Obama’s Nuclear Boondoggle
Today I am flying the Fort Moultrie flag. This is a Patriot Flag I fly when there is “liberty-risky” discussion going on. Today, President Obama proposed more nuclear power for the USA … but there’s a catch (as usual).
Liberty Risky Discussion
President Obama: “Those who have long advocated for nuclear power — including many Republicans — have to recognize that we will not achieve a big boost in nuclear capacity unless we also create a system of incentives to make clean energy profitable.”
$18 Billion, Construction ONLY!
Obama is “pledging” $8.3 BILLION, (only a down payment of a proposed $18.5 BILLION) to jump start this program. This is nothing but campaign pandering to the conservatives hoping they will boost his sagging polls. And once again, to “solve” America’s problems … he cranks up the government’s money printing presses spending money WE DO NOT HAVE! (Has anybody noticed we are already in debt to the extent that we may not be able … EVER … to pay it back?).
The TRUTH is, this man has every intention of creating 2 new nuke power plants but NO intention of ever using them. He has every intention of spending BILLIONS of dollars that will go for his definition of “creating green jobs.” In this case, he defines “green jobs” as union workers building “green” nuclear plants. But there is a catch. You can build all the nuke plants you want and contribute more billions to the unions (transferring the wealth) but the catch is …
Obama will spend $18 Billion to Build them…
… but he has no intention of ever TURNING THEM ON!
The problem is not building them, that’s the easy part. Getting congress and the regulatory agencies, controlled by the Democrats and Progressives, to TURN ON the nuclear plants once they are built is what makes this “pledge” a non-starter. The regulators will never allow it, no “lefty” has ever approved of nuclear power … and this guy is so far left he’s almost invisible! So Obama’s “good intentions” seem like a fig leaf back to the conservatives. It is, in fact, another Obama political trick. Pledge BILLIONS we do not have for “green jobs” building 2 nuclear power plants he has NO INTENTION of “turning on.”
The Bottom Line
Dangerous Weapon!
SHOW ME! Until I see a nuclear plant “turned on” in this country, I don’t want to see one TAX dollar spent on nuclear power. If it is a good idea (and it is) and if it is potentially profitable (and it is), then the entrepreneurs will step up and fund it. But why don’t they fund it, why aren’t they stepping up? Because nobody is going to “bet” on nuclear energy in the USA … the left won’t let it happen. They haven’t let it happen for 40 years, why should they now? So if the entrepreneurs won’t step up, then the government has to … using the Executive Pen to sign away billions of dollars Dollars people in their right minds and with their own money would never do! It is a bad bet! This “pledge” has nothing to do with nuclear power, it is another “pledge” to unions to support them for giving their votes to Obama. It is simple political payback!
He cannot have it both ways!
Department of Energy: “The Yucca Mountain program will be scaled back to those costs necessary to answer inquiries from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), while the administration devises a new strategy toward nuclear waste disposal.”
- Uh … he’s closing Yucca Mountain, but he’s going to build two more Nuclear Plants? C’mon, this is news for the dumb masses not for thinking Americans. See how the “transparency” shows?
This $18 BILLION boondoggle is simply a cheap (scratch that, “EXPENSIVE”) political trick to make people feel good about contributing another $18 Billion to the unions with NO INTENTION and NO GUARANTEE of every actually turning on the plants. Remember all of Obama’s “statements” have expiration dates! This president promised to be transparent. He’s now so transparent now we can see right through everything he is doing. Its getting easier and easier to see the pattern. He has every intention of giving more printed money to the unions and absolutely no intention of “turning on” a nuclear power plant!
Face it, did you ever see a Progressive want to turn on a nuke?
Ahmadinejad will have a nuke plant running before we do!
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