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To: quehubo who wrote (50291)	2/23/2008 8:28:05 PM
From: KonKilo	Respond to of 541990

Actually perhaps the government should be the owner of nuclear plants and take the risk. The gov't DOES own the TVA nuclear plants (and the coal-fired ones, too). I understand that you are against gov't subsidies. I am not comfortable with them either. Our Chattanooga public utility is now offering fiber WANs for business and fiber-to-the-home, in direct competition with the private cable and internet companies. Do I think gov't should be in competition with private enterprise? No, I do not. But I suppose it falls under that "promote the general welfare" portion of the Constitution. As I mentioned to John earlier, once those sorts of programs are in place, they never go away. And so The State controls yet another aspect of our lives.