Water Water Everywhere and Not Enough Money, Myrtle, to Pay the Bill

(Originally Posted December 18, 2011)

In 1999, I was offered a contract with CSC to help build an outsourcing relationship with a company with whom they had recently secured a $1.1 BILLION outsourcing contract, a company in Houston called . . . Enron.

Over the next year, I helped developed change procedures for their entire IT department, mapped all their internal billing and procurement processes, developed (from scratch) a disaster recovery, contingency matrix (YES, I personally wrote the Disaster Recovery Plan for Enron) and was, for a time, the head of all Customer Satisfaction Initiatives.

The reason I bring this up: back then, in the late '90's (when my past history as a $3.99 a minute psychic poster boy was buried like your BEFORE pictures from 9th grade), I knew that privatization would ultimately cost the average person way more than they ever dreamed and I saw it, at the time, as the first small step towards a totalitarian state -- kind a big leap in thinking when people were simply trying to save a few bucks on their gas bill.

More and more people are going to find that they've managed to skate through the mortgage crisis and the employment crisis and whatever other crisis they may have felt only to find a giant stick up their ass by skyrocketing utility costs.

THIS is the next ploy to fuck Joe and Sally Average . . . so, expect water bills to be the next way in which the rich try to steal your homes.