September 2, 2019 9:04 AM
Morning Reads for Monday, August 2, 2019 {Labor Day Edition}
- Governor Kemp has ordered a mandatory evacuation of the coast today. Our thoughts and prayers are with those in the path of this storm.
- You can’t fix stupid…
- Plant Vogtle is about 80% complete.
- Consumers are being notified that on Sept. 30, the contract between the state’s largest health insurer, Anthem, and Northeast Georgia Health System is due to expire.
- 7 people were killed in a shooting in Odessa, Texas on Saturday.
- If this isn’t a test of humanity, I’m not sure what is.
- 4 popular ages to claim social security…31 isn’t one of them. I checked.
- Optimists live longer. Let this serve as a warning, folks.
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Here is your labor day supplemental list of links.
At a guess, Vogtle is already 180 percent paid for.
“Target in-service dates remain unchanged for Plant Vogtle expansion”
That is to say those target dates that have been moved further out, “at a guess” 10 or 12 times.
Next they will announce they are not only on time but under budget (well at least from yesterday’s projections). It is the biggest boondoggle in the state’s history. To even pretend otherwise is foolishness and ratepayers should take it out on every politician that has forced them to participate in this fraud.
Throwing good money after bad is unfortunately too common, but it’s extremely rare at this level of expense and size of group, i.e. it’s more common when the decision-making is vested with an individual or small group, not shareholders, PSC, politicians, customers and the general public.
It bears mention yet again, that the more that is spent, the greater the private profit. The longer it goes on, the fewer and fewer real people will ever obtain inn return for what they’re paying now. And of course that the largest users of electricity (we’re No.1 for business) that are currently paying nothing, and since they need never die, will be the primary and perhaps only beneficiary class exclusive of stockholders and executives..
Enjoy the holiday and celebrate organized labor’s contribution to higher wages and labor standards, and better working conditions. I goggled “labor day holiday history”, which returned https://www.dol.gov/general/laborday/history first.
I thought that would provide a good history, but it returned “Can’t reach this page”. I figure the Trump administration learned people were reading it, read for themselves and decided it contained fake information, and has taken it down to rewrite it.
In other Labor Day news, Trump withdrew from his position freezing federal employee’s wages in 2020 and authorized a 2.6% increase. The raise would have been 3.1% had Trump not inserted himself, Trump hilariously remarking, “We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course,” in granting the raise. Thanks Donald, working people are indebted to your beneficence—maybe the Department of Labor’s history page is being rewritten that we may all glory in your contribution.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/trump-endorses-a-raise-for-federal-workers-reversing-earlier-calls-for-a-salary-freeze-1.596847
More labor day news: A pay study was the basis for a significant increase in pay at APD. Such studies have been a staple in raising the pay of top executives. Establish an average or base, then pay top executives more because top executives at nearly every company are much better than average. If that catches on for the working people, top executives will need to develop a new game.
https://www.ajc.com/news/crime–law/mayor-announces-percent-pay-raise-for-atlanta-cops/BK2kKfbywbSoWs12rfVrjJ/