.... That's beyond stupid.
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City of Cleveland Division of Water is horrible and largely because no one wants to really pay for people to do a good job. They need to send people out to actually read the damn meters and they don't.
I've literally had to sue these sons of bitches over charging someone for using water in a house that had the copper plumbing stolen.... There was no water flowing into the house because it was shut off/physically impossible for that house to use water. The notion of a smart meter using telemetry to read the damn meter over a computer would totally get rid of this stupidity. To be fair, I've known meter readers in my life. It's a shitty job/dogs hate you, as do people....
Now, personally, I favor the idea of having meter readers, because it's a job people can do that needs done, but that's a completely different point.
Main argument in re "Smart Meters:" Even if it is spying, then they already do that with meter readers. They know how much electricity/water/gas/etc you use because they already have meters and that's how they know how much to charge you. They can also shut off your electric/utilities at the main relatively easily as it stands now. The difference, the only difference is that where they currently send someone out to "spy" on you/ "shut off the utilities" this allows them to do it with a computer. <--- That's really the only difference....
I'm seeing the only thing really unifying the right seems to be hatred of Obama, taxes, and oftentimes gays/atheists or non christians. Incidentally, I'm not sure what if anything is keeping the left together, if anything is. Seems both parties are pretty much falling apart.
"How did American conservatism end up so detached from, indeed at odds with, facts and rationality? For it was not always thus. After all, that health reform Mr. Romney wants us to forget followed a blueprint originally laid out at the Heritage Foundation! My short answer is that the long-running con game of economic conservatives and the wealthy supporters they serve finally went bad. For decade...s the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy — a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America’s defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security. Over time, however, this strategy created a base that really believed in all the hokum — and now the party elite has lost control." -Paul Krugman, writing for the New York Times.
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