Elena Steier edits the Sickworld Journal as well as moonlights as a cartoonist. She enjoys playing soccer and watching TV, especially the show REVENGE at ten p.m. on Wednesday nights. It's a GREAT show.
That the directors of CL&P enjoyed substantial raises while cutting staff and repair crews had no bearing on the fact that the editor of this publication had to forego nine days without electricity. Apparently, improving the living standards of several well connected executives at the expense of disaster planning and preparedness in no way affects say, wires snaked beneath utility poles eight days after they came down.
I am as gullible as the next person, and thereby give CL&P the benefit of the doubt. The raises had been all performance based. Their top brass had the perspicaciousness of keeping rates high yet costs low. Their appearances before the utilities oversight board were worthy of Tony awards. Everything that possibly could have justified salaries in the seven figures had been checked, double checked and implemented to perfection.
I have heard criticism of our president, Barack Obama, that he is instigating a class war by demanding the rich pay higher taxes. Here is one very cold editor writing on an iPad with 35 per cent battery power left saying, bring it on. If the CL&P honchos are squeezing their customers and their employees for their multiple-million dollar salaries, then go ahead and tax the crap out of them. If it causes them to set up little tent cities in the middle of suburban malls throughout the country, so be it.
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