nuclear waste=evil part 2

And here is a continuation of the previous conversation:
http://www.vermonttiger.com/content/2010/02/take-a-breath.html?cid=6a00d834519c3c69e2012877903b84970c#comment-form

Daniel Foty says:
"That health care is a "right," but electricity is an optional and unnecessary extravagance?"

Well, you got it half right. I do believe that health care should be considered an inalienable right. It is not an issue that our founding fathers dealt with and I feel we, the people, need to protect the equitable access to that right (which is NOT happening now with the private/public mess that we have now).

In concerns to electricity, I never claimed that “electricity is an optional and unnecessary extravagance”. What I did mean to convey is that we can be a lot less dependent on the corporate/state to provide this need when independent sources and local production of electricity are available and through CONSERVATION which means that we can learn to use less. I believe in the decentralized view of INDEPENDENT or town-based sources of electricity. I believe that this is one of the core values of a libertarian/conservative view of governance: the promotion of individual freedom and local control of our mechanisms of survival. Dependence on large centralized corporate/governmental organizations is something I associate with the Democratic philosophy.

It is the discrepancy conservatives present that we need less gov’t influence and we need to eliminate the welfare/nanny state, but make sure you give me the cheapest electricity in the world. How can a conservative/libertarian view favor centralized top-down control of one of our modern day resources when independent, decentralized sources are available to the average citizen? I want my gov’t working on providing decentralized sources of energy and moving away from the centralized positions that are being currently advocated by people on this site and within our Republican administration.

The Brattleboro Conservative says: “Where were you and your enviro-twit friends when the plant was first proposed, in diapers perhaps?”
Well, your enviro-twit comment is quite rude and disrespectful. I am too young to have been an influence on the building of VY, but I am not too young to remember swimming between the turds that use to float on our local rivers. You and I can thank the “enviro-twits” (you can include such luminaries as George Aiken and David Deane among many other traditional conservatives in that category) to raising awareness and taking action to clean our rivers and waterways, and to clean the air we breathe and to clean the sides of our roads. They have produced real, beneficial results for our society, which is more than I can say about your attitude.