Tragic and inhumane

Every winter this kind of article will come out, and sadly sometimes more than one. The article reads man or woman aged 75 plus freezes to death in home. This is ridiculous Today's article (AP News) reads Man, 93, Freezes to Death in Home. I can see NO logical reason for this to happen. The municipal power company in the man's home of Bay City, Michigan put a power restrictor on his home. When the power limit is reached the power turns off and won't come on until it is reset, I asume, by said power company. This just makes me crazy angry! This man lived through World War II, the Korean war, The Cold War, The moon landing, Vietnam and the Civil rights movement, and died because his power got turned off! This is not only unecessary, but it is a painful, slow way to die.

Now I understand that the power company is a business, and this man had unpaid bills, but I am sure he was on a fixed income and the recession has hurt everyone. But couldn't you as a responsible bussiness wait till spring? Or if nothing else, as human being couldn' t you wait? But it really pisses me off that the company did not feel they had done anything wrong. Are you Kidding me? You turned off power to a 93 year old mans home in the middle of winter in a town just off the Great Lakes! How can you think you did nothing wrong? You killed a man over money. If you had been a single person instead of a company you would be locked away for murder! The neighbors of this man found him with ice on the INSIDE of his windows. The temperature was less than 32 degrees!

What really gets me about this whole abomination is that the manager, Robert Belleman, said that they were going to review the policies at Bay City Electric Light And Power, but he didn't believe they did anything wrong. What's even worse is that he tries to lay the blame off on neighbors. He says that neighbors should keep an eye on neighbors, and that if they think something is wrong then they should report it to the proper authorities. I have heard some bull shit in my time but this disgusts me with it's vulgarity. Belleman says that they are a poor little helpless power company doing what they had to while a man froze to death in his own home because he had no family to turn to. He wants to say that it is the neighbors fault for not keeping up with this man! There are so many things wrong with that statement that I don't even know where to begin. What happened to human decency? It was the middle of winter in MICHIGAN and this man was 93 years old! What happened to corporate responsibility? How can any human being with a soul, callously say that it was the neighbors to blame for the hypothermia death, when you turned off the power? Corruption in the government and government run business has rooted deep like a cancer growth on the bone. For that matter, the cancer is just as deep in corporate America. I just can't even fathom doing this to someone. And what is really sad is that because this man has no living family there will be no one left to stand up and cry out for vengeance! It all just makes me sick!