Donald Watkins: The Southern Company, Alabama Power, Georgia Power, and Mississippi Power operate monopolies within their markets. - Nearly every politician with an ounce of influence has sold-out to these big power companies.

 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0iJxoDYvMEQUDE3msyUeVu1fobZqhspi9a1Jhx2jXqUSJ7B7zEnkBaGykzXudovKMl&id=1297783899  —  Donald Watkins: The Southern Company, Alabama Power, Georgia Power, and Mississippi Power operate monopolies within their markets.  If we do not pay our electric bills, they will cut the power to our homes.  They take our money and buy off local, state, and federal politicians in order to increase our power bills.  The taxpayers of Alabama Power actually guarantee Alabama Power a 5% annual rate of return on their shareholders' investment.  The business arrangement between Alabama Power and the state's taxpayers is nothing but socialism.  It's all a racket.  Nearly every politician with an ounce of influence has sold-out to these big power companies.  State and federal prosecutors are afraid to stop their crime sprees.  This is why power company customers get raped, over and over again.  In Washington, big money talks -- loud.  Just ask Wells Fargo Bank how it avoided a criminal prosecution for its acknowledged crime spree of 230 major offenses since 2000.  The weakest federal prosecutors in America work for Joe Biden and Merrick Garland.  What is more, a state attorney general would rather pee in his/her pants than prosecute a power company. Wall Street criminals have nothing to fear in this state of being.