Carpet Baggers and Throwing Citizens a Bone

From my post on "al.com", Scottsboro forum: (arkie1 (arklite))
Carpet Baggers and throwing citizens a bone. 4/21/08 8:05 CT, reference Interesting editorial by antitruth, on 4/21/08 (update June 5, 2008- linked posts have been removed by "al.com" censors.)

There is a better, safer way to produce electrical energy than TVA's plan to build the AP1000 nuclear plant at Bellefonte. The nuclear and oil industry along with their political pawns are strangling the development and usage of efficient, safer technology while increasing our national debt. TVA's energy conservation plans are a step in the right direction. The nuclear plant is to be built on unstable terrain and that fact is reflected in TVA's own Safety Reports. I have pointed out there is even a "better way to build the mouse trap," a Thorium reactor. What makes you think that if the new reactor (Westinghouse AP1000) is started at Bellefonte that it will be completed? In case you haven't figured it out, we are bankrupt as a nation. Remarkable the number of local Democrats drooling all over themselves when the Bush Administration throws them a bone of a Nuclear Power Plant. It is amazing our local Democrat leadership has forgotten their historical lessons. Suggest building the plant near downtown Nashville, Tn. on the Cumberland River, see if the plant ever gets built. There is a reason these nuclear plants are built in rural areas, away from metropolitan areas. You, I and the citizens of this area are being used by corporate and government bureaucrats (Kind of like the carpet baggers of old post Civil War Bellefonte.) to increase the corporate bottom line of the Nu-Start consortium and increase the amount of TVA in lieu of taxes to local government. The plant will not resolve local unemployment and will increase local governmental responsibility and costs. Money has been the expressed dominant factor of this argument by government and corporate interests. Safety issues have taken a back seat over local political leadership's better judgement in the quest for more tax revenue. (photo credit: Thomas Nast Caracture 1872, courtesy Picture History; Foto Search, royalty free begging dog; Bellefonte Gate photo, Tom Moss, BEST/BREDL)