NBC News' Antonia Hylton talks to electricity provider GRIDDY customer Joli Ammons about the astronomical bills Texans are being hit with. Aired on 02/22/2021.
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Don’t expect any help from Republican state politicians because their goal is to give the super wealthy a big big tax cut, not to help average Americans. Even if you voted for Republican conservative. Truly sad.
Pay your bills or you don’t deserve to call yourself a Conservative anylonger. Let the free market work. If we conservatives in other areas are foeced to bail you out, you all are nothing but a bunch of dirty lying communists.
@Carolyn Wertelecki “Free Market”? You want to talk about free market when Texas backs a single company in what amounts to a state-wide monopoly?
@Carolyn Wertelecki Get real: what you advocate isn’t a free market, it’s socialism for the rich and capitalism for the middle and working classes. You don’t deserve to call yourself a conservative if you don’t believe in conserving anything but YOUR money. Conservative wasn’t always a synonym for parasitic predator.
its the way they’ve always been
@Carolyn Wertelecki so you got $10,000 laying around to pay a light bill?
Don’t worry Ya’ll senator Cruz will help.
Cruz did more for this nation than George Washington. Shut your mouth liberal.
@Carolyn Wertelecki Wow, that’s a take. Cancun Cruz did more for this country than one of it’s Founders.
Given that the Founders were Liberal for their time, that doesn’t surprise me.
the best way he can help is to go back to Cancun and stay there
@Carolyn Wertelecki 😂🤣😂 it’s official you are a special type of stupid 😂🤣😂🤦♂️
@Carolyn Wertelecki WTF, lMAO! My friend, if you are genuine, stupid would be a step for you.
That’s why you never want residential utilities privatized. Government regulations and the public sectors are very good when it comes to many things.
Agreed! And one could make the same argument about healthcare. If you believe all Americans should have access to electricity and water, making sure they can survive cancer isn’t too much of a stretch.
Let’s hope this is America’s wake up call, finally!
@Michael Bennink There have been so many wake up calls over the past 20 years. I think the species known as ‘Rural Man’ may be in a coma.
@Michael Bennink I suspect not, USA is addicted to its own lies.
because profit motives always lead to cutting corners
The federal government is going to help to bail out, and to pay bills in a state which is in part in this mess because it wants to be separate from the federal government. That’s kind of rich.
@The DAWG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FQHGld8VMc&t=43s
@The DAWG Exactly!
@edward cunha Screw who?
@Darryl Bloominton What else am I thinking??? tell me tell me
@Becky Boo why don’t you go back to the Boo ancestral lands
“I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers.”
Now, all of a sudden, these Texans who probably support deregulation and a government that’s all in on a free market, “let the buyer beware,” don’t like that so much.
Yep. This is how the sheep are fooled into thinking that the Dems are going to destroy America. Dems are the ones fighting for their dumbasses.
Texans are against utilities regulations… Let them suffer..! I won’t thread on Texas and I won’t give Texas a dime
@S EE Have you read about Texit? Tempting, eh?
I can see Cruz being re-elected easily. Why not? He’ll just say Benghazi, emails, and birth certificate. Basically, similar to what Helmut Zemo mutters to Bucky Barnes to turn him into the Winter Soldier. Seriously, I wish I was actually kidding
don’t forget guns,birth control
@Gary Hoelting OMG, yeah you’re right😐
@Terry R its funny,the GOP wants Govt.out of everything …except a woman’s uterus
Imagine getting a massive electric bill after having no electricity?
The Governor needs to lose his job.
@Carolyn Wertelecki Ri-ight. And if Texas privatized utility companies, you’d never see people freeze to death because equipment wasn’t prepared for a winter storm! How rich are you, how much stock do you own in these dysfunctional robber baron utilities, and are you writing this from a tropical resort while you chuckle as Texans suffer? Do you want all roads to be privately constructed toll roads? Shall we disband the police and military and have all “protection” come from protection rackets and mercenaries? I guess you can say organized crime no longer exists if you legalize such predatory behaviors.
lots of people not on ly need to lose thier job, but also go to prison as well
@Carolyn Wertelecki Huh? it’s Texas’s own deregulation that led to this mess, socialism and liberals have nothing to do with this
@Carolyn Wertelecki :: Cancun Cruz did not do anything. He is on the payroll of the Electrical Companies, he agrees with overcharging people for a service not given. NEXT TIME VOTE BLUE.
@Carolyn Wertelecki but texas is a red state that doesn’t make any sense.
That’s what deregulation gets you, congrats Republicans.
https://youtu.be/mP2hcHPJcF8?t=819
Third world service levels and third world accountability levels. Let the free market do it’s job! Which is of course to enrich the cronies off of the backs of the middle class. Come on America, get it together.
@Adam Langton trjedm
Texas was told for years to winterize their power infrastructure and they ignored it because they wanted to Own The Libs.
all texan’ s should file for bankruptsy for this and vote out the entire republican party for this crap.
Cruz: I thought with the power outage, no Texans would see me fleeing to Mexico
Yup all this as Cancun Cruz leaves people and his dog to fend for themselves . Ted Fled to Mexico.
Good luck trying to get the Texas GOP to do the right thing. They are the root cause of the problem.
I live in Texas and I agree. The constant finger pointing and partisan politics are the norm with retRumplicans here. Can’t wish them away but if the good people down here would simply come to their senses, we can vote them ALL out !!
Capitalism at it’s Best.
I bet those Republic0ns are on the
Payroll of those Power Companies. 😏
Or better yet: they own the power companies!
Republic0n Utopia Reached👍
Pay your Bills or Sell your Organs. 🤷♀️
Better yet, sell your guns!
Only in America would a company turn a crisis into a profit.
Never let a crisis go to waste …..💴💴💴💴
…and get away with it!
Why energy companies in Texas are pushing to people pay for their horrible failure? Could somebody explain me
One word: GREED
It’s not only the energy costs. The energy companies will gouge the consumers and do nothing to prevent this to happen again. The insurance companies will pay out, a limited amount under the ‘act of God’ clause and then bump up their rates to recoup their loses. The short fall for all these people is that they will get stuck a third way when they start to replace their belongings.
because they are greedy and corrupt
Don’t mess with Texas has such a different meaning now.
When a guy from Texas walks in my house all I got to do is open up my freezer or turn up my ac, will give him bad flashbacks 😂
Republicans are quick to put the blame on someone else, they take no responsibility for their actions !
Larry Ludlow made a speech today blaming Biden for Texas mess,tell a lie long enough,it gets believed
The extraction of an exorbitantly high price or fee: highway robbery. Such a Texan kinda thing . . . 🤠⭐🇺🇸