If NationalGrid and NStar are allowed to merge, we are all DOOMED to Web/Phone Retarded options that PRETEND to be customer service, but are really meant to employ as few people as possible and increase CEO & Executive bonuses, parachutes, and perks.

I think that stockholders for Corporations like NationalGrid, Verizon, Comcast, even my own employer and their Healthcare ‘providers’  are really only the few individuals holding stocks under who know how many ruses or shell corporations. They would be the same folks who wanted every employee of a company with a 401k plan (most now) to put their retirement funds INTO THE STOCK MARKET, so that it could be manipulated to these stockholders’ benefit, workers be damned. Cheney/BushII even tried to dump Social Security into the maw of Wall Street greed.

We all know that only those with money, and lawyers, ever profit from the humongous corporations that rule our lives. Even medical care, or perhaps especially medical care, has also now succumbed to this ‘treatment’. Try and contact anyone who can help with your question – it won’t be your doctor, who, like everything, now hides behind impenetrable barriers to deflect all questions or concerns from paying customers/clients/patients/users.

I find this to be shameful, hurtful, maybe even criminal in some cases.

The onlybelieveable excuse is the PROFIT of the FEW.