tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post3444146696795517347..comments2023-04-07T05:19:44.951-04:00Comments on Yes Vermont Yankee: Take Action: Comments to the Public Service BoardMeredith Angwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02737538041807740424noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-85743398808541077172014-01-20T11:30:50.320-05:002014-01-20T11:30:50.320-05:00Meredith, I'm not going to be happy either way...Meredith, I'm not going to be happy either way. Pulling up roots and going on the road to be a wandering nuclear nomad is easy when you're foot loose and fancy free, but when you've got kids in school ready to graduate or be seniors in high school, it's another matter. The political bums in Vermont may have ruined my life, but I'd prefer not to put my kids through the hassle and upheaval of leaving when they have a year or less in school. And I won't do minimum wage work. I didn't spend four years in college and three in graduate school to be a barista at Starbucks, no matter what Scumlin says. I won't do decommissioning work. I've spent too much time, effort, blood, sweat, and tears building things up, and I'm not about to try to make a living tearing down what I and others have built just to pick over the bones. So where does that leave me? Can't relocate (kid issues), can't get work (no power plant jobs in VT). Sounds like unemployment, SNAP, squatting, and jingle mail are the only options left. I've played by the rules all my life, and this has been my reward, lousy politicians and kooks have taken it all away. Remember the famous saying, "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" At some point, the worm turns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-59221624505094735552014-01-18T17:41:17.651-05:002014-01-18T17:41:17.651-05:00Okay, unsolicited advice time.
-Anon 1: Absolute...Okay, unsolicited advice time. <br />-Anon 1: Absolutely right. People at VY don't need more training. They are not old-time workers that dropped out of high school to take a factory job. What people at VY need are good jobs, not training. Frankly, IMHO, they won't find such jobs in Vermont.<br />- Anon 2: Leaving makes sense. After all, Shumlin plans to balance his budget partially on one-time payments from Entergy and after that...wow, the tax increases that are coming down the pike! Heck, I have been thinking of leaving, and I'm not even losing a job! But we have limited income and it is more than a bit scary to look at the tax increases that are coming. I would just have to hope our income is so limited that we would be shielded from some of the taxes, but that's a heck of a way to go forward.<br />-Anon 3: In terms of "milking" Vermont for a while...I understand how you feel. Anger. Perfectly reasonable anger, if there is such a thing. Still, I think looking toward new opportunities would be better for you. Despite what you say, I don't think you would be happy defining yourself as someone who does jingle mail and needs SNAP.Meredith Angwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737538041807740424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-87350434409822741132014-01-15T10:41:14.756-05:002014-01-15T10:41:14.756-05:00Yeah I'm outta here too, but I want to milk th...Yeah I'm outta here too, but I want to milk their a$$e$ a little before then. So I'll go on unemployment for as long as possible and maybe draw some welfare/SNAP stuff. After unemployment runs out we'll probably do jingle mail on the mortgage and squat until the sheriff kicks us out. Hey, the state screwed me out of a job, so they can support me for awhile. To hell with them. I worked hard all my life just to get the boot. I'm tired of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-82547816782053766942014-01-14T16:00:45.509-05:002014-01-14T16:00:45.509-05:00That's why I will be leaving as soon as I can ...That's why I will be leaving as soon as I can and taking the significant amount of taxes I pay to the state of VT with me. Apparently they don't think they need them anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-75987034937590519842014-01-14T11:01:51.437-05:002014-01-14T11:01:51.437-05:00Well, that's why I take a dim view of anyone w...Well, that's why I take a dim view of anyone who says they are going to "reach out to" or "help" or "assist" those whose lives they have destroyed. And that goes for corporate types as well as political scumbags. What are they going to do for someone whose job is to operate a nuclear plant? How much "educational assistance" can they give to an engineer who already has a Ph.D.? Can't get much more "educated" or "trained" than that. And they are going to offer someone like that tuition assistance? Don't make me laugh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-50389189037744186292014-01-14T07:06:26.614-05:002014-01-14T07:06:26.614-05:00Anon
I didn't mean to be Pollyanna about the ...Anon<br /><br />I didn't mean to be Pollyanna about the future by posting this. The plant is closing, and there are simply no parallel jobs in the area. In that sense, you are completely correct. <br /><br />However, if the Public Service Board does not approve a CPG based on this agreement, it can choose to either deny a CPG, or put such impossible constraints on a CPG that Entergy would have to object. This could lead to the plant closing several months early, which would be a worse outcome for everyone's future. <br /><br />With only a few months to run the plant, nobody should be certain that Entergy would respond to a "no-CPG ruling" by going to court to keep the plant running. It might be less expensive to close the plant a few months early. Which is why this CPG is so important for people's planning.Meredith Angwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737538041807740424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-61528843656509556992014-01-13T21:18:16.467-05:002014-01-13T21:18:16.467-05:00Plan my future, eh? What kind of future is that? ...Plan my future, eh? What kind of future is that? Unemployment? Jingle mail? How can you plan a future when the job you do is disappearing and there are no comparable replacements? Where is a nuclear plant operator going to go, Ben and Jerry's? Starbucks? Take those minimum wage jobs and shove them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com