Guest commentary on NB Power & Prudential deal

I found this commentary by an individual, who would like to remain anonymous, very interesting (not to mention, I couldn't agree more):

On NB Power's 3 per cent raise proposal & Orimulsion

Our "best of breed management" as described by one of our local governement executive in a recent local daily newspaper in justifying their 3 percent salary increase, have orchestrated a $10 billion bad judgement debt over the Venezuela financial scandal to our tax payers. Adding insult to injury, this management team also managed to either keep their jobs or receive a big retirement buyout for their good service.

Where else but in government could one pull such a scandal and not get fired or worst?

And to add icing on the cake; Why not divert and justify the ever increasing Power rates by blaming it on the gas price hikes.

We the people of New Brunswick are not the one to blame for this. But we should be ashame for allowing these sort of scandals to continue without accountability....etc.

On the Prudential Consulting deal with the government

This one also gets me reeling. In Febuary of this year Prudential received $1 million funding from ACOA to train medical transcriptionists and provide transcription services to the medical community across the country. This is a private company who just recently toured our NB and NS hospitals and was unsuccessfull in hiring but a handfull if any transcriptionists on their own token.

And only sixty+ days later, they sold Shaun Graham the very same bag of beans for another +$800,000.00 to setup shop in Saint-John and hire an additional 150 more transcriptionists. Do one actualy beleive they will be hiring that many transcriptionists? It's not a simple coincidence that 350 is the current number of transcriptionists working in our NB & NS healthcare institutions.

And if there is such a demand for medical transcriptionists today, why isn't this money offered to our own provincialy funded Community Colleges in Campbellton & Cape-Breton who currently offer this training but have been struggling to make due.

I placing my bets that Prudential hidden true intentions is to hire our very own provincial healthcare transcriptionists (who coincidently adds up to the promise numbers Prudential promised to hire).

To summarize, we taxpayers pay a private company $1.8 million to hand over our own professionaly trained & experience transcriptionists, who will then in turn charge us a premium fee for their services. And within a few short years later, Prudential will likely hand them back to our Provincial unemployment agencies, as their services will no longer be required and replaced by lower paid transcriptionists based in India).

But worst is; Prudential end up having access to much of our confidential medical record information & history. Unlike having your cedit card replaced in the event that it ever gets lost or stolen, one cannot change or replace his/hers medical history.

What's the big deal?
Here some a few scenarios to think about:

The US Patiotic Act
Your medical insurance rates
Prescription costs...etc.