Massachusetts Ratepayers Get 50 Bucks While Migrants Get Billions

Anyone who has had to contend with sky-high energy bills – and that would be most of us – will be pleased to know that Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has heard your call for help.

Healey, who plans to seek re-election next year and perhaps even higher office in 2028, has taken "executive actions" to address rising energy bills.

The governor wants you to know she cares, so she is offering Eversource, National Grid and Unitil customers a $50 credit on their April electric bill. Healey's office says the credit will be funded by about $125 million collected by the state in so-called alternative compliance payments.

Healey calls that "good fiscal management."

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The same governor who bragged "I stopped two gas pipelines from coming into this state," also ordered the Department of Public Utilities to shave about 10 percent off your gas bills for March and April.

The savings will be made up later when the weather is warmer and gas bills are smaller.

Last week, while scurrying to her chauffeur-driven SUV, Healey ignored a reporter from the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance who asked if she was ready to embrace natural gas to help lower energy costs in Massachusetts.

I'll take that as a "no."

Don't spend all of your energy savings in one place, and try not to be resentful of the fact that the Healey Administration has spent more than $2 billion on housing, feeding, medical and other miscellaneous expenses for the migrant population she welcomed here.

The administration spent $520 million just for housing in the first seven and a half months of the current fiscal year and asked for and was given an additional $425 million through June. That's over $100 million per month.

What the heck, it's only money!