Comments on: The economy worsens due to Vermont Senate’s reckless agenda http://vtdigger.org/2010/03/09/the-economy-worsens-due-to-vermont-senate%e2%80%99s-reckless-agenda/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-economy-worsens-due-to-vermont-senate%25e2%2580%2599s-reckless-agenda Independent, investigative news for Vermont Wed, 23 May 2012 18:29:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Arthur Hamlin http://vtdigger.org/2010/03/09/the-economy-worsens-due-to-vermont-senate%e2%80%99s-reckless-agenda/#comment-6913 Arthur Hamlin Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:06:13 +0000 http://vtdigger.org/?p=5028#comment-6913 The Vermont Senate did not fire 800 State workers. That was the Douglas administration. The Legislature is to blame however for not standing up for us. The Vermont Senate did not fire 800 State workers. That was the Douglas administration. The Legislature is to blame however for not standing up for us.

]]> By: Walter Carpenter http://vtdigger.org/2010/03/09/the-economy-worsens-due-to-vermont-senate%e2%80%99s-reckless-agenda/#comment-6912 Walter Carpenter Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:10:18 +0000 http://vtdigger.org/?p=5028#comment-6912 Sadly, there was, and still is, no good choice about Vermont yankee. The Vermont senate chose the best of these choices. As one that has also had my job sacrificed to lay-offs and to fickle corporate politics, I feel for the people losing their jobs -- though it is going to take a while to shut it down and, presumably, they will be working until the VY door is shut for good. Yet, this was a historic decision. I was there at the statehouse when they made it and it really felt like being on the cusp of history. For perhaps the first time in our nation's modern history (I may be wrong but I do not have time to check now), a state senate actually stood up for the people of the state against the governor and his corporate sponsors that have been fleecing the state and its taxpayers all these years. For the first time, a state senate stood up to corporate arrogance and power, refusing to be taken in by their callous bribes. Can they do it again on health care? Sadly, there was, and still is, no good choice about Vermont yankee. The Vermont senate chose the best of these choices. As one that has also had my job sacrificed to lay-offs and to fickle corporate politics, I feel for the people losing their jobs — though it is going to take a while to shut it down and, presumably, they will be working until the VY door is shut for good.

Yet, this was a historic decision. I was there at the statehouse when they made it and it really felt like being on the cusp of history. For perhaps the first time in our nation’s modern history (I may be wrong but I do not have time to check now), a state senate actually stood up for the people of the state against the governor and his corporate sponsors that have been fleecing the state and its taxpayers all these years. For the first time, a state senate stood up to corporate arrogance and power, refusing to be taken in by their callous bribes.

Can they do it again on health care?

]]> By: John Skalecki http://vtdigger.org/2010/03/09/the-economy-worsens-due-to-vermont-senate%e2%80%99s-reckless-agenda/#comment-6911 John Skalecki Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:55:43 +0000 http://vtdigger.org/?p=5028#comment-6911 I dissagree with most of this article. The closing of VY is not the end of the world. Most of the people who work at VY don't live in VT. The last number I heard was 200 Vermonters would loose their jobs when VY closes. An impact yes, but not astronomic. A lot more people in Springfield lost their jobs when the machine shops closed there many years ago. A higher electric bill is a drop in the bucket compared to all the rest of the anti-business legislation the VT gov has come up with. There are many other factors that make VT unfriendly to business. Taxes and act 250 are the biggies. Entergy does not have a best foot to put forward. They are beyond regaining trust. There is no good reason to keep the 40 year old atomic relic operating until it dies. Greed for money is what drives these people. This article is a lame attempt by a union leader to protect the income of his fellow union brothers. Thats what union leaders do. I dissagree with most of this article.
The closing of VY is not the end of the world.
Most of the people who work at VY don’t live in VT. The last number I heard was 200 Vermonters would loose their jobs when VY closes. An impact yes, but not astronomic.
A lot more people in Springfield lost their jobs when the machine shops closed there many years ago.
A higher electric bill is a drop in the bucket compared to all the rest of the anti-business legislation the VT gov has come up with. There are many other factors that make VT unfriendly to business. Taxes and act 250 are the biggies.
Entergy does not have a best foot to put forward. They are beyond regaining trust. There is no good reason to keep the 40 year old atomic relic operating until it dies. Greed for money is what drives these people.
This article is a lame attempt by a union leader to protect the income of his fellow union brothers. Thats what union leaders do.

]]> By: Bob Rottenberg http://vtdigger.org/2010/03/09/the-economy-worsens-due-to-vermont-senate%e2%80%99s-reckless-agenda/#comment-6910 Bob Rottenberg Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:11:56 +0000 http://vtdigger.org/?p=5028#comment-6910 Remember the old fable about the grasshopper and the ant? The grasshopper played his way through the warm months, mocking the ants who did nothing but work -- preparing themselves for the coming winter. Of course, come winter, the ants were snug in their well-provisioned "home," while the grasshopper froze to death. Everything the IBEW says is true. And yet...like the grasshopper, it's been very clear for quite a while that the life of VY will, like the grasshopper's summer, come to an end at some point. There are plenty of lessons to learn from the ants, who look ahead and plan for the future, rather than relying on things to continue forever as they are now. Remember the old fable about the grasshopper and the ant? The grasshopper played his way through the warm months, mocking the ants who did nothing but work — preparing themselves for the coming winter. Of course, come winter, the ants were snug in their well-provisioned “home,” while the grasshopper froze to death.

Everything the IBEW says is true. And yet…like the grasshopper, it’s been very clear for quite a while that the life of VY will, like the grasshopper’s summer, come to an end at some point. There are plenty of lessons to learn from the ants, who look ahead and plan for the future, rather than relying on things to continue forever as they are now.

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