More examples of Government corruption. This time it's a gent by the name of Alex Flint who left his job on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee (chaired by Pete Domenici R-NM (what a surprise! A Republican was involved?!?!)) to become the chief lobbyist for the nuclear industries chief trade group, the Nuclear Energy institute. Coincidentally the nuclear industry has just received fresh tax breaks and subsidies to build more than a dozen new plants in the US.
Personally I'm for the building of new nuclear power plants. Hell, I'm for anything that will get us off of oil, which will then allow us to stop screwing in the Middle East. But you see, when you have backdoor deals like this, it hinders free enterprise and competition...you know, those things that Republicans are supposed to believe in? Yeah, and we liberals are all about Communism. I guess none of these guys ever read Wealth of Nations. They must have been busy writing memos to gag NASA scientists from talking about Global Warming--completely understandable.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
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