Who is proposing anything new????

Everything that Bush and his corporate buddies are talking about is old technology, in fact ancient technology. They are proposing to go back to 1968 and start up where they left off. With all the same nuclear scientists and engineers and technicians and processing plants and reactor designs and welders and steel mills and foundries and construction workers.

In case you hadn't noticed, that was 40 year ago, and in the past four decades, especially with people like Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-McCain providing leadership, when it came to

- nuclear engineering schools

the response was "those jobs are gone and aren't coming back so move on."

- nuclear scientists and engineers

the response was "those jobs are gone and aren't coming back so move on."

- steel mills and foundries for really big projects

the response was "those jobs are gone and aren't coming back so move on."

Of course, we could outsource the construction to the Chinese. They are working in new nuclear reactor designs and they have the scientists and engineering schools to supply the scientists and engineers. And China have from the commanding heights said that having big steel mills and foundries is a matter of national honor so they can fabricate the reactors without problems.


It is the Republicans that want to keep thing the way they were, and not do anything different than in 1968. Yep, Bush is trying to return the US to 1968 with a US installed dictator in Iran, the US selling nuclear reactors based on the most up to date 1958 reactor design, the cold war raging, a Vietnam, massively expensive government subsidized nuclear power plants being constructed, Bush and Cheney dodging the draft, tied dyed hippies protesting the war and environmental disaster.

Bush is proposing nothing new, but only a return to the past.