Obama And Irony In Iron Country

Obama was in Marquette, Michigan last week, he ate some candy and a fatty burger, then he went to Northern Michigan University, and made me pause.

…decades later, FDR set up the Rural Electrification Administration to help bring power to vast swaths of America that were still in darkness. Companies said that building lines to rural areas would be too costly. I mean, big cities already had electricity. But they said, it’s too costly to go out into remote areas.

Yes, FDR started the Tennessee Valley Authority, which is right now the largest public power company in the nation, a great monument to “big government can-do attitude.”

The same Tennessee Valley Authority is for the ability to burn coal.

Ironic that the flourishes of failed President Obama are starting to resemble those of his.

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed.  He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.'”  Biden said.

There were no TV’s then, FDR wasn’t President then, and everyone did not have electricity then.  The ironic part is that Obama’s entire speech in Marquette, Michigan was an attempt at proving that government infrastructure improvements help better our lives and the 4G broadband exemplified by NMU is just the ticket to the next big government improvement.  But when that government’s energy policy is one of constriction, tell me again how big government is great?
As we clearly can see, FDR’s socialist path of top-down centralized power can still struggle when a Marxist takes the reigns of the country.
But what of the 4G wireless at NMU?  How much does it cost?  Who is paying for it? If we all are going to get it by 2016, like Obama says, who’s to say there won’t be 16G available by then?  Just sayin’.  The government cannot keep up, we all end up overpaying, and as the TVA can attest, in time, we may all be in court fighting for our rights to be connected in the first place.
(Marquette County, Michigan is indeed a very naturally beautiful and friendly place to be, as well as home to some of the first Iron Mines in Michigan.)
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