Obama Proposal To Sell TVA Blasted By Republicans

[kentuck]

I'm trying really hard not to criticize this President but sometimes it's like he has no sense of history?


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/obama-tva_n_3090958.html?ref=topbar

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Selling the U.S-owned power company could reduce the federal deficit by at least $25 billion and "help put the nation on a sustainable fiscal path," Obama says in a budget document.

Not so fast, say GOP lawmakers in the region.

"It's one more bad idea in a budget full of bad ideas," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., a longtime TVA champion.

"There is no assurance that selling TVA to a profit-making entity would reduce electric bills in the Tennessee Valley, and it could lead to higher electricity rates" for customers in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, Alexander said.

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[sadbear]

1. I didn't know Lamar Alexander was a socialist.

Good for him.

[ellenfl]

2. but, but, but . . . the private sector does it cheaper!!!!!!!!! eom

[SharonAnn]

3. Then why are private utilities the ones with the highest rates?

And teh biggest, most obscene, amounts of ccompensation for top management?

[booley]

19. I think he was being sarcastic..

....

[ellenfl]

23. she . . . and yes, i was. that's the most oft used (and wrong) conservative meme. eom

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. He could save 102 billion by not giving tax breaks to corporations.

So, austerity comes to America, just not named austerity.
Selling off public, taxpaid facilities, trying to cut Soc. Sec., yet somehow find the money for the Pentagon and for 230 million for Israel's Iron Dome.
Yep, gotta protect that oil stuff, at any cost.

[dgibby]

21. Sounds like something out of Economic Hitman by

John Perkins. Too close for comfort for me.

[woo me with science]

5. The same corporate game, over and over again.

The two parties take turns implementing the corporate agenda. They can always count on at least half of us to enable the pillaging, when it's our side doing it.

Had enough yet, America?

[newfie11]

7. +1 nt

[LuvNewcastle]

9. He doesn't really mean to sell the TVA.

He's proposing that we sell it so the Republicans won't sell it. Doesn't that make sense?

[Egalitarian Thug]

12. +2

Apparently they have not yet had enough. I'll go so far as to say that most of them haven't even tipped to the fact that they are being played,

[GitRDun]

14. I can hardly stomach to read about this stuff anymore...

I just pray the country will wake up before it's too late.

[LonePirate]

6. I thought Repubs favored privatization and the sale of government assets

They have flip-flopped again because Obama suggested something and they must be against whatever he supports.

[AverageJoe90]

27. Seems to be the only actual reason he would do something like this.

He's toying with the Repubs because he knows that they won't go along with what he offers, serious or not.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. "Socialist" Obama selling U.S. owned power company TVA.

[reformist2]

10. If Obama said *not* to sell it, Republicans would be outraged.

I swear, their strategy is to oppose him no matter what he does. It's insane.

[winterpark]

11. Oh... It's ok to privatize a government entity unless it's in their backyard and they'll have

to pay more to the private corporation. Then mr. -how many terms - alexander would actually face a re-election fight. Do it. Please

[Elwood P Dowd]

13. Either he is totally ignorant about economics and history or he is totally owned

and is expecting to cash in on a giant pot of gold when he leaves office. He is slowly becoming 180 degrees out of phase with the guy who campaigned in 2008.

[Retrograde]

15. I'm confused: I thought Republicans were in favor of privatization

Or maybe not so much when it affects the deep red states.

[msanthrope]

17. We have a winner!!! nt

[GoCubsGo]

25. Or, until Obama comes out in favor of it.

It's almost starting to look like the president is coming out in favor of the things the republicans have been pushing for just so that they can turn around and oppose him.

[AverageJoe90]

28. Yeah. I think he's playing with them, too. n/t

[msanthrope]

16. Good. Let the customers of the TVA call their Repuke reps in outrage over the rate hikes.

Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

Let their Teabaggin' reps explain this.

[HiPointDem]

18. did the republicans tell him to sell tva too?

[BlueToTheBone]

20. Translation = Our GOP buddies are making too much money

off the TVA at the government's expense.

[just1voice]

22. Why are you trying so hard to not criticize horrible policies?

You letting the constant swarm of propagandized ad-hom attackers get to you? Forget them and all their mindless cheer leading and kittycat pictures.

The privatization/austerity being sold to us as "deficit reduction" is a bunch of 1%er lies and thievery. Keep up the good work, REC'D!

[northoftheborder]

24. I'm trying to believe and understand this latest Obama idea.

REPUBLICANS have been trying to sell TVA since Eisenhower. Who on earth is advising Obama with his economic policy??????

[bvar22]

26. I would hope to see some DEMOCRATS blasting the idea too.

This Democrat does.
Selling Off our Commonwealth assets is NOT a Democratic Party Value.



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