Profiteering On Misery

Whitefish Energy. They are a two person firm from Whitefish Montana. They were awarded a contract to restore much of Puerto Rico’s power.

Each lineman will be paid $319 an hour. Nightly accommodation fees of $33o per worker. A food allowance of $80 per day. That’s one million dollars a year per lineman (if they work ten hours a day for six days a week with two weeks vacation) just for wages.They are sending 300 lineman.

Misery = Profit. Maybe all of us TBPers can become mega-millionaires when TSHTF. We should put our collective heads together and come up with The Plan.

I am so damned SICK and TIRED of EVERY damned thing in America!

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Get Out of the Way

Guest Post by John Stossel

Get Out of the Way

The hurricane devastation is severe. What should the federal government do?

Give us lots of money, say many.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, demanded $150 billion — just for Texas.

So far, Congress has agreed to $15 billion in hurricane relief. But more will come.

Few Americans will object. The House vote for the first $7.9 billion was 419-3.

But let’s take a breath. Why is rebuilding the federal government’s responsibility?

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