Washington’s Lies

2 Responses to Washington’s Lies

1. Steve Bernier says:

   September 7th, 2009 at 10:26 am

   Karen,
   Hope your, ahem, labor day is without labor. Dr. Walter Williams is perhaps one of the finest men I have ever read. I have discovered Wilton D. Alston on Lew Rockwell.com. A younger writer that I read is Ellis Washington. He is on WND. You may not like everything on WND but, they have some of the best columnist I have read. Ilana Mercer is one.

   I don’t like shills for the republican party and I tend not to read their columns often. But columnist like Dr. Williams, Dr. Thomas Sowell, Ilana Mercer, you, Lew Rockwell, Wilton Alston and a host of others I would read every day if they wrote every day.

   Keep up the good fight. Perhaps one day we will return to a Constitutional government. I am not holding my breath, though.

   Steve
2. clark says:

   September 7th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

   Lies and deception… the results of which turn out to be harmful to the overall general welfare of this nation, which look more and more like an attack from a foreign country rather than helping. I found this comment at the bottom of the “Preppers” article on LRC, much like the results from Medicare, if true, it’s kind of disturbing, if the IRS was a foreign entity it might seem like a successful attack on the general welfare/security of this nation:

   Hate to break it to everyone, but I work for a major power company back east.

   We have NO SPARE parts for the major components of the distribution grid.

   Back in the mid 90s, some genius at the IRS decided to tax us on our spares inventory as retail stock because we occasionally sold parts to other power companies. The solution to this that the bean counters came up with was to liquidate it all. Sent to the scrappers. Millions worth.

   You won’t hear it from us, but the forecasted solar flare activity has everyone very worried.

   The problem with our grid is that it isn’t the money spinner, generation is. Thus the distribution grid has been sorely neglected.

   What happens when we have an electrical incident of sufficient strength at a substation (lightning will do it) is that the coils and breakers at the substation literally melt. Being large components that we don’t make here in the US anymore, it takes months to replace them. (forget the cans you see on the power poles, that’s a residential step down transformer…I’m talking about the big stuff, surrounded by fences)

   Normally, it’s isolated and we just reroute the power around the down substation, but if it turns out to be several at the same time we have a major problem on our hands. (Upper Ohio 2003, entire counties were down for over 6 months)

   On top of that, the entire cross national grid is routed through only 5 major switching stations. FIVE. Do you think that the sun, with all it’s power, isn’t capable of throwing a wrench in that situation?

   Literally we’re talking 6 mos to a year for some of these components they’re so specialized. And if you have grid issues in the countries where they are made, well you can bet they’ll be getting themselves back up before they export the stuff to us….if they can even manufacture them without electricity of their own.

   So, sit and think really, really hard about what your community (and the community down in the bad part of town) would look like without power for 6 months.

   And you think being able to self sustain at least somewhat, in sustenance and security, is some kind of Kooky thing for right wing conspiracy theorists?

   I work this grid…I don’t trust it and I’m not betting the lives of my kids on it.

   Sashay around all you want, but don’t go crying to these prepper people if something goes wrong. You earned your predicament.