sampling in house. The licensed operator (that’s what I was) is in charge of the sampling and testing. The operator is required to keep logs as well. They are threatened with their jobs if the samples fail so they never fail. Even when they should.
@@deemelody2396 Well, bottles water isn't held to the same standard as tap water. Something to think about
Why are these privatized utilities not regulated as a public utility? Unlike telecom, there is zero chance of competition.
They are technically regulated but the regulations are bought and paid for.
Purchased self regulation. When did the wheels fall off?
Imagine unironically thinking democracy works
The British tried this. Now their seas are full of sewage.
But the people who are profiting from it have their own private water supply that they paid for by taking the money from everyone else through exploitation via water monopoly
Call it what it is: Big companies want to own everything you need to live and survive. This channel has covered medical, food, water, housing, electricity, cars, busses, jobs, and all have a single thread. If it's an absolute need, some guy in a board room wants to own it, just so he can own it. The cost doesn't matter; being able to say 'no you aren't getting it' does.
You will own nothing and be happy. Remember that slogan. Know where it comes from.
amen, capitalism has become cancerous now that their only opponent (communism) is long gone.
Bro did you watch the fuckin video. It’s literally about big BUSINESS buying what was owned by LOCAL government
That's the point .the large corps will control every breathe we breathe the water we drink and we will own or control nothing. They will eventually have more power than national government. Look up the world economic forum.theres talk of eventually creating a global corporate congress that will basically be a world government.
Not “just to own it”. Worse, they want to own it because the customer has no choice. Can’t walk away no matter how high the price or how bad the service. They want to own monopolies and own land, water and air if they could.
Here..
Ohio considered Selling
The Ohio Turnpike...several years Back...Citizens Raised " Hades "
Water, food, shelter, and air should never be privatized.
Don't be f***ing stupid.
Food has been privatized for almost two centuries, since after the start of the Industrial Revolution.
The supermarkets and bodegas are just the last part of the retail chain before food gets to you.
I think it is ok for them to be privatized but at the very least let people choose between what is privatized and what is not. About air, I'm guessing you are talking about breathing air. No one should get charged for breathing air in any shape way or form. There is a chance they are taxing us for breathing air or going ti because of the global warming/climate change laws so that the government can tell people the reason they are taxing people is so that they can put that money into funding global warming/climate change projects. Which, whenever government gets their hands on money, they always misuse their funds.
DEMOCRATS can't stop
They can be privatized, but don’t allow them to donate to political candidates! Overturn Citizens United vs FEC!
Air is bc when u treatment of water = Daf system or holding tanks ect. Require air scrubber = air permits and regulations. Ik i work in wastewater we have air permit.
Remember Us Humans need air !!! Rest of ecosystems use co2. Why do think industrial age was so bad. When realized that what kept plants and trees growing and producing. Now this clean air political crap for past 20years is joke with politicians riding the coat tail making bank. @eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee9531
Keep public utilities public.
Okay we need to start demanding our politicians to start doing something to STOP these private equity firms.
This HAS TO STOP. Everywhere in America is going to become Flint Michigan if it doesn't.
If they can sell the water service without telling me, I can drill a private well without telling them.
And rain gutters turn into water tank in the basement.
corporations will stop at nothing to make sure EVERYTHING is for sale for a profit. everything.....
You will own nothing and be happy.
Theyve literally been saying for a while you'll own nothing and be happy.
You will own nothing and be happy 😊
@@charlebrowngaWell then they should own nothing by there board members going to prison, and their company dissolved to dust.
Great video, thanks for sharing this information. I live in Louisville, Kentucky and I hope we are never faced with this
Local residents should absolutely be required to vote on this issue and should have the right to reclaim the utility at any time.
the private equity business model should be illegal
Sounds like a good amendment to the constitution.
Remove 13 and replace it with this.
Exactly they are also buying up emergency rooms. People are so worried about the government, but the real issue is the oligarchy.
They're buying residential houses, trailer park homes & Increasing the rents, pricing people out of their homes
As many people will probably have mentioned, we are already in that dystopia in the UK.
But to bring it up to date, Xmas Day, 2024, an investigation has just discovered that private water companies have been diverting government subsidies to pay bonuses and dividends. If they need subsidies, how can they even be considered a private company? They are dependent on the taxpayer, yet get to keep private profits.
Our rivers are polluted, and our beaches are filthy, yet when work needs to be done, the companies depend on the taxpayer to stump up - they have no spare cash, because they have used it all to pay dividends and bonuses, and to service the massive debts they have incurred. (All debts were wiped out on privatisation, so these are all new debts).
In other news, Blackrock, Vanguard, and Berkshire-Hathaway have bought controlling interest in the atmosphere, and will be charging a monthly access fee.
we take great pride in our air and we just know.. ur gonna love it!
Behold: the breathing bill
You left State street off the list
I bet it’s coming.
Blackrock, Vanguard, State street they're all heavily invested in each other
Ask Britain how well privatized water & sewer went...
How well the privatization of Britrail went . . .
Thank the Iron Bitc - I mean Maggie Thatcher!
Can confirm. Our township sold our sewer line to a private "utility provider" (BCWSA - bucks county) . Our rates went from $280/ yr to almost $800/yr. They tricked us by saying nothing would change. Then after 3 years, they 3x'd the rates on us.
A water utility is basically a monopoly, pretty much letting a private company become the monopoly. All they care about if exponential profit growth and they have no competition so they can do whatever they want. And its not like people can just forego water, a basic life necessity.
I honestly wonder how far it will go before people actually fight back.
@@thec9424 How would they do that? Shut off their own water or do you mean 2nd Amendment time?
I'm serious. How are massive amounts of Americans supposed to fight back? The people that make these rules are insulated from them, outcome wise AND physically. It's their messengers, the other little people doing their job trying to stay employed, is who we can reach.
@blues03 They keep erasing my replies. But basically we would need to do what the prolife did to end roe v wade, but for lobbying. They used voter suppression, gerrymandering, fear tactics, outright lies... whatever it takes to achieve their goal.
Start suing politicians - they have no right to sell the taxpayers water
well according to the laws i wrote, you cant sue me plus i get immunity i guess, i also can just bribe the judges lol
Should be nationalised.
Utilities (including internet access) all need to be required to be run as a not for profit entity.
All mid level management and above (including executive) pay should be tied to Independently measured and validated metrics such as quality, customer satisfaction, and outages.
Lobbying by these entities should be banned, and violations should be SEVERELY punished and any fines indexed to inflation as to never again becomming "the cost of doing business"
Public utilities need to be publicly owned.
Hence the name Public.
For two years, I was severely burned by privatised city water, only escaping it when I moved to another state. Investors are getting paid handsomely for doing no work, in their entitled way leeching off those who work and harming them in the process. This must be stopped.
Companies are FOR PROFIT, but water is a necessity for consumption, cleanliness, and growing food. Whether covered through taxes or paid directly, Greedy companies will find a way to exploit the system to line their own pockets.
Yup Aquarion in the NE is buying up municipal Water companies at alarming rates and people are voting for it!
How is this not voted on by the public!
More Perfect Union is to be congratulated for being ahead of the curve on this issue! I think they have done something more important than just reporting on an entrenched problem.
My town smartly sold their water and sewer system about 7 or 8 years ago. The bill then was $25 a month for sewer. This month? It was $250. "We need to fix up all the pipes because the town never repaired them" they say, yet not a single pipe has been replaced.
The township keeps shooting down every attempt to mitigate the disaster. And the water company blatantly broke the contract by blasting up the price.
In PA and our water bill has nearly tripled in 10 years after our system was bought by American Water. We use a pretty modest amount, around 2500 gallons a month and our bill is about $150. The customer charge for water and sewer before you use a drop is almost $35. They buy up systems and before you know it you get a notice saying your bill is going up, and the regulators here let them charge whatever they want. If you live in an area where one of these companies are attempting to buy your system fight tooth and nail against it.
Recently, the Blackrock company has been found to be buying up utilities under subsidiaries names.
they shouldn't be for sale to any entity!
Everything’s is for sale in America including people. Working people are the collateral for how our elected officials spend our money or borrow from other countries.
@@dinahcharles6030those people are our politicians.
Sounds like they are winning monopoly, they own the most properties and they are buying the utilities but everyone else is poor.
You can bet that they are putting BETTER SAFER WATER in mills closer to high income neighborhoods. While lower income has chemical, old piping, fluoride, ect..
They did this Peru. Many companies only paid about $200 for the water, and then they cut people off from the water. Seriously, look it up. People have to walk miles for water, farmers are now living in deserts it’s awful!
Public utilities should remain public. A private company should not be allowed to purchase a monopoly that the public depends on for basic needs. The citizens should not be held financially hostage with their only option to move somewhere else. Kind of a coincidence that the lawmakers who sellout are usually the first to move out of area they just screwed over.
Money is the root of all evil. Public goods and services needed for survival should NEVER be allowed to be privately owned. Learn from these life lessons and do better.
They need to outlaw this. Locals need to say no.
I love Essential's slogan. They "provide" natural resources in the same way that landlords "provide" housing.
The real question is why people are paying for a renewable resource that is unlimited? Water should be free?
This!!!!!
@@AUTI5T1X according to your kind, nobody is entitled to another person's labor for free.
I purchased a fixer upper and when I turned on my utilities and asked that the water service was left off until I could check for leaks.
No meter was installed, I used ZERO gallons of water, but still had a sewer bill.
This happened for multiple months.
Yep! The criminals hit your town...
Water and electric companies have a minimum amount you have to pay even if you don’t use the minimum and claim it’s a service fee.
When are people going to get it through their thick skulls that privatization is ALWAYS THE BAD CHOICE
“But we’re making money and none of the peasants are rioting. How can it be bad?”
-your local “Representative”
@@some1337dude1 "Privatize the profits, socialize the losses" in action CORRUPT
Well not always, but things like railroads where you can't have any competition or say critical infrastructure is an absolutely insane idea. Tho I guess the US also has some serious issues with companies that claim they compete but don't like uh, Comcast and Horizon are two ISP who just by "sheer chance" happen not to service the same areas.
@@juliusbroedsgaard9124 The more utilitarian the product and service the more it’s necessary to keep it away from profiteers.
Privatization is good. Anything else is socialism
I just emailed my local borough council. Our water system has been ran locally for decades and we intend to keep it that way!
They're trying to do this where I live in CA. There's a petition going around to at least allow a vote before selling the sewer system off. This is a low income area and a lot of people are going to suffer of this happens.
Greed. One of the 7 Deadly Sins. And for a good reason.
This has been around for decades. I moved out of a municipal water town to a town using private water. Our prices went up, and the pressure at the hydrant went from 80psi to we’d be lucky if we got 30psi. But most towns can’t afford to run a whole ass water plant. Life sucks get over it
This is how the hunger games start the privatization of government services
All utilities should be publicly owned and government run. That includes anything that is monopolistic.
u sound like a commie, r u a RED?!?!?!?!
Lmao "it should be owned by the government"
Yeah it was.. then they sold it. There is literally your result of trusting them with it. Gratz 👏
They are doing the same with the town dumps too. It used to be to town provided that for the tax they received if it went over the budget they could pull it from somewhere else and the streets were clean. Now a private (for profit) business runs it and the price hass doubled every year while the restrict the services they offer so people weee dumping in the back roads they put a gate up block the citizens from use them and people were dumping it in front of the gate. Then they had a “bag limit” so trash was piling up now the town has a rat problem all to “save” the town (not its citizens) a cuppa bucks😐
Privatization never saves consumers money. If they did, they would go out of business.
The pervasive myth is that private companies do things better. They don't
they lobby against govt infrastructure to sabotage public services so ppl believe the lie.
They do well for their shareholders but if you need clean water they don't
Only Americans could be brainwashed to believe something that warped. God help us all...
Because they actually used to when our government did their job and enforced anti trust laws. Now anti-capitalist monopolies just get to run amuck.
Water, food, air, shelter. These sustain life. Since we have the "right to life" this means we have the right to water,food,air, and shelter, directed by government, not private entities. Yes, private homes can exist along with.
Corporations can't be trusted with responsibility in our basic needs or common welfare. That's a federal, state, or municipal responsibility, whichever does it most efficiently.
Already happening here, the "city" a small town of around a 1,000, allowed a company to take over the water department. This was done by the city council over the objections of most of the town's population. The water, which was never of good quality, now it's undrinkable and smells.
And costs more!
Bet the council members can afford a lot of bottled water with whatever kickback that company gave them for selling you out.
@@greg6500 True, they also got rid of our police department.
@tmc6799 here's some food for thought, who's protecting the council if they got rid of police? This country was built on violent revolution.
@@tmc6799 when are elections? Time to get some council members that actually care
Do we really have to regulate everything!!?? Why are these public works things for sale!!?? WTF!!! 🤬
They did this in the UK. Now, all the shorelines and riverbanks are covered in t u r d s . Do you want t u r d s in your water? Do you want to pay more for that to happen?
T U R d s desu 😂
Here's a suggestion for a topic:
I'm a 50+ year old with 20+ years of professional driving experience (over 1 million safe miles) I also worked as a trashman in Portland Oregon and as a lumber mill worker in northern Idaho (short version... LOTS of relevant job experience. Around 2 years ago I walked away from the trucking industry due to long term health concerns and a lack of work life balance. I spent a year exploring alternatives and decided to pursue a career as a transportation maintenance worker, for many reasons. Opportunity to learn new skills, physically demanding work outdoors (some of us enjoy it) good benefits and work life balance. The pay scale has always been modest (as is most government work) but due to inflation over the last several years, our pay scale isn't even sufficient to afford rent prices in SE Michigan...let alone enabling the purchase of a home.
We get called out at 2am to plow the roads, and set up road closures for state police. We work all 4 seasons repairing guardrails, signs, drainage infrastructure and patching potholes all to serve and keep our community safe, and the economy flowing. Most of this work is done inches from speeding motorists.
If WE can't afford even the most humble version of the American dream, something is deeply wrong.
Sorry some soft fleshy ghoul who never did anything for anyone needed more billions of dollars.
Those who work the hardest are paid the least.
That's the American way.... capitalism without restriction. If a regulation pops up, buy off a politician to remove it.
Yay, america.
We are serfs and tax cattle to the elite.
Thank you for everything you do and all the hard work, i’d love to see this channel cover this. I’m so sorry society is failing those holding it up
@@amzarnacht6710 lol... this is why I've become an outspoken socialist. Not an easy thing in the industrial Midwest 😏✊
Private company running it better ? Yeah right.
I don't think anyone should be surprised they jacked up the prices.